Woman and the Owl Foundation

08/22/2020

Phenomenal portraits of mothers and makers during the UK lockdown!

Online exhibition OPENS TODAY

MOTHERHOOD AND MAKING: Portraits in Lockdown

https://motherswhomake.org/facetimeportraits

This is a new exhibition of photographic portraits made during lockdown. Through FaceTime and social distancing we have been able to travel into the domestic and making spaces of 16 mother artists across the UK and overseas.



Featuring:
Sophie Blinstrub (Devon, UK)
Lottie Bolster (London/Devon, UK)
Holly Ebony (Devon, UK)
Sylvia Ferrira (London, UK / Portugal)
Amy Fix (Maryland US)
Lizzy Humber (Devon, UK)
Matilda Leyser (East Sussex, UK)
Vanessa Marr (East Sussex, UK)
Nomi Mcleod (Devon, UK)
Dora Napolitano (Mexico City, Mexico)
Margaret O'Brien (Liverpool, UK / Dublin, Ireland)
Pamela Ramirez (Devon, UK)
Liz Richardson (Peak District, UK)
Helen Sargeant (West Yorkshire, UK)
melissandre varin (Coventry, UK)
Iola Weir (Devon, UK)

Photography by Viola Depcik (photographer, mother) and produced by Lizzy Humber (Mothers Who Make for MWM Devon project).

Supported by
Arts Council England

12/05/2019

Mythologically-Informed Yoga in Austin, Texas from the Woman and the Owl Foundation! Tuesdays at 9am at Be Well Austin. $10 suggested donation, all of which goes to the Woman and the Owl Foundation.
Hatha Flow classes for all levels with anthropologist, Dr. Jessamine Dana. Journey through story and sensation with thematic classes.

10/12/2019

New creations on the way!

10/12/2019

New things coming!

02/08/2019

02/07/2019

Also included among the next release are emoji for hearing aids, manual and motorized wheelchairs, prosthetic legs and arms, white “probing” canes used by the vision impaired, service dogs, and guide dogs.

02/06/2019

An analysis of dental plaque illuminates the forgotten history of female scribes.

09/11/2018

Heart-full photo essay about the making of "Dreamers," a new picture book by Yuyi Morales.

Shared here by the Woman and the Owl Foundation

http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=4707

09/10/2018

SAN ANSELMO, Calif. – Artist Kathleen Edwards had an “evangelical Christian childhood with a troubled mother” and a father who “went along with the program,” she says. She and her sister “were not allowed to watch hardly any television,” the 62-year-old Edwards says during a phone inte...

01/11/2017

The Japanese Art of Grieving a Miscarriage by Angela Elson
Shared here by the Woman and the Owl Foundation

We knew miscarriage was common. But why wasn’t there anything people did when it happened?

01/11/2017

Why Q***r Haitians are Turning Vodou

http://www.advocate.com/current-issue/2016/10/31/why-queer-haitians-are-turning-vodou Shared here by the Woman and the Owl Foundation

Feared and denigrated by members of other faiths, Haitian Vodou is a far cry from the zombie-raising cult of a thousand horror films — and it’s also the only welcoming place for many LGBT Haitians.

01/11/2017

Feed Your Demons, Lama Tsultrim Allione, and the Chod Tradition
http://www.lionsroar.com/how-to-practice-feeding-your-demons/ Shared here by the Woman and the Owl Foundation

Lama Tsutrim Allione teaches you an innovative technique, based on the Tibetan Buddhist principles of "Chöd," to turn your inner demons into friends.