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
"Go with the Flow"
Watercolor
Kat Grandy
n.d.
I have been writing all my life. I always figure things out better if
I put them down on paper. I remember what it was like to be a young girl
who always thought that having a period was a very secret thing. My mom
was very matter of fact about the whole thing so I took it in stride until
I saw how things were at school.
I remember the first time. I was at my aunt's in another town, and I
had a white skirt on and the red dots were everywhere. We were at the restaurant
when someone told me. I remember being so mortified as if they could see
me naked. That feeling stayed with me a long time. I have been painting
with watercolor these last few years and I let the paint take me where it
wants to - I was painting this woman wild and free and since I love the
color red these days I thought that maybe it would be good to show that
red is a good thing - it pumps throughout our body and makes us a warm-blooded
animal and so the blood that leaves our body does not have to be considered
a bad thing either. It is real, bright, rich and a necessary part of our
womaness. Hence - Go With the Flow.
Kat Grandy
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Next artist: Martina Hoffmann (1 & 2)
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
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