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You are here: Home / Interviews / Artist John Mavroudis Celebrates Women’s History Month With Illustrations And Inspirations

Artist John Mavroudis Celebrates Women’s History Month With Illustrations And Inspirations

March 8, 2016 By Moonalice Posters 15 Comments

Artist John Mavroudis Celebrates Women's History Month With Illustrations During March

Women’s History Month is an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. Artist John Mavroudis, who recently celebrated Black History Month in a creative way, is now treating his followers on Facebook with inspiring illustrations of Historic Women throughout the month of March.

Our curiosity for this amazing body of work (and wonderful idea) prompted us to reach out to John who graciously shared some insights about his project.

“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: “It’s a Girl.” – Shirley Chisholm

When I came to the end of Black History Month, I thought I had run the course, and then discovered that dovetailed into Women’s History Month. I posted an image and quote… one of my favorites, from Susan B. Anthony: “Men, their rights, and nothing more; Women, their rights, and nothing less.” I was going to post that and be done… I mentioned on a Facebook post that I would post a few more but might not be able to post every day. I then heard back from more than a few women who encouraged me to post every day. It got me thinking about how easy, as a male, it is to take women’s struggles for granted. How they’re slighted almost every day… and how that’s occurred throughout the history of the human race. It made me think of what kind of world I wanted for my wife and my 5-year old daughter. It wasn’t the first time I had thought about that, but for it did make me start digging into the women’s movement and reading up on some of the leaders of the Women’s Rights Movement. The Civil Rights poster I did included a lot of women who really made an impact, and I noticed that most if not all of them worked a lot on women’s rights, as well. The two movements were parallel in so many ways.

I had posted quotes during Black History Month of women synonymous with the Civil Rights movement that were aimed squarely at the rights of women. Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Mary White Ovington and many more. I then thought about how so many men would engage for the rights of others while ignoring what happens within their own homes.

I read a speech by Abigail Kelly Foster delivered in 1851 at a Women’s Rights Convention in Worcester, MA. It was powerful and moving and contained this:

“I put this before men. If we could look under and within the broadcloth and the velvet, we should find as many breaking hearts, and as many sighs and groans, and as much of mental anguish, as we find in the parlor, as we find in the nursery of any house in Worcester.”

This was not a speech that simply laid the blame on men, either. It was a sober analysis of where men and women each fell short in creating an equal and righteous society.

I started posting regularly on Facebook and Twitter. Helped by some retweets and shares (from Martina Navratilova, the great folks at Moonalice and others) it’s found a slightly wider audience.

One doesn’t need to go any farther than Twitter to see the sexism and misogyny are still rampant in our society and around the world. We’ve still got a lot of work to do. – John Mavroudis

March 1st, 2016

Probably not going to be able to do one every day… but I’ll do my best:#WomensHistoryMonth SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Posted by ZenPop: The Art of John Mavroudis on Tuesday, March 1, 2016

“Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.” – Susan B. Anthony

March 2nd, 2016

Eleanor Roosevelt illustration by John Mavroudis “It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

March 3rd, 2016

Barbara Jordan illustration by John Mavroudis “”We the People” – it is a very eloquent beginning. But when the constitution of the United States was completed… In 1787, I was not included in that “We The People.”” – Barbara Jordan

March 4th, 2016

Mary White Ovington illustration by John Mavroudis “…You also find the woman revolutionist telling her enslaved sisters of the effort among women to attain their freedom, to gain the right to live, no according to man’s but according to their own, conception of happiness and right.” – Mary White Ovington

March 5th, 2016

Posted by ZenPop: The Art of John Mavroudis on Sunday, March 6, 2016

“The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.” – Lucretia Mott

March 6th, 2016

Lucretia Mott illustration by John Mavroudis “I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice… I am no advocate of passivity” – Lucretia Mott

March 7th, 2016

Helen Keller illustration by John Mavroudis “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” – Helen Keller

Helen Keller illustration by John Mavroudis “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller

March 8th, 2016

Septima Poinsette Clark illustration by John Mavroudis “The greatest evil in our country today is…ignorance…we need to be taught to study rather than to believe.” – Septima Poinsette Clark

March 9th, 2016

https://twitter.com/ZenPopArt/status/707629352498794497 “Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.” – Irena Sendlerowa

March 10th, 2016

Harriet Beecher Stowe illustration by John Mavroudis
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

March 11th, 2016

Constance Baker Motley illustration by John Mavroudis
“Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.” – Constance Baker Motley

March 12th, 2016

Constance Baker Motley illustration by John Mavroudis
“Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it.” – Marie Curie

March 13th, 2016

Sojourner Truth illustration by John Mavroudis
“If the first woman god ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.” – Sojourner Truth

March 14th, 2016

Nellie Bly illustration by John Mavroudis
“I said I could and I would. And I did.” – Nellie Bly

March 15th, 2016

Amelia Earhart illustration by John Mavroudis
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

March 16th, 2016

Amelia Earhart illustration by John Mavroudis
“I cannot guarantee to endure all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.” – Amelia Earhart

March 17th, 2016

Dolores Huerta illustration by John Mavroudis
“Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.” – Dolores Huerta

March 18th, 2016

Maya Lin illustration by John Mavroudis
“To fly we have to have resistance.” – Maya Lin

March 19th, 2016

Nancy Pelosi illustration by John Mavroudis
“For our daughters and our granddaughters, the sky is the limit. Anything is possible for them.” – Nancy Pelosi

March 20th, 2016

Ida B. Wells illustration by John Mavroudis
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” – Ida B. Wells

March 21st, 2016

Valentina Tereshkova illustration by John Mavroudis
“A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.” – Valentina Tereshkova

March 22nd, 2016

Aung San Suu Kyi illustration by John Mavroudis
“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.” – Aung San Suu Kyi

March 23rd, 2016

Jacqueline Cochran illustration by John Mavroudis
“I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.” – Jacqueline Cochran

March 24th, 2016

Lilian Bland illustration by John Mavroudis
“Then I said I would make a machine that would fly. Hoots and derision – which did not worry me at all.” – Lilian Bland

Lilian Bland illustration by John Mavroudis
“Fortunately ours is an age of emancipation; old fashioned conventions are slowly giving way to common sense.” – Lilian Bland

March 25th, 2016

Carrie Chapman Catt illustration by John Mavroudis
“To the wrongs that need resistance, to the right that needs assistance, to the future in the distance, give yourselves.” – Carrie Chapman Catt

March 26th, 2016

Carrie Chapman Catt illustration by John Mavroudis
“There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative american woman.” – Carrie Chapman Catt

March 27th, 2016

Lydia Maria Child illustration by John Mavroudis
“I have lived too long and observed too much, to be disturbed by the world’s mockery.” – Lydia Maria Child

March 28th, 2016

Lydia Maria Child illustration by John Mavroudis
“We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.” – Lydia Maria Child

March 29th, 2016

Rachel Carson illustration by John Mavroudis
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” – Rachel Carson

March 30th, 2016

Julia Ward Howe illustration by John Mavroudis
“Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.” – Julia Ward Howe

March 31st, 2016

Women’s History Month Illustrations by John Mavroudis

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    March 8, 2016 at 3:23 pm

    Thanks for all your help, Nick! You’re the best!

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    March 8, 2016 at 5:35 pm

    Just like your “Black History” artwork this new work about Women is wonderful. Keep up the great art and coupling it with great historical figures and sayings.

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