lexibellaart:

   I participated in a fabulous project this weekend sponsored by the Lower East Side Girls Club called the Citizen Jane Project. This project involved 10 women artists painting murals of important and revolutionary women in America over the past 200 years. Following the creation of the mural will be a big push to get the young women of the community to vote. We painted these in the First Street Garden a few doors down from the Girl’s Club and couldn’t have asked for better weather!

   Some of the women painted were Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Jane Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and the woman I painted with Giannina Gutierrez: Susan B. Anthony.

   I learned a lot in my research of Susan B. Anthony. She was one of the most important advocates in leading the way for women’s rights to be acknowledged and instituted in the American government. She fought until her death in 1906 to get women the right to vote which didn’t happen until 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment. 

  My realization that its been LESS than 100 years that women have been able to vote, and how many women fought for equality for us to live so freely now has made me truly appreciate my independence and right as a woman in America, especially as I raise the next generation of American woman.  

  I am proud and grateful as an artist and woman to have been a part of this project especially with my fellow artists: @Marthalicia @giasyellow @am_nyc and @Lichiban