Today Milena & Megan cover American aerospace engineer Judith Love Cohen & 20th century Argentinian paper artist Ligia Montoya









Judith Love Cohen



Judith pictured with the Atlas-Able satellite she worked on, 1959



Every now and again Milena covers a person that makes you think ‘Gee, what was I doing when I was their age?’ That’s the case on a few occasions with aerospace engineer, author and occasional dancer Judith Love Cohen. Today Milena profiles how this engineer was one of the few, if only, women in her science programs, the importance of equal representation in careers, and how to pass the time while giving birth (spoiler: solving a math problem).











Ligia Montoya



Crop from cover of Paper Life: The Story of Ligia Montoya by Laura Rozenberg



Today Megan covers our first paper artist, Ligia Montoya. Looking to find an escape from from the ever-depressing news cycle, we jump into the niche community of paperfolding AKA origami. What we expected to find: carefully crafted objects, inventive use of technique & solitary hours devoted to the artformWhat we didn’t expect to find: suicide, unrequited love & professional smack talk



Megan give us the details on the life of this quiet Argentinian artist who would have been forgotten if not for the work of paper enthusiast Laura Rozenberg, who wrote Paper Life: The Story of Ligia Montoya. Much thanks to Laura, who has written the most extensive English language biography of Ligia to date.



Selected Work



Examples of Ligia’s flower designs, instructions to make them can be found HERE



Assortment of designs by Ligia. Most of her paperart was created from small pieces of airmail paper from the post office







As always, music by EeL