Ellouise Own Womens Studies Journey
A professional storyteller for nearly 20 years, Ellouise Schoettler launched her storytelling career as a women's studies speaker, taking an original hour-long visual narrative about the 1970's women's art movement to women's studies programs and art departments of colleges from Maryland to California.
An unexpected journey for this North Carolina native, who'd taken the train to Baltimore right after high school to enroll in Johns Hopkins' nursing program, only to quit within the year to marry a medical student. They had three children within five years. The accepted success story of women in the 1950s.
Who knew then all the opportunities Ellouise would tap for herself in the throes of the 1970's women's movement - starting with returning to college when her children were still in grade school, something unusual at the time. And it was at Dunbarton College (Washington, DC), a now closed small Catholic college, that she enrolled in the college's first-ever Women's Studies class, an experience with a profound and lasting impact.
Contact Ellouise to ask about her programs for Women's Studies students.
Womens Studies Programs
"Ellouise has a magical gift and deft hand at crafting compelling stories
that speak to the challenges and breakthroughs we all experience as women.
I have heard Ellouise mesmerize many different audiences,
but I am especially grateful for her expanding my students’ ideas
of what it means to be a Feminist in this era."
Josephine Withers, Professor Emerita of Art History and Womens StudiesUniversity of Maryland (College Park)
Eyewitness to Women's History
Pushing Boundaries: The Equal Rights Amendment — an Uncommon Story
Personal Journey: A 1950's housewife morphs into a National Campaign Activist for the Equal Rights Amendment with a Madison Avenue idea. New in 2009, read more about Pushing Boundaries.
Traveling from Comfort Zones
Tranformational Story: Visual artist and art lobbyist goes to 1985 UN Conference on Women (Nairobi, Kenya) as Project Director for the American Album, a grassroots project involving 365 American women artists which is now part of permanent collection of the National Women's Museum of Women's in the Art (Washington, DC).
Organizing for Change
Visual Narrative of 1970s Womens Art Movement.
Unpublished slides pair with eyewitness account of how women established a national alternative network to create their own career oppotunities. First hand account of the 1970's Women's Artist Movement and the creation of the Coalition of Women's Art Organizations, the first such national lobby group.
Unexpected Role Models from History — Ordinary Women
• Entertaining storytelling programs blend family stories, historical research and well-chosen folktales to make women's ordinary life experience relevant to students.
• Stories span up to 150 years, but historical focus differs by program and theme.
• Flexibility to alter programs for curriculum needs
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