Katherine Johnson

Urban art work dedicated to the physics and math USA Katherine Johnson. carried out within the project "Interactive Murals Women of Science" of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) and Las Naves in 2019.

Katherine Johnson, known as "the human calculator", helped Apollo 11 reach the Moon. The mural, made by the colombian muralist Natalia Gallego "Gleo", is located in the Juan Manuel Montoya Institute in the Natzaret neighborhood of Valencia.

The mural, 7x10 meters size, honors Johnson with everything he shined for, his way of observing and capturing numbers in space and nature and reflects "a game of overlapping shapes, planes and colors, with parables, cones, spheres, circles, squares, planes. The basis and principle of everything around us and the knowledge of Katherine Johnson, "according to the artist.

According to a UPV statement, Gleo has assured that the mural has been "a challenge", especially for being in a children's school and "has also meant recognition for someone who shined even more in an era marked by segregation."

The artist has valued the project for "showing a face that many of us have not seen, of how women have been participants in the sciences, the arts and other fields, but they have not been given prominence."