Shuli Nachshon - A Letter to My Mother, 1995, ISRAEL
Dear Mother,
When I was eighteen, I bought you, with my first salary, a wooden jewelry box. You still keep it, treasuring it.
Now, twenty-five years later, I'm giving you this box which treasures words. These are all the words
I could have told you during our lives together, but wasn't able to. These are words I should have told you, dear mother.
Here are all the missing words, just for you. It's a wonderful opportunity to write them down,
to feel their sound within my heart.
To prepare a special gift for a special woman: my mother.
Your loving daughter,
Shuli Nachshon
News item:
WOMEN BEYOND BORDERS: What's a Box Got to Do with It? Reflections on the body
| January 31 through March 24 at the John Spoor Broome Library A free public reception and guided tours will be held on Thursday, February 24 from 6 to 8PM. |
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The exhibit will feature a selection of approximately 80 boxes from the “Women Beyond Borders” collection. Co-curated by Dr. Anette Kubitza, an Art lecturer at CI, and artist Lorraine Serena, founder and artistic director of “Women Beyond Borders,” this unique cross-cultural women's art project began in Santa Barbara in the early 1990s. It features small wooden boxes transformed by over 900 international participants into elaborate artworks that have become repositories for the personal, political, and economic realities of women across the world. The show will also include ephemera and a film documenting the international exhibition-journey of “Women Beyond Borders. |
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| CSU Channel Islands is located at One University Drive, Camarillo. The exhibit will be available for viewing Jan. 31 through March 24. Library and gallery hours are: Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to 10 p.m. For additional information contact the CI Art Program at 805-437-8570, email art@csuci.edu or visit http://womenbeyondborders.org. |
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| Located in the center of the CSUCI campus. The new university library is a landmark building, designed by world renowned architect, Sir Norman Foster. This fabulous work of arcitecture offers a gallery space and numerous dramatic exhibition areas located throughout the bright and airy structure. |
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| Limited parking is available on campus. A daily permit is $6. Free parking is available at the Camarillo Metrolink Station/Lewis Road parking lot in Camarillo with bus service to and from the campus. Riders should board the VISTA Bus to the campus; the fare is $1.25 each way. Buses arrive and depart from the Camarillo Metrolink Station every 30 minutes from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. For exact times, check the schedule at www.goventura.org http://www.goventura.org. |
John Spoor Broome Library California State University Channel Islands
California State University Channel Islands One University Drive
Camarillo, CA 93012
For more information: 805-437-8570, FAX: 805-437-8572
Email: art@csuci.edu
PLEASE VISIT: http://art.csuci.edu/gallery/librarygallery.html
The exhibit is curated in conjunction with an interdisciplinary symposium on the female body.Dr. Justine Reel, a University of Utah professor and specialist in eating disorders and body image, will deliver the keynote address. Camarillo CA
Colette Mukandoli: Untitled, 2006, RWANDA
Before 1994, our country was good. After April ’94, blood was shed.
Many people died and the majority of genocide survivors are struggling with life.
So, the telephone you see is calling for help. We believe that God is the first to come.
Inside the box, there is my heart. I will never forget my relatives, my friends, children’s blood…
WOMEN BEYOND BORDERS: BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Women Beyond Borders is a cross-cultural exhibition initiated by artist Lorraine Serena and a group of artist friends in 1991, with the goal to encourage dialogue, collaboration, and community among women, and to honor their creativity worldwide.
A small wooden box 3” x 2” x 2” was selected as a point of departure. Women were invited from all continents to transform the boxes. Boxes have been contributed by accomplished, nationally or internationally known artists, as well as by women with no prior artistic experience, anywhere from Afghanistan to Zambia.
In the past sixteen years, Women Beyond Borders has grown from a grass roots local initiative to a savvy international art project involving over 1000 artists, coordinators and curators from 50 nations and states. The project has been exhibited in over 47 venues around the world, including the National Museum of Kenya, the Wifredo Lam Center-Havana, , Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Oaxaca National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi as well as numerous art galleries.
Women Beyond Borders is an ongoing project designed to transcend barriers. While the individual boxes are repositories for the personal, political, and economic realities of women internationally, the project itself challenges geographical, political, ethnic, religious, and aesthetic boundaries. In the 21st century, Women Beyond Borders has been adapted to ever new contexts and audiences, such as the international adjunct project . Children Beyond Borders, a collaboration with VSA Arts, involving 6,500 children with disabilities from around the world.
Since its inception, Women Beyond Borders has acted as a catalyst for cultural exchange and change worldwide, thus taking a pivotal position at the intersection of contemporary art and today’s increasingly globalized, multicultural and digitally connected society.
Women Beyond Borders has become a summons for all women to express themselves.
