Barbara Rogers Bridges has been an artist and a teacher/college professor for over 40 years. Her social practice sculptures have been exhibited in Maine, Miami, the Virgin Islands, Maryland, Chicago, Mexico, Spain, Canada, and throughout Minnesota. Bridges taught K-12 art in Minnesota, Maine and the Virgin Islands and trained teachers in higher education at the University of Minnesota and Bemidji State University.

Barbara creates social practice art from fabricated components in a variety of media and rescued “power objects.” She manipulates the objects to create meaning and provoke discussions and reflection on a wide variety of social topics.

She is an intervenor. Cambridge educated philosopher, Tim Ingold, holds a unique theory on art making. Dr. Ingold suggests that artists are simply interveners on any particular materials and/or objects the artist manipulates. Any object already has a story, the artist simply recombines these objects to create a new narrative.

Barbara received the Vision Award from the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District in 2023.

Barbara is founder and director of Art to Change the World. Read More Please contact Barbara if you would like to buy any of her art drb@bridgescreate.com

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**MWMO Funded Project and 10 ACW members Execute a Two Hour Trash Pick Up on the Mississippi and Created an Educational Interactive Artwork Named Mississippi River Pearl Read More**

Today, I’m Alright Healing Project

The TODAY , I’m Alright workshop invites everyone who has a connection with trauma to join together for two hours of resource sharing, art-making, conversation and most importantly – identifying strategies for change. Working with licenses counselors, primary source participants and a 40 year veteran art teacher, each participant will go to the 23 drawers and cupboards of TODAY to choose a talisman to discuss at the workshop and then take that object home with them to help in their recovery. It will be a physical reminder of what they learned and the recovery strategies they identified.

Your trauma is not terminal. You are not broken.
You can create your own life raft of hope and resilience with practical strategies.

The Today Healing Art Click here to see all the:

Higher Power Altars

Healing Cuffs

Wranklets

Neck Pieces

Garden Sculptures

Barbara Bridges
“Sentry Higher Power Altar”

Read About : TODAY, I’m Alright /I.C.O.N Project

Art As My Weapon Exhibitions
Barbara Bridges, Director of ACW

Title: X2
18” x 24”
Found and fabricated object and clay constructions, police buy back gun parts.
Price: $400

Join Barbara at the Hennepin County Library for an opening event on April 23 between 3:00 and 4:30. See details above. Beverages following…Barbara’s treat.

Artwork Statement
In 2020, the most recent year for which complete data is available, 45,222 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S., according to the CDC. That figure includes gun murders and gun suicides -comprise over 50% of gun deaths. Some gun deaths are deaths are also accidental. If you own a gun, you are 2 times more likely to die by gun.

If you feel the need to own a gun, improve your odds. Learn to use your gun and keep it in a safe.

She is an intervenor and believes that artists are simply interveners on any particular materials and/or objects the artist manipulates. Any object already has a story, the artist simply recombines these objects to create a new narrative. https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/barbara-bridges
drb@bridgescreate.com

In the Collection of Richard Moody!! In the jump suit.

Justifiable Homicide 2023
Found Objects
20” x 26”
$600

All of my artwork employs found objects to Re-Cycle, Re-Purpose and Re-Create. Generally, the works have a social justice message. Justifiable Homicide meets that objective. In these times of fear and cultural conflict, we are asking ourselves where our boundaries are. In my youth, I carried a loaded gun. I thought I was capable of taking another life if I was threatened. It turned out I was not. Justifiable Homicide was meant to unsettle and challenge your thinking. Please be invited to talk with me if you have thoughts to share.

Barbara Bridges
Wings
18” x 80” 5 part Series 2024
Assemblage -Mixed Media
$800 non-profit $1200 retail

Wings examines the concept of “Love”. Many have tried to define this word. Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotions. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of partner, which differs from the love for food.

As biological human beings, we have a capacity for all different kinds of
LOVE
You have the power to identify your version of love and then to let it take wing.

