Welcome to the 2024 Women’s Empowerment March (formerly Women’s Empowerment Draft). Please engage in our 31 tributes, created by young designers and researchers, and celebrated by schools throughout New York State.
Please share using #WeMarch2024
Front side of the poster! 31 icons to honor throughout March 2024.
PDF of poster with backside of poster with biographies and creativity challenges.
Each day in March 2024, one dedicated K-12 school will honor a Women’s History icon with a creative tribute on social media. We also encourage schools to incorporated the icon’s life into a lesson plan. See past collaborations under the WEDRAFT tab.
This year’s theme honors the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance’s pivotal Civic Club dinner which was originally planned as a book release party for Jessie Redmon Fauset on March 21, 1924. While the movement was named for Harlem - artists, writers, and performers from throughout the country shared their voices and talent as part of a larger empowerment movement. The order in which we honor these icons tells the chronological story of the Harlem Renaissance through the contributions of these artists.
K-12 School Partners:
In partnership with the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (ED&I) Committee of the New York Art Teacher Association, the program seeks to bring together art educators with social studies teachers, music teachers, librarians, guidance counselors, and other educators. ED&I committee also available to discuss lesson plans to ensure cultural appreciation over cultural appropriation.
No cost to participate - only a commitment to plan a creative social media post tagging #WEMarch2024 in March 2024. Use our poster and calendar as free resources, consider ways to amplify and energize your tribute.
Before you choose your preferred icons, we ask you and your students to research some of these names and learn about the amazing artists, writers, and educators described.
Our collaboration of educators will share weekly resources both by email and at this site.
Gates Chili Middle School has created a repository of videos for many of the icons.
Check out the podcast series ICONS: Harlem Renaissance in Motion for radio-drama style productions.
On February 25, THE MET will open an epic Harlem Renaissance exhibit titled The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, connecting the likes of Matisse, Munch, and Picasso with our icons Meta Warrick Fuller, Laura Wheeler Waring, and Augusta Savage.
For more information:
Interest form linked here
www.artforce5.com/wedraft
Program director Dan Napolitano
DanNap.AF5@gmail.com / 607-382-9150