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 [...]
Tour de Force Hope Wilmarth 45 x 34 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT Because history is important to me, I chose to write about it as my celebration of the 100th year of women’s suffrage. The [...]
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. [...]
Sara Bard Field: Suffrage Envoy Martha Wolfe 40 x 50 inches 2019 ARTIST STATEMENT My quilt honors suffragist Sara Bard Field and her cross-country automobile journey delivering a petition with more than 500,000 signatures supporting [...]
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 [...]
Resistance to Tyranny Is Obedience to God Adrienne Yorinks 79 x 71 inches 1995 ARTIST STATEMENT Reading the Declaration of Sentiments and seeing the names of the women and men who signed it, I knew [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]