Women's Memorial Unveils New Exhibit:
When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans

When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans made its debut recently at the Women’s Memorial. The exhibit, a collection of 44 large-scale photographic portraits and accompanying oral history excerpts of servicewomen, all veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, will be at the Memorial until Sept. 7, 2010.      

Made possible through the collaboration of author Laura Browder and photographer Sascha Pflaeging, “When Janey Comes Marching Home” is an intimate, personal introduction to some of today’s women who have donned military uniforms and gone to war. This very compelling exhibition is a unique look at contemporary women warriors. Through their stories of family, service, war and return, and revealing, soulful portraits, we come face-to-face with each of them. Every element combines to create the feel of a personal relationship—in all a very powerful experience.

This exhibition and the accompanying publication were made possible by generous grants from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the College of Humanities and Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University. The exhibition was organized by the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, where it premiered September 2008. The exhibition tour is administered by the Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, with additional support from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

“When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans” is at the Women In Military Service For America Memorial through the partnership of the Army Women’s Foundation and the Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation, Inc. This was made possible in part by a generous grant from TriWest Healthcare Alliance.

For more information about the exhibit, call 703-533-1155 or 800-222-2294. For further information on the “When Janey Comes Marching Home” multi-media initiative, visit the exhibit's Web site. Click here to see images of the exhibit at the Memorial.

 

 

(June 2010)