Women Voting
digital
13 x 18
framed size: 14.25 x 19.25
My own grandmother was born in 1912, before women in America were allowed to vote. I based this artwork on a historic 1912 American Press Association photograph that is now in the public domain, of a suffrage parade in New York City. I am inspired that public demonstrations such as this one were an effective part of the broad picture in securing women’s right to vote, as well as the fact that the baby pictured in this image is of a similar age as my own grandmother. I don’t take for granted the hard-won rights women have gained just within a few generations, and realize the efforts continue to this day. This image celebrates the many women who fought to win the right to vote.
My creative process utilized mixed media including digital media, pen and ink, and digital printing on watercolor paper, as I made intuitive decisions about distortion, visual closure, white space, pattern, and line. I grew up through and beyond the digital revolution, and am comfortable using digital media in the same manner one might use a graphite pencil or a paintbrush – it is just another tool for artmaking, in my opinion.
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