“Your children will reap the harvest of our solidarity—of our determination to stand together, to fight together, and, if needs be, to die together; for they are dying, every day, the men and women of our race, martyrs to lynch-law, the fiery stake and the awful savagery of peonage; that these, your children, may know full liberty and an equal chance in life. Or they must reap in the bitterness of sorrow the fruits of our passivity and indifference; the frittering of our strength by suffering, petty strife and narrow jealousies to becloud the larger vision of our responsibility to coming
generations.”
—Nellie Griswold Francis (1874–1969)
Founder, Everywoman Suffrage
Club, an African American group which helped win women the right to vote in Minnesota
What happens when you ask 100 artists, scholars, and creative thinkers—in the midst of a pandemic and widespread outrage over systemic racism—to interrogate the complex legacy of the 19th Amendment which, in 1920, granted some women the right to vote? Watch the 100 Years | 100 Women Virtual Watch Party to find out, originally held on Tuesday, August 18 at 2:00pm!
Park Avenue Armory hosted a Virtual Watch Party in celebration of the project, featuring sneak peeks of commissioned works and the premiere of commissioned filmmaker Shola Lynch‘s cinematic portrait entitled A Portrait of 100 Years | 100 WOMEN on Tuesday, August 18 at 2:00pm. This short film is, as Lynch shares, “a visual and audio collage of the present, built on the past, and for the future, the film will boldly exclaim—from these roots, we grow.”
The Virtual Watch Party, hosted by Maya Wiley (University Professor, The New School), also included a portrait of 100 Indigenous Women of the Americas, as well as responses by special guests including Sayu Bhojwani, Tantoo Cardinal, Rita Dove, Catherine Gray, Susan Herman, and Jari Jones, followed by the launch of a new digital Project Archive, which invites audiences to explore each participant’s inspiration and contribution to the initiative.
100 Years | 100 Women invited a diverse group of more than 100 artists, activists, scholars, students, and community leaders—including Joselyn Kaxhyek Borrero, Zoë Buckman, Staceyann Chin, Karen Finley, Ebony Noelle Golden, Andrea Jenkins, Meshell Ndegeocello, Toshi Reagon, Martha Redbone, Peggy Shaw & Lois Weaver (Split Britches), Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Willis, and many more—to creatively respond to this milestone anniversary. Collectively, their work interrogates not only the complex legacy of women’s suffrage through their various lenses and practices, but also reflects this volatile year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, #BlackLivesMatter, and a divisive election season.
100 Years | 100 Women is presented by Park Avenue Armory with lead partner National Black Theatre and nine New York City-based cultural partners: Apollo Theater; The Juilliard School; La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club; The Laundromat Project; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of the Moving Image; National Sawdust; New York University (Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts; Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity and Strategic Innovation; and Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture); and Urban Bush Women.
Part I of the initiative, a Symposium, was convened on February 15, 2020.
Participating artists include:
• A portrait of 100 Indigenous Women of the Americas created by Indigenous technologist and artist Joselyn Kaxhyek Borrero (Tlingit of Yukon, Canada) and Roberto Borrero, Kasike (chief) of the Guainía Taíno tribal community
• Imani A., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Mohamed A., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Abdu Ali, Music & Literature
• Sama Alshaibi, Visual Art
• Zalika Azim, Visual Art
• Mariama B., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Lucas Balmaceda Pascal, Juilliard Drama ‘23
• Jennifer Baumgardner, Journalism
• Stefanie Batten Bland, Dance Theatre
• Stephanie Berger, Photography
• Murielle Borst-Tarrant, Theater
• Zoë Buckman, Visual Art
• Christine Bruno, Acting/Disability Activist
• Rashida Bumbray, Performance & Visual Art
• Vinie Burrows, Performance & Activism
• Romial C., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Shaun C., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Jayla Chee, Juilliard Music ‘23
• Sofiya Cheyenne, Performance & Activism
• Staceyann Chin, Spoken Word
• Olivia Chindamo, Juilliard Music ‘21
• Elizabeth Colomba, Visual Art
• Courtney Cook, Performance & Dance
• Renee Cox, Visual Art
• Afrika D., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Visual Art
• Caridad (La Bruja) De La Luz, Spoken Word
• Rose DeSiano, Visual Art
• LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Multi-disciplinary
• Catherine D’Ignazio, Data Literacy
• Abby Dobson, Sonic Conceptual Performance Art
• Nekisha Durrett, Visual Art
• Joan Dwiartanto, Juilliard Dance ‘22
• Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, Performance Art & Literature
• Amalineda, F., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Jackie F., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Adama Delphine Fawundu, Visual Art
• Gayle Fekete, Dance
• Karen Finley, Performance Art
• Kaiama Glover, French & Africana Studies
• Ebony Noelle Golden, Performance Art
• Sarah Gooch, Juilliard Music ‘21
• Amanda Gookin, Music
• Melissa Cobblah Gutierrez, Dance
• Jasmine Hearn, Performance & Dance
• Susan Herman, ACLU/Constitutional Law
• Andrea Jenkins, Politics/Performance Art
• Andrea Jennings, Disability Inclusion: Arts, Media & Design
• Michi Matter Jigarjian, Artist/Facilitator/Educator
• Christine Jones, Scenic Design
• Diana Elizabeth Jordan, Acting & Disability Inclusion
• Chanon Judson, Dance
• Tendayi Kuumba, Dance
• Kate Clarke Lemay, Museum Curation
• Mimi Lien, Scenic Design/Architecture
• Shola Lynch, Film
• Chloe M., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Tsedaye Makonnen, Visual Art
• Love Muwwakkil, Dance
• Daniella N., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Premilla Nadasen, History of Race & Gender
• Meshell Ndegeocello, Music
• Lorie Novak, Visual Art
• Yanitza O., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Zoe Obadia, Juilliard Music ‘20
• Gabriel P., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Michele Pred, Art/Activism
• Alba Pujals-Roige, Juilliard Music ‘21
• Toshi Reagon, Music
• Francisco R., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Silas R., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Martha Redbone, Music/Activism
• Jewel Rodgers, Spoken Word
• Yelaine Rodriguez, Visual Art
• Hannah Rosenzweig, Film
• Rhonda Ross, Multidisciplinary
• Risha Rox, Interdisciplinary
• Dorsen S., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Mahalia S. E., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Wendy Sachs, Film
• Maggie Scrantom, Juilliard Drama ‘23
• Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw / Split Britches, Theatre & Performance
• Lakshmi Shyamakrishnan, Scriptwriting
• Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Multi-disciplinary
• Samantha Speis, Dance
• Jaime Sunwoo, Performance/Multimedia
• Marilee Talkington, Acting/Disability Activist
• Henu Josephine Tarrant, Theater
• Katherine Toukhy, Mixed Media
• Carmelita Tropicana, Performance Art
• S. Katy Tucker, Video/Projection Design
• Tracey Leigh Turner, Acting & Disability Inclusion
• Sahar Ishtiaque Ullah, Theater
• Imani Uzuri, Music/Compostion
• Elaisa Van Der Kust, Performance & Dance
• Yoro W., Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
• Cleo Wade, Literature
• Mikaila Ware, Performance & Dance
• Carrie Mae Weems, Muliti-disciplinary
• Lark White, Juilliard Drama ‘23
• Deborah Willis, Visual Art
• Eryn Wise, Indigenous Media Curation
• Pamela Z, Music/Composition
Interrogations of Form is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council. The Armory’s Artist-in-Residence program is made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Park Avenue Armory and the 100 Years|100 Women Project is honored to be part of the The Women’s Suffrage NYC Centennial Consortium.
The Women’s Suffrage NYC Centennial Consortium is a collaboration of cultural organizations citywide that foregrounds exhibitions and programs that, together, offer a multi-dimensional picture of the history of women’s suffrage and its lasting, ongoing impact. The consortium has launched WomensSuffrageNYC.org to highlight the activities being presented across New York City throughout 2020.
100 Years is not 100 Percent—The consortium is committed to showcasing women’s contributions to the past, present, and future. Though many women were given access to the right to vote 100 years ago, the fight for equality continues. The consortium’s goal is to expand the conversation through meaningful cultural experiences that convey that all women should be seen, heard, and counted.
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August 18, 2020
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