Pat Boas: Artist Talk with Sun Valley Museum of Art
Pat Boas
Sentinels (banner), 2020
acrylic on linen over panel
19.5 x 15.5"
Pat Boas
Deeds Not Words: Women Working for Change
Sun Valley Museum of Art
Ketchum, Idaho
January 8 - April 14, 2021
Sun Valley Museum of Art (SVMoA) will host a free, livestreamed artist talk with Pat Boas and SVMoA’s Curator of Visual Arts, Courtney Gilbert at 6 p.m MST on Monday, Jan. 11, 2020.
LINK TO RECORDED TALK >
From the Press Release:
SVMoA invited Boas to create a new body of work for this exhibition with a focus on the history of the early push for women’s suffrage in Idaho and across the American West. Following a residency at SVMoA’s Hailey House and research at the Idaho State Archives in Boise, Boas produced an installation for the exhibition that includes new paintings, artist-designed wallpaper and a poster (or “broadside”) featuring a speech given by the well-known suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway in Boise in 1889, which visitors may take with them.
The installation at SVMoA includes five paintings that Boas calls “Sentinels,” a reference to the Silent Sentinels, a group of women the suffragist Alice Paul organized to protest outside the White House starting in January 1917. Despite facing harassment and arrest, the Silent Sentinels maintained their presence in Washington, D.C., until June 1919, when Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
- Sun Valley Museum of Art, 2021