Today, the Park Avenue Armory launched “100 Years | 100 Women,” a sprawling, multimedia tribute to the ratification of the 19th Amendment on this day in 1920.
In adapting their works to meet the moment, the participating artists were incredibly nimble, Hoffman reports. “It was a challenge for sure, and because [the project] is cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary, everyone had a different approach. Some visual artists had to approach painting or drawing in their apartments, without their materials; a lot of solo performances emerged as opposed to group performances; some folks weren’t able to meet with their collaborators,” she says.
But if that output looks rather different than it might have this spring, its ideas are every bit as urgent and as rich—if not even more so. Of the major through lines that emerged across the project, one was a focus on suffragists of color; women like Mary Church Terrell, Nannie Helen Burroughs, and Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee.
If “100 Years | 100 Women” loses some of its dynamism as a digital initiative, it also massively multiplies its audience, something that Hoffman doesn’t take for granted. “What the pandemic has forced us to think about is how we reach further than our own doors,” she says. Ultimately, a project archive with all of the artists’ work is not only a convenient resource for would-be visitors, but a kind of time capsule for a very strange period in time.
There’s also the particular pleasure, for Buckman, of knowing that what she’s made will live in somebody’s home. “It’s really fulfilling for me to know that something’s going to be in a kitchen or a bedroom or on the wall, and that it’s kind of [going to become] part of a family,” she says. “So maybe people wouldn’t get their boyfriend or their son or their uncle or their father to schlep to the Armory to see the show—but they can sit down and have a look on their computer.
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