“Look Again: Portraits of Daring Women” opens April 27th,2024 at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, SpringfieldMuseums

Artist Reception: May 31, 2024, 5 to 7 PM

“Look Again: Portraits of Daring Women” is an homage to
exceptional, pioneering women working across centuries. In a
series of hand-carved, woodcut and collage prints, Leverett-based
artist Julie Lapping Rivera highlights the lives and achievements
of women who defied the status quo. Rivera’s portraits invite the
viewer to consider who is included, and omitted, from narratives
of history today.

Look Again was originally inspired by the “Overlooked” project at
the New York Times , which shares the achievements of women
and other remarkable people historically overlooked by the
newspaper’s obituary section. Rivera’s portraits include famous
and lesser-known individuals, including Sylvia Plath, Ruth Bader
Ginsberg, Ida B. Wells, and Henrietta Lacks. Each print is
accompanied by a poem, written specifically for the series, by
local and international women poets.

In conjunction with the exhibit, there will be a talk with New York
Times journalist Amy Padnani on September 5th, and a poetry
reading on September 19th. The exhibit is on display through
February 23, 2025.

Look Again is sponsored by the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts

More Info:
https://springfieldmuseums.org/exhibitions/look-again-portraits-of-daring-women-by-julie-lapping-rivera/