This artwork, titled "July: She Is Free", was created with multiple mediums on bristol board, and measures 11x14". I used prismacolor pencil for the face and metallic gold detail on the shirt, watercolor for the scene in the hair, ink for the birds, and acrylic for the galaxy background. 

This piece was part of my "Unlimited" series I exhibited at ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, MI in 2017. This particular piece in the series is special to me because of its depiction of a young lady with down syndrome. I work with artists with disabilities as part of my "day job", and representation of ALL people in arts and culture is very important to me.

"Unlimited" is composed of 12 mixed media portraits in which the meaning is influenced by the use of pattern and color. Women of all ages, races, and time periods are depicted, each communicating a different theme. I aim for the pieces to speak to women’s collective experiences beyond their differences. We tend to think of time and events in terms of our own personal history or the history of the nation in which we reside. But of course, there are women everywhere living out their day to day life all over the world, with hopes, dreams, fears, relationships. Our situations and struggles are very different but were we in some alternate reality all given a chance to meet, I suspect we would find some surprising similarities, maybe more than we ever expected.

This piece is signed and dated.

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