From Jim Crow laws and the Women's Suffrage Movement to present-day Gerrymandering and restrictively long voting lines, this art project explores the ways voting has been suppressed in the past and how it is today. Shapes, patterns, and images derived from these tactics are applied to hand-made ceramics in an effort to illustrate the inequity inherent in American Democracy and how voter suppression disproportionately effects people of color, young people, the elderly, and people with disabilities. 

Jen Gandee grew up in West Virginia and graduated in 1996 from West Virginia University with a BFA in Ceramics.  She received a MFA from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts in 2008. Currently, she teaches art at Syracuse University and Cayuga Community College, works as a studio potter, and owns the Gandee Gallery in Fabius, NY.  The Gandee Gallery (www.gandeegallery.com) exhibits handmade objects and fine art, focusing on utilitarian and sculptural ceramics made by artists from across the US and Canada. 

Unframed Prints: $75 each   Figure Vessels:  $75 each

This project is made possible through the CNY Arts Grants for Regional Arts and Cultural Engagement re-grant program thanks to a New York State Senate Initiative supported by the NYS Legislature, the Office of the