Women's Suffrage Events Coming To Workhouse Arts Center

LORTON, VA — With the upcoming centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote in the United States, the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton is holding special Thursday evening drive-in movies, a Girl Scout Gold Award Project virtual event and a suffrage-related art exhibit.

The first movie scheduled for Aug. 6 was postponed due to inclement weather and will be rescheduled. Tickets for the films that begin on Thursday, Aug. 13 and include "Harriet," "Moana," "Suffragette" and "A League of Their Own" can be purchased on the Workhouse Arts Center website.

South County High School student and Girl Scout Emma Skog will host a virtual Girl Scout Gold Award project called “100 Years Later: How Women Got the Right to Vote.” For her project, she developed children’s educational materials for the Lucy Burns Museum.

The event will take place on Aug. 18, the actual centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. The session will include an introduction to Lucy Burns; a time travel puppet show; an interview with Laura McKie, Lucy Burns Museum Director; and a game about women’s firsts. The first 300 attendees who complete the follow-up survey will receive a commemorative patch with the Lucy Burns Museum logo.

"I selected this project because I feel it’s important to learn about injustices and understand our history, and many kids in my area don’t know that a significant historic event happened right near us," Emma said in a statement. "Many of us take our rights for granted, so it's important to see what efforts/struggles these women went through."

Treasure Hunt booklets created by Emma will be at the Lucy Burns Museum after Aug. 18 for children who visit the museum to complete.

Visit the Lucy Burns Museum webpage to register for Skog's event.

Workhouse Arches Gallery artist Julia Dzikiewicz is displaying her Suffrage related mixed media art in the Workhouse Muse Gallery in Building W-16. “In my encaustic paintings, layering wax like the accumulation of history, I seek to remind women and girls of their potential to change the world,” Dzikiewicz said.

The Muse Gallery is open Friday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. and the Lucy Burns Museum is open Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m.