BETSY DAMON - Keepers of the Waters
Resume and Biography

Education
1966   MFA, Columbia University, New York
1963   BA, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
1961   One year in Tokyo, Japan

Summary
Below is a list and description of key events.  Subsequent to many events, local artists and citizens continued in their own ways.  Sometimes Damon served as a mentor and provided fiscal support but most often they continued according to their own means and initiative.

Keepers of the Waters - Projects and Works
2008 West Palm Beach, California Lecture, meeting and workshop to initiate collaborations to restore and preserve the Everglades.
2002-present Chengdu Urban River Association, Sichuan, China Keepers served as consultant to CURA and provided training sessions, lectures, mentored for interns and fundraised. CURA’s intention is to restore and preserve the rivers in the watershed of Chengdu. Their mission is to find sites and work with the villagers to create the proper waste streams, restore rivers, protect the water shed and improve the standard of living in the villages by producing organic food. They are creating an education center to educate all the villages in the water shed. Duncan Cheung, Yale University, as mentored by Keepers trained a dozen Chinese volunteers to create the best researched proposal to reach the mayor’s desk.
2006 Ballona Creek, Los Angeles, California Damon led a one day workshop to develop a plan and motivate citizen activism for the Ballona Network. Its mission is to educate and advocate for a watershed-wide approach to restoring historical streams and wetlands by utilizing natural solutions, capturing and cleaning rainwater, as it runs-off into Santa Monica Bay and the ocean. A network of parks and greenways puts rainwater back into the earth for reuse, raising the water table, restoring wildlife habitat and providing outdoor recreation.
2002-2007 Chengdu Urban River Association Keepers served as consultant to CURA and provided training sessions, lectures, mentored for interns and fundraised. CURA’s intention is to restore and preserve the rivers in the watershed of Chengdu. Their mission is to find sites and work with the villagers to create the proper waste streams, restore rivers, protect the water shed and improve the standard of living in the villages by producing organic food. They are creating an education center to educate all the villages in the water shed. Duncan Cheung, Yale University, as mentored by Keepers trained a dozen Chinese volunteers to create the best researched proposal to reach the mayor’s desk.
2004 Strawberry Creek, Berkeley, California Keepers of the Waters funded the Friends of Strawberry Creek. The mission of Friends of Strawberry Creek is to restore, protect and improve Strawberry Creek from the Berkeley hills to the San Francisco Bay, bringing to Berkeley the pleasures of a healthy aquatic and riparian ecology benefiting both people and the natural environment. Their goals include restoring creek banks and accessibility, improving water quality, encouraging native vegetation and removing invasive non-natives, enhancing wildlife habitat and populations, daylighting the creek wherever possible, and educating and involving the public in the betterment of Strawberry Creek. www.strawberrycreek.org
2001-2003 Beijing Bureau of Hydraulic Research and Engineering, Beijing, China On the recommendation of Yu Yuan, who is a close advisor to Deng Xiao Ping (and ex-President of the Academy of Science and President of one of China’s first environmental organizations), Damon worked in the Beijing Bureau of Hydraulic Research and Engineering. There she trained an office of four, taught ecological design and concepts of sustainable water systems, lectured to most departments in the Planning Bureau, and wrote the city guidelines for sustainable water systems and stream bank restoration. She led the first departmental meetings for ecological planning. During this time, she was a speaker at numerous conferences and lectured at Tquing Hua University, Beijing University, the People’s University and Sichuan University. She also led multiple workshops for eco-activists and provided teacher training for those doing environmental projects.
1999-present Duluth, Minnesota A living water system to process run off as part of Bay Front Park on Lake Superior.
1999-present Urban Water Works, Portland, Oregon Numerous community meetings, a public lecture and workshop with city departments started a project to develop living places in Portland to process non point pollution through a series of parks to protect the Willamette River. The first project was the DaVinci school, art and science project to create a water garden, recycling run-off through a garden. This spawned twenty more such school projects and now the city funds schools to capture and recycle their run-off. This citizen group subsequently formed an organization now called Urban Water Works. www.urbanwaterworks.org
1998 Duluth, Minnesota Funded Jill Jacoby to make a model living system.
1997 The Green SOS Handbook, Sichuan, China Damon met Lu Hongyan (Redbird), a 26 year old woman who is passionate about environmental education. Redbird soon became overall director of the environmental programs at Sichuan University which is a required course for all undergraduates. Keepers of the Waters funded her and, with her graduate students, she developed a handbook and website called GreenSOS. www.greensos.org
The handbook is still the best guide for beginning and implementing a grass roots project. They spent two impressive years seeking a way to express activism in a culture that doesn’t have a history of grass roots initiatives. They used Damon as their model and benchmark for progress.
1996 Keepers of the Waters, Lhasa, Tibet Evolving from the Chengdu event with an invitation from Tibetan artists, Damon spent a month organizing and developing public art about water under the watchful eye of the Chinese. Twenty artists spent a month planning and three days to execute works that brought public attention to the deteriorating water quality of the Lhasa River. Damon was the first non-Chinese individual allowed to work in Lhasa.
1995 Keepers of the Waters, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China Damon gathered over twenty artists who worked together to create fifteen events and installations on the Fu and Nan Rivers and was the first such public event in China. This project was a great success despite beginning it with no government permission. Many of the artists continued with numerous other public events about water in Chinese cities including Beijing. The relations built to execute this project opened the door to further work in China and the invitation to design the Living Water Garden. It was widely publicized on TV and print media in China. Illustrations in support material.
1995 Swede Hollow Park, St. Paul, Minnesota A community project to map the water shed and celebrate the park’s water and history. The park is a slice of history, an urban wild place that the community wished to preserve as an historic forest. The system, Phalen Creek to the Mississippi River, has now been restored and Swede Hollow is part of the restoration. Artist and educator, Chris Baeumler, continued the project when Damon went to China.
1993 Keepers of the Waters, Duluth, Minnesota In collaboration with the Pollution Control Agency and the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs on the St. Louis River and Lake Superior, citizens, artists and scientists participated in a workshop led by Damon and developed art works addressing the water issues in the area. Adjacent cities, inspired by Keepers, created local programs that included water information in restaurants for tourists, exhibitions and activities.
1993-2003 Keepers of the Waters, San Antonio, Texas In a month as an eco-activist artist teaching at Trinity University, Damon focused her students and the community on the Edwards Aquifer and on the San Antonio River. Although the aquifer was rapidly being encroached upon by development, few people understood the implications of loosing their water source. The citizens action group that formed succeeded in protecting the thousands of acres and the water source. In 2003, after they created the largest aquifer preservation park in the USA, they invited Damon to return to lead a four-day charrette to design the human interaction inside the park. One of Betsy’s students initiated the San Antonio River clean up that continues as an annual event.
1991-2004 Keepers of the Waters, Citizens Rights and Responsibilities, University of Minnesota Keepers of the Waters, Citizens Rights and Responsibilities, a two year project on water in the State of Minnesota in collaboration with the Hubert Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs, Minnesota Extension Service and the Water Resource Research Center. The pilot program in Anoka, a small suburb of St. Paul, MN, was completed in 1992 as a collaboration between art, science and citizens around the issues of a community’s water quality. This project initiated a comprehensive teaching program for all citizens and the high school subsequently became involved in water issues nationally and internationally. This was the first workshop to bring together all water related government agencies and private institutions, artists and interested citizens to create a vision of sustaining the vast water resources in the area. This workshop would prove in the coming 10 years to having ignited many minds around water issues – conservation, restoration, public interests, citizen activism and artists envisioning an involvement in eco systems.

SEMINAL MODEL ECO-ART PROJECTS DESIGNED AND DIRECTED BY DAMON
2007-2009 Carnation, Washington Damon was awarded a public art project in the Chinook Bend Natural area where she will be designing artistic elements for the outflow of Wastewater Treatment Plant, parking area and information kiosks. This is a natural area where, for the first time, effluent will be discharged into a park. She is designing the visible interface between the effluent and the park, works to educate the public about the site (which is beside a pristine salmon spawning river). With the removal of berms, some of the river is being returned to a dynamic system. Her pieces will express the importance and the strength of the eco-system.
2006-07 Spirals of Life, Memphis, Tennessee Stone sculpture fountain for the Hope and Healing Center.
2002-04 Turtle Bay Arboretum, Redding, California Designed by Damon, this sculptural water feature tells the story of water. In the fountain, water from a spring is distributed in three directions. The volume distributed is approximately the percentage calculated to be used internationally (70% is used by agriculture, 23% by industrial and 7% is domestic). Using visual metaphor and text, this 200’ long richly textured stone, ceramic and concrete sculpture combines recreation, aesthetics and education.
1996-98 Living Water Garden, Chengdu, Sichuan, China: Betsy Damon, Design Director, Living Water Garden. A six acre park that cleans water from the river through a seven stage cleaning system that includes a settling pond, aeration, constructed wetlands, and filtering ponds to clean water to contact quality. It contains an environmental education center and sculptural/educational elements throughout the park. This park was opposed by the central government of Beijing. However, when they came to see it, it was declared the best model of environmental education in the country. It is included on tourist maps, visited by most mayors of China and has spread the use of eco-solutions throughout China and much of the world. The principals of the Living Water Garden are taught as examples of an innovative system solution to urban water run-off and it opened the door for a dialogue to challenge the national policy of develop first, clean up later, and engineering will solve all our problems. Millions of people have been exposed to this solution via many media outlets such as the BBC radio, newspaper and magazines in China and the U.S. Illustrations in support material.
1990 “A Homage to Rivers”, Aspen Art Museum Biennial, Aspen, Colorado As part of the International Sculpture Biennial, Damon cleaned and reclaimed a creek with the citizens and placed sculpture that moved with the water, and water quality information along the bank of the creek.
1985 “Memory of Clean Water”, Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts The Danforth Museum of Art commissioned Damon with a New Works Grant funded by the Massachusetts Council of the Arts to cast 250 feet of a dry river bed. The work was installed in over twelve museums and galleries in the USA, including PS1 in New York City, Blue Star Gallery in San Antonio, TX, Houston, TX, Santa Fe, NM and in the “Revered Earth” traveling exhibition.

ECOLOGICAL/SUSTAINBLE DESIGN
Since the completion of the Living Water Garden, Chengdu, China in 1998, Damon has been a consultant to cities in the USA: Duluth, MN, 1998, Portland, OR, 1998, St Louis, MO, 2000, Dallas, TX., 2004. And in China: Nanning, and Baihei, Guanxi Province, Suzhou, Hong Zhou, Shenzhen.
2007 Trinity Lakes Project, Dallas, Texas Design team member, Ch3MHill and WRT.
2005 Tong Zhou District Ecological Design Plan, Beijing China The Beijing Planning Bureau invited Damon to create an ecological design team for Tong Zhou District, a suburb of Beijing. She created the plan with the Tsing Hua Landscape Design Bureau. Ton Zhou is a town of less than a million with a planned population of more than 3 million, whose water supply is already too little per capita. In Damon’s plan, all the water is recycled and cleaned through biological systems which includes solar aquatics and wetland aeration.
2004 Wen Yu He River, Beijing, China Damon, Design Director of award winning design team. The design team included Environmental Design and Management, Halifax, Canada and Andropogon, Philadelphia, PA, and the China Research Planning, Landscape Design and Management Company. This team created the only sustainable presentation. The design area was 45 square kilometers with 23 kilometers on the Wen Yu He River. Water is in great shortage in the Beijing area. Therefore, all water used was recycled through numerous systems from solar aquatics to agricultural production and reinfiltration of forests, just to name a few.
2003-2005 Olympic Forest Park, Beijing, China Damon proposed a design team for the Olympic Forest Park project. This design team was chosen by the Olympic Committee and the Beijing Planning Bureau to be one of eight to enter an international competition. Her collaborating partner was Turen Landscape Design Company, Beijing, and Environmental Design Management, Canada. It has since been awarded Third Place by an international jury on the basis of the ecological plan and is now the foundation of the park’s sustainable water system. This was the only design submitted that included a comprehensive sustainable solution for the Olympic Park and Axis. This park, as part of the 2008 Olympics could become the model for sustainable cities. It is a 21st century solution for water management. It will clean the water to a level suitable for significant human contact. The conceptual plan for the water treatment system and circulation of the water was created by Betsy Damon, Keepers of the Waters, and Margo Young Cantwell, CEO of Environmental Design and Management, Halifax, CA.
2001-2003 Beijing, China Consultant to the Beijing Hydraulic Bureau Research and Design Institute:
   1. Directed ecological master plan for Wen Yu He River.
   2. Directed design for Wen Yu He, 7 kilometers of ecological solutions.
   3. Wrote the sustainable/ecological guidelines for Beijing Planning Bureau.
   4. Lectured and taught numerous bureau ecological design solutions, Best Model practices, etc.
   5. Diagramed for the Planning Bureau cross-departmental collaborations for ecological planning.
2000 St Louis, Missouri Consultant: Railways, Lewis and Clark Project, to create a Living Water System: not built.
2000 Seattle, Washington Salmon Friendly Design, Five-day charrette.
1999 Beihai Estuary Park, South China Sea, Guanzi Province, China Conceptual plans for the restoration and reclamation of a mangrove estuary: not built.

GRANTS AND AWARDS
Has achieved over 30 awards of excellence and merit, fellowships and grants including:
2006    American Association of Landscape Architects Tong Zhou Project
2005    American Association of Landscape Architects Fuzhou University design
2004    Chinese Planning Bureau (international jury), Second Place for Wen Yu He River
2003    Chinese Planning Bureau (international jury), Third Place for Olympic Forest Park design
2000    Marion Weber National Award of Merit
1999    Places Award given by the Environmental Research and Design Association.
1999    Nancy Gray Foundation to write book ‘Living Water Concepts’. (In process)
1998    Waterfront Center, Top Honor Award, Living Water Garden, Chengdu, China
1997    Jerome Fellowship for the Living Water Garden, Chengdu, China
1996    Bush Fellowship: Individual Artists Fellowship
1996    Jerome Travel Grant to design park in Chengdu, China
1994    Flow Fund to begin a Keepers project in China
1994    Jerome Foundation grant for Duluth "Keepers of the Waters"
1993    Jerome Foundation travel grant to China
1992    Arts Midwest for "Keepers of the Waters" project
1991    3M for "Keepers of the Waters" project
1991    Jerome Foundation for Workshops for Artists and Scientists
1990    National Endowment for the Arts, Aspen Museum, to make "An Homage to Rivers"
1989    Mid-life Career Award, Women's Caucus for Art, San Francisco, CA
1998    New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1998    Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant
1987    Threshold Foundation Grant for "Only One River", a video about aquifers
1987    Artist Space/Artist Grant for “A Memory of Clean Water” installation at PS1, New York, NY. New Works Program of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities through the Danforth Museum.
1979    New York Foundation, for a Women's Troupe Street Event
1973    New York State Council for the Arts for the Feminist Studio, Ithaca, NY
1973    America the Beautiful Foundation for the Feminist Studio
1973    Poetry without Walls for collaboration with poet Polly Joan
1973    Cornell Council for the Creative and Performing Arts
1972    CAST (Creative, Arts, Science and Technology)
1971    CAST for the Moving Parallelogram Wall

SELECTED BOOK AND ARTICLES about Keepers of the Waters and Betsy Damon
“Sacred Land: Intuitive Gardening for Personal, Political and Environmental Change”, 2007, by Clea Danaan
“In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art”,  2003, by Linda Weintraub
“Radical Landscapes: Reinvention Outdoor Space” 2001, by Jane Amidon
Earth Light, Fall 2001, Issue 43, “The Living Water Garden of Chengdu, China” by Betsy Dam
Whole  Earth Catalogue, March 2000, The Living Water Garden – Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Sculpture, March 2000, Vol. 19 No. 2, A publication of the International Sculpture Center, Article by Terri Cohn, “Betsy Damon: Living Water Garden”
Places, January 2000, Environmental Design & Research Association Awards
YES, Winter Issue, 2000, China; “China’s Living Water Garden” by Anne Mavor
Waterfront World Spotlight, Winter 1999, Vol. 17, No. 1, “Living Water Garden, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China”
Expanding Circles, 1996, “Art and Community” by Betty Brown
“Sculpting with the Environment”, 1995, edited by Baile Oakes
“Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art’s Meaning in Contemporary Society”, 1995, by Linda Weintraub
“Mapping the Terrain”, 1994, Suzanne Lacy, New Bay Press
Anoka County Union, October, 1992, "Fall Water Festival"
Anoka County Union, August, 1992, "Keepers of the Waters Project"
“Coming into Our Fullness: Women in their 40's”, 1991, Cathleen Rountree, Crossing Press
San Antonio News, June 1991
“Heroine’s Journey”, 1990, Maureen Murdock, Shambala
The Public Art Review, Summer 1990, “Conversations with the Earth: Profiles of Lee Deffebach, Betsy Damon, and Dominique Mazeaud” by Margret Carde
“Revered Earth”, 1990, Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe, NM
“A Natural Order”, 1990, Hudson River Museum, NY
"The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol for Our Time” 1989, by Elinor Gadon, Harper & Rowe
Arts June 1987, A Memory of Clean Water, Elinor Gadon
The New Art Examiner, May 1986, "In Homage to Ana Mendieta"
Daily Sentinel, November 6, 1985, "Paper River"
The New York Times, March 1984, Review by Grace Glueck
Art Forum, March 1983, Review of Extended Sensibilities
The New York Times, October 1982, Review of Extended Sensibilities
Art in America, November 1981, "Gardens, Metaphors for Personal and Public Art", Lucy Lippard
Arts, October 1980, "First International Festival for Women in the Arts," Elinor Tufts
High Performance, " Summer 1980, The Battle of New Orleans," Suzanne Lacy
LIVE, 1980, Performance Art #3, Lenora Champagne
New Art Examiner, April 1979, "Both Sides Now"
New Art Examiner, March 1979, "Women's Caucus Center Stage at the College Art"
Wisconsin Chronicle, March 1979, "Troupe Makes Women's Tale Sacred Drama"
Wisconsin Chronicle, March 1979, "Review of Performance" Michael Bonesteel
Advocate, July 1978, John Saslow
Soho News, February 2, 1978, John Perrealt
Village Voice, March 6 1978, Kay Larson
Art News, May 1977, "Whitney Counterweight," C. Betz
Arts, June 1977
Artists Review Art, May 1977
Soho News, March 19, 1977, John Perreault
Village Voice, January 1977, review of CAA Exhibition
Art in America, May-June 1976, "The Pains and Pleasures of Rebirth," Lucy Lippard
The Ithaca Journal, March 13, 1973
Art News, March 1972
Vassar Alumnae News, June 1970
Vassar News, Vol. LIII, May 2, 1969
Suddeutsche Zeitung, January 10, 1968

OTHER ARTICLES, PUBLICATIONS AND DOCUMENTATION
Paradoxia, Spring 1999
Pioneer Press, January 22,1997
Public Art, St. Paul, Interview Jan 1997
Pioneer Press, December 30, 1994
The Power of Feminist Art, an anthology, Abrams, 1994
Encyclopedia of Women Artists, Susan Baxter, 1993
Minnesota Horticulturist, October, 1992
Coming into Our Fullness: Women in their 40's, Cathleen Rountree, Crossing Press, 1991
Contemporary Women Sculptors, Charlotte Robinson, 1991
Revered Earth, Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe, NM, 1990
A Natural Order, Hudson River Museum, NY, 1990
Of Nature and Nation: Yellowstone Summer of Fire, 1990
Sculpture Aspen, Aspen Art Museum, 1990
Tierra Encantada II, Kansas City Art Institute, 1990
Women's Sculptors, Charlotte S. Rubinstein, 1990
The Contemporary Women Artist, Eleanor Tufts, 1990
The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol for Our Time, by Elinor Gadon, Harper & Rowe, 1989
The Memorial Redefined, Linda Cunningham, 1989
"No Limits For Women Artists," Art & Artists, 1988
Images of Power, Rockland Center for the Arts, 1987
Current Thinking, Kenkeleba Gallery, 1987
Ms. Magazine, 1986
Overlay, Lucy Lippard, 1983
The Amazing Decade, Moira Roth, 1984
Lady Unique Inclination of the Night, Kay Turner, 1984
Stone Stories, 20 minute tape, 1983
American Woman Artists, Charlotte S. Rubinstein, 1982
Feministische Kunst International, 1981
Bags, Bodies & Knives, 8 minute tape, 1981
Feministo Tokyo, December 1978 - Betsy Damon: Woman Artist, by Yuki Ochiishi
"7000 Year Old Woman," Heresies, #3, September 1977
Maypole Rite, 8mm film, August 1976
"Catalogue for Changes," with introduction by Kate Johnson, January 1976
"Female Creativity", Betsy Damon, Human Ecology Forum, October 1973
"Concept", Vassar College Art Gallery, NY 1969

SELECTED WORKSHOPS
West Palm Beach, 2007
Ballona Creek, 2006
“Living Waters, Urban Vitality”, Portland, OR, September 1999, 2000
“Art and Science”, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Act and Activism, Missoula, Montana, March 1994
Keepers of the Waters, Duluth, MN May 1993
Water Information Forum, Humphrey Institute,  April 1992
Keepers of the Waters Workshop for Anoka Citizens, Anoka, MN, March 1992
"Art, Activism and the Community Workshop," Hubert Humphrey Institute, June 1991
“Eliminating White Racism”, Women's Caucus for Art, San Antonio, Texas, 1995
“International Artists Liberation”, Augsburg College, Minnesota, 1994. To look at and eliminate internalized oppression from sexism, classism, racism etc. This workshop assists artists to see themselves as part of their community and vitally important to society.
“No Limits for Women Artists”, National leaders four day conference, Augsburg College, MN, 1994
No Limits for Women Artists is a national network for women artists in the United States that Damon founded in 1984. She leads three leaders workshops a year in the Midwest, West Coast, and the East Coast. Each workshop is three to four days long. She also leads numerous other activities to build the organization. It is a diverse organization in which women learn how to lead and build community while creating support around themselves and are organized in a system of small support groups with 50 current groups.
Reevaluation Counseling, 1978-present. Damon leads workshops and classes in Re-evaluation counseling. This work is to assist people to reclaim their complete intelligence. A large part of this work is the elimination of internalized oppression that results from living in a classist, racist, sexist, etc. society.
Association for Humanistic Psychology, "Different Voices, Shared Destinies," March 1991
Art and Ecology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, March 1991
Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA, December 1990
Art and Ecology, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
Art and Community, Lancaster, PA, July 1990
Experimental Paper-making, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN, 1986
Art-Making Workshop, Kingston, NY, July 1984
Future Visions, Ramapo College, Ramapo, NJ, January 1983
Power and Creativity, Dennis, MA, July 1982
Power and Creativity, Amhearst, MA , March 1981
Power and Creativity, Pittsfield, MA, January 1982
Creativity, Amhearst, MA, December 1981
Creativity, Ramapo College, Ramapo, NJ, November 1981
Creativity, Phoenix, AZ, April 1981.
Creativity, Los Angeles, CA, March 1981
Creativity, San Francisco, CA, February 1981
Two one-day workshops, Portland, ME, August 1980
One-day workshop, Women's Caucus for Art, New Orleans, LA, January 1980
Two weekend workshops, Amsterdam, Holland, May 1979
Intensive Performance Workshop, Chicago, IL, March 1979
Performance Workshop, Madison, WI, March 1979
Performance Workshop, two one-day workshops, Amsterdam, Holland December 1978
Performance Workshop, Groningen, Holland, December 1978
Women's Art Studio, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1974-76

ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE
1991-present    Director, Keepers of the Waters
2004   Design Director, Wen Yu He River
2003-present   Board Member, Jane Goodall Institute, Beijing, China
1996-98   Design Director, Living Water Garden, Chengdu, China
April 1996   Curator/Organizer of "Confluences", Minnesota Museum of American Art
1994-95   Coordinator and Leader of Town Meetings for Artists at the Minnesota Museum of American Art
1985-2005   Founder of "No Limits Workshops for Women Artists"
1992   Steering Committee, Common Vision Global Forum
1990   Co-Chair, Shifting Power, Women's Caucus for Art National Conference
1986-92   Board Member, Women's Caucus for Art
1986-88   President, Women's Caucus for Art, New York City Chapter
1986-89   Vice-President, Women's Caucus for Art, Northeast Region
1986   Juror National Exhibition, WARM Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1986   Curator, Public Visions, Public Monuments, Soho 20 Gallery, New York, NY
1985-86   Program Chairman, National Conference, Women's Caucus for Art
1985   Juror, Betty Brazil Sculpture Competition, Bronx, NY
June 1984   Let MOMA Know, WAVE event
July 1980   First International Festival of Women in the Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
January 1978   112 Greene Street, New York. Organized evening programs
March 1977   The Whitney Counterweight, NYC, Jury member
Sept 1977   Heresies Magazine, member of editorial staff, Issue #3
March 1975   Performance Conference, Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA, Organizer
April 1972   Women and the Arts Festival, Three weeks of events, Cornell University, Chair
1973   Feminist Art Studio, Organizer/Leader, Cornell University
1969   Forecasts- four one-person exhibitions including talks by the artists, Vassar College Gallery

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2005   Dan Evans Distinguished visiting Professor, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, two seminars.
