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.
Featured ASWM artist Lauren Raine is holding a retrospective art show of her beautiful Masks of the Goddess Project. She describes her work this way:
In May I will be concluding the 20 year MASKS OF THE GODDESS PROJECT, which began as an Invocation to the Goddess at Reclaiming’s Spiral Dance in San Francisco in 1999. I have been so privileged to collaborate with Priestesses, Playwrights, Dancers, Ritualists, Community Organizers, Photographers, Choreographers, Writers, Singers, and Psychologists in sharing the “Faces of the Goddess”. The spirits of so many collaborators are in every mask and photograph. It’s my hope that as the masks leave me, they’ll go out to be used by others, to continue their work in some way.Â
Just want to thank you and all of the amazing women I met at the Women and Mythology Conferences I have attended. If you or anyone you know will be in SF at that time, please be most cordially invited to the Opening, or to see the show.
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