The Aurora Highlands development now features a bronze sculpture featuring Dr. Justina Ford. Ford was Colorado's first Black female doctor. She delivered more than 7,000 babies and cared for immigr...
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University of South Carolina women's basketball coach to be honored with bronze statue.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Last year, it was announced that South Carolina women's basketball head coach Dawn Staley...
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A bronze statue of Australian netball icon Anne Henderson has been unveiled at the State Netball Hockey Centre in a fitting tribute.
It’s difficult to describe the history of Victorian netball wi...
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Published March 2023
Netball star Sharelle McMahon became the fifth female athlete in Victoria to have a public statue on Wednesday, as the sculptors behind the artwork say they have been inundat...
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Published March 2023
A netball great has become just the fifth sportswoman in her state to be honoured with a statue on International Women’s Day.
Australian netball legend Sharelle McMahon calle...
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Published Feb 2023
University of South Carolina women’s basketball Coach Dawn Staley will be honored with a statue in downtown Columbia. Columbia Mayor Daniel Rickenmann told The State the city pla...
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HISTORY PRESERVATION: A bust of Her Late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
In nearly every country, women only make up two to four per cent of public statues.
Two British artists are on a mission to ad...
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Statues are a permanent tribute, a reminder, a warning, an inspiration. Yes, they are sometimes divisive, but the right statue for the right reason can be a beautiful example of art and unite a c...
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Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor poses next to a bronze bust of herself in her Bronx hometown. Bebeto Matthews/AP
US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor returned Thursday to the B...
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By Rick Martin First Posted: Sep 08, 2022 11:14 PM EDT
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor blazed a trail for Hispanic people in the United States, particularly Latinas, by becoming the fi...
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor returned Thursday to the Bronx community where she grew up to see the unveiling of her bronze statue at a shopping center in the heart of...
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Australian netball icon Sharelle McMahon has hailed her immortalisation in bronze in the heart of Melbourne's sporting precinct as important recognition for female athletes.
McMahon will be the fi...
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Sharelle McMahon still can’t believe it, but some time in the next year or so there will be a statue of her standing in the north-west corner of John Cain Arena.
The two-time Commonwealth Games go...
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Australian netball great Sharelle McMahon has hailed her immortalisation in bronze in the heart of Melbourne’s sporting precinct as important recognition for female athletes.
McMahon will be the f...
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Australian netball great Sharelle McMahon will be immortalised in bronze as part of the Victorian government’s Celebrating Female Sporting Icons initiative.
The statue of the former Diamonds cap...
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Home grown international netball superstar Sharelle McMahon is set to be immortalised in bronze to honour her outstanding achievements in netball at a State, National and International level.
Made...
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A new bronze statue was unveiled in Naarm/Melbourne’s Federation Square on Thursday honouring Nova Peris, the first Aboriginal Australian to win a gold medal in the Olympics.
Peris was just 25-yea...
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A 2.2-metre-high bronze statue of former Olympian Nova Peris has been unveiled at Melbourne’s Federation Square capping a landmark week for Indigenous Australian sportswomen.
The statue was inst...
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A new Council project aims to honour the inspiring women of the Bundaberg Region through memorials in public spaces, including the possibility of a bronze Statues for Equality monument.
Bundaberg ...
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We’re sure you know of inspiring women in our region. Now it’s time for you to tell us about them.
Council is asking residents to put forward ideas for local women who could be acknowledged in pub...
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