Lauren Crazybull, "Chief Wilma Mankiller" for Time magazine.
Two Edmonton painters — Shana Wilson and Lauren Crazybull — have contributed portraits of powerful trailblazing women for a special edition of Time magazine that features 100 Women of the Year.
And a third artist who grew up in Edmonton, Tim Okamura, has also contributed a portrait for the issue, timed for this year's International Women's Day.
Crazybull's portrait, for the year 1985, shows Wilma Mankiller, an Indigenous rights activist from the Cherokee Nation.
Shana Wilson paints Ruth Bader Ginsburg for Time magazine.
Wilson painted Jacqueline Kennedy for 1962 and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a former judge on the Supreme Court of the United States, for 1996.
Tim Okamura, "Toni Morrison" for Time magazine.
Okamura, who now lives in New York, painted Toni Morrison for 1993.
Time has named a Man of the Year for 72 years — usually a president or a titan of industry. Over that time, only 11 women were named.
Other women featured by the magazine in its journey back through history include Madonna, Golda Meir and Princess Diana.
Source: Edmonton Journal, Time
