Growing up in a very patriarchal household, Font used this project as a way to extend, develop, and amplify the work and strengthen the women’s voices.
However, after giving it a second thought “I connected the work I’ve done in the past nine years with the suffrage movement,” she said. When preparing for the show, Marina thought about photographing the pieces differently, doing something more performative. “All 105 artists were asked to create work that resonated with them within the topic/subject of the show,” said Marina. Represented in the exhibition is a diverse collection of works that reflect the women’s responses and reactions to the battle for suffrage in 1920 and the problems women still face a century later. You can see how each of us responded in a way.” I love the diversity of women of all different backgrounds and different stages of their careers represented in this show. “I was honored and thrilled to be asked to be part of the project. The photography community is a small and tight-knit one, so I’ve gotten to know many of my colleagues,” said Font. “The founders of the project contacted me over a year ago and I was honored and thrilled to be asked. Her work is on display in Miami’s MDC Museum of Art+Design, Lowe Art Museum and Frost Art Museum at FIU as well as the Boca Raton Museum of Art, FOLA Fototeca Latinoamericana in Buenos Aires, Argentina, The Bunnen collection in Atlanta, and the Girls’ Club Collection in Fort Lauderdale as well as various private collections throughout the world.
In Miami since 1997, she has had studio space at the Bakehouse Art Complex, at another location in Wynwood, and currently at The Collective 62 in Liberty City. Miami artist Marina Font was elated at being one of those chosen.Ī well-known Miami artist, Font’s photo-based work explores ideas of identity, gender, territory, language, memory, and the forces of the unconscious. Therefore, the most appropriate year to present the traveling exhibition “ A Yellow Rose Project,” “a collaboration celebrating the centennial of the 19th Amendment, with photographs from 105 women photographers from all over the US and beyond.” Miami artist Marina Font whose work is featured in the national traveling exhibition “A Yellow Rose Project.” Photo courtesy of Marina Font.Ģ020 has no doubt been one of the most contentious years in recent history, what with the Presidential Election upon us.
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