Miss 2017
Designed to be worn by participants at the January 21, 2017, Women’s March on Washington, these sashes are embroidered with witty and ironic feminist tropes. Part of a set whose titles are printed on a small poster, they were made by the Victory Garden Collective, women artists who create works in the spirit of a World War II "victory garden." Seeing the world as "again in political and environmental turmoil [... and] similarly in need of nourishment and unification," they make publicly engaged art that seeks to address those needs. This example evokes the efforts of early twentieth-century suffragettes, who marched under purple and green banners to assert women’s right to vote; the sashes also raise traditional, more troubling associations for feminists, such as the attire of parading beauty queens.
Artwork Details
- Title: Miss 2017
- Artist: Victory Garden Collective (American, established 2016)
- Artist: Louise Eastman (American, born 1966)
- Artist: Jess Frost (American, born 1970)
- Artist: Tara Geer (American, born 1970)
- Artist: Katherine B. Michel (American, born 1971)
- Artist: Wendy Small (American, born 1960)
- Artist: Janis Stemmermann (American, born 1963)
- Date: 2017
- Medium: Boxed portfolio of 11 embroidered sashes and letterpress poster; sashes: machine embroidery on satin and grosgrain ribbon
- Dimensions: Box: 5 1/4 × 16 1/8 × 3 1/4 in. (13.3 × 41 × 8.3 cm)
Letterpress sheet in box: 4 5/16 × 15 1/4 in. (11 × 38.7 cm)
Poster: 20 1/2 × 16 7/16 in. (52 × 41.8 cm)
Each sash: 4 1/4 × 71 15/16 in. (10.8 × 182.8 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Katherine Beinecke Michel, 2017
- Object Number: 2017.463a–l
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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