1. Betsy Damon received her master's degree from Columbia University in 1966.
21 Facts About Betsy Damon
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Betsy Damon then traveled to Germany but returned to the United States in 1968 where she learned of the Women's Movement from American artist Joyce Kozloff.
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Betsy Damon has participated in a number of exhibitions and performances and her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Betsy Damon was a founding member of the Women's Caucus for Art and received the Mid-Life Career Award from the organization in 1989.
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Betsy Damon won the Arts and Healing Network Award in 2000.
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At the age of 50, Betsy Damon changed the focus of her art to center on water, the conservation and protection of water and how it impacts society.
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Betsy Damon is an international water artist who primarily focuses on ecological works.
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Betsy Damon's work raised awareness in China as well, her best known project being The Living Water Garden in the city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, China, the first water-themed ecological park in urban China.
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In 2009, Betsy Damon was named as a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.
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From 1980 to 2000 Betsy Damon founded and directed No Limits for Women Artists, an international organization that sought to improve female leadership and help men in becoming independent allies.
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Betsy Damon's work explored the connection between women and nature, often through covering herself with natural materials such as feathers and bark.
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Betsy Damon is me, the me that I know very little about.
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Betsy Damon painted her body, hair and face in white and hung small bags filled with colored flour on her body.
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Betsy Damon walked the spiral, cutting the bags on her body with a pair of scissors.
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Betsy Damon performed the piece for the general public on Prince Street, with the assistance of artist Su Friedrich.
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Betsy Damon walked the circle cutting the bags from her body and handing them to the audience.
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Betsy Damon sought to heal through community and encouraged women to speak out.
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Betsy Damon invited women to write thoughts and stories down and took these thoughts and put them in small bags, hanging them in rows on cords like prayer flags.
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In 1985, Betsy Damon collaborated with artist Robyn Stein to lead a team of papermakers in the casting of a 250-foot section of dry riverbed in Castle Creek, Utah.
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Betsy Damon first visited China in 1989 as a guest artist at a United Nations conference.
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Betsy Damon organized a second Keepers of the Waters performance series in Lhasa, Tibet in 1996.