Suffragette Piece - Difficult Times

Difficult Times

2020 is the 100th anniversary of the suffragette movement in Washington state.  The Washington State History Museum is having a suffragette exhibition to honor the movement.  The NW Collage Society was asked to participate in the celebration with an art show.  Pieces for the show had to be 12 x 12 inches.  The art will be on exhibition from April through August.    Here is the write up for my piece which was accepted into the show....

The distorted faces of the three suffragettes used in this piece, Bernice Sopp, Cora Smith Eaton, and Mehitable Haskell represent the pain of discrimination that women were subjected to as members of society without equal voting rights. These women were truly pioneers in the cause for justice in America. The distorted faces also represent the fact that we still are having voting rights issues in this country and we still are having equal rights issues in this country. One only needs to look at discussions in the political arena to see how absurd it is that we even question that a woman could be president.