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I was hired to help the City of Boise celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote, yet in reality, it ensured voting rights for a select group of women, excluding many from various ethnic and religious backgrounds.
My main idea for this project was an unfinished quilt. The quilt tells the story of Boise’s suffrage history with colorful key symbols and patterns and celebrates the many successes of Boise’s suffragists, yet remains unfinished to illustrate that these successes did not secure voting rights for all women, and even today there is still work to do.
The theme expanded with other materials I designed including a give-away poster, a commemorative poster, pins, paper cups, streetlamp banners, a large selfie station background, brochure, the Little Book of Boise Suffrage, and printable coloring pages. I used a lot of yellow and purple, the historic colors of women’s suffrage.
I also designed a public art installation called Suffrage Quilt. It is a 26′ long colorful, “unfinished”, aluminum quilt located at Boise City Hall.
