A Historical Reflection of a Women’s Right to Vote

Venue

About the Show

Over 250 Years

Entry Fee

• $10 per work.
• Up to 2 works.

Awards

• Best in Show: $200.00 includes plaque
• First Place: $175.00
• Second Place: $150.00
• Third Place: $100.00

Artwork Requirements

• Submissions of Art: Visual Art, Collage, Assemblage, Sculpture, Poetry
• 2-D Artwork: No Larger than 18x24". Anything under glass (watercolor, pastel, pencil): No Larger than 16x20".
• 3-D Artwork: No Larger than 17x17" base and 18" in height (for pedestal).
• All wall hanging artwork must have D-Rings. Please see Clark County Library Guidelines.
• As that there are no sales to be made within the Library Show, we still need the insurance values of your artwork. Please add this amount to your submissions.
• All artwork must be Family Friendly.

Acceptance Notifications

Artist Timeline Reference: 250 Years

• 1776 Abigal Adams: “Remember they Ladies”A
• 1776 to 1849 The Women’s suffrage movement is born out of Abolition.
• 1850 to 1870 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lacretia Mott create the Abolition movement and Women’s suffrage movement.
• 1848 Seneca Falls Convention; present- Sojourner Truth
• 1860 to 1865. Women weaver bandages for Civil War, Tend to the wounded, mend uniforms
• 1865 TO 1870 Women create the Temprance Movement
• 1872 Susan B. Anthony casts the first Women’s vote, this is illegal; she was tried and convicted.
  
  

• 1875: Women become organized, create parades, marches. Adopting White, as a to present purity.
• 1875: Women create sashes and banners with these colors: Purple, white, and yellow. Meaning: Loyalty, purity, and hope.
• 1914 to 1918: World War 1; Women go to work, making artillery, uniforms, nursing the wounded. Taking care of people with the Spanish Flu. Women of impact: Cathrine Beecher Stowe and Ida B Wells.
• 1916: First Woman voted into the House of Representatives: Jeanette Rankin of Montana, serving two terms. Four years before 19th Amendment.
• 1920: The 19th Amendment passed August 20th, 1920, granting women over the age of 21 the right to vote.
• 1920 to 1930: Depression Years. Eleanor Roosevlelt pushes for more equal rights.
• The National Women’s Party pushed for ERA ( Equal Rights Amendment )
• 1940s: World War 2. Women’s roles shift; working in factories building metal parts for aircraft, artillery, uniforms, etc.
• They feel unity within reach other while men are overseas.
• Military roles: wacs, waves, wasps
• Deep inequalities are felt in the workforce/ Rosie the Riveter becomes the poster woman of empowerment.

• The Wave of Discontent. In the 1950s, the sense of independence is lost as men come back from the War. This decade puts women back into a role of domestic obedience.
• Pregnancy was frowned upon in the workplace, they would often be fired
• 1960: FDA Approves the birth control pill. Giving women more freedom over their bodies and sexuality
• 1963: The Equal Pay Act gains traction
• 1965: Women of color and Indigenous women now have the right to vote. For Indigenous women, it can still be controversial; due to lack of trust with the government and nations determine the politics within the tribes.
• 1966: NOW and ERA. And Child Protection Act
• 1968: Shirley Chisholm becomes the first black woman elected to Congress, (NY)
• 1970: women’s Strike for Equality
• 1973: Expansion of Women’s Reproductive Rights/ Roe vs Wade
• 1974: Men join the League of Women Voters
• 1974: (ECOA) Equal Credit Opportunity Act is passed, making it illegal for banks to discriminate based upon sex or marital status
• 1978: Law passed prohibiting discrimination of pregnancy or childbirth in the workplace.
• 1979: Important Influences- “ The Feminine Mystic “ by Betty Friedan. Gloria Steinem , Shirley Chisholm, Billy Jean King
  
  

• 1980: Paula Hawkins becomes 1st woman elected to the US Senate
• 1981: Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court
• 1983: Sally Ride becomes the first female astronaut
• 1984: Geraldine Ferraro / 1st woman nominated for Vice President
• 1985: Wilma Mankiller elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation/ TIME magazine’s Woman of the Year
• 1991: The Civil Rights Act of 1991: Ensuring protection by amending Title VII of 1964.
• 1993: Ruth Bader Ginsburg is appointed to the Supreme Court
• 1995: Eileen Collins/ First woman to pilot the space shuttle.
• 1997: Madeline Albright becomes first US Secretary of State
  
  

• 2001; Condolezza Rice 2001-2005 Becomes first woman of National Security/ Then 2005 to 2009, She becomes the first woman to be appointed US Secretary of State
• Tarana Burke: Authur, Activist-Educator; “ My Story of Liberation and Birth of the Me Too Movement
• 2007: Nancy Polosi becomes the first woman Speaker of the House
• 2009: Sonia Sotomayor, becomes the third woman and first Hispanic appointed to the Supreme Court
• 2017: Women come out with testimony about sexual assault: # ME TOO Movement
• 2022: Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes the first black woman appointed to the US Supreme Court
• Hillary Clinton: The 67th US Secretary of State 2009 to 2013/ US Senator for NY 2001 to 2009/ First Lady of the US 1993 to 2001.
• 2016: Hillary Clinton becomes the first woman nominated by a major party to run for President of the United States
• 2019: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
• 2020: Kamala Harris is the first woman/ woman of color/ to be elected Vice president of the United States
• 2022: Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs Wade/ Now left up to individual states
• 2026: Proposition 7 puts mail in vote in jeopardy
• 2026: Prop 7 could lead to the end of the 19th Amendment, an end to the woman’s right to vote.
• 2026: The SAVE Act passed. Married women must provide: a Marriage Certificate, A passport, A birth certificate, and Valid ID in order to register to vote.
• 9-2026: Gloria Steinem dies.

Image and Filename Specifications

• File Format: Submit original, high-quality JPEG image files. Other formats (e.g., PNG, TIFF) are not accepted.
• Crop Your Image: Ensure only the artwork itself is visible in the image. Do not show any visible matting, frames, or background distractions.
• Orientation: Make sure your image is oriented correctly (right side up) so that the artwork appears in its intended viewing direction.
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• File Names: You do not need to rename your files before uploading them. The system will handle any file naming requirements.
• File Size: There is a 30MB maximum file size limit. Larger image files will take longer to upload and process.

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• Entry fees are not refundable and must be submitted and paid by the entry deadline.
• Entries cannot be accepted or changed after the deadline. Incomplete entries will be disqualified.

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