This was great opportunity to discover the common experiences of being a woman and the pain that we have all experienced. It seems my uterus has been largely ignored and discounted most of my life. #142
How to connect with the project
Sunday, April 22, 2012
The Cyles of LIfe
This was great opportunity to discover the common experiences of being a woman and the pain that we have all experienced. It seems my uterus has been largely ignored and discounted most of my life. #142
Ladies of the Lake
Sit and Stitch, Ladies of the Lake Number #1.
I hope to do this again with this lovely community of learners where stitching promoted conversation
about our bodies, our health, our world, and the violence being done to the women in Uzbekistan where the dictator is forcing doctors to cut out women's uteri without their knowledge or consent. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17612550
We shared our commonality of the importance of the ability to bear children, abortions, and how we need to learn more about our amazing bodies.
We were blessed with a view of the lake and appetizers provided by Brian's Mustard.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
January 7, 2012
At The Gallery exhibit. The invitation was open to all and to participants as a way to reunite with their art and to interact and engage in dialogue with others concerning women's health.
#6 participant
Participant #6 was one of the first to become involved in creating awareness and self-reflect regarding women's health issues and the power of the uterus.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Mailing out the packets!
I am asking participants to be a part of The Uterus Flag Project. I discovered this need while doing my MFA- Feminism,Fiber Arts and Craftivism and for my final grad show, July 2012, I’d like to double (want 100 more). My personal political concerns are about the over medicalization of women, and specifically having an unnecessary hysterectomy. There are lots of other concerns regarding women's health. You have a story, please share! Please participate. Send me your postal address, and I’ll send you a packet!
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The Grandma of Graffiti
Feminists are using traditional feminine materials and turning them into feminist art projects. These projects are intended to provoke public dialogue through contemporary art marking. Thanks to Joanne for her collaboration on this piece.
Santa Monica, Yarn Bombing, June 18, 2011
I exhibited this body of work at the 18th Street Yarn Bombing in Santa Monica.[1] This work exemplifies fiber art and craftivisim. It is also an alternative way of exhibiting art as a subversive method of doing soft graffiti in opposition to tagging/graffiti with spray paint, usually considered a male dominated art form.
DES Daughter
# 69, artwork includes the stitched word diethylstilbestrol, DES, the drug prescribed to pregnant women from 1938 to 1971 to prevent miscarriages.
Her embroidery includes:
Vox (Latin for voice), words, and utera.
Her detail chain stitching shows the level of her craftsmanship. The word utterance is stitched down the center of the uterus.
She is a DES Daughter and at high risk for cervical or vaginal cancer, increased reproductive problems, and possible autoimmune problems.
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