From “The Future of the Past” Series Elisandra Lopes, REMEMBERING HALLIE Q BROWN, Watercolor and colored pencil, 2020, 8.5″ x 11” “Capturing the simplicity, color and texture is everything for me. As an Illustrator these three components have always been what I look for when I create new artwork. It’s […]
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Judith Carlin | Lesley University, 2020
From “The Future of the Past” Series Judith Carlin, STILL FIGHTING, Oil and acrylic, 24”x 30” Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. “I found this written on the wall of a bathroom stall in Philadelphia. It’s a quote from Cesar A. Cruz, the Mexican poet and human […]
Willoughby Lucas Hastings | Lesley University, 2020
From “The Future of the Past” Series Willoughby Lucas Hasting, PILLAR TO CHANGE, 2020, Hand-quilted protest monument made from donated blue fabrics, on rod steel armature, 6′ x 6′ “This work references the architectural tropes of colonial monuments while abstracting the form and altering its materiality. Pillar to Change is […]
Patricia Collins | Lesley University, 2020
From “The Future of the Past” Series Patricia Collins, PAST PRESENT, FUTURE INTENTIONS, 2020, hand stamped acrylic & ink on Rives, 26″ x 40″ “Combining a carnivalesque attitude with social commentary, I layer stencils, shapes & silhouettes of everyday life, stylized symbols, signage, and mythology inspired imagery in my paintings, […]
Sirarpi Heghinian-Walzer | Lesley University, 2020
From “The Future of the Past” Series Sirarpi Heghinian-Walzer, LADYBIRD, 2019, Mixed media, pulp, beeswax “My art reflects on the ephemeral and flux of existence. They evolve, decay and morph.Thriving and decaying, colorful and dark, alluring and foreboding, my work incarnates the paradoxes of nature. My choice of materials and […]
Mary Harvey | Lesley University, 2020
From “The Future of the Past” Series Mary Harvey, A WOMAN OF HER TIMES, Oil on canvas, 2019 “A Woman of Her Times is depicted, first, as a younger woman in 1920—the year when the 19th Amendment was passed, an Amendment that her Ohio suffragist mother and grandmother had both […]
Carol Iskols Daynard | Lesley University, 2020
From “The Future of the Past” Series Carol Daynard, PATIENCE, Oil on canvas, 2019, 40”x 36” “I am a mixed media artist but in my painting, “Patience,” I have approached the work as a traditional painter applying oil to canvas. The subject, a black woman, waits to register to vote. […]
Walter Crump | Lesley University, 2020
From “The Future of the Past” Series Walter Crump, WOMEN’S MARCH, 2020, Inkjet pigment print, 20″ x 15″ Dedicated to Elizabeth Warren “In my photography, I am attracted to happenstance, to integrating ‘controlled accidents’ within my work. Within that category I’m working on a new series I call two-dimensional movies, […]
Lou Lim | Lesley University, 2020
From “The Future of the Past” Series Lou Lim, WOODHULL Acrylic and marker, 2020, 9” x12” “Woodhull is inspired by the first woman to run for president named Victoria Woodhull. A pioneer of her time, she was a person who actively contributed and laid a foundation for others like herself […]
Ruth Rosner | Lesley University, 2020
From “The Future of the Past” Series Ruth Rosner, TO VOTE [As if It Could Save a Life] #1, Mixed-media sculpture, 56” x 56” x 15″ “The totemic women I sculpt evolve from remnants, shards, debris, discarded objects, evocative relics of the street. The source of their vulnerability is the […]
Marissa Burns | Lesley University, 2020
From “The Future of the Past” Series Marissa Burns, IDA, Watercolor, 2020, 6″ “My work for “Unfinished Business: The Complicated History of Voting Rights in America” represents activist women in the past and present. These women winning the right to vote paved the way for other women to lead future […]
Brad Chaffee | Lesley University, 2020
From “The Future of the Past” Series Brad Chaffee, UNTITLED (CHARLOTTESVILLE), Acrylic on canvas, 16″ x 24″ “This flag painting is about the Charlottesville riots and the loss of our place in the world as the shining beacon of democracy and the moral leader in terms of human rights. I […]