Thursday, October 9, 2008

Ginger Wolfe-Suarez

I heard Ginger Wolfe-Suarez speak last night at Danforth about her past work, research process and her current show As Long As You Live I Will Live. Some of the most striking points she made were regarding the need for artists to be a part of history. She shared the idea that the artist has a responsibility to make their voice public.  In her current exhibition at the Mills Museum, Wolfe-Suarez is acting as a voice for the Suffragettes, who fought for what they believed in. Reading from the journals and painstaking records from the period, shows how organized and passionate these women were in the face of brutality and ridicule. The courage of these women to fight for their convictions is truly admiral. Despite being tortured, beaten, raped, institionalized in both prisons and insane asylums these women would not be broken and would continue their fight for justice. I am grateful to these individuals, whom many historians deny ever existed and to Wolfe-Suarez for pursuing her research so that these women can receive some recognition for the work that they did.  

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