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Barbara Rogers Bridges Home
24” x 48” 2024
Assemblage -Mixed Media
$800 non-profit $1200 retail

Home was designed specifically for the Whittier community, with a gold encrusted “W” as the central
imagery. This mixed media work employs paint and inks to create a landscape window behind the
Happy Home found object.

Definition of the word “Home” : the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household. Many residents have lived at Whittier for decades. How do you make a house a home? Add art!

The artwork Home is framed by what I call found power objects. I combined these objects, which already have a story, into a new narrative. Each time you look at the frame, you will find new meanings.

Barbara Bridges has been an artist and a teacher/college professor for over 40 years. Her sculptures have been exhibited in Maine, the Virgin Islands, Miami, Maryland, Chicago, Mexico, Spain, Canada and throughout Minnesota. She was voted The Art Teacher of Minnesota -twice.

Barbara creates social practice art from fabricated components in a variety of media and rescued “power objects”. She considers herself an intervener on the journey of the materials and/or objects she uses to create a new artistic narrative. She will provide most supplies OR Bring 2 or 3 of your important objects (or her treasures) and we will engineer them into an artwork. Create healing cuffs, wranklets, neckpieces or SCULPTURES.

Video Tour of Re-Cycle/Upcycle Home and Studio

See more pictures of the unique property: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/art365

$50 Adults $40 Children – includes most supplies
Confirm: drb@bridgescreate.com
Limited Space: 8 people Maximum: drb@bridgescreate.com

Cognitive Dissonance Dialogues

100 Steps to Paradise

Barbara Bridges Accepted to the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization Mississippi River Stories Project

Show opens Monday, April 18, 2022 and Closes Monday, June 6, 2022 Opening is April 23, 1:00-3:00

Location: Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO), 2522 Marshall St. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418

Even though I am an assemblage sculptor, I was attracted to this 2-D call for art project from MWMO because of my love for the Mississippi River. This river transects our country.
When people visit me from the east coast, they always want to “go” to the Mississippi because it looms large in people’s imaginations.

It will not be a surprise that picking up the trash along the river and creating the frame is what really jazzed me. I want to show the beauty of those limestone steps and
the complexity of the woodland, beach and cliffs but it just seemed so busy. The vibrancy of PH Martin inks is seductive. But that approached seemed too busy for the frame,
and you know, it was all about the frame. I created the second minimalist work and took a poll on my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/barbara.bridgesrogers

Shout Out to William Mathews who sent me extensive research. Review it below.

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Barbara Bridges, Sandy Point, Maine
Mixed Media Visual and Text
14” X 16”

The Big Pond Connects Us

I grew up in Maine, U.S.A. We have a distinct accent. When I heard the first Scots person speak- I realized where our accent originated. My grandmother, Emily Ranney, was always yammering on about how I had the spirit of a highlander – fierce! I was 25, it did not mean much to me then.

Now I am 70 and have evolved into one of those annoying Americans who feel called to put their boots on the land where their ancestors came from. I traveled to Dunfermline where my guy, Thomas Ranney 1, was born in 1616 and to Montrose where he was christened. He emigrated to the North American continent in 1657. I was able to dig back to my ancestors from the 1400’s. Impressive record keeping!

I am, however, quite confident that you have all forgotten about us by now! LOL

I have been researching and reading Scottish history and current blogs. I was curious how the Scots feel about this odd influx of ancestry seekers to their country. The general consensus seemed to be, “We are fine with you coming to bond with your ancestry but please don’t call yourself Scots (or usually Scottish)! I read a fascinating thread about how curious it is that the Americans are hyphen-obsessed. I read, “Why do they keep dividing themselves with tiny percentage of bloodlines hundreds of years old. Maybe that is responsible for the division they still endure. If you live and work in Scotland, you are Scots. Period.”

Why, indeed?

The frame on this watercolor was created from debris washed up on my Sandy Point, Maine beach. The same water molecules may have touched this wood and that Montrose, Scotland dory in the watercolor.

The Big Pond (The Atlantic Ocean) Connects Us.

