Featuring the art of Jules Arthur, Michelle Browder, Vinnie Bagwell, and Michelle Hartney

Co-sponsored with the Resilient Sisterhood Project

In the creation of this exhibition, artists Jules Arthur, Michelle Browder, Jeremy Daniel and Michelle Hartney dignify the experiences of Anarcha, Betsey and Lucy, the enslaved Black women gynecologist J. Marion Sims performed surgeries on during the 19th century. 

By shifting the narrative away from Sims’s reported scientific advances to center the stories of these women themselves, these artists assert the profound significance of “The Mothers of Gynecology” to medical history and American history. More info here