Teaching history in finding all the objects, we had about 124 objects, and which there are 63 portraits and i was hoping to commemorate the 19th amendment until the history of the 19th amendment and how women, lobbyist get this amendment passed and ratified, but also asked questions about it and ask what does it do, what doesnt not do and why 1965 in the Voting Rights act is considered another part two of the 19 the moment, so if you follow me ill take you through the exposition and show you a few of the objects the tell the history, lets go. Were in the first gallery of the exposition and i mentioned that we have portraits that drive the narrative but i also wanted to include pieces of art like the one that we are looking at which is titled the work at home and is by a female artist, she was acting in 1860 and i wanted to include this painting because it portrays young children, you have these four kids, one is a baby and they are celebrating in the mother and the surrogate or helper
Next, a visit to the Smithsonian National portrait gallery, in the second of a twopart program, historian Kate Clark Lemay gives American History tba guided tour of an exhibit marking the centennial of the 19th amendment using political cartoons and images of suffragists picketing the white house. She explores the National Womens Party Tactics under the leadership of alice paul. Hello. The curator of an exhibit on view, votes for women, on view at the National Portrait gallery at the Smithsonian Institution and i am standing in front of what we call our title treatments. It is a large blowup of hedwig riker, a german born actress. , theas acting as columbia allegorical figure which duringnts United States the finish or conclusion of the 1913 parade in washington, d. C. And that is one event of the long Suffrage Movement this exhibition highlights. Go into124 objects that the long history beginning in 1832 and bringing it right up to 1920. Then also the 19th amendment and what it did no
Or on our free cspan app. Creators from the National Portrait gallery, National Archives and the library of congress discuss their institutions exhibits commemorating the nineteenth amendment, which gave women the right to vote. They talked about the Creative Process behind the exhibits, including determining goals and selecting objects. The berkshire conference of women historians and womens Suffrage Centennial commission hosted this event online and provided the video. Hopkinsjohnson university, a copresident of the berkshire conference. Im happy to be welcoming all of you to this evenings conversation. I have to extend a special embrace to our members who are tuning in from all over the world today. With this event, we begin a conference weekend, the big berks 2020. Not at the plant for in baltimore at johns hopkins, instead we are knit together with digital sound and image. 2020 marks 100 years since the 19th amendment, and Legal Protection for womens votes became part of the u. S.
Cure rater of votes for women, a r portrait of persistence. For this exhibition, i worked about three and a half years researching, teaching myself this history and finding all the objects. In this exhibition, we had about 124 objects of which there are 63 portraits and in cure rating the exhibition, i was hoping to tell the history of the 19th amendment and how women lobbied to get this amendment passed and ratified, but also ask questions about it. And ask what does it do and what does it not do. And why 1965 and the Voting Rights act is considered another sort of part two of the 19th amendment. So if youre fol low me, im going to take you through the exhibition and show you a few of the objects that tell this history. So lets go. Were in the first gallery of the exhibition and i mentioned that we have portraits that drive the narrative, but i also wanted to include in the exhibition pieces of art. Like the one were looking at which is titled the war spirit at home. Its by a female a
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is presenting has announced “1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions,” marking the 125th anniversary of the year that the U.S. emerged as a world power through its acquisition of overseas territories.