Poppies: Women, War, Peace
About The Event
“Poppies: Women, War, Peace” will open at the Hargrett Gallery of the University of Georgia Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.
Part of the observance to mark the centennial end of the First World War, the exhibit also pays homage to Moina Belle Michael, originally from Monroe, who was instrumental in ensuring the red poppy flower became a symbol to remember the victims and veterans of war. Michael was inspired in her quest by the war poem ‘In Flanders Field’ written by Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae in 1915.
The story of Michael’s relentless, lifelong remembrance campaign is largely forgotten. Each year thousands of women suffer as a result of war, their stories lost behind the bigger stories from the battlefields.
The exhibit is the work of Lee Karen Stow, an independent documentary photographer and visual artist based in the North of England, UK. Since 2007 when she met women in Sierra Leone displaced by a decade of civil war, she has devoted her practice to recording the personal narratives of women of war, conflict and genocide.
Contact : jclevela@uga.edu
Category: Museums and Exhibitions
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