Anita Kunz: Original Sisters Portraits of Tenacity and Courage

Original Sisters is a series of portraits that reveals and honors the contributions of history-making women. To create the series, award-winning illustrator Anita Kunz carefully researched, wrote about, and portrayed each subject, sometimes compiling scant available information to establish a more complete picture. Her portraits present famed and lesser-known women in the fields of art, science, technology and invention, education, history, and politics, offering a needed expansion and revision of the historical record. In the words of author Roxane Gay, Original Sisters offers “possibility and promise … . You will be introduced to many of these women for the first time, because history is rarely kind to women until it is forced to be.”