10,000 Lakes and 1 Mighty Miss 2012

26″ W X 48″ T X 28″ D Mixed Media, Rescued chair, drift wood, zebra mussel, taconite, Paul Bunyan plate, plaid fabric

10,000 Lakes and 1 Mighty Miss takes you on a journey which explores and records all the waterways Barbara Bridges has visited in Minnesota. Her adventuring was particularly soulful since she is a Maine native and a Franco-American. She has called Minnesota home for over 25 years. Maine also claims Paul Bunyan as their native son. Imagine how curious she was to view the Paul Bunyan sculpture residing in Bemidji, near the university where she had been a professor for 2 decades.

Bridges has been an artist and a teacher/college professor for over 40 years. Her social practice sculptures have been exhibited in Maine, Miami, the Virgin Islands, Maryland, Chicago, Mexico, Spain, Canada, and throughout Minnesota. Bridges taught K-12 art in Minnesota, Maine and the Virgin Islands and trained teachers in higher education at the University of Minnesota and Bemidji State University.

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The Original Influencer

Mixed Media
12” X 12” X 24” and 1000 libs
NFS

The Original Influencer is a collaborative work created specifically for the garden of George Roberts. We honor him for his Longevity of Influence as a Teacher, Mentor, Poet, and Letterpress Printer. With his wife, Beverly, he is also the Founder and Owner of Homewood Studios and most importantly a steadfast supporter of creatives representing every artform.

Rebecca Ratzlaff contributed the cast iron pods which were created as a tribute to the victims of the 9/11 tragedy. An installation at the Chicago Art Institute invited 2,996 people to squeeze a ball of concrete, leaving an impression of their hands. These cast iron objects now represent seed pods about to burst.

Barbara Bridges designed and created the sculpture and created the clay heads bursting out of the sunshine – showing George as he appears to many of us.

The Lake Superior drilled stone represents George’s stoic nature but recognizing that he keeps his heart wide open for anyone in need.

Sam Huset, a newly graduated welder, helped bring Barbara’s vision to life.

Finally, Barbara scoured the city looking for letterpress letters to construct the message. Language is important to George. He is one of those quiet observers who asks just the right question or says just the right thing at just the right time. Precision Press had a whole letterpress set – only missing the capital letter P.

Poet was constructed with a small p. There must be a karmic metaphor in there someplace- we will leave it to George to discover.

George getting ready to install garden sculpture with Sam the welder.

Live a Considered Life: The Wise Ones (No Silos) and The Un-Wise Ones (Think Alike Silo)
24” X 36” 2 works.
Mixed Media Fabricated clay, wood, found objects
$600

Inspired by my “Motivationals” series, Live a Considered Life includes two companion works of gender neutral personages sharing how living in a “think alike silo” creates a colorless boring culture feeding on itself. They see nothing, hear nothing and say nothing. Embracing the concept of “no silos” produces a colorful evolving culture full of a positive exchange of ideas, help creating our own personal narratives and leading to positive social change.

“We tell ourselves the tragic story of our lives and then think we can justify us playing the role of the “broken hero” or the “grizzled realist” but the fact of the matter is that if this is the story we chose to tell about ourselves we are leaving out the good parts and doing a terrible disservice to ourselves and anyone who has been good to us along the way.“ Morgan Bridges

It is our choice how we create our own narratives – past, present and future. It is our choice to make each day bring a spot of joy. Plan each day with a joy experience included. For yourself and for others.

Life is a menu. When something you love goes off the menu, replace it with something even more soulful.

Motivationals in the Live a Considered Life series. Mixed Media Fabricated clay, wood, found objects. Click to enlarge.

We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands

Barbara Rogers Bridges drb@bridgescreate.com
2022 Mixed Media: Found objects, wood construction, beads, acrylic paint
Value $500

In these troubling times, it is imperative that we remember that WE have the whole world in our hands. WE have the choices. WE can use our hands and our hearts to save our world or to end it. We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands gathers many healing objects together and surrounds the work with jaguars, which in Mexican culture signifys power, ferocity and wisdom, as well as protection from evil.

