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
"Self Exploration, looking for Aunt Martha"
16" x 20" pastel on paper, 1985, © 2002 Judy
Jones
"I locked myself in a friend's
bathroom for 16 hours and this is
what I gave birth to!
"It was my first attempt to paint
a body and I felt extremely guilty.
Not only had I crossed over the line
(being taught never to look at nor
touch my body) looking for "Aunt
Martha," which is what we called our
periods, made my sin even greater.
"And what to do with 'the
afterbirth'? Thats what I call the
mess I have to clean up after
painting. Since it wasn't my
bathroom I dumped all the rags and
mess into my backpack. Guilt, guilt
and more guilt!"
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Next artist:
Margaret
Kalms
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 these pages (it's
free!), contact MUM
© 2002 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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