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Women's Suffrage Movement Monument

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Women’s Suffrage Movement Monument

Women’s Suffrage Movement Monument

In the Fall of 2017 the Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Foundation sent out a call for proposals to build a statue to honor the women’s suffrage movement. The location of the statue is on Literary Walk in New York’s Central Park and would be the first statue of a woman in the park. The project offered the opportunity to engage in the national debate about what a monument is today while also extending the ideas developed in the Drawing Degree Zero and Possible Pavilions series. Development of the design was guided by the question of how to make a monument that is inclusive and engaging while honoring those for who it is intended. In our proposal an inverted translucent pyramid hovers over the ground inviting the public in. Visitors walk across a plaza inscribed with quotes of the women leaders whose portraits are overhead accompanied by a timeline of events leading up to passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. The public can ascend a small stair and enter a voting booth scaled space to register their thoughts on metal cards about what equality means to them.