WOMEN & SPIRIT: Catholic Sisters in America
Coming to Cleveland May 2010

Exhibit reveals roles of courageous women in shaping U.S. history
National component features Cleveland Ursuline Dorothy Kazel

Rare artifacts, poignant photographs, compelling video and first-person accounts tell the stories of pioneering women who established schools, hospitals and other enduring institutions and continue to work for peace and social justice. WOMEN & SPIRIT: Catholic Sisters in America, will travel to Cleveland directly from its appearance at The Smithsonian to open at The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Beachwood, Ohio, May 9, 2010. 

To date, key sponsors of the Cleveland presentation include Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland, Notre Dame College, Ursuline College/Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland, National City/Now A Part of PNC, Cleveland Clinic/Marymount Hospital, the Cleveland Foundation and Mt. Sinai Foundation.

K-12 teaching tools/lesson plans for public and parochial schools linked to state & national standards in history and social science.

To learn more about the exhibit, visit the WOMEN & SPIRIT Web site.

LCWR celebrates the opening of Women & Spirit at the Smithsonian Institute's S. Dillon Ripley Center.

WOMEN & SPIRIT is a project of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an association of the leaders of congregations of Catholic women religious in the United States. The conference has more than 1,500 members, representing about 95 percent of America's 68,000 women religious.