The Clothesline Project Interactive Exhibit, during Women’s Week – March 4 -7

Interactive exhibit: during Women’s Week March 4 – 7, 2019. Noon–2pm.
Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, Main Level (participation info)

The Clothesline Project is a visual display that bears witness to violence against women. During the public display, a clothesline is hung with t-shirts, each designed by a survivor or in honor of a woman who has experienced violence to represent the particular woman’s personal experience.

The purpose of the Project is to increase awareness of the impact of violence against women, to celebrate a woman’s strength to survive, and to provide an avenue for women to courageously break the silence that often surrounds their experience. Since its inception, women from around the country and the world have participated in breaking the silence of violence by telling their stories, by hanging their shirts on a clothesline, and by making connections with other survivors.

If you identify as a woman and you have experienced violence, you are invited to create a t-shirt and hang it on the clothesline. If a woman in your life has experienced violence and you wish to honor her, you are invited to create a t-shirt and hang it on the clothesline. If a woman you cared about has lost her life as a result of violence taken against her, you are invited to create a t-shirt and hang it on the clothesline. If a woman in your life has taken her own life as result of the violence she has experienced in her life, you are invited to create a t-shirt and hang it on the clothesline. We hang these t-shirts as evidence of the epidemic of violence against women, impacting us and our community. And we hang these t-shirts in commitment to break the silence of violence and in support of survivors in their recovery process.

The Clothesline Project is an interactive exhibit.

T-shirts and art supplies will be provided by and available at the Eccles Health Sciences Library from March 4 – April 27, 2019. Participation events with snacks will be held during Women’s Week, March 4 – 7, 2019, Noon-2:00PM. T-shirts will be hung in the EHSL Art Gallery and throughout the Library as they are created.

Participate during
Women’s Week
March 4 – 7, 2019
Noon – 2:00PM Mon-Thu

or regular
library hours
March 4 – April 27, 2019
7AM – 7PM Mon-Fri
10AM – 6PM Sat

This Clothesline Project is co-sponsored by

Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library
in collaboration with
Office of Health Equity and Inclusion / The Resiliency Center
WiHMS – Women in Health, Medicine & Science
and
The College of Nursing

The topic of violence against women can generate a wide range of responses. You may feel anger, shame, a sense of helplessness, or a strong desire to make a difference. All of these responses are normal. If you need support or would like more information on resources, please see the following: