Shirt Waist Makers
2016
Screen print, edition of 10
11 x 17 inches (unframed)

From the series New Demands? (2011-2023)
Solo exhibition at Spudnik Press Cooperative

This is a re-creation of a textile banner carried by immigrant women garment workers in the early 20th century. The exact date and place are unknown but it is possible that the photograph was taken during the The New York shirtwaist strike of 1909-1910, a strike involving approximately 20,000 immigrant women working in New York shirtwaist factories. The photo of the strikers in the official ILGWU archives at the Kheel Center, Cornell University.
Photo: Robert Chase Heisman

Also published as a digital text work in Counter Signals 4, 2021.