No Shrinking Violets Patricia Kennedy-Zafred 61.5 x 45 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT As an artist who works with photographic images, I was attracted to regional leaders of the movement. Jessie Stubbs and “General” Rosalie Jones [...]
Navigating the Legislative Highway Jayne Gaskins 17 x 45 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT As I began researching the 19th Amendment, I quickly realized that this subject encompasses far more than just women’s right to vote. [...]
First Ladies Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry 63 x 56 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT A photo dated June 2, 1920, of six officers of the National Woman’s Party standing in Washington, D.C., holding a banner with a [...]
Everyday Women Rallying for Women’s Suffrage Ree Fagan 36 x 45 inches 2019 ARTIST STATEMENT The everyday women who ran their households, raised their children, supported their husbands, and participated in the suffrage movement were [...]
Honor Her Sandy Curran 50 x 31 inches 2019 ARTIST STATEMENT She came down through history without a name, only an image, a symbol of the sacrifice and bravery of the women called suffragists. She [...]
Martha Wright Jane Burch Cochran 58 x 42 inches 2019 ARTIST STATEMENT I chose Martha Wright as my subject because she was the sister of suffragist Lucretia Mott and was also active in women’s rights [...]
Grimké Sisters Shin-hee Chin 64.5 x 56.5 inches 2019 ARTIST STATEMENT My work portrays the courage and humanity of the Grimké sisters, who are considered “the first American female advocates of abolition and women’s rights.” [...]
Federation Gertie Hollis Chatelain 57 x 51 inches 2019 ARTIST STATEMENT Gertrude Weil was from an affluent Jewish family which allowed her to have a privileged, white lifestyle. She was quite striking physically, and the [...]
Nasty Women Keep Fighting Sue Bleiweiss 49 x 49 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT Elizabeth Cady Stanton authored The Declaration of Sentiments, which expanded on the Declaration of Independence by adding the words “and woman” or [...]
Clara Foltz Maria Billings 64 x 25 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT Clara Foltz (1849-1934) was a leading suffragist and the first female lawyer in California. She accomplished many “firsts” in her life; some of them [...]