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(1) Source image that will be used to create a portrait of Dr. Annie Hamilton. (2) Video clip of 'portrait in progress' -  of U.S.medical pioneer Dr. Marie Equi. (Dr. Hamilton's portrait will be similar in size, color and contemporary composition.)

HALIFAX - An oil portrait to honour the first woman to graduate with a medical degree in Nova Scotia, Dr. Annie Hamilton, is being created.

You are being invited to join in this collective portrait commission.

DETAILS:

The portrait commission was launched this month as part of The Great Women Portrait Project, an initiative started by a group of Nova Scotia women which is now in its 2nd year. Great Women portraits commissioned as part of this project now hang in university, public and professional spaces across Canada, including hospitals, libraries and STEM industry CEO's offices.

Twenty women are being sought to participate in this commission.

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HALIFAX, N.S.  -  A 5-year project will launch on International Women's Day which lets female leaders collaborate on creating new set of diversity and inclusion tools for battling gender bias: a portrait collection capturing the 'female face' of innovation and accomplishment.

A Halifax-based business is launching a new project that lets women leaders use portrait art as a diversity and inclusion tool to battle gender bias in the workspace.

The Great Women Portrait Project enables female-led companies, like MDW Law, to add portraits of pioneering women to their workspace.

Business leaders soon will be able to access a new kind of diversity and inclusion tool to battle gender bias in the workspace: original portraits of female pioneers who paved powerful but little-known paths, in traditionally male-dominated domains like law, science and engineering..

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