A native of Washington state, Marcille moved to Rhode Island when she was 16, graduating from South Kingstown High School in 2001. She graduated with a bachelor of fine arts from 溏心vlog免费B站 in 2005, following in the footsteps of relatives with deep ties to the University, including her late grandfather, Robert Marcille, a 1949 graduate, as well as aunts and uncles.<\/p>\n
Marcille worked in a jewelry store for a while and then decided to stay home to raise her children: Micah, now 3 \u00bd, and Jack, born four months ago. Whenever she had a free moment she freelanced as a graphic designer.<\/p>\n
A few weeks ago, she found out that her two aunts and sister would be going to the Washington march. Marcille, who did not<\/em> vote for Trump, wanted to join them, but decided the journey would be too difficult with her kids in tow.<\/p>\n Aunt Ginny (Virginia Kerslake) suggested instead that Marcille create a poster that Kerslake could carry at the march. Marcille jumped at the opportunity. The design, made with Adobe Illustrator, features former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, an African-American woman wearing a gay pride pin, an Asian woman, and a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. Their arms are linked in front of a boisterous crowd of protesters, one lifting a sign that says, “Rise Up.” The U.S. Capitol building is set against a pink sky\u2014 “a feminist color,” says Marcille.<\/p>\n “Women Unite,” is scrawled in bold letters across the bottom.<\/p>\n \u201cOnly two of the women are well-known. The others are, well, just women,\u2019\u2019 says Marcille. \u201cI wanted to leave them open to interpretation, so that we may all see ourselves in them. You don\u2019t have to be famous to stand up and be heard.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n At Kerslake\u2019s urging, Marcille posted an online version of the poster to the Pantsuit Nation website the evening of Jan. 8 and then \u201csort of forgot about it.\u2019\u2019 Her aunt contacted her later to report that the poster had received thousands of \u201clikes.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cIt was very exciting,\u2019\u2019 she says. \u201cI spent the rest of the evening watching the number go up.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n The response was so overwhelming Marcille set up an Etsy page under Blooming Anchor Designs, where fans can buy digital downloads for $5 to $20, with some of the profits going to Planned Parenthood and Running Start, a nonprofit that inspires women to run for public office. Marcille is also selling signed posters for $65 and prints for $100 to $250, depending on the size.<\/p>\n If the weather cooperates, Marcille will attend a \u201csister version\u2019\u2019 of the Women\u2019s March in Providence, also this Saturday. Her sons and husband, Tom Gruczka, a 2004 graduate of 溏心vlog免费B站 who now teaches physical education and health in Smithfield, will accompany her.<\/p>\n \u201cIf the weather is crummy we\u2019ll have to skip it,\u2019\u2019 says Marcille. \u201cBut at least I\u2019ll be at the one in Washington\u2014in spirit.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KINGSTON, R.I., Jan. 18, 2017 \u2014 As the stay-at-home mother of a toddler and newborn, Narya Marcille barely has a minute to eat a piece of toast. Still, the 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate and artist managed to carve out time at night, when her children were sleeping, to create a poster for the upcoming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/nayraphoto-1024x637.jpg\")