Bergen teens art exhibit celebrates women’s right to vote

SHOUT OUT: Women’s right to vote is celebrated in an art exhibit featuring works by students from the Bergen County Technical High School in Teterboro, David E. Owens Middle School in New Milford and Mahwah High School.

Photo Credit: *ABOVE: Bergen County Kathleen Donovan at the opening of the exhibit*

Jerry DeMarco

08/18/2013 3:11 p.m.

Eighteen students submitted works that contain their interpretations of the significance of Women’s Equality Day (Aug. 8).

The exhibit, sponsored by the Bergen County Commission on the Status of Women, is on display in the lobby of the Bergen County Administrative Building in Hackensack.

The observance of Women’s Equality Day commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and calls attention to women’s continuing efforts toward full equality.

The exhibit runs through the end of the month (PHOTO ABOVE: Bergen County Kathleen Donovan at the opening of the exhibit).

The students exhibiting their art include the technical high school’s Ashlee Cruz, Bianca Fren, Jun Ko, Sylwia Kotowska, Stephanie Peralta, Nittany Sanchez and Amy Shantzis from Bergen County Technical High School; Shane George, Brianna Gould, Erein James Adiao Ruiz and Alexander Velasco from the David E. Owens Middle School; and Nicole Byrne, Sapna Gera, Dakota Griffin, Farkhod Khikmatov, Jennifer Li, Raeesa Mirza and Mary Rose Spinella from Mahwah High School.

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