VOTE! is a collaborative project with the members of the 2019 Seattle Modern Block Bee. Inspired by the art of Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana, I challenged the bee to make improvisational letters in a four patch arrangement to mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution which granted women the right to vote in 1920. Suffrage is not universal and is not without problems in the US. Although the 19th Amendment reads “The right of citizens...to vote shall not be denied or abridged...on account of sex”, Black women, Native American women, and other women of color faced obstacles and barriers in exercising their right after 1920. And we are still fighting for and defending voting rights today. My hope is to collectively show the importance of an individual vote and how those votes come together to create something bigger.
