If you create or own art concerning menstruation or menopause
and are interested in showing it on thesepages (it's free!), contact MUM
Marie Claire magazine (Italian edition) featured several
of the above artists in an article about this
museum and menstruation in 2003. The newspaper Corriere della Sera (Io Donna
magazine) (Milan, Italy) and the magazine Dishy (Turkey) showed some of
the artists in 2005 in articles about this museum.
 
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The Art of Menstruation at the Museum of Menstruation and
Women's Health
"Self Exploration, looking for Aunt Martha"
16" x 20" pastel on paper, 1985, © 2002 Judy Jones
"I locked myself in a friend's bathroom for 16 hours and this is
what I gave birth to!
"It was my first attempt to paint a body and I felt extremely guilty.
Not only had I crossed over the line (being taught never to look at nor
touch my body) looking for "Aunt Martha," which is what we called
our periods, made my sin even greater.
"And what to do with 'the afterbirth'? Thats what I call the mess
I have to clean up after painting. Since it wasn't my bathroom I dumped
all the rags and mess into my backpack. Guilt, guilt and more guilt!"
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Next artist: Margaret
Kalms
See all the artists in the links in the left-hand
column.
If you create or own art concerning menstruation or menopause and
are interested in showing it on thesepages (it's free!), contact MUM
See
also Bea Nettles' art The Moonsisters
© 2002 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or distribute
work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission
of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org
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