Great blue heron silhouetted against a sunset reflection in a lake. I originally designed this illustration for a limited-run physical block print. I have translated it into digital form using a beautiful gradient sunset.
By special request: Herstory Portraits. Today's is Emmy Noether
Starting October 1, 2018, I began a self challenge to produce a pattern or print a day, rain or shine, in sickness and in health. This is a self challenge. I will be uploading my print or pattern to RedBubble every day.
Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made important contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics by proving a revolutionary mathematical theorem that changed the way physicists study the universe
Today I give you LaDonna Harris, an outspoken advocate on issues of concern to Native Americans, women, children, and the mentally ill. In 1970 she founded Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO), and continued to lead that organization nearly two decades later.
Herstory Portrait: Wangari Maathai (1940 – 2011) was a Kenyan environmental activist. She founded the Green Belt Movement in the 1970s seeking to promote environmental conservation in Kenya and Africa. She became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.”
