may this dress remind us to do what we are most passionately about ...

'for the love of ...' (2018)  paper mache, forsythia, glitter
created for 'a long-distance relationship, the 26.2 mile journey'
at the Attleboro Arts Museum last April.

Bobbi Gibb: 

*FIRST woman to run the Boston Marathon*

runner, sculptor, doctor, lawyer, mother, trailblazer, lover of life

Roberta Louise "Bobbi" Gibb (born November 2, 1942 in Cambridge, Massachusetts[1][2][3]) is the first woman to have run the entire Boston Marathon(1966).[4] She is recognized by the Boston Athletic Association as the pre-sanctioned era women’s winner in 1966, 1967, and 1968.[5] At the Boston Marathon, the pre-sanctioned era comprised the years from 1966 through 1971, when women, who were banned from entering the Men's Division Race because of their gender, ran and finished the race. In 1996 the B.A.A. retroactively recognized as champions the women who finished first in the Pioneer Women's Division Marathon for the years 1966–1971.

a wonderful article by Roberta 'Bobbi' Gibb

A Run of One’s Own

By Roberta “Bobbi” Gibb

At that moment, I knew that I was running for much more than my own personal challenge. I was running to change the way people think. There existed a false belief that was keeping half the world’s population from experiencing all of life. And I believed that if everyone, man and woman, could find the peace and wholeness I found in running, 

the world would be a better, happier, healthier place.

http://runningpast.com/gibb_story.htm

I have always had a vision of a world where men and women can share all of life together in mutual respect, love and admiration; a world where we find health through exercise and through the appreciation of the spirit and beauty of the world and of each other; a world based on love and individual integrity, where we all have a chance to do what we most passionately love, to help others, and to become all we can become.

Bobbi Gibb

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