A number of window displays as well as interactive street installations are the newest addition to this year’s Curtain Up! on September 16. The moxie-themed displays are being organized by Dot + Line, a Buffalo-based, women-owned, design boutique focused on visual merchandising and window displays co-founded by Marissa Colucci and Jessica Meuhlbauer.
“What makes #moxie unique is we were able to pick the topic as well as the design direction,” says Colucci. “As a woman-owned business it was important to us to create a meaningful installation that spoke to what it means to be a woman in today’s reality.”
Plans include:
Window Installation #1: a collection of objects titled “I am woman”, a satirical look
at what society says it is to be a woman.
Window Installation #2: “The Happy Housewife”, A look at life for a 1950s housewife with a look towards the future for women’s rights to come.
Street Installation #3: “We the People”, call attention to the Equal Rights
Amendment to be added to the Constitution.
Street Install #1: Paper dolls. The intent is to create an interactive display where people can step behind a translucent panel and become a paper doll. Buffalo State fashion students are designing the dolls.
Street Install #2: This will include a structure where a series of woman’s faces will be hanging down from the top of the structure, some will have magenta tape over their mouths. The goal is to represent the woman of the past and the woman of the present fighting for equal rights.
Street Install #3: An interactive panel will allow pedestrians to approach and write down what they are thinking, their hopes and dreams for women. This will be similar to the “before I die” installations seen in NYC.
Street Install #4: The constitution will be printed on a large format screen and displayed with a call to get to the polls.