The Experience Music Project Museum (EMP) in Seattle, Wash., celebrated the grand opening of its Women Who Rock exhibit on June 14.
Featuring more than 70 artists, the exhibit celebrates women as engines of creation and change in popular music, with iconic artifacts and nonconformist costumes such as Lady Gaga’s meat dress worn at the 2010 MTV Music Video Awards show.
The first museum exhibit to honor nearly a century of iconic female musicians, Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power covers eight specific exhibit areas:
- Suffragettes to Juke-Joint Mamas: The Foremothers / Roots of Rock
- Get Outta that Kitchen, Rattle Those Pots and Pans: Rock and Roll Emerges
- Will You Love Me Tomorrow: The Early 1960s / Girl Groups
- Revolution, the Counterculture and the Pill: The Late 1960s
- I Will Survive: The 1970s – Rockers to Disco Divas
- Dance this Mess Around: Punk and Post Punk
- Causing a Commotion: Madonna and the Pop Explosion
- Ladies First: The ‘90s and the New Millennium
Visit the EMP museum’s website here for more information.
