ENVISIONING THE FUTURE OF WOMENS RECOGNITION
Journey Through Womanhood is a Santa Clara countywide series of augmented reality (AR) monuments, honoring the contributions of women to the region and beyond. In March 2025, we launched 20 AR artworks—the beginning of a monument project to commission 100 women artists to tell the stories of women that will be placed in site-specific locations throughout the County where they have made direct impact (see map below). Womanhood and its projects is made possible with capacity building through partnerships between civic entities, community-based organizations, educational institutions, and the power of place-based community-centered storytelling using art and creative technology.
The featured artists to launch the first 20 AR monuments are:
The Journey Through Womanhood augmented reality (AR) monument markers have been installed across Santa Clara County in designated locations where our honored women have made direct impact with their contributions to advance their field. With our partnership with Kinfolk Tech, a nonprofit on a mission to create tools to reclaim narrative power through art and immersive technology, we are able to create more opportunities to accessibly memorialize and learn about women’s stories and their historical accomplishments at the palm of our hands. Through an immersive app experience that can be downloaded on your smart phones or tablets, users can interact and view the AR monuments, read artist statements and honored women bios, and access additional resources to enhance their learning experience.
There are multiple and accessible ways for explorers to journey through the AR series.
Download the Kinfolk App on your smart phones or tablet and venture to the specific locations pinned on the map below to experience the AR outdoors.
Scan the QR code below or click the link to download directly from the Apple App Store of Google Play Store.
Click through the AR monument marker images below to visit the individual pages for each honoree. You will be able to learn more and connect to your screen readers to access information on the honorees below.
Check out our Events Calendar to see upcoming unveiling events and tours for specific AR monument sites.
Use this interactive online map to explore where the first 20 markers are placed across Santa Clara County. Click on a marker to see who is honored at that location and click on the X on the top right corner to close that information. Use the zoom button to be able to access all the markers.
Below you can use the left and right arrows to scroll through each honoree in the series and click on the image to learn more about each honoree. Or learn about each honoree by sector on the right.
Use the left and right arrows to scroll through each honoree in the series. Click on the image to learn more about each honoree.
Kinfolk Tech is a nonprofit using immersive technology, public art, and community-led design to help displaced and excluded communities tell their own stories—and shape their own legacies.
This project was made possible through the support of our team and community partners.
Leadership
Barbara Goldstein, Amanda Rawson, Quynh-Mai Nguyen
Research
Amanda Rawson, Claudia Azalde
Design + Media
Quynh-Mai Nguyen, Karla Tu, Vanessa Palafox, Maylea Saito, Ceora Duran
Augmented Reality
Kinfolk Foundation, Ruben Escalante
Production + Installation
Joey D. Reyes, Nicholaus J. Dalton, Fast Signs Hayward
Braille + Accessibility Consultation
Sheridan Lane, Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired
