48 page full color catalog of Mary Kline-Misol's 19 portraits of Suffragists and limited biographies.
This recent body of work is an attempt to honor the women who as Suffragists, organized a historic drive for civil rights and won citizenship, political freedom, and the right to vote for all of us. The finished project will include 19 portraits of women who were pioneers of the cause. Today we face a time of what seems to me to be a reversal of social attitudes and respect for all women in society. As the Centennial celebration approaches, we recall the Call to Action which these role models inspired, and remember how important it is to try to move us all toward justice and equality for all. Let’s all fight for a better world. Join the conversation. The Suffrage Centennial Exhibit was installed at the Artisan Gallery 218 in West Des Moines, IA in April of 2020.
This project is dedicated in loving memory to my mother, Betty Kline, who saw the first eight portraits completed. She left me with the acute sense of what it means to be a strong woman in society.
Suffrage Project Catalog
Mary Kline-Misol's Suffrage Project, features the final 19 portraits of women who were pioneers of the cause. This body of work is an attempt to honor these women, who as Suffragists, organized a historic drive for civil rights and won citizenship, political freedom, and the right to vote for all of us. The exhibit will be on display through the election in November. Catalogs of the work are also for sale for $19.
Kline-Misol states, “In this time of political and social upheaval, I hope my project will offer to the public a time to pause and reflect on the struggles and hard-won successes of the individuals who all fought to make our country a better place with the goal of REAL equality in civil rights. We have an uncertain future and hard work ahead. The clear understanding of the work of the women of all colors who took up the fight two hundred years ago will give us the courage to finally embrace the words of the Constitution of the United States and the founding principles that all of us are created equal and are to be treated equal under the law in this country.”