What if women fully claimed their voices and voted with a vengeance? Meet Minerva.

Minerva: Not to Be Denied or Detained
Media: Assembled sculptureDimensions: 4 ft x 4 ft x 5 ftMaterials:
  • Custom screen wire skirt form
  • Papier mache of print media related to the reproductive rights and birth control
  • Victorian-inspired wallpaper
  • Italian silk brocade
  • Antique voting machine
  • Antique medical instruments
  • Antique hunting horn
  • Peacock feathers
1913 magazine cover shows Susan B. Anthony sticking it to the toga-clad patriarchy.
The second Sister of Roe is Minerva, an homage to the Roman goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare, as well as the determined suffragettes of the early 1900s. Minerva embodies how women's voices and votes can yield victory over social conservatism and legislative restrictions of reproductive rights. Her color palette is drawn from the suffragette movement, which used purple for loyalty and constancy to purpose. Her stylized Victorian bustle reveals an antique voting booth with old-fashioned pull levers beneath her bustle. She also reveals a cache of antique surgical instruments. Minerva's body is made from papier-mache crafted from newspaper and other print media--headlines, cartoons, advertisements and illustrations related to birth control and the right to choose.
Marches, meetings, militancy-- political acts used in the past remain relevant to regaining our reproductive rights