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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
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Close-up, below.
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"Front View, Side
View"
By Thomasin Durgin
(Scroll down for
"Side View")
18"x 21.5" (45.72 x
54.61 cm), and
16" x 22" (40.64 x
55.88 cm) (below)
Materials used are
tea stained cotton canvas, thread
and
seed beads.
"This diptych
portrays the often cold attitudes of
the
medical establishment toward the
womb, versus it's personal and
emotional
significance. The black line
drawings were stitched freely on the
sewing
machine, with densely hand beaded
areas," the artist writes.
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Close-up, below.
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"Side View"
16" x 22" (40.64 x
55.88 cm)
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"Red Flag"
a piece on menstrual bleeding
By Thomasin Durgin
17" x 21" (43.18
cm. x 53.34
cm.)
Made from cottons, velvets and
silks that the artist dyed
herself.
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Ms. Durgin is a
fiber artist and graduate student
at the Memphis College of Art, Memphis,
Tennessee (U.S.A.).
Visit Ms. Durgin's Web site.
See the other Red
Flag, by Judy Chicago.
NEXT
artist: Natalie
Aniela Dybisz
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
© 1997 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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