Placard with "I AM WOMAN" used during the Women's March on Washington: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A placard used during the Women's March on Washington, January 21, 2017. The placard is white with handwritten, red and black block text and characters that read, [I AM / W ? - / MAN]. Red and black spirals frame [W ? -]. The dash is filled in with multicolored smiley face stickers. In the top and bottom right corners are black, red, and white quarter circles with spokes. The right edge of the placard has been decorated with black scallop semicircles. The back of the placard is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: January 21, 2017
• Created by: Nia Alsop, American, born 2004
• Subject of: Women's March, American, founded 2017
• Type: placards (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink and pastel (material) on cardboard with paper (fiber product) on adhesive
• Dimensions: H x W: 13 15/16 × 22 in. (35.4 × 55.9 cm)
• Place used: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Place made: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Children
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Women
• Object number: 2017.86.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Kelly Elaine Navies
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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