What is the Clothesline?
The Clothesline Project is a visual display that bears witness to the violence against women. During the public display, a clothesline is hung with shirts. Each shirt is decorated to represent a particular woman’s experience, by the survivor herself or by someone who care about her. The Project was started with thirty-one shirts hung in Hyannis, Massachusetts in the Fall of 1990. Since that time, projects have begun in communities all across the country and in other countries as well. The Baltimore NOW Clothesline was first displayed at the Rally for Women’s Lives in April of 1995 in Washington, DC as part of more than 6,000 t-shirts from around the nation. The Baltimore Clothesline is displayed locally at a variety of community events and activities. We currently have more than 125 t-shirts as part of the Baltimore line. Contact Baltimore NOW to find out when the next display is scheduled or to schedule an appearance of the Clothesline in your community.
