Female Faces of Change
For Georgetown's Common Home Art Competition with the theme "Intergenerational Justice"
Won first place in the freeform category
Black and white collage of current women working to create a beautiful and just world in the face of the climate crisis. On top of the collage is a silhouette outline of Eunice Newton Foote, a scientists and feminist in the 1800s. In 1856 she published her paper "Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun's Rays" in The American Journal of Science and Arts. Her report documented her experiment showing that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas with warming potential. Her work was forgotten and not attributed to her for decades and now her story is being told. Foote was a pioneer in the environmental and women’s rights world so I wanted to connect her to women in the present day as this journey is all connected with many different branches for people to take. Many more women to come will be part of this intergenerational journey for climate justice.
