The Museum at Eldridge Street is proud to present On the Lower East Side: Twenty-Eight Remarkable Women…and One Scoundrel, an exhibition featuring the work of artist Adrienne Ottenberg.

Join us for an opening featuring an informal talk by the artist about her work!

On the Lower East Side: Twenty-Eight Remarkable Women…and One Scoundrel celebrates women who lived or worked in our vibrant immigrant neighborhood at the turn of the twentieth century. Portraits printed on silk or cotton banners float ethereally over a tableau of street maps depicting the places where these women worked and lived.

The figures depicted in the exhibit were responsible for groundbreaking developments in law, the arts, politics, social work, business, and education which we take for granted today, such as the eight-hour work day, child labor regulations, and women’s rights.

Among the twenty-nine women featured are bathhouse owner and entrepreneur Gittel Nadelson, political activist Frances Perkins, public healthcare champion Elizabeth Tyler, and dedicated suffragette Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee. This exhibition will be accompanied by an audio guide available through Bloomberg Connects.

Through Ottenberg’s map-based works, iconic women reach out to us through time, shaping society today and cementing their places in New York history.