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Thursday, September 16th, 11:30 a.m.\u201312:30 p.m. | Flaten Art Museum<\/span><\/h5>\n

Join Brenda Berkman \u201873 in the north gallery for an artist\u2019s talk about rebuilding and healing through the creative process. In-person event; masks required.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In 1982, Brenda Berkman won her landmark sex discrimination case against the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) and became one of the FDNY\u2019s first women firefighters. For 25 years, she served the City as a firefighter and fire officer, rising to the rank of Captain. Berkman was a first responder at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Her career is featured in the PBS documentary Taking the Heat.<\/em><\/a> Berkman continues to mentor girls and young women both in firefighting and other non-traditional work and is also a volunteer tour guide at the 9-11 Memorial. Her fire service career is the subject of the 2021 children\u2019s book Send a Girl!<\/em><\/a> authored by Jess Rinker and illustrated by Meg Hunt.<\/p>\n

On retiring from the FDNY in 2006, Brenda began to study printmaking at the Art Students League, where she quickly fell in love with stone lithography. Berkman has always been eager to collaborate with other artists. She created a collaborative art project commemorating the tenth anniversary of 9\/11 involving 12 other artists. In 2013, she began the series of stone lithographic prints Thirty-six Views of One World Trade Center<\/em> to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9\/11 and document the rebuilding of lower Manhattan. Drawing and printing hundreds of stone lithograph prints of 36 iconic views of the new One World Trade Center over the course of three years, Berkman\u2019s series has been collected by the 9\/11 Memorial and Museum, St. Olaf College, and a private collector. View a short video<\/a> about the 36 Views<\/em> project and browse her artworks at brendaberkmanartworks.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Continuing to put her training in history (B.A. St. Olaf College; M.A. Indiana University) and law (J.D. NYU) to use, Berkman also serves on the Board of Directors of Monumental Women<\/a> (MW), dedicated to honoring women and people of color in public spaces. On the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment on August 26, 2020, she coordinated the unveiling of MW\u2019s Women\u2019s Rights Pioneers Monument in the midst of the pandemic, the first statue of real women in the 167-year history of Central Park. This past August 26, 2021, Berkman was a co-creator of Monumental Women\u2019s Women\u2019s Rights History Trail \u2014 the first history trail in all five boroughs to focus on historical New York City women\u2019s vast and varied contributions to the City and to the world.<\/p>\n

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