Laurie Fagan

CBC Ottawa journalist - love to hear ordinary folks tell me their stories [email protected]

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Botanically-accurate knitted and crocheted sculptures of flowers by artist Tatyana Yanishevsky #WomensArt

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Grenfell Memorial Quilt, in memory of 72 lives lost - #GrenFell Tower fire, UK. The aim to complete the hanging for the 10th yr Remembrance,2027. GMQ will be the dimensions of Grenfell Tower 220ft x 72ft . Initiated by mother of survivor, Tuesday Greenidge #sewingforjustice 💚

[Laurie Fagan @faganl]

@rcgoulet I am prez of the Champlain Park garden club in Ottawa. Wondering g if I can book you for a talk at our club

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Ruby Silvious, artist who utilises used teabags as her canvases #WomensArt

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Artwork by Sinéad O'Connor, used as the cover art for her 1994 album ''Universal Mother'
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Teri Culletto, aka the Vineyard Baker, creates art with focaccia bread as her canvas #WomensArt #July

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'A Weekend Away' by Gail Brodholt, contemporary UK printmaker #WomensArt

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Brittany, France early 20thc, women making 'picot bigouden' a form of intricate and complex crochet linking to Irish crochet #WomensArt

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Linen jacket by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who was placed in a Heidelberg psychiatric hospital during, late 1800′s, who embroidered her life story onto the jacket as an attempt to regain her identity. One of the many true stories in the @womensart1 book Unravelling Women's Art

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Crocheted canopy for shade in public space, created by 40 local women of Cartaya, Spain #WomensArt
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Canadian fiber artist Janis Ledwell-Hunt creates textile sculpture exploring the cycle of life #WomensArt

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'Woman wiring an early IBM computer' from the 'Documenting Science' series (1938-58) by photographer Berenice Abbott #WomensArt #MondayMotivation

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'Holloway Prison brooch' designed by suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst as a medal of honour for UK female activists who had been imprisoned and tortured in their fight for women's right to vote #WomensArt

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Tulip and Willow 1875 #WilliamMorris

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Portrait of Serena Williams (2015) by photographer Annie Leibovitz #WomensArt

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The Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran is also known as the Pink Mosque!

The Pink Mosque gets its name from the rose-colored tiles that cover the exterior of the mosque & the pink hue that the sunlight creates on the interior when it shines through the stained glass windows…

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Princess Anne got back just in time from fighting the Napoleonic Wars.

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'Brilliance of the souls', 2014, from Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms series #WomensArt

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Women in Afghanistan, and those living as refugees in Pakistan or Iran became so accustomed to war they began to replace traditional motifs of flowers and birds in their rug weaving often replacing them with images of war planes, tanks and guns #WomensArt

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Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt