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 American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). After meeting Margaret Sanger in 1917, she supported Sanger’s work on contraception. McCormick even smuggled more than 1,000 birth-control diaphragms from Europe for Sanger’s clinic while they were still illegal in the US. These diaphragms were sewn into her clothing, making our fiber medium conducive to a hidden homage. (Can you spot the two diaphragms we sewed into this quilt?)

Photo by Deb Cashatt