Park Avenue Armory Announces Partners for 100 Years | 100 Women Commissions Initiative

Park Avenue Armory, with lead partner National Black Theatre, today announced that it has invited ten New York City-based cultural institutions to join 100 Years | 100 Women, a two-part, multidisciplinary initiative marking the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Together, these institutions are commissioning one hundred artists who self-identify as women to create new work in response to this momentous anniversary.

Along with National Black Theatre, this group of partner institutions includes:

• Apollo Theater
• The Juilliard School
• La MaMa Experimental Theatre Company
• The Laundromat Project
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Museum of the Moving Image
• National Sawdust
• New York University (Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts; Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity and Strategic Innovation; and Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture)
• Urban Bush Women

The one hundred commissioned artists will be named on February 15, 2020 as part of the Armory’s annual “Culture in a Changing America” symposium, which this year focuses on the complex topic of suffrage and will feature conversations, performances, and salons led by notable artists, scholars, activists, and civic and cultural leaders. The commissioned projects—spanning visual arts, music, dance, film, photography, and performance—will be showcased in the Armory’s Wade Thompson Drill Hall and historic rooms during a day-long celebration on May 16, 2020.

More details on 100 Years | 100 Women, including current participants for the February symposium, are available in the full press release copied below and available for download at this link. Please don’t hesitate to be in touch if you have any questions, would like to request images, or are interested in coordinating conversations with project leadership.

Tickets for the February symposium can be purchased at www.armoryonpark.com; tickets for the May celebration will go on sale at a later date.

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