Sandra's project

I have an artist / activist friend, Sandra Marshall, who posted this on Facebook yesterday. I feel that her extraordinary posts, that she makes public, should be widely shared: 

This is the last day of 2021 and I thought I would look back on my sketches of remarkable community minded women and men over the past Covid years. I filled 6 and more small sketchbooks, around 300 daily sketches and tried to provide short resumés of their ideas and work. 

They include nature, climate and civil rights activists, healthcare workers and firefighters who put their lives on the line, politicians, scientists and researchers looking for new solutions to old problems, people in housing and urban planning domains who are suggesting new environmental ways forward, people who trying to improve our justice system and who are fighting in court now for justice for others, especially indigenous justice, people who work for world peace and peace of mind, singers who have touched the chords of my heart, visual artists, women who fought for rights in our legal system, people who made me laugh, people who worked for food equity. 

Thanks to the journalists and writers on a whole range of subjects who helped me see the world in a sharper way. 

Thanks also to Wikipedia and Youtube for providing backgrounds and the ideas of those whom I wanted to know better.

In case you wonder whom Sandra has chosen to sketch, she included the list in this post:

Nellie McClung, Emily Murphy, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney, Henrietta Edwards, Carrie Derick, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Alice Wilson, Kenojuak Ashevak, Mary Two-Axe Early, Chika Oriuwa, Donna May Kimmaliardjuk, Donna Strickland, Viola Desmond, Marie Lacost Gérin Lajoie, Thérese Cascrain, Myrtha LaPierre, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, Doris Anderson, Mary Travers La Bolduc, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Eugenia Duodu, Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, Violet Milstead, Tanya Talaga, Jane Jacobs, Bobbi Gill, Marilyn Bell, Brenda Milner, Molly Lamb Bobak, Sima Samar, Beverley McLauchlin, Elsie MacGill, Gina Cody, Maary Majka, Emma Marshall, Mary Riter Hamilton, Moly Stoichaet, Roberta Bondar, Annamie Paul, Cheryl Rockman-Greenberg, Margaret Atwood, Ursula Franklin, Rosemary Brown, Sue Johnson, Sallly Armstrong, Lucia Kowaluk, Deborah Cook, Hoda Elmaraghy, Annemieke Farenhorst, Diana Beresfor-Kroeger, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Judy Lamarsh, Amanda Lang, Betty Fox, Louise ArbouMcClintock, Jack Andraka, Maya Penn, Sojourner Truth, Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, Nadia Murad, Lillian Petersen, E. Donnall Thomas, Donald Henderson, Jonas Salk, Robert Kosh, Joseph Howe, Emily Carr, David Keith, Murray Sinclair, Chanie Wenjack, Christie Blatchford, Malala Yousafzai,Catherine Dion, Dominque Anglade, Chris Hadfield, Matt Galloway, Michael Enright, Oliver Sacks, Alexei Navalny, Martin Luther King and Coret ta Scott King, Nahlah Ayed, Amanda Gorman, Bob Dylan, Charles Darwin, Maude Lewis, Kamala Harris, Chika Oriuwa, Kevin Page, Joe Fafard, Andrea Stroeve-Sawa, Charlie Angus,Chrystia Freeland, Mark Carney, Miranda Wang, Peter Bryce, Bill McKibben, Wangari Maathai, Agnes MacPhail, Frank Oz and Jim Henson (with Miss Piggy andKermit), Naomi Klein, Randy fobister,Marie-Pierre Iippersiel, Margit Hideg, Catherine Abreu, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, Kim Campbell, Jody Wilson-Raybould, Michael J Fox, Zoé Yunker, Kate Raworth, Peter Juni, Elizabeth Bagshw, Hana Fatima Syed,NaHeed Nenshi, Irwin Waller, Holly Johnson, Gwen Madiba, Dianne Saxe, Judson Brewer, Birgit Umaigea, Patrick Archambault, Ian Waddell, Aalan Rusbridger, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Joan Harrison, Edward Burtynsky, Matt Landos, Farley Mowat, Zobai Jawed, Ford Doolittle, Stacey Abrams, Kara Lavender Law, Allan Savory, Katie Alumba, Elisabeth Logue, Dalai Lama, Loujain Alhathloul, Nauset, Karjann Aarup, Barry Pinsky, Joe Baker, Julia Gillard, Katherine Hayhoe, Mike Flannigan, Parlika, Olivier Trecases, Dennis Fotinos, Elizabeth Royte, Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, Robb Barnes, Brené Brown, Annie and Bernard Leiffet, Tim Flannery, Leonard Cohen, Kim Pate, David Koliski...and more to come!

Sandra's sketch of palliative care doctor and researcher Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, newly appointed director of the Ottawa ICU.