Not only is a fund raiser for Choices In Childbirth coming up on May 9th in Manhattan but just this past Saturday, April 9th, a panel discussion titled “Men and Feminism” took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. What brings these two events together is that both [...]
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Tagged birth, collaboration, ecology, fatherhood, feminism, health, maternity, meet up, motherhood, stay at home dads
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Photographs need gathering to make sense. Lorna Simpson has made exciting art works consisting of photographs both found and created by her. This post is about one of her pieces currently at The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. To me, the word ‘cloud’ is both a real physical cloud [...]
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Tagged art, artist, bronze, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, cloud, Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art, exhibit, feminism, internet, Lorna Simpson, memorial, New York, photographs
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I am thrilled that artwork I have created to celebrate childbirth will be on display at The Concert for a Healthy Birth hosted by Ricky Lake on May 9th in NYC. This event benefits the work of Choices In Childbirth, the leader in maternity care consumer education, advocacy and outreach. Honored on May 9th will [...]
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Tagged , 2011, advocacy, baby, child birth, Choices In Childbirth, Christiane Northrup, Christy Turlington Burns, Concert for a Healthy Birth, consumer, education, family maternity, health, May 9, pregancy, Ricky Lake, women
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On Sunday I walked over to The Brooklyn Museum both to see exhibits and to attend a panel: Gender and Genocide: Sexual Violence during the Holocaust and Other Genocides, moderated by Gloria Steinem. In our present time, talk centered on conflict in the Congo where the coltan for our cell phones and other devices is [...]
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Tagged art, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, cell phones, children, coltan, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, feminism, Gloria Steinem, Holocaust, justice, life, lives, panel, rape, sexual violence, suffering, violence, women
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
A friend of mine, Abbey Fromkin, is an acupuncturist. Her practice is titled Life in Balance Acupuncture. Abbey has a wonderful newsletter that gives advice on all things related to health. She just sent out in her newsletter ways to move into Spring as we break through the ice and snow of winter into windy [...]
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Tagged , acupuncture, advice, balance, diet, energy, family, friends, health, laughter, maternity, nature, newsletter, Spring, women
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Saturday, February 5, 2011
“Let me count the ways.” I cherish my children and friends. Animals, both my pets and wild, have enriched my life. I see us as part of the natural world. The cygnet, young swan, is like a preteen girl, beginning to develop her beauty. Snakes and how they shed their skins is a metaphor for [...]
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Tagged , "The Ugly Duckling", beauty, change, cygnet, develop, dogs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, fairy tales, growing up, Hans Christian Anderson, love, moon, peonies, photographs, poem, poem "How do I love thee, poet, poetry, pregnancy, preteen, snake, snake sking, story, swan, teen agers, teens, thought, Valentines
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
I am doing a lot of thinking lately about how important it is to have printed photographs of your most important moments and life passages. This will be the first post about the subject of putting together your photos to tell stories of your life in an album or box. Just yesterday I showed one [...]
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Tagged , album, archival, bookbinder, bride, color, daughter, families, father, flower girls, groom, hand bound album, life passages, memories, moments, palladium, photographs, silver gelatin black & white, Vermont, wedding
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I am pleased to announce that I have won honorable mentions, for two of my series, in Europe’s most prestigious photography competition two years in a row: 2009 and 2010. The competition is the Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3). In 2009 the series that won is titled “Vermont Homestead” http://px3.fr/winners/2009/zoom.php?eid=1-9936-09&uid=2222964 My 2010 series is [...]
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Tagged artifacts, baby, competition, double exposure, dreams, family, flowers, historical, homestead, love, magnolias, maternity, motherhood, Mountains, nature, Paris, photography, portraits, Prix de la Photographie, Px3, silver gelatin prints, still life, Vermont
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Two of my palladium prints will be part of a group show at the Mill Pond House Gallery in St. James, NY. The theme of this show is alternative processes for printing photographs. The juror is Joy Goldkind. The show opens on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011. I am excited to be part of this group [...]
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Tagged , alternative printing, alternative processes, art, baby, children, exhibit, expecting, experiment, flowers, juried show, Long Island, magnolias, maternity, New York, palladium, women
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