In order to expand the educational impact of the exhibition, Shifrin and her colleagues on the Educational Advisory Group for the project worked with art, English, and history teachers at local schools, as well as with other organizations that serve children and younger adults, to develop curricula, workshops, and other activities for school groups. The partner schools for the project included Project Learn and Simon Gratz High School in Philadelphia, and Lower Merion High School in Ardmore; the Girl Scouts of Southeastern Pennsylvania was an organizational partner in the project.

Evening programs and a weekend-long academic conference brought together scholars from various parts of the world and across a wide range of disciplines to respond to ideas raised in the exhibition. The Picturing Women Web site is also a crucial and ongoing component of the educational and public programming outreach of the project. It provides another, continuing venue for the project, in which visitors are able to explore the same themes and issues that visitors to the three exhibition venues investigated, and those who saw the exhibition can visit the Web site to deepen and expand their experiences. Through the opportunities for interactive, imaginative engagement that the site provides and the cross-conversations it encourages among visitors (whether they are casual browsers, classroom teachers, artists, historians, or secondary school students), this particular venue for Picturing Women cultivates the "curatorial" instincts and adventurousness of its visitors, and serves as a catalyst for learning across the disciplines.

During the run of the exhibition, the project also sponsored several artist residencies and commissioned new works from regional artists. Local storyteller Charlotte Blake Alston, theater director and director of Philadelphia’s Fringe Festival Deborah Block, and Spiral Q Puppet Theater held workshops for students from the project's partner schools, as well as developing public performances for Bryn Mawr College and the Library Company. The project also launched an experimental peer-docent training program for students from the partner schools in which participants explored how they might mentor classmates in interpreting the exhibition and integrating the questions it posed into their everyday experiences.

To access the project archives, including exhibition and public programming calendar, click here.

The Picturing Women exhibition and its public programming were made possible by generous support from the William Penn Foundation, the Samuel S. Fels Fund, the Valentine Foundation, the Center for Visual Culture at Bryn Mawr College, Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library, and the project's partner organizations. The creation and development of the educational programming for the project was made possible in part by a grant from the Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership through support by the William Penn Foundation, as well as by the Samuel S. Fels Fund and the Valentine Foundation.