The Center for the Women of New York holds poster
making contest in honor of Women’s History Month
BY JENNA BAGCAL
A Queens-based women’s
organization is calling on
students to honor Women’s
History Month through art.
The Center for the Women
of New York (CWNY) wants
children and teens to make
signs and posters based on
those seen at modern-day
women’s marches, like the
2020 NYC Women’s March in
Manhattan.
On Jan. 18, CWNY members
participated at the
march, hosted by the Women’s
March Alliance. The
fourth annual event was one
of several nationwide and
highlighted issues like reproductive
rights, pay equity, climate
change, LGBTQ rights
and immigration reform.
The contest is open to students
in grades 5 through 12
in all of the five boroughs.
Entries must be an original
creation, either hand-drawn
or painted on 8.5 x 11 paper.
Once complete, students
must take a photo of their
posters and submit digital
files in .jpg form to cwnywalk@
gmail.com with the
subject line “poster contest.”
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Students should include
their full name, grade, school
name, school address and
school telephone number in
the email body.
Submissions are due by
Monday, Feb. 24, by 8 p.m.
Contest winners will receive
a certificate in honor of the
late CWNY founder, Ann Juliano
Jawin. The women’s
rights activist died at the end
of December just weeks after
fulfilling her goal of opening
a Fort Totten women’s center.
According to the Women’s
History Month website, Congress
passed a public law
in 1981 requesting that the
president declare the week
of March 7, 1982, as Women’s
History Week. After being
petitioned by the National
Women’s History Project,
now known as the National
Women’s History Alliance,
Congress passed a public law
declaring March 1987 Women’s
History Month.
Since 1995, U.S. Presidents
have issued annual proclamations
declaring March as
Women’s History Month.
To learn more, visit
CWNY.org or the CWNY
Facebook page.
Reach reporter Jenna Bagcal
by e-mail at jbagcal@qns.
com or by phone at (718) 260-
2583.
CWNY is holding a poster making contest, inspired by the posters on display at the 2020 Women’s
March in Manhattan. Photo by Dean Moses
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