W e welcome Betsy Damon to join us in conversation.
Betsy Damon is an internationally acclaimed artist who has been called a practical visionary and a humanist. Her work has been widely reviewed, exhibited, and taught. She’s known for her performance works, like 7000 Year Old Woman (1976), and her large-scale ecological designs like The Living Water Garden (1998) in Chengdu, China. She has directed many collaborative public performance events, most notably in Chengdu and Lhasa. Currently, she is in communication with international exhibitions, museums, and activists in Ireland, Poland, Turkey, and China, and is exhibiting at Stony Brook University and the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands. Betsy’s awards include the Bush Foundation, Heinz Foundation, NEA, UN Habitat, Waterfront Center Top Honor, five awards from the ASLA, and others. A solo exhibition of Betsy’s performance work, curated by Monika Fabijanska, took place at La MaMa Galleria in Manhattan in 2021.
For the past four decades, Betsy’s work has focused on a central subject: water, which she reveals as the connective, creative, and collaborative medium behind all life. Betsy promotes public consciousness of Living Water and invites us to place water itself as the foundation of all planning and design. Her work traverses the complexities of water, from the molecular scale to the levels of ecosystems and societies. Betsy’s work has been archived by Asia Art Archive
Hosted by: Kate Bunney
Produced & Edited by: Teena Pugliese
Intro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter Strauss
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