Deeds not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage

This unusually creative honouring of the 19th Amendment’s centennial, which was ratified August 18, 1920, will intrigue and absorb everyone interested in equal rights for all. A meaningful gift or impulse buy, its dazzlingly varied, sometimes troubling, always inspiring artworks reflect the long and continuing fight for equality in democracy. African-American artists and subjects have a special place in the book, since although the 19th Amendment made a huge stride forward for women’s rights, in many voting situations that right extended to white women only. AUTHORS: Sandra Sider, a studio quilt artist since the 1980s, has led critique workshops for Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) since 2005. She holds an MA in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Between 2010 and 2013, Sider served as president of SAQA, and today she is editor of SAQA’s Art Quilt Quarterly as well as curator of the Texas Quilt Museum. She has written or edited more than a dozen books concerning contemporary quilt art. Curator of the New England Quilt Museum, Pamela Weeks has been a quilter, fiber artist, quilt historian, and state-juried member of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. For eight years she was the executive director of ABC Quilts, where the mission was to send handmade quilts to babies and young children born HIV-positive or drug affected, around the world. Weeks lives in New Hampshire. SELLING POINTS: . An unusually creative honouring of the 19th Amendment’s centennial - it was ratified August 18, 1920 . 28 contemporary art quilts by award-winning artists, both men and women . Recognises unsung suffragists, including African-American women instrumental in the struggle to gain women’s voting rights 71 colour images