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Empowering Women: Artisan Cooperatives
That Transform Communities

June 12, 2013 – Oct. 27, 2013

One Moroccan artist teaches a village of women to read. An embroiderer from India takes out her first loan. A Hutu woman from war-torn Rwanda works with a Tutsi to make "peace" baskets. And a soup kitchen for AIDS orphans delivers meals because of a folk art cooperative's success in Swaziland. From Africa to Asia to the Americas, female artisans are creating grassroots cooperatives to reach new markets, raise living standards, and transform lives.

Empowering Women provides an intimate view of the work of ten such enterprises in ten countries. This exhibition illustrates the power of grassroots collaborations to transform women's lives, through inspiring personal stories, stellar photographs and stunning examples of the cooperatives' handmade traditional arts.



Map of Cooperatives

Interactive Google Map of Cooperatives. The 'Empowering Women' exhibition is open June 12 - October 27, 2013 at the Burke Museum. For more information, visit http://www.burkemuseum.org/empowering

Empowering Objects

Empowering Objects Pinterest board. The 'Empowering Women' exhibition is open June 12 - October 27, 2013 at the Burke Museum. For more information, visit: http://www.burkemuseum.org/empowering.

Artisan Market

Artisan Market | Join the Burke Museum at our Empowering Women Artisan Market taking place July 20-21. The 'Empowering Women' exhibition is open June 12 - October 27, 2013 at the Burke Museum. For more information, visit: http://www.burkemuseum.org/empowering.

The 'Empowering Women: Artisan Cooperatives That Transform Communities' exhibition is open June 12 - October 27, 2013 at the Burke Museum. For more information, visit: http://www.burkemuseum.org/empowering