Here's this morning's article from the Brattleboro Reformer. Note that we're getting things from Ohio and NYC as well as local artists! We are psyched! Join us if you can....But I'm buying one of Wendy Baxter's Birth Goddesses before you get here!
Dawn Kersula
And this morning my moms group had a dynamite discussion about breastfeeding in public. No wonder our local rates are solidly good.

http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8885~2995181,00.html



Local 'lactivists' stage 'Nurse-out,' exhibits

BRATTLEBORO -- The rights of breastfeeding women and their children are on the line. Nursing mothers and children are in the spotlight due to an increase in activism around the country. Locally, a "Nurse-out" is planned in conjunction with World Breastfeeding Week (Aug. 1-7) in Brattleboro to coincide with the Gallery Walk Aug. 5.
The "Nurse-out" will begin at 5 p.m., with nursing mothers and their babies gathering in the courtyard of the Hooker-Dunham Building (down the alley off Main Street between Gallery in the Woods and the Trust Company of Vermont) to have their photo taken and sent to the Associated Press for national broadcast. 

During Gallery Walk, the opening of the Second Annual Art of Breastfeeding Show at Amy's Bakery Arts Café and the Catherine Dianich Gallery on Friday, will coincide with World Breastfeeding Week and will be celebrated in a number of ways -- an art show at Amy's Bakery Arts Café and the Catherine Dianich Gallery in Brattleboro will showcase the work of local, regional, and national artists around the subject of breastfeeding, readings and other gatherings of nursing mothers are also being planned.

Through photography, painting and mixed media, male and female artists have been selected by the curator, Catherine Dianich Gruver, to offer their works -- some are of a personal nature -- to the public to help support the cause. Many of the artworks selected will be for sale. Some, like the stunning oil painting from Putney artist Collin Leach, are a personal paen to the artist's child; other works of art, like the Native American influenced painting of a woman's body by local artist and art educator, Lydia Thompson, celebrate the woman's body as a vessel for the birth of a child.

Provocative, and autobiographical photographs of his young son nursing and sharing intimate moments captured in time by Marlboro College professor John Willis will also be shown.

Amy Jenkins, creator of the video installations "Flow" and "The Audrey Samsara" at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, has accepted Dianich Gruver's invitation to show some of her controversial breast-feeding large format photographs in the show.

In addition to a plethora of provocative artworks, there will be sculpture on display -- from local artist Susan MacDormand, and a piece from Africa that is on loan -- a wood carving of a mother looking down while nursing a walking child who reaches up to her breasts. Another, more sentimental sculpture, is a hand carved cradle made in 1971 out at Packer's Corner Farm in Guilford that has now held 44 babies.

It was made by author, actor, professor, comic "clown jewel" of Vermont Peter Gould. There is a typed list of all the babies' names and dates of birth that will be on display. The cradle is a piece of local history that is not often seen.

A surprise piece this year is a humorous and telling photo collage of a local family scene revolving around a nursing mother by Anita Dunlap Childs. Other artists represented include Marcella Hackbardt, Susan Wadsworth, Jean Davis, Lynne Weinstein, Jaja McLaughin, Evie Lovette, Ellen Tumavikus, Asha McLaughlin, Pete Guenther, Catherine Dianich Gruver, Simi Berman, Laura Isabella, Andrea Wallens-Powell and others.

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