Images representing the diversity of the female experience are on display in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the University of Oregon's Center for the Study of Women in Society.

Curated by graduate students Sarah Turner and Regan Watjus, “Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives” is a special selection of photographs on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the UO campus. The center is a campus organization that creates, funds, and shares research that addresses the complicated nature of gender identities and inequalities.

The museum’s collection of photography originally focused on male artists working on the West Coast, but it has expanded to include more than 1,000 images by both men and women from the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe. In making selections for this display, the student curators chose artists of both genders, whose social documentary photographs reflected women from different walks of life.

The public is invited to attend the center’s interdisciplinary program “Agents of Change,” a three-day celebration of feminist research, activism, and creativity in collaboration with the ASUO Women’s Center and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies:

• “Agents of Change” opening celebration – Nov. 7, Erb Memorial Union
• “Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives” Symposium – Nov. 8, Erb Memorial Union
• “Worlds Beyond World” Symposium – Nov. 8-9, Erb Memorial Union

The exhibit runs from Sept. 9 to Dec. 29. There will be a gallery talk from noon to 1 p.m. Oct. 18 at the museum, 1430 Johnson Lane on the UO campus.

- from a story by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society