We Make Museums: Sustaining and Changing Worlds

A composite of three images arranged vertically. From top to bottom: a close up of a lit jukebox screen with categories of songs listed. A hand hovers above the screen in process of selecting a track. In the middle a woman in a pink gown with decorative edges sits cross legged performing a wiping movement on a stage, her head is blurred.

a blue cyanotype print on textile shows white flowers

a woman wearing a pink fown with decorative edges sits cross-legges on a stage performing a wiping movement,

A composite image arranged horizontally in three sections. One the left, a close-up of a lit jukebox screen lists song categories while a hand hovers above it slecting a track. In the centre, a woman wearing a pink fown with decorative edges sits cross-legges on a stage performing a wiping movement, her head blurred. On the right, a blue cyanotype print on textile shows white flowers and othe indistinct shapes.

Dates and Opening times: Fri 5 Jun - Sat 26 Sep

Tue – Wed, 10am – 4:30pm

Thu, 10am – 7pm

Fri, 10am – 4:30pm

Sat, 12pm – 4pm

Sun, 12pm – 4pm (5 Jun - 21 Jun only)
Venue: Glasgow Women's Library, 23 Landressy Street, G40 1BP
Participants: Sohaila Baluch Ruth Ewan Alixandra Prybyla
Presented by: Glasgow Women's Library, Caroline Gaudsen, Co-Curated with the We Make Museums Group.
Supported by: The Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Additionally supported by Glasgow International with funds from the Scottish Government's Festival EXPO Fund.
Accessiblity: Level Access, Step Free: The venue has ramped or level access and/or lifts to upper floors

Accessible Toilets: The venue has a wheelchair accessible toilet

Gender Neutral Toilets: The venue has toilets not separated by gender or sex

Hearing Loop: The venue has a hearing loop available

Baby Change: The venue has baby changing facilities

Bike Rack: There is cycle parking at the venue

For We Make Museums: Sustaining and Changing Worlds, Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) will showcase three new artists’ commissions by Sohaila Baluch, Ruth Ewan, and Alixandra Prybyla selected by the GWL community for their complementary approaches to social justice, compassion, feminist protest, and anti-racism.

Treating care and maintenance as a feminist, decolonial methodology, Sohaila’s work examines these practices in collections, exploring physical acts like cleaning, dusting, and cataloguing—the unrecorded gestures that sustain cultural resources. Maintenance is not background work; it involves embodied expertise, attention and love.

Ruth researches hidden social and political histories with themes including equality, ecology, anti-fascism, violence against women, motherhood, and many more. Working with the music collection and tapping into hive mind of GWL, Ruth will reveal a seam of historic woman-centred storytelling to create a feminist jukebox.

Specialising in community-based performance and textile art, Alixandra often moves between artistic and scientific methods. She will work collaboratively, with the We Make Museums group and others, to reclaim flags as objects of shared authorship, asserting that immigrant communities are not guests but co-authors of Scottish life, whose stories and languages are indelibly woven into the fabric of the nation.