Making Waves
Acrylic mural applied as vinyl wrap, 2023
Commissioned by the City of Portland to celebrate Women’s History Month, this design features 27 contemporary females who are breaking barriers in their fields. Since we often return to the same historical characters, I focused on women who are still alive. .. -- and who I am personally more inspired by the young like ... Informal polls gave me way more women then I could possibly include, and this, in itself, is progress! It may still be swimming upstream, but this is progress! The bus (and the swimmin' women) will be traversing Portland neighborhoods for the rest of 2023.
Commissioned by the City of Portland to celebrate Women’s History Month, this design features 27 contemporary females who are breaking barriers in their fields. Since we often return to the same historical characters, I focused on women who are still alive. .. -- and who I am personally more inspired by the young like ... Informal polls gave me way more women then I could possibly include, and this, in itself, is progress! It may still be swimming upstream, but this is progress! The bus (and the swimmin' women) will be traversing Portland neighborhoods for the rest of 2023.
See how many of the women you recognize: Deb Haaland, Dolores Huerta, Misty Copeland, Viola Davis, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Temple Grandin, Rachel Levine, Tammy Duckworth, Condoleezza Rice, Dolly Parton, Malala Yousafzai, Megan Rapinoe, Mia Hamm, Lizzo, Greta Thunberg, Sandra Day O’Connor, Hayat Sindi, Mindy Kaling, Ann Curry, Sonia Sotomayor, Tu Youyou, Kamala Harris, Mae Jemison, Jane Goodall, Esperanza Spalding, Amanda Gorman.