Exhibits

Songs from the New York City Labor Chorus
Scenes of American Labor

Five Photographers - Images of work and solidarity from 1930 to the present.

Impounded - The Japanese American internment through the lens of Dorothea Lange.

 

Strike. - Photographs by members of the TWU from the December 2005 NYC transit strike.

NLRB Decision - A disastrous decision from the National Labor Relations Board.

"Thursdays Till Nine-  Words and music from a 1940 musical about department store workers by Henry Foner and Norman Franklin.

seema weatherwax -  photographs of 1940s California from the collection of  documentary photographer Seema Weatherwax, who passed away at the age of 100 in 2006.

 

"my daddy was a miner- Photographs of Appalachian miners and their communities by Builder Levy.

 

Ralph Fasanella - paintings of scenes from working- class New York during the last half of the 20th century.

 

   

Solidarity Forever:  A Look at Wobbly Culture -  cartoons, graphic art, songs and poetry, evoking the vibrant folk culture of the IWW of the early 20th century.

 

Portraits of Labor:  Photographs of work from the 1930s - 1950s   features photographs from the Howard Greenberg Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, New York City.  Many of the original prints were on display at the gallery in June and July 2005.   See howardgreenberg.com for details.  

 

Art from the Waterfront - portraits of longshoremen from 1935 and paintings of work on the docks from the 1950s.

 

 

 

On High:  Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers

 

 

 

Images from the Waterfront

 

 

 

Sixteen Tons: Nuggets from the United Mine Workers

 

 

 

Union Square, A National Historic Landmark 
Why is the square important to the history of working people in America?

 

Labor Sings! 
Songs from the 1930s and 1940s.

 

 

Si, Se Puede!/Yes, We Can!

 

Missing
MISSING documents a few of the spontaneous shrines that appeared around New York City after September 11, 2001.

 

 

Little Tradeswomen Coloring Book
The first in a series of Labor Arts exhibits for children.

 

Machinists' Sculpture 

 

 

100 Years of Goodwill
Graphic art communicates the message "A Hand Up, Not a Handout."

The Birth of a Contract
The Hotel and Motel Trades Council of New York tells their story in photos and graphics.
   

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
Images from the "culture of solidarity" in twentieth century New York City.

Images of Labor
Original art about the relationship between working people and American History.
Labor Arts Sampler
Examples of Labor Arts -- the artistic expressions of the labor movement that have moved working people to action.


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