standing woman with long red hair, wearing orange helmet and breastplate and white skirt, holding a white flag on a red pole with her PL hand and blowing into an orange horn held in her PR hand; red sunrise behind her; ground made of various pieces of torn and cut cardboard, including corrugated cardboard and other types of packaging; piece disassembles into two vertical sections which affix together with Velcro

%C2%A9 Andrea Bowers

National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, 2017

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Andrea Bowers’s work focuses on the nexus between art and activism across a broad range of issues, including workers' rights, sexuality, discrimination, and immigration.

The figure of the Bugler Girl represented the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, whose struggle for women’s voting rights in the United Kingdom was known as the Suffragette Movement (1897–1918). While the movement was primarily concerned with the voting rights of white women, here Bowers reimagines the Bugler Girl as a woman of color, transforming the call to action to embrace all women.

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Details
Title
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Artist Life
born 1965
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2019.132.2a,b
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standing woman with long red hair, wearing orange helmet and breastplate and white skirt, holding a white flag on a red pole with her PL hand and blowing into an orange horn held in her PR hand; red sunrise behind her; ground made of various pieces of torn and cut cardboard, including corrugated cardboard and other types of packaging; piece disassembles into two vertical sections which affix together with Velcro

© Andrea Bowers

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