2005   Visiting Professor, Knoxville, TN
1993   CSU Summer Arts, Humbolt State University, Arcata, CA
1993   Stering Distinguished Guest Artist, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
1992   Water Information Forum, Humphrey Institute
1992   Keepers of the Waters Workshop for Citizens, Anoka, MN
1991   "Art, Activism and the Community Workshop," Hubert Humphrey Institute, June
1991   "Art and Ecology," San Antonio, TX
1991   Visiting Artist, University of Minnesota
1990   Visiting Artist, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, MN
1989   Visiting Artist, Performance, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, MN
1979-88   Private instruction in drawing, performance and sculpture. Individuals and groups, NY
1988   University of Arizona, Distinguished Visiting Artist for Multi-Media Seminar, Tucson, AZ
1988   Franklin & Marshall College, Advanced Students, Lecturer/Consultant, Lancaster, PA
1987   Franklin & Marshall College, Drawing, Lancaster, PA
1978-92   Re-evaluation Counseling Instructor. Fundamentals and advanced classes, work especially with artists, young people and parents, NYC
1985   Felician College, Lodi, NY Guest Artist
1983   Visiting Artist in Performance, Ramapo College, Ramapo, NJ
1982   Visiting Artist in Performance, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
1979   Visiting Artist in Performance, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
1975-76   Visiting Artist, St. Catherine's College, St. Paul, MN. Multi-media techniques utilizing drawing, sculpture, and performance focused on ritual theme.
1975   Guest Artist, Women's Studio Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, Drawing.
1973-75   The Feminist Studio, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Painting & Drawing.
1967-68   Taught math to GI's – High school equivalency for low IQ; Munich, Germany
1963-64   Daycare Teacher NYC

SELECTED LECTURES
2005   Asian Development Bank, Beijing and Chengdu, China
2003   Key Note Speaker, Dallas, Texas, river restoration conference
2001-05   Numerous lectures to government bureaus, Universities and citizens in the US and China
2000   "Living Water", Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2000   Symposium, water sensitive design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Sept. 1999   "Living Water, Urban Vitality", Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Sept. 1999   Woods Hole Research Institute, Woods Hole, MA
1998   “The Living Water Garden”, Bioneers, San Rafael, CA
1994   “Keepers of the Waters: The Artist in a Collapsing Society”, University of Montana, MT
Nov. 1993   Conference in developing a city around water, Beppu, Japan
1993   Conference on Ecology and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China
May 1993   "Women, Fire and Iron": A National Conference on Women in the Foundry Arts, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN
April 1993   "The Role of the Artist in a Collapsing Society", Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
February,1993   Distinguished Guest Artist, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
January 1993   "The Role of the Artist in a Collapsing Society: Ethics and Aesthetics", College Art Association
September1992   Common Vision Global Forum, Humboldt University, Summer Arts Program, Arcata, CA
October 1991   Art, Ecology and Activism, Goddard College, Plainfield Vermont
1991   "The Artist as Eco-activist", Blue Star, San Antonio, TX
1991   "The Role of the Artist in a Collapsing Society", University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN
March 1991   "Art, Community and Activism", Women's Caucus for Art, panel moderator, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
January 1991   Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA
1991   “The Conversion of a Cynic: The Role of the Artist in a Collapsing Society”, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
December 1990   Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
October 1990   University of Wisconsin, La Cross, WI
February 1990   CAA, panelist, New York, NY
1990   Minnesota College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
1989   Minnesota College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
1989   NCA/CAA, panelist, San Francisco, CA
1988   Wooster College, Wooster, OH
1988   University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1987   Everhart Museum, Scranton, PN
1987   University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
June 1986   Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
January 1982   Performance Art, Williams College, Willamstown, MA
1980, 1981, 1982Performance Art, Visual Arts, NYC
April 1981   Performance Art, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
February 1981   Performance Art, Women's Caucus for Art, San Francisco, CA
May 1980   University of Ohio, Columbus, OH
May 1980   Feminist Studies Workshop, Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA
April 1980   Ramapo College, Ramapo, NJ
December 1978   Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
May 1978   AROW, Schenectady, NY
May 1978   Union College, Schenectday, NY
May 1978   Columbia College, Chicago IL
December 1977   Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
November 1977   GLCA, NYC, NY
February 1977   Rites of Creation, Buffalo, NY
March 1975   Looking at Women's Art, Wells College, Aurora, NY
