Teacher: Cheryl Lunger
School: LaVilla School of the Arts, Jacksonville, FL

Full media: Plaster bandage, acrylic, liner pen on canvas.

Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: "Throughout her life [Emily Newell Blair] continued to power through inequalities between men and women and set a new bar for women's rights. But such a thing does not happen overnight. Every idea had to be thought out and prepared. My piece represents the raw thinking behind the ideas that she harnessed to transform our world."

Read the artist's Impact Statement.

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