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Clockwise from top left: graphite and charcoal artist Amaya Gurpide, who drew the 1920 cover of the Suffragists, in her studio;
Lavett Ballard putting the final touches on her wooden sculpture of Rosa Parks; Sarah Jane Moon painting Nawal El Saadawi in
her London studio; Shana Wilson in her Edmonton, Alberta, studio at work on her portrait of Ruth Bader GinsburgInside the studio of
paper-sculpture artist
Yulia Brodskaya, who
spent two weeks creating
the 23-by-37-in. three-
dimensional portrait of
Diana, Princess of Wales.
“I remember every paper
strip I picked, folded and
glued down, but I can’t grasp
how—despite the roughness,
texture and schematic
quality of it—a paper-strip
portrait is still capable of
conveying emotions and a
person’s likeness,” says the
Russian-born artist. “Slowly
over the years, I learned to
trust the process, and always
try my best not to give in
to the doubting voice in
my head.”TED
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