March 1975   TC3, Dryden, NY New Perspective on Women's Art-Lecture Tour
April 1974   Carleton College, Northfield, MN
April 1974   "Women's Fair," Webster College, St. Louis, MO
April 1974   Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
April 1974   Feminist Studio Workshop, Los Angeles, CA
March 1974   Work From the Feminist Art Studio, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
March 1974   Work From the Feminist Art Studio, The School of Visual Arts, NYC
1973   Female Creativity, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1972   Is There a Feminist Imagery?, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1972   Work by Women, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2006-07   “Spirals of Life”, 14’ in diameter, private commission granite fountain for the Hope and Healing Center, Memphis, TN
2001   Shanghai children’s Palace; environmental education murals
1993   Trinity University Gallery, San Antonio, drawings and two-dimensional work
1991   "A Memory of Clean Water", Blue Star Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1989   "A Memory of Clean Water", Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988   "A Memory of Clean Water", Wooster College, Wooster, OH; Cambridge Financial Group, NY
1987   "A Memory of Clean Water", PS 1, NYC; Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA; University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1986   "A Memory of Clean Water", Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA Stones & Stars, works on paper, Soho 20 Gallery, NYC
1986   “Stones & Stars”, works on paper, Soho 20 Gallery, New York, NY 1985   A Shrine For Every Woman (¤), International Women's Conference, Nairobi, Kenya
1984   Stone Maps & Dreams, Works on paper, Soho 20 Gallery, NYC
1980   "A Shrine For Every Woman", Glyptotek Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
1978   "Female Mysteries", St. John The Divine, NYC
1977   "Ritual Images: Masks & Maypoles", Drawings and sculpture, 14 Sculptors Gallery, NYC
1976   "Changes", St. Catherine College, St. Paul, MN
1975   In Memory, Drawings, The Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA
1975   CA Drawings - a diary, TC3, Dryden, NY 1975   New York Collective Images, 14 Sculptures Gallery, NYC, NY

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
1998   Environmental Artists, Aimes, Iowa
1996   Rising from the River: Hill Library, St Paul, MN
1993   Sehia:rak: Remember It, an installation with Gail Tremblay, CAA Conference, Seattle, WA
1992   Healing and Art, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, October An Issue of Water, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
1991   "A Memory of Clean Water," Catherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Artists Contributing to the Solutions, Women's Building, Los Angeles
1990   "An Homage to Rivers," Aspen Biennial Sculpture Invitational, Aspen, CO
1990   On Nature, an excerpt from "A Memory of Clean Water," Hudson River Museum, NY
1990   Revered Earth, an excerpt from "A Memory of Clean Water," Traveling exhibition curated by Robert Gaylor, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM. Shown at: Contemporary Museum, Houston, TX; United Nations, NYC; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA; Of Nature, On Nature, Pacific Security Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Yellow Springs, Wyoming; Billings, Montana; Washington, DC
1990   Contemporary Museum, Houston, TX
1990   United Nations, NYC
1990   Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1990   Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
1990   “Of Nature, On Nature”, Pacific Security Gallery, Los Angeles, CA traveling to Yellow Springs, Wyoming; Billings, Montana; Washington, DC
1990   Tierra Encantada, Kansas City Art Institute, MO
1989   Soho 20 Gallery, NYC
1988   Women and the Constitution, Paintings, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
1987   Artselves, Artchildren, Works on Paper, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ; Current Thinking, Kenkeleb, NY
1986   Public Visions/ Public Monuments, Soho 20 Gallery, NYC
1986   Homage To Ana Mendieta, Zeus-Trabia, NYC
1986   Let's Play House, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NYC
1982   Extended Sensibilities, Works on Paper, New Museum, NYC
1980   Private Worlds, Drawing, 626 Broadway, NYC
1979   Both Sides Now, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL; CAA, New York University Graduate Center, NYC; 112 Green Street Workshop, NYC; Galleria Del Cavallino, Venice Italy; WARM Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Counterweight, James Yu Gallery, NYC
1975   Paper Work, Printer's Gallery, Ithaca, NY
1974   Women's Eye, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; The Feminist Studio, Ithaca, NY
1973   The Feminist Studio, Ithaca, NY; The Many Faces of Women, The Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; Johnson Museum, Cornell University, NYC; Women Choose Women, Paintings, New York City Cultural Center, NYC; Wingspread, Paintings, Racine, WI; Ithaca House Gallery, Paintings, Ithaca, NY
1972   Women's Inter-Art Center, Paintings, Ithaca, NY; Andrew Dickson White Art Museum, Paintings, Ithaca, NY
1969   Concept Art, Paintings, Munich, Germany
1968   Haus Der Kunst, Paintings, Munich, Germany
1967   Gallerie Hessler, Paintings, Munich, Germany