(May 16, 2024) The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center (MWHC) is among 95 Maryland nonprofit organizations that received grant funding for general operations needs from Maryland Humanities’ Marilyn Hatza Memorial SHINE (Strengthening the Humanities Investment in...
(May 2, 2024) Annie Simcoe, a Garrett County-based paper artist and the MWHC’s current featured artist, celebrates farmHERS with one-of-a-kind paper art made from materials she grows or gathers. We welcome everyone to an artist reception for her on June 22, 2024, from...
(March 7, 2024) Join Maryland Women’s Heritage Center for a fundraiser bus trip to NYC and a Broadway production of Suffs, a new look at the 19th century votes for women movement. Link for tickets:...
(March 7, 2024) On Thursday, March 21, 2024, the Maryland Commission for Women will induct five women into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame and present the 2024 Maryland Young Women Leaders Award to five high school students. The 2024 inductees into the Maryland...
(February 27, 2024) In the 1960s, Willie Pearl Mackey King sensed that there were opportunities outside of her native Georgia (where Jim Crow practices were a way of life). There was no money for college so King moved to Atlanta to work. An acquaintance mentioned that...
