A portrait of my daughter who is turning 18 in July. She is going to college next year. The most exiting and innocent time in life.
Archive for May, 2009
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
George and I went to pick up Gloria Steinem from Belvedere. I read a lot about her online,but it does not tell one much. We brought her to UC Berkeley campus for her first appearance at 12 p.m. and listened to her speech, and the conversations she had with a couple of young women. One of them was very moving – she was asking what she can do in order not to follow into the steps of other women in her family – her sister is an escort, her mom alcoholic: no money to go to school and no help from anybody.
Gloria is a wonderful, unassuming, generous, beautiful person. A teacher and a guide.
Dolores Huerta
Yuri KuchiyamaMable, Tameeka , Sylvia and I went to visit Yuri at her place on San Pablo Avenue in Oakland.
She was so curious about who we are, each one of us. Asked follow-up questions if she wanted to understand better. Mable talked with her about the speech for the Four Legend event .
She is the most humble yet fierce person I came across. Passionate and compassionate. I feel lucky to have met her – she is 94 years old!
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
I was asked to paint four paintings to honor those women and their work. I am posting 2 of them today and write more about it tomorrow. It was such a great experience.
The Four Legends of Feminism - Gloria Steinem, Eileen Hernandez, Yuri Kuchiyama and Dolores Huerta
”Passing the Baton”
Sunday, April 26, 2009
UC Berkeley More than 350 women and a contingent of supportive men came to engage with each other and start a new national pipeline of multicultural women leaders in business, politics, and media. From ten-year-old bloggers from an all-girls middle school in Oakland to 80-year-old activists as well as stay-at-home moms and college students, women came from across the country to join in the first Engage Her Multicultural Women’s Leadership Conference April 25-26, 2009
Gloria Steinem as Goya’s princess Alba.
Portrait of Eileen Hernandez