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The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) has partnered with Her Flag, a nationwide art and travel project created by artist Marilyn Artus. Her Flag celebrates the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which enshrined women’s right to vote within the text of the Constitution. Artus collaborated with a woman artist from each of the 36 states that ratified the 19th Amendment by 1920 to create a large flag that is installed on the exterior of the museum’s New York Avenue façade. Her Flag will be on display from June 10 until July 12, 2021.

Oklahoma City artist Marilyn Artus was all set to see her cross-country collaborative "Her Flag" project make its Washington, D.C., debut during this week's presidential inauguration.

A self-described "suffrage nerd," Marilyn Artus wanted to commemorate the 100th anniversary of American women earning the right to vote in a big way.

So, the Oklahoma City artist created a plan out of whole cloth — 18 feet by 26 feet and 25 pounds of it — and after three years of sewing, pivoting and streaming, those plans are unfurling right on time.

And across the exterior of a presidential library.

Oklahoma artist Marilyn Artus, back row center, displays her completed multi-year collaborative project "Her Flag," which commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, at Scissortail Park in Oklahoma City, Okla. on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. The completed flag will be exhibited at the Clinton Presidential Library for three weeks starting Aug. 26.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee marks 100 years Tuesday since the crucial decision that finally gave women the right to vote. On Aug. 18, 1920, Tennessee lawmakers cast the vote that ended a decades long struggle, becoming the 36th and deciding state to ratify the 19th amendment and securing women’s suffrage.

Tuesday is the official 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and Oklahoma City artist Marilyn Artus is celebrating by completing a three-year artistic mission called "Her Flag."

As previously reported, Artus has been working since 2017 on "Her Flag," a multiyear, cross-country collaborative art project to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Proposed by Congress on June 4, 1919, and ratified on Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote.

This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

But for some Blacks, Latinas, Native Americans, and Asians, those rights were denied and abridged and are still undermined.

The Kniznick Gallery presents “HOW WILL THEY KNOW WE WERE HERE? 100 Years Beyond Women’s Suffrage.” The exhibition celebrates the power of civic participation in 2020 and acknowledges the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Constitutional amendment that granted some women the right to vote.

The developing, traveling, and historically minded handiwork of Marilyn Artus and 34-and-counting fellow female artists was displayed virtually to the world from Charleston on Friday, June 26.

Artus launched her project, called “Her Flag,” last year as a wide-scale, celebratory art banner, a work-in-progress to honor the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. The flag is making its way across the United States, growing stripe by stripe and state by state.

The work of a Weirton artist will become part of an important project Friday.

Savanah Schroll Guz will travel to Charleston to take part in a ceremony during which the 34th stripe will be added to the Her Flag project.