Jeannette Ehlers (born 1973) is a

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artist based in

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. Her work often addresses themes and questions around memory, race and colonialism. She is well-known for co-creating the

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project, a monumental public sculpture, ''I Am Queen Mary'' with La Vaugh Belle in 2018. It is the first public statue of a Black woman in Denmark and depicts Mary Thomas, leader of the 1878 St. Croix labor riot.

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I Am Queen Mary artwork website
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