Come out to the Women Pathmakers exhibit at the Euphrat Museum of Art opening at 6:30pm on January 23rd and see my installation. The first women's rights convention in the U.S. was planned over tea, and later feminists both sold tea to raise funds for the suffrage movement and used tea parties both as fundraisers and to politically organize other women in a time when it was rare for women to congregate in public. In honor of the hundredth anniversary of the women’s suffrage amendment, Suffragist Tea Parties is an interactive installation that asks participants to think about and discuss their relationship to voting today, and confront in a major election year both the ways in which voting rights remain vulnerable and how American democracy has always been incomplete. Because it wasn’t until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that women of color fully reaped the rights bestowed by the women’s suffrage amendment and because voting rights remain tenuous for communities of color, the installation features portraits of Ida Wells-Barnett, Fannie Lou Hamer and contemporary voting rights activist Charlane Oliver (painted by Dr. Johanna Foster with mats collaged by Sophia Foster-Palmer). At the public museum events, I will be present to serve tea and facilitate discussions about voting and democracy.