Leonard Cohen says it best:
Ring the Bells which still can ring…
Forget that PERFECT offering…
There is a crack, a crack, in EVERYTHING.
That’s how the LIGHT gets in!

How to Lose a Democracy
Barbara Rogers Bridges
22” X 24” , Mixed Media
$400
drb@bridgescreate.com 612 845 0416

My coming of age included demonstrations against the Vietnam War in Washington D.C.

50 years later, I am still political.

Having been consistently critical of the U.S. government, I am now feeling deeply patriotic – and fearful.

There are 7 billion people on our little planet and I suggest it is a statistical improbability that any one worldview could have found the only valid truth; it is at the very least breathtakingly arrogant. Are the two camps liberal vs. conservative?

It seems more specific than that, it appears to be
Trumpers vs. Never Trumpers.

Communication appears to have stopped.

Collecting data from credible sources appears to have stopped.

When Communication stops. All is lost.

Duality

2022
Barbara Rogers Bridges
20” W X 20” D X 36” T
Mixed Media – 130 year old wood, beads, religious icons, found objects. Read More About Duality

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Up-Cycle Steam Punk Furniture

Triangle Cabinet 2014 NFS
48″W X 42″T X 24″D
Mixed Media, NE Minneapolis 1920’s fence,
antique hinges, dynamite box, solid brass Kohler parts, Con Man Print

This cabinet was designed for a difficult under screen triangle corner and was created using rescued objects from the streets of Minneapolis, wooden dynamite boxes, stained glass, Kohler brass, 130 year old aged fence wood and architectural salvage warehouses. The carpentry is very skilled and finished and all is sealed in matte boat epoxy for durability and a clean non-shedding surface. Many one-of-a-kind details including original art work. I am eager to use YOUR objects for a custom made art work. .Many one-of-a-kind details including limited edition print Con Man Print

Eager to incorporate your historical power/memory objects.

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First, Second, Third and Fourth Waves

Mixed Media
36” W X 18” H X 4” D View of Blazing, Guerrilla Girls and Kate Renee tributes

I have spent a lifetime pondering waves. Hailing from Maine, over the last 67 years I have experienced, and reflected on, the impact of waves on us as biological organisms – often fighting against each other. Where the waves meet is where the action is.

As a scholar, I have spent many hours examining, oftentimes in excruciatingly minute detail, theoretical waves of human thought. Waves deliver tranquility, sustenance and insight – along with trash and terror.

In reconsidering the history of feminist thought, I discovered Christine de Pizan, born in 1365 in Venice, Italy and who left us a collection of brave and still relevant reflections. I have created what I am now calling a sextet. A sextet is a group of six people or objects. Sometimes they sing.

I feel that Three Waves, which has the look and feel of a very elegantly painted Mexican or Russian icon, starts a song which I hope to facilitate with feminists from all Waves – and beyond. When opened, the sextet interior space features an homage to the Guerrilla Girls, one to The Blazing World character, Harriet Burden, by Minnesota author Siri Hustvedt, and finally, one arresting example from Minneapolis Third Wave feminist Kate Renee.

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Motivationals

Motivationals is a series honoring the power of

WORDS

See More https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/motivationals/

Define Crazy 2
Mixed media 12″ T X 14″ W X 2 ” D
150.00

A general search for a definition for the word “crazy” delivers “ridiculous, absurd, foolish, idiotic, ill-conceived, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, senseless.”

These terms do not describe Steve Jobs.

Why do you suppose Steve used this word in his famous quote? Was he often called crazy? He is famous for not wearing shoes, getting a new car every 6 months so he did not have to display a license plate, firing people without notice, refusing to take a shower and, regrettably, cancer treatment.

It has been speculated that Jobs may have been autistic (along with Bill Gates and Albert Einstein). Other mental illness have also been floated to explain his behavior. I have always disliked the terminology “suffering from a mental illness”. Where is the line between Genius and Madness? Do geniuses “suffer” because they Think Different?

