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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
"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
© 2001 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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