TRAVELING EXHIBITION
6-on-6 Basketball and the Legacy of Girls’ and Women’s Sport in Iowa
March 17, 2018 – January 1, 2019
An exhibition curated by University of Iowa American Studies faculty and Iowa Women’s Archives staff in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street Hometown Teams exhibition.
RELATED EVENTS
Thursday, May 31, 5:30 pm Wapello County Historical Museum, Ottumwa
Remembering 6-on-6: A History of Girls’ and Women’s Sport in Iowa
A talk by Jennifer Sterling, Sport Studies Faculty, Department of American Studies, University of Iowa.
Saturday, June 16, noon Wapello County Historical Museum, Ottumwa
Gallery Talk: Remembering 6-on-6
Learn more about this touring exhibition that tells the story of 6-on-6 girls’ basketball in Iowa.
Saturday, June 16, noon to 4 pm Wapello County Historical Museum Railroad Clubhouse, Ottumwa
Collecting Girls’ and Women’s Sport Histories in Iowa
Help preserve the history of girls’ and women’s sport in Iowa. Come tell us your story and share your photos and memorabilia with the Iowa Women’s Archives.
Friday, July 6, 1-3 pm Mary J. Barnett Library, Guthrie Center
Collecting Girls’ and Women’s Sport Histories in Iowa
Friday, July 6, 3 pm Mary J. Barnett Library, Guthrie Center
6-on-6 Girls’ Basketball in Iowa: Stories from the Iowa Women’s Archives and Beyond
Kären Mason, Curator, Iowa Women’s Archives & Jennifer Sterling, Lecturer, UI American Studies Dept.
Saturday, October 6, 10 am-2 pm Ames Public Library
Gallery Talk: Remembering 6-on-6
Collecting Girls’ and Women’s Sport Histories in Iowa
PAST EVENTS
September 11-December 29, 2017
November 10-11, 2017
July 14- 16, 2017
- Iowa City Feminists Reunion, Main Library, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
May 15 – August 25, 2017
POSTERS FROM PAST EVENTS (PDFs):
- Women in Politics 2014: Historic & Current Perspectives
- eras of emma: the Emma Goldman Clinic through four decades
- What I Learned from Publishing an Edited Manuscript (Almost Pioneers – John Fry)
- Leading the Field: Women and Sport at Iowa (Susan Birrell)
- Pathways to Iowa: Migration Stories from the Iowa Women’s Archives
- Re-examining the Pelvic (Wendy Kline)
- Sisters, There’s a Women’s Center in Iowa City!
- Bread, Roses and Buttons: Pearl McGill and the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike (a play by Janet Schlapkohl)
- The Triangle Fire 100th Anniversary
- Making and Learning from Documentary Films
- Top Secret Rosies
- The Making of Our Bodies Ourselves
- Comrades in the Labor Room: The International Story of the Lamze Method, 1950-80