AUGUST 23: Spinning Tableau at the Monument
1769 SPINNING PROTEST REENACTMENT
WOMEN'S VISIBILITY BANNERS
Nominations Sought for 2025 Banner Honorees
Please submit your nominations before March 8th.
Use our google form, or email lexmonument@gmail.com.
Submissions should include:
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Your name, email, phone, mailing address
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Name of your nominee, her birthdate, an image (if possible), and a letter explaining her connection to Lexington, and why you believe she should be recognized.
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Make sure to describe your nominee's contributions - whether economic, political, intellectual, social, cultural, or other.
Since 2021, LexSeeHer has celebrated Lexington women's contributions with Visibility Banners. The 2025 year's theme is "Revolutionary Women Have Stories To Tell." There are many women worthy of recognition in every community, and we look forward to reading your suggestions!
Click on the 2024 red, white, and blue banners to learn more about the 2024 honorees!
March 8th, 2025
Collaboration with Lexington Girl Scouts: Lexington Girl Scout Troops 63054, 67318, 66265 collaborated with LexSeeher to make women's contributions to Lexington, MA visible through a historic art form: the silhouette. This project originated with Troop 66265 from 2020 - 2021, when the girls helped recognize 42 women whose stories were seldom told.
PREVIOUS BANNERS
BANNER HISTORY & DESIGN PROCESS
2022 Banner Celebration at Cary Memorial Library
July 2021 - October 2021
Looking Back: Research and Design
The 2021 Women's Visibility Banners were displayed in Lexington Center. More than 42 amazing women were honored. Women have always made contributions to our community. The Girl Scout - LexSeeHer collaboration made women visible!
The 2021 banners were on view along Massachusetts Avenue from July - October 2021. The 2022 banners were on display at Cary Library from August through September, and a reception for honorees was held on August 17. They were next on view along Massachusetts Avenue for the last week of February and the start of Women's History Month in March 2024.
June 2021
Girl Scouts checked each banner as they arrived from the printers. Banners are approximately 5' tall. They look much smaller when they are displayed on the lamp posts in Lexington Center!
Each banner features at least two women, one on each side of the banner. Some banners include two women on one side of the banner. One banner represents the Indigenous women who lived on the land now known as Lexington. LexSeeHer seeks to tell many untold stories. Join us!
Spring 2021
The art of the silhouette allowed each participant to capture elements of clothing that the honorees wore at specific milestone moments during their lifetime. A hat, hemline or prop can help convey important meaning.
Here, a hat, a book, and a period style skirt help convey an impression of Alice Cary.
Winter 2021
Members of Girl Scout Troop 66265 visited LexSeeHer's Suffragist Installation in Town Center to learn more about the ways Lexington activists participated in the 70 year struggle to obtain the right to vote.
Scouts also studied the built environment as they prepare designs for 2021 Visibility Banners.
