Behind the Scenes: Forward Into Light
Channel: EMPAC | Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer
Date: 2020-09-14

Joining hundreds of buildings and landmarks across the country, EMPAC will light up at dusk on August 26, 2020 with the suffrage colors of purple and gold, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and women’s right to vote in the United States. Named in honor of the historic slogan:

Forward out of error
Leave behind the night
Forward through the darkness
Forward into light

The nationwide “Forward Into Light” campaign is led by the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The lighting event at EMPAC both celebrates this milestone of American democracy and acknowledges the ethical imperative to effect change and promote equality within our institutions and beyond. As a founding member of the Feminist Art Coalition (FAC), a group of over 100 museums and non-profit art institutions from across the U.S., EMPAC’s 2020 curatorial program is suffused with feminist thought, experience, and action, and considers art as a catalyst for discourse and civic engagement.

https://empac.rpi.edu/news/2020/forward-light-celebrating-100-years-womens-suffrage