Programs

Call for Women Artists or Women/Men Collaborations for a Women and Water ECO Exhibit

Our current project "Women and Water Rights:" Rivers of Regeneration", WWR, is an example of how a small group of volunteer activists can advocate for their cause by accessing the resources available in their community to create a broad program of interest to all. In our case, we are concerned about the growing water crisis and how this affects women and girls locally and globally.

To foster public awareness of this issue and to probe the connections between policies decided at international government levels and local community actions, we are preparing a five-week art exhibition combined with a wide array of accompanying related public events.  This unique and exciting project is scheduled to take place at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery of the University of Minnesota from February 23 to March 25, 2010.  It will feature international and local women artists as well as internationally known speakers and local experts reflecting on the traditional, current and future relationship of women to water.

Our WWR exhibit and events will point out social, economic and environmental results caused by the exclusion of women in decisions taken to manage local and regional water resources.  It will also emphasize how the arts both reflect and alter societal attitudes leading to cultural change.  It is an exhibition of art and related programs that builds awareness, provokes action, and poses solutions for the need to understand water as an universal human right.

The main sponsors are The University of Minnesota Department of Art, www.art.umn.edu, Women's Caucus of Art, WCA, nationalwca.org, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, WILPF, www.wilpfmn.org, U of MN, Office of International Programs, OIP, Global Spotlight, www.international.umn.edu/spotlight

There are calls for our Upper Mississippi Basin, all media juried art, video and postcard art on our website: womenandwater.net  Deadline Nov. 2, 2009.  Questions:  email Liz Dodson, WWR project coordinator lizartist@me.com  or Marilyn Cuneo, WWR, core group, MCuneo77@aol.com