Mixed Media Assemblage | 18 x 22 x 4 inches | Custom Framed
 
Transport uses vehicles as a lens on wartime machinery women serviced and the narrowed routes available to women after 1945.
 
Part of the From War to Peace series, the work centers on a WWII recruiting poster celebrating the range of vehicles women maintained and operated in the early 1940s. The counterpoint is postwar: many of those same mechanics and drivers were redirected into narrowly defined domestic roles.
 
Honoring mechanical skill while revealing how rarely it was acknowledged, Transport bridges women-in-WWII history and transportation-themed art — a contemporary narrative assemblage that uses historical imagery to connect the labor of women during World War II to today’s conversations on equity and work.
 
Materials: Quartz, onyx, Murano glass, freshwater pearls, dollhouse miniatures, art board, paper, fabric, and a public-domain WWII poster from the National Archives
 
Framing: Archival museum glass in a deep black custom frame by Chevy Chase Art Gallery, Washington, DC.