Why art matters

My work highlights historic women who spoke, marched, thought, fought, taught, painted, stormed, wrote, agitated, and sacrificed to make the world different. To make the world better.

It’s impossible to overstate the courage it took for someone like Ida B. Wells, a Black woman from Mississippi, to write and publish stories that exposed the atrocities of the South at the turn of the 19th century. Or the amount of reputational risk and hazing women had to endure just for attending a suffragette rally. Or the resilience required for a young, female scientist like Marie Curie to secure funding for her work on radium.

These boxes are meant to spark curiosity about people's lives and encourage us to explore their stories more deeply. Because when we learn about someone and their story, our understanding grows. When our understanding expands, our compassion increases. As our compassion increases, our interactions with each other soften. When our interactions soften, our communities begin to change. When our communities begin to change, the whole world will heal.

That’s how art can heal the world. That’s why it matters!