11" x 14" - Mixed Media Painting
Artist: Diane Fleisch Hughes
Inspired by: I am a Girl by the Artemus Ward Core Girls Team
Suggested Value: $250.00

"The poem I am a Girl celebrates the stereotypical versions of how society views girls but also, and arguably more important, it is the celebration of the empowerment the writer feels that being a girl brings to them. "I am the vote, I am the choice, I am the fight, I am the voice." This gives me hope for the future of true equity for women and inspires me to set the example for these young poets. My painting is a reflection of the freedom and responsibility that comes with being a girl."

Diane Fleisch Hughes is a nationally board-certified Art Therapist and contemporary working artist based in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Her work is primarily mixed media figurative painting but she likes to experiment with all media. The work is intuitive and loose, often combining realistic images with areas of emotional color. Her mixing of mediums and painterly mark-making creates visual excitement on paper and canvas. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and is in many private collections around the country.