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DMA represented the Southeast in the National Endowment for the Arts’ women’s suffrage project and was awarded the grant on behalf of the region. After putting out a call for rural cities, we received more than two dozen applicants, and a panel of judges selected Sweetwater as a recipient due to its ties to the suffrage movement. Brown Intermediate School students voted on their favorite piece of art and selected Nashville-based artist Kim Radford’s rendering.
“The iconic goddess painted by master Italian painter, Botticelli in the 1480’s is the muse of my design. I wanted to recreate her in true pop art fashion by hyping her colors and scaling her head to fit a two-story building,” Kim explains. “Supporters of the women’s suffrage movement wore yellow roses. Purple, white and green were also colors of the movement, so I flooded my design with a suffrage palette. This Girl Can celebrates girls of all races, ages, and phases of their life.”
The This Girl Can mural was sponsored by the city of Sweetwater, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Tennessee Arts Commission’s FY21 Commission Initiative grant and was managed by DMA Events. Image by Odinn Media.
