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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"Quipu de fertilidad"
"Quinpu of fertility" (See below for what quipu is)
2004
Nudos con cintas y madera grabada y coloreada. (Knots with tapes, recorded
wood [?] and colored wood.)
37x94 cm (14.6 x 37")
Art copyright 2004 Mayra Alpízar
Quipu were recording devices of knotted cotton cords used in the
Inca Empire and its predecessor (I took this partly from Wiki encyclopedia).
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NEXT artist: Carlota
Berard
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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