Melania Trump Debuts Art Project Celebrating 100 Years Of Women’s Right To Vote
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The Roaring Twenties wasn’t just a time of economic success, jazz and flappers, it also signified when women were finally allowed to vote. With this year marking the 100th anniversary of the milestone in the US, First Lady Melania Trump is starting a children’s art project commemorating the impactful step towards gender equality when the 19th Amendment came into place on 18 August 1920.
Her new Building the Movement: America’s Youth Celebrate 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage campaign will commission artworks portraying the suffrage movement from youths of grades three to 12. Selected drawings will be displayed at the White House for an art exhibit in summer.
“For decades, women leaders lobbied, marched, and protested for equality and their right to vote in the United States,” FLOTUS expressed in a press release.
“It is my hope that this project will both support and expand the important conversations taking place on equality and the impact of peaceful protests, while encouraging children to engage in the history behind this consequential movement in their own home states,” she continued.
Melania Trump’s repeated verbalizations of her hopes for peaceful demonstrations following the death of George Floyd have reportedly irked the West Wing, as they contradict the dominant tone of the president’s calls for “law and order.”
Students can submit their illustrations via this website by 6 July. A drawing from each of the 50 states and US territories will be shortlisted to be put up at the White House exhibit in August.
Excited to announce my youth engagement project, "Building the Movement: America's Youth Celebrate 100 Years of Women's Suffrage" honoring the centennial anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment. Stay tuned on how your child can participate in this educational activity! pic.twitter.com/hmKYRiuf8b
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) June 15, 2020
2/2 Children can submit their drawing of a Suffragist, Suffrage Symbol, or Suffrage Event by July 6th & the winners will have their drawings featured in an exhibit that will launch this August! #BeBest
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) June 15, 2020
Submit your drawing here: https://t.co/laj10KlFTm
Saddened to see our country & communities being damaged & vandalized. I ask everyone to protest in peace & focus on taking care of one another & healing our great nation.
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) June 1, 2020
[via CNN, cover image via Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.com]
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