Pioneering Pages Exhibit Event and Gallery Walk

Meet Guest Curator Dr. Nancy Coleman at an opening reception of the new exhibit, Pioneering Pages: Forming the New American Woman! Dr. Coleman will give a gallery walk at 5:30 p.m. The exhibit tells the story of Kvinden og Hjemmet (Woman and Home), a national magazine for women first published in 1888 in Iowa by Norwegian immigrant sisters Ida and Mina Jensen. The magazine offered information to help Norwegian immigrant women adapt to American ways of life, but it was much more! By and for women, the publishers and writers advocated for women’s education, equality, and suffrage. Vesterheim is pleased to work with Norwegian scholars Dr. Nancy Coleman, Dr. Eva Marie Syversen, Anne Kari Vasaasen, and Solveig Glesaaen to shed light on an important part of the story of Norwegian immigration history and Norwegian-American life. This exhibit is supported by a generous gift to the Vesterheim Annual Fund from the Tomson Family Foundation.