Description
“Hope is a song in a weary throat.”
— Pauli Murray
This is an “unofficial” member of the Dead Feminists broadsides series, an original letterpress print created to commemorate the centennial anniversary (1920-2020) of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted women in the United States the right to vote. And in recognition that “equality” at the ballot box is still not guaranteed to many Black, Indigenous, and other women of color, the print features a quote by Anna Pauline “Pauli” Murray: lawyer, civil and women’s rights activist, and the first African-American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest.
The mini-broadside was letterpress-printed from wood and metal type handset on jaunty curves and angles by Jessica (using Daredevil Furniture, printers’ tools of Jessica’s own invention!), and a linoleum block illustration of a meadowlark hand-carved by Chandler.
To help continue our mission of helping women and girls take action in their own communities, we are donating half of the proceeds of this print to the Dead Feminists Fund.
The piece was printed by hand on antique Vandercook presses, on archival, acid-free paper. The prints are unsigned and unnumbered.
Paper size: 5 x 7 inches
Variable edition size: approximately 150 prints (not signed or numbered)
DeadFeminists.com website printed on the back
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This original artwork is copyright Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring 2020. Copyright is not transferable with the sale of this print. The buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights.
WA state residents are subject to sales tax.
This print is packaged in a clear poly sleeve and will ship flat in a protective mailer, via USPS.
