See art by Mayra Alpízar | Carlota Berard | Jennifer Boe | Roz Bonnet | Luiza Brown | Nikoline Calcaterra | Judy Chicago | Selin Cileli | Maldoror Capvt Corvi | Maribel Cruz | Thomasin Durgin | Natalie Aniela Dybisz | Elvira | Anne Encephalon | Hélène Epaud | Quiara Z. Escobar | Fanni Fazekas | Pat Fish | Julie Gaw | Gina | Kat Grandy | Martina Hoffmann (1 & 2) | Jelena | Judy Jones | Margaret Kalms | Brina Katz | Lorraine Lamothe | Ria Lee | Sharon Lee | Lana Leitch | Carol Nathan Levin | Katy Luxion | Sarah McCutcheon | Isa Menzies | Megan Morris | M. Parfitt | Petra Paul | Ana Elena Pena | Melina Piroso | Elentye Paulauskas-Poelker | Leigh Radtke | Jacquelyn Rixon | Isa Sanz | Vladislav Shabalin | Nelson Soucasaux | Paula Speakman | Alexandra Steiner | Melina Szapiro | Von Taylor | Jean Tracy | Joseph Tonna | Jessica Wagner | Jennifer Weigel | Terry Wunderlich | Tamara Wyndham | New Guinea menstrual hut carving Art of Menopause by Coni Minneci Ancient Peruvian menstrual art 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. HOMEPAGE CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could? Some MUM site links: HOMEPAGE | MUM address & What does MUM mean? | Email the museum | Privacy on this site | Who runs this museum?? | Amazing women! | Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) | Artists (non-menstrual) | Asbestos | Belts | Bidets | Birth control and religion | Birth control drugs, old | Birth control douche & sponges | Founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) | Cats | Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | Contraception and religion | Contraceptive drugs, old | Contraceptive douche & sponges | Costumes | Menstrual cups | Cup usage | Dispensers | Douches, pain, sprays | Essay directory | Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) | Extraction | Facts-of-life booklets for girls | Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory | Founder/director biography | Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux | Humor | Huts | Links | Masturbation | Media coverage of MUM | Menarche booklets for girls and parents | Miscellaneous | Museum future | Norwegian menstruation exhibit | Odor | Olor | Pad, towel, napkin directory | Patent medicine | Poetry directory | Products, some current | Puberty booklets for girls and parents| Religion | Religión y menstruación | Your remedies for menstrual discomfort | Menstrual products safety | Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | Science | Shame | Slapping, menstrual | Sponges | Synchrony | Tampon directory | Early tampons | Teen ads directory | Tour of the former museum (video) | Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory | Underpants & panties directory | Videos, films directory | Words and expressions about menstruation | Would you stop menstruating if you could? | What did women do about menstruation in the past? | Washable pads | Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site. Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación. The Art of Menstruation at the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health "Catastrophe at Swan Lake," by Ria Lee     "I'm an emerging New Zealand artist. The majority of my work is based on contemporary social commentary with my concepts being realised in sculpture. "Within my art practice I have utilized Barbie style dolls to address gender oppressive stereotyping. 'The Disaster Series' consists of three works, each a parody of the consumerism surrounding the doll and the market-place bombardment of innumerable Barbie accessories. The dolls are dressed in individually tailor-made outfits each representing a middle/upper class leisure activity: a pool party, shopping, and the ballet. "Each work is individually titled: 'Disaster at the Pool-Party,' 'Catastrophe at Swan Lake,' and 'Late This Month? White Trousers Always Brings It On.' The alluded-to disaster is onset of unexpected menstruation; this work is a reaction to the absurd ambiguity surrounding the advertisement of feminine sanitary products. "The appropriation of Barbie in this series seems apt to me as she, I believe, is the least likely contemporary icon to menstruate due to the fact that she has no genitals. "I would be extremely honoured if you would consider displaying images of 'The Disaster Series' at MUM. "Please find attached images of 'Catastrophe at Swan Lake.' Regards, Ria Lee" [By the way, performers who couldn't wear pads, such as ballet dancers, were early users of tampons. See, for example, A.C.C. Tamponettes and Lox theatrical tampons - "Lox" meaning the tampon was locked in and couldn't fall out during a performance.] NEXT artist: Sharon Lee 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