“Artists will be looking at who is missing in the picture to bring them forward and amplify their participation,” said Avery Willis Hoffman, program director at the Armory.

Sade Lythcott, chief executive of National Black Theater, said the project is an incredible opportunity. “This is our present pulse, our day to day mission: knocking down these walls and shining lights in the darkest corners of our own stories,” she said.

“100 Years | 100 Women” builds on the Armory’s conversation series, “Interrogations of Form,” which brings together artists, scholars, activists and community members.

Recent large-scale gatherings included “Black Artists Retreat 2019: Sonic Imagination,” in which more than 300 black artists and allies convened; a Lenape Pow Wow in 2018, the first gathering of Lenape leaders on Manhattan Island since the 1700s; and “The Shape of Things” a 2017 event focused on the political and social climate in America, curated by the former Armory artist-in-residence Carrie Mae Weems.