For Women’s History Month, March 1st-31st, I am exhibiting a small installation of my work at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center, 515 South St, Waltham, Mass. The gallery hours are 9a-5p Mon-Fri., https://www.brandeis.edu/wsrc/
Cardinal goddess, wood, paint 2010 by Donna Dodson
"The Cardinal goddess was created as an icon to future possibilities, as if women could hold high office in the Catholic Church. What would that look like and what would it mean for women's spirituality? She is decorated with olive drab wing patches and blood red war paint.
Stork mother, wood, paint 2011 by Donna Dodson
"Stork mother brings the baby in her tummy instead of her beak. She is both a celebration of fertility and motherhood as well as a subversion of the popular myth of the baby bringer."
Bantam, wood, paint 2011 by Donna Dodson
Bantam is dominant as only a grandmother or matriarch of a family can be. Bearing the symbolic colors of the rooster, she is the bread winner of the family and its powerful head