Coss_M 2012 For Margaret Sanger’s Faith

Name/Title

Coss_M 2012 For Margaret Sanger’s Faith

Artwork Details

Medium

cast bronze

Made/Created

Artist

Mary Coss

Date made

2012

Dimensions

Height

11 in

Width

13 in

Depth

6 in

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Collection of the Artist

General Notes

Note Type

Exhibited

Note

2022 Call to Arms; solo show at Vashon Center for the Arts; Vashon, WA 2018 The Contemporary Figure; Sculpture Northwest; Bellingham, WA Tenacious contemporary artists featuring interpretations of perseverance related to the feminine; Suzanne Zahr Gallery; Mercer Island, WA 2015 Consume her Demand; Agent C Gallery; Vancouver, BC, 3 person show Interstate Show I-90 meets I-82; Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University;Contemporary Women Artists XVII - Reimagining Femmage; Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles MO Voices: An Artist's Perspective; WCA; Joan McLoughlin, McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco 2014 Public Debt to the Suffragette; solo show; METHOD Gallery; Seattle, WA MetalURGE:; Citywide Exhibit at 2Ravens Studio; Tacoma, WA

Note

The very year that congressional representatives in the United States initiated the effort to limit birth control was exactly 100 years after Margaret Sanger initiated what became Planned Parenthood. This unfortunate irony inspired this work. The haiku embedded reads: Century passing For Margaret Sanger’s faith Futility abounds