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2020 is the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. The 19th Amendment recognized women’s right to vote, yet in reality, it ensured voting rights for a select group of women, excluding many from various ethnic and religious backgrounds.
SUFFRAGE QUILT tells the story of Boise’s suffrage history with colorful key symbols and patterns. It celebrates the many successes of Boise’s suffragists, yet SUFFRAGE QUILT remains unfinished to illustrate that these successes did not secure voting rights for all women, and even today there is still work to do. I mixed bold color and raw aluminum in various dimensions to convey an unfinished quilt. A stainless steel cable, designed to look like a ‘thread’, emphasizes the dimensional quality. Vivid patterns and imagery make up the quilt, with a detailed timeline at the bottom that describes the symbols, and tells a broader national story.
The overall goal of this installation is to incorporate the values of human rights, universal suffrage, citizenship, and inclusion. Boise City Arts and History staff worked closely with me to this end. Dan Beyer and Trademark Design and Fabrication made it all a reality.
You can find SUFFRAGE QUILT on the south side of Boise City Hall.
More at: boiseartsandhistory.org/suffrage. Photos by Allison Corona.
