Amelia Bloomer: Advocating a Change Robin Schwalb 48 x 48 inches 2019 ARTIST STATEMENT Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818-1894) became associated with the women’s clothing reform style known as bloomers because of her early and [...]
Together Joan Schulze 36.5 x 52.5 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT Working with the myth of Lady Godiva riding through town, and following the lead of many artists to visualize the activist suffragists, I explored [...]
Unsung Heroines of African-American Suffrage Arturo Alonzo Sandoval 84 x 84 inches 2019 ARTIST STATEMENT Researching suffragist Ethel Williams of Detroit, Michigan, led me to discover many women of African-American descent who participated in [...]
Katharine Dexter McCormick: Making Her Mark Pixeladies 38 x 36 inches 2019 ARTIST STATEMENT Katharine McCormick was an ardent activist for the suffrage movement. She served as treasurer and vice president of the National [...]
Vote for You Therese May 67 x 72 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT Sojourner Truth’s story is a metaphor for the lives of many women today, which is the reason I interpreted her as a [...]
Homage to Lucy Burns Patricia Malarcher 53 x 54.75 inches 2019 ARTIST STATEMENT I chose Lucy Burns as my subject to represent the hardships women endured while fighting for the 19th Amendment. Many suffragists [...]
Lucy Stone Susan Lenz 26 x 40 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT From the beginning, I knew that I wanted to create a hinged work that referenced antique daguerreotypes. This early photographic process employed an [...]
Divine Floods of Light and Life John Lefelhocz 42 x 41 x 3 inches 2019 ARTIST STATEMENT The big question to myself was how to blend into my version of a flag quilt the idea [...]
Standing Together Pat Kumicich 37.5 x 56 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT For this project, I was fortunate to find a book devoted to suffragist sheet music with songs that date back to as early [...]
Belva Lockwood Jill Kerttula 43 x 33 inches 2019 ARTIST STATEMENT During Hillary Clinton’s run for president in 2016, I saw a mention that she was not actually the first woman to run for [...]