Perhaps we should celebrate Jobs craziness since it has allowed us to carry most human knowledge in our pocket.

I propose we call our geniuses aneurotypicals and the next time someone uses the word crazy in a pejorative way in front of you, ask them to “Define Crazy”.

Intrigues? See Proof

See More in the Define Crazy series

Garden Sculptures

The garden sculptures include many different themes including bird feeders, altars and bird baths. Bring your own special objects.

Florence the Flamingo Dancer in the collection of Layl McDill. Click to See All The Garden Sculptures

Barbara’s musings and research on The Magic of the Circle of Life. Gardening.

Ojectivos de la Historia

Bring your history objects to Barbara and she will engineer them together to create a new narrative for you! Read More

What’s the Big Difference?
24” T X 18” W
2019
Assemblage

Artist Statement
Many wars have been fought over perceived religious differences, but as a species, for thousands of years, we have all been worried about the sun going away. This fear is prominent throughout our mythologies – light=good and dark=bad. Hinduism, Christianity and Judaism all have Festivals of Light embedded in their doctrines. They developed rituals which were performed on or near the shortest day of the year. They worked! The days started to get longer again. Light returned.

The Christian Festival of Lights, called Christmas, springs from a pagan ritual connected to the winter solstice (December 21) on the Roman calendar. The current connection is to the birth of Christ which may or may not have been at this time of year. The Druids and Vikings started bringing the tree that stayed green all year round inside for good luck and it is believed the Germans were the first recorded to put lights on the fir tree in the 16^th century.

The Jewish Festival of Lights, called Chanukah, is also celebrated near the winter solstice. Although the historical story is connected with Judah Maccabee’s famous victory over the Seleucids, there is a ritual of lighting the Menorah to commemorate oil which should have lasted for one day and lasted for eight.

The Hindu Festival of Lights, called Diwali, celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil and knowledge over ignorance. The brass or clay diya lamp, fueled with gee butter, is lighted over the five days of Diwali.

My philosophical belief system supports artists using any and all symbols which promote a social justice message of unity and community among our species. If symbols divide us – they should and could be used to unite us – because at the end of the day – WE’RE ALL MAMMALS!

I invite your dialogue on this issue of who owns symbols. Let’s discuss: What’s the Big Difference?

Read Barbara’s 2020 Festival of Lights message and poem! https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/festival-of-lights-message-from-the-acw-director/

Ode To Gluten
Mixed Media
7′ T X 4′ X 4′
NFS

Artist, Barbara Bridges’ Ode to Gluten is a large sculptural work created to celebrate wheat’s history here and to engage viewers in a dialogue about wheat: about its past, present and future role in the American diet, as well as in shaping the political, economic and social development of our city, state and country. Consider where support for the arts in the Twin Cities would be without the legacy and philanthropy of wheat? McGrath Poem on Bread

This large assemblage sculpture incorporates iconic historical artifacts, wood fabrication, bronze patina resin and ceramic construction. The nine foot tall work is distressed and has the appearance of a vintage “something” that one might stumbled upon in the corner of an old General Mills factory. The flattened Summit beer caps and Schell’s vintage beer cans provide a comfortingly predictable pattern, while the filigree of the Grain Belt artifacts creates contrast with the worn wooden Gold Medal packing crates. Read More: http://bridgescreate.com/installation/ode-to-gluten/

Art As My Weapon Exhibitions

Barbara Bridges, Director of ACW

Title: X2
18” x 24”
Found and fabricated object and clay constructions, police buy back gun parts.
Price: $400

Join Barbara at the Hennepin County Library for an opening event on April 23 between 3:00 and 4:30. See details above. Beverages following…Barbara’s treat.

If you feel the need to own a gun, improve your odds. Learn to use your gun and keep it in a safe.

Can’t Wash it Away
Mixed Media
24″ T X 48″ W X 5” D

“Can’t Wash it Away” explores the social impact of suