We have many talented members. Occasionally ASWM holds art or service auctions.
This December 22nd, 2021 Auction has ended. Congratulations to the lucky winner!
Thank you all for your participation in our Auction Fundraiser. We so appreciate your generosity. 100% of the winning bid provides support for ASWM’s 2021 Symposium.
A very special thanks to Vicki Noble for offering this Motherpeace Tarot Reading opportunity.
Chariot
World
Judgement
Crone
Justice
High Priestess
Vicki is one of our favorite Foremothers of the Women’s Spirituality Community! Vicki Noble, artist, feminist, scholar, along with Karen Vogel, is creatrix of the MotherPeace Tarot Deck. Vicki offered a one hour Tarot reading to the winner of this fundraising Auction.
Jane Goodall has pointed out that human global disregard for nature brought on the current pandemic, documenting that mistreatment/exploitation of sentient beings can result in an exponential crisis for the whole planet.
Our 2022 biennial Symposium focuses on meanings found in the relational reality among science, culture, and mythology in regards to animals, the green world, and ecosystems.
With our primary focus on interconnectedness, we feature academic and artistic work that addresses collaborations between humans and other sentient beings, foundational myths about earth’s response to misuse, and scientific solutions to transgressions against the balance of nature.Â
Read about Denise Kester and “The Caretaker of the Precious,” the featured artwork for this event.
This article recently came to our attention. Judith was a wonderful visionary artist of archetypes of women and nature, who passed away in 2008. (Our thanks to Lauren Raine and Max Dashu for the reference.) The Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History says that Judith “used womb/vagina imagery explicitly as devotional work dedicated to the goddess.”
“Missa Gaia: This is My Body,” Judith Anderson, etching, 1988
Describing her process of printmaking, Judith said,
“The germ of the idea for a particular print develops over many months or sometimes years. Images from reading, dreams, relationships, pictures, plants and animals will gather and cluster until a beginning form for the print emerges. The main image grows and changes, often in surprising ways, during the long process of working on the plate, which may be several months. Only some time after a print is finished do I come to understand intuitively more about its origins and implications.” (from Art of the Print website)
Here as well is artist Alicia Blaze Hunsicker’s blog post about Judith.
In light of the coronavirus stay-at-home orders and film festival cancelltiona, Women Make Movies is extending their free film festival through May 31. This is a great opportunity to see excellent documentaries made by and about women.
Their website says, “In March, we launched the WMM Virtual Film Festival to commemorate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. However, in response to the demands and circumstances of COVID-19, we have expanded the content of the festival and extended it to run through May 31, 2020. Sign up to watch films by women at no cost! (You’ll be joining more than 5000 attendees in 89 countries — and growing!)
“The “Films, Interrupted” Series showcases films distributed by Women Make Movies that had film festival and public screenings canceled due to COVID-19. Each film will be available for a limited window and we will include filmmaker Q&As whenever possible.”
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