The UALR Office of Campus Life in its “Power of Women” series, will host the Clothesline Project from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, to publicize the problem of violence against women.

The Clothesline Project invites participants to decorate T-shirts and hang them on clotheslines to be viewed by others as visual evidence of the problem of violence against women. The project honors women survivors as well as victims. Women who have experienced violence and victims’ families and friends, are encouraged to decorate a shirt.

According to the project’s website, 58,000 soldiers died in the Vietnam War, and during that same time period, 51,000 women were killed mostly by men who supposedly loved them. In the summer of 1990, that statistic became the catalyst for a coalition of women’s groups in Cape Cod, Mass. to consciously develop a program that would educate, break the silence, and bear witness to one issue – violence against women.