Equali-tea: Suffragist Tea Cozies in Redwork- The Project

In 2020 I received an Individual Artist Grant from Lower Adirondack Region Arts Council (LARAC) & New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA) to create 40 embroidered portraits of NY State suffragists to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote in the United States. With extra time on my hands due to the global shutdown due to the pandemic, I finished 42 portraits. They are currently on exhibit in the Folklife Gallery at Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls, NY. With library visitation in constant flux, the exhibit has been made available online at:
crandalllibrary.org

(All patterns, embroidered portraits, tea cozies, and images by Tisha Dolton, copyright 2020, 2021)

Susan Ames Douge (left), 1806–1897, was one of the first women to vote in the New York State school election in 1880. In 1833 she was a founder of the Female Lundy Society, the first African American charitable organization in Albany. Her daughter, C. Mary Douge Hicks Williams (right), 1832–1884, was vice president of the Albany County Woman Suffrage Association & led a handful of women to register to vote in the 1880 school election. Mary was a teacher at the segregated Wilberforce School in Albany & died of tuberculosis in 1884. (Embroidered tea cozies by Tisha Dolton, 2020)

Equali-tea: Suffragist Tea Cozies in Redwork exhibit poster available for pre-order March 27, 2021. Go to the Contact page for more information.