Women Leading the Way - Mireille Miller - Expressionist Paintings

Mireille Miller is a New York City-based artist and painter, who leads the art program in the Primary School of the Lycée Français de New York. She works primarily on commissions and large projects. She has spent the last two decades chronicling women's achievements in pictorial form from the eighteenth century onward, set on bringing greater awareness of their contributions to our societies around the globe. Women Leading the Way followed, which portrays the women leaders of an international suffrage movement and provides an essential record of their extraordinary struggle to secure voting rights for all women. Their accomplishments are particularly remarkable considering that, oftentimes, these women had to fight simply to be counted as citizens in their respective countries.Through visual representation, Women Leading the Way, the series, intends to bring out of the shadows these women who helped shape history worldwide, from the 18th century onwards, and seeks to contribute a fresh perspective on our collective history and humanity.