The Park Avenue Armory Is Asking 100 Female Artists to Create New Works to Mark the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage in the US

The Park Avenue Armory in New York is marking the
100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, which in 1920 granted
women the right to vote in the US, by commissioning new works from
100 women artists.

The Upper East Side art and performance venue, which also hosts
art fairs throughout the year, is partnering with other local
institutions of all sizes, including the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, and the Laundromat
Project in Harlem, to realize the project.

“As we look back upon this critical moment in our nation’s
history, supporting the creation of new work by some of the most
innovative women artists working today allows us to creatively
explore where we’ve been, how far we’ve come, and the work that
remains to be done,” Rebecca Robertson, the Armory’s founding
president and executive producer, said in a statement.

The two-part, multidisciplinary initiative, dubbed “100
Years/100 Women,” will kick off on February 15 during the
Armory’s annual “Culture in a Changing America” symposium. A
full slate of performances, conversations, and salons will be held
in the Armory’s period rooms.

A wide range of participants have come on board for the event,
including actress Kathleen Turner; Beverly Guy-Sheftall, the
founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center at
Spelman College in Atlanta; Standing Rock activist Eryn Wise;
curator Jessica Bell Brown of New York’s Gracie Mansion and the
Baltimore Museum of Art; and artists Vinnie Bagwell, Zoë Buckman,
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, and Makeba Rainey.

The February 15 event will culminate with the announcement of
the names of the 100 artists commissioned to make new artworks.
Their pieces will be unveiled at the Park Avenue Armory’s Drill
Hall on May 16, with a celebration showcasing their work.

Other partnering institutions include the Apollo Theater, the
Juilliard School, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Company, National
Sawdust, and Urban Bush Women, plus several groups within New York
University.

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