PREMIER EXHIBITION

The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (now the Museum of Contemporary Art) was the site of the premiere exhibition on November 4th, 1995. In the exhibition were 185 boxes from…

TEN YEAR RETROSPECTIVES

Celebrating women worldwide for their creative expression, these powerful exhibitions explored the nearly ten-year history and social impact of this unique international women’s art project…

WBB’s Relevance to Academia

WBB has been a catalyst for creativity and collaboration in many areas and has been interpreted by a variety of adjunct projects. Presented here are a few examples of how WBB has crossed over to academic disciplines such as psychology, anthropology, sociology, women’s studies, art education, art history, and public practice…

Formosa Tales Exhibition

Women Beyond Borders are proud to announce that we have opened a new exhibition in Taiwan in conjunction with Red Room, a community-driven creative arts platform fostering inter-generational, cross-cultural expression…

SWITZERLAND

Anne-Kathi Wildberger, Educational Curator and Heide Bilderbrand, WBB Austrian participant had the inspiration of including a segment of WBB along with Pandora, Women in Classical Greece, an exhibition of vessels…

ISRAEL: OUR FIRST INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

For the dozens of artists who took up the challenge, the boxes serve as an impetus for a journey into their own inner enchanted worlds to distant temples, longings for a different reality, or expressions of secret hopes…

Museum of Ventura County Exhibition

While the Women Beyond Borders Play was still in it’s planning stages, Karyl Lynn Burns, the Producing Artistic Director of the Rubicon Theatre Company raised the idea of a new exhibition that would coincide with the premiere of the play. The idea involved using a small selection of…

NEPAL

A selection of WBB boxes was in an exhibition in Kathmandu and also on on a trek, which traveled through native villages in Nepal. The boxes acted as a catalyst to open discussion on…

MONTANA

Over 1,200 fifth graders from Missoula County came to the museum every school day for three months throughout the exhibition to view the boxes and to discuss women’s issues…

Tajima Collaboration

Women Beyond Borders, with support from Tajima Creative, presented dynamic exhibitions, highlighting the personal stories of prominent national and regional women in Seattle and Palo Alto. To express these stories in art, the project paired women…

TENNESSEE

More than 65 metro teachers were given the boxes to hold workshops for their students as well as the Nashville’s Rites of Passage, Hermanitas and Girls Scout programs…

CULTURAL OLYMPIAD

WBB was invited to participate in the 2002 Cultural Olympiad. The exhibition was rated as one of the top five events along with the Pilobolus Dance Theatre and Dale Chihuly. Children Beyond Borders, an adjunct project of the Olympiad, included a selection of boxes from over 6,000 children…

RIDGECREST

Exhibition at the Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest, California…

CHILDREN BEYOND BORDERS

VSA arts first displayed the original 52-box exhibit during the 2002 Olympic games and Cultural Olympiad held in Salt Lake City. VSA Arts invited students with disabilities…

SINGAPORE

The women participants in Singapore created boxes in relation to a community, i.e. a collaboration with family, friends, a group of people, etc. The objective was to discover who women are and what women want in our particular society and…

What’s a Box Got to Do with it? Reflections on the Body…

The group of boxes selected for this exhibition focuses on issues of subjectivity and the body from a variety of perspectives. The box, providing an inner space as well as an interface to the world, becomes a metaphor for the body…

VIDEO: CSUCI Exhibition

Video of the exhibition held at California State University, Channel Islands…

AUSTRALIA

The opportunities this exhibition has offered throughout its five year existence, whilst acting as an agent for the ideas and feelings of women, has encouraged and inspired creativity and above all communication…

JAPAN

“I am sure that this project is the hope of all women everywhere. Let us also hope that this Exhibition will lead to additional opportunities throughout Japan, and all the countries of all the world, to communicate and express our humanity.”

– Yoshihiro Ikka, Curator

MEXICO

The Women Beyond Borders exhibition in Mexico brought together artists from different socio-economic classes for the first time. Women from small villages in Mexico who work in crafts…

CANADA

Traveling from a temple in Nepal to a gallery at the Dufferin Mall in Toronto, WBB fully lived up to its vision. Such unique exhibition sites reached out to develop a new relationship between the artist…

CUBA

Summer brought with it to Havana a breathless cultural activity. Opening August 7, 1998, at the Centro Wilfredo Lam was the Women Beyond Borders Exhibition, of special relevance in our aesthetic…

CROATIA

An indoor and outdoor installation of boxes from Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Slovenia was arranged by Nada Beros, curator of the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art…

YUGOSLAVIA

In 1997 WBB gathered several of the most prominent Yugoslav sculptors and painters, as well as a few emerging artists. The opening exhibition of their…

UNITED KINGDOM, IRELAND & AIRPORTS

I was hooked from the moment I heard about Women Beyond Borders. With a fine arts degree from the University of London and twenty-five years of professional work in gender equality in the United States, this project somehow…

ITALY

Gallery Extra Moenia – Arte Moderna, located in a 15th C villa overlooking the hills of Umbria, was the site of the WBB exhibition in Italy. The exhibition brought together WBB participants…

KENYA

In February 1995 Yony Waite, a WBB Kenyan Artist and Curator, hand-delivered the first completed boxes for the Women Beyond Borders exhibition to California. She arrived via Greyhound bus just down the street from Lorraine Serena’s studio to personally deliver…

RUSSIA

Because of the inspiration of Lynn Scarlet in California, the WBB exhibition was introduced to Katya Galitzine, an artist and writer. Katya was visiting Santa Barbara to promote…

BOXES ON THE TRAIN

Our WBB exhibition crossing eight borders was quite an experience! In addition to openings in train stations, we went through the entire train from time to time, inviting people to come…