2020 Challenge Dolls
The dolls you are viewing in this post are those entered in our 2020 Challenge: Woman in History.
These dolls are normally on display at our annual November Holiday Art Fair and Show. Due to Covid this event was cancelled, but we still wanted to do our challenge and decided to post pictures of the entries on our blog and Facebook page and let viewers vote on their favorite. This year's challenge was inspired by the 100th Anniversary of the Women's Right to Vote. Members could select a Woman in History they admired from anywhere in the world. Please look at our entries and then follow the link to vote for your favorite. You do not have to be a member to vote! Voting starts November 3rd and runs thru November 13th. The doll with the most votes will win the "People's Choice Award" for 2020.
We have three entries and there are three pictures of each doll followed by a description.
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Juliette Gordon Low
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Juliette Gordon Low
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Juliette Gordon Low Inspiration Photo
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Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927) was the founder and first leader of the Girl Scouts.
The doll creator adapted the pattern "January Girl" by Barbara Schoenoff and used the head pattern from the Triplet pattern by Kathryn Walmsley. The doll's hair is made of strips of fabric and all visible portions of the doll are gessoed and painted with acrylic paints.
History of Sacagawea -- 1788-1812
Sacagawea was a Shoshone interpreter best known for serving as a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition into the American West--and for being the only woman on the famous excursion.. At the time she joined the expedition in November of 1804, at the age of 16, she was pregnant with her first child, but she chose to accompany her husband on this expedition. A son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, was born in February 1805. Despite traveling with a newborn child during the trek, Sacagawea proved to be helpful in many ways during her 26 months with the expedition. She was skilled at finding edible plants. When a boat in which she was riding capsized, she was able to save some of its cargo, including important documents and supplies. Sacagawea was able to arrange, through her Indian kinsmen, for the expedition's safe passage over the Rockies. After the expedition, she bore a second child but died a few months later. Clark was her children's godfather, After her death, he raised and educated her children.
Sacagawea became a symbol for women's rights and a face for the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1905.
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Marie Curie
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Marie Curie
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Marie Curie
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Marie Curie's creator chose Arley Berryhill's "Penny Dreadful" pattern. Marie's gown is green to symbolize the radiation field she is famous for. She is holding a piece of uranium (faux of course!). Marie Curie was famous for keeping a piece of uranium in her pocket, which eventually killed her.
Marie Curie is best known for being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She is also the first and the only woman to receive two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields. In 1903 she earned her Doctor of Science degree. That same year she won her first Nobel Prize along with her husband and Antoine Becquerel for their study of spontaneous radiation. Her second prize was in Chemistry in radioactivity. She developed mobile radiography units for X-ray to be used in field hospitals during World War I. She was also appointed director of the Curie Laboratory of Radium Institute of the University of Paris in 1914. Her research with uranium and X-ray changed the way we understand and use radiation.
Please choose your favorite of the three dolls, then go to this link to vote: 2020 Art Doll Challenge
Remember you do not have to be a member of our club to vote. The winner will be announced after the voting ends. We hope you enjoy viewing our members' creativity! Thank you for voting!
