PROTEST PEARLS

reminding women of their collective accomplishments


Women wearing stylish custom Protest Pearls jewelry honoring their mother, grandmothers or personal shero

Who’s your shero?

A line of jewelry and mixed media art dedicated to trailblazing women who fight for equality.

Norma wears her mother’s medallion and Mama Dip Council’s daughters wear Mama Dips medallion. Dr. Mary Edwards Walker’s image, first female surgeon in the USA, was worn proudly by a Duke Hospital surgeon. Monteze proudly wears Quaker shero, Lucretia Mott. Missy ordered images of her grandmother and grandfather for her mother. Pam wears her mother close to her heart. Rosie ordered a necklace for a daughter in law of her mother. Rosie also wanted a necklace of her mother and her two grandmothers to remind her of their legacy. Barbara wanted to wear the image of her mother in a chain necklace close to her heart.

featured trailblazers


Click on each image to learn more about these brilliant women of the past

Alice Paul

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Harriet Tubman

Ida B. Wells

Lucretia Mott

Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray

Reverend Dr. Pauli Murry

Lucy Burns

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 

Sojourner Truth

Susan B. Anthony

 
 
 
 

Frida and her garden at Casa Azul

A mixed media piece with watercolor, image transfer, maps. Giclee print available. 8” x 8”

Mixed Media Collage

Hollie Taylor celebrates feminist icons from the past and present in her work. Here she is featuring Frida Kahlo as a fearless young woman based on a photo taken by her father, Guillermo Kahlo. This work has layers of watercolor, collage elements, photo altered and transferred to the art, maps which lead to wandering lines across the geography of the picture plane.

 

Angel trumpets a hibiscus moon.

Monoprint mixed media collage,

Monoprint Collage

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony. - I forged the thunderbolts and she fired them- EC Stanton

Photo composite printed on aluminum. Available 16” x 16”

Photo Composites