Occupational Cutouts (babae)

A collection of mid-century women’s occupational and social-role cutouts presents nurses, teachers, mothers, attendants, stylists, athletes, office professionals, and well-dressed working women arranged as individual figures with dashed cutting outlines. Each figure carries the tools or clothing of her role: a nurse with charts, a teacher with books, a mother holding an infant, a waitress serving dessert, a tennis player with racket, a fashion worker adjusting a dress, an airline-style attendant with documents, and a professional woman in a suit. The artwork reflects a classic Americana view of women’s work, caregiving, service, education, and public life. For ministry or editorial use, it can support themes of vocation, women’s service, community roles, hospitality, motherhood, and the dignity of everyday labor without depicting a specific biblical event.