Yes, she can

The League of Women Voters will host the Madam President event, with original art by John Hammer

The League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Tulsa (LWV) recently announced their annual Madam President event, in which Tulsans nominate local women who could/should be president. Last year’s event honored 35 women, including Deborah Gist, Kathy Taylor and Jeannie McDaniel. The 2017 results will be announced on May 9 at the Thomas K. McKeon Center for Creativity at TCC. Tickets for the event can be purchased at lwvtulsa.org/madampresident.

In addition to heavy hors d’oeuvres and cocktails, guests will have a chance to take home one of three new paintings of famous historical women by Tulsa artist John Hammer, who created these works specifically for the Madam President event. Hammer first contributed to the event last year, with five original paintings, after LWV proposed the idea. “[They] approached me with the idea of doing some portraits to draw attention to Madam President,” Hammer said. “It sounded like a fun project and I hadn’t taken the time to paint many women, so I looked at it also as a challenge.”  Through an online poll, LWV members determined the women Hammer would paint.

Here, we present to you Hammer’s 2017 Madam President paintings: Frida Kahlo, Maya Angelou, and Michelle Obama. Prints of each are available for purchase now and at the event; the original works will be given away in a series of raffles on the night of.