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Making Work Visible Awards
Celebrating CUNY undergraduates whose outstanding work in non-fiction, fiction, and visual art won the prizes for 2025. The Awards Ceremony was held on December 11, 2025. Check back for the winning works in January 2026.
The 2025 Clara Lemlich Awards were held on May 6th at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. View the video of the event here. Learn more and view the exhibit featuring video interviews with the 2025 honorees here.
SAVE THE DATE for the 2026 Lemlich Awards – Monday May 4, 2026.
RECENT EXHIBITS
Kathy Andrade – Creative Trouble Making – Audio and video interview excerpts and photos show how Andrade’s career in the NYC garment industry and in Local 23-25 of the ILGWU reached far and wide.
New York City Works – Jobs, Advocacy, Action – An exhibition created by LaborArts for the New York City Central Labor Council. To visit the exhibit at the CLC offices (350 West 31st Street, New York, NY 10001) email info@nycclc.org for arrangements.
We Are One – The 1982 Chinatown Garment Workers Strike with photos, videos and additional resources.
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary paperback edition of the Bernhardt and Bernstein book Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives, A Pictorial History of Workers in New York City.
CALLING UP HENRY celebrated the life of our good friend and cherished colleague Henry Foner. Find recordings of Henry singing some of his songs in our Thursdays TiIl Nine and Play it Again, Sam exhibits, and information about his book of verse here.
Remembering Ralph Fasanella – featuring twelve remarkable paintings by this socially engaged artist who was often called an “artist of the people.”
Meet Us in St. Louis – A collection of Labor Art from around the country and across the century. Start with the image of the week and add your observations.
On Equal Terms – Women in trades, 35 years and still…. Poetry and mixed media by artist and electrician Susan Eisenberg.
Defending the Social Safety Net
For Better or Verse — video and audio of Henry Foner singing songs from the new book.
Women Firefighters in New York City
FEATURED EXHIBITS
Labor Art from St. Louis features highlights from the Feldacker collection of paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture on the theme of work and workers.
Why Unions — Art from the National Maritime Union features graphic art from the 1940s by Harold Price, Rockwell Kent and William Gropper
Landscape of Lost Arts Vanished Structures and Forgotten Skills — Janet Wells Greene curates images of artisans and union craftsmen building and rebuilding the NYC skyline
We Love A Parade Union Banners Then and Now — featuring four labor banners from the 19th century and 27 banners from the twentieth century NYC garment industry
Sisters in the Brotherhoods — Jane Latour interviews women who were pioneers in skilled blue-collar jobs
The ILGWU: Social Unionism in Action — garment union initiatives in organizing, immigration, civil rights, health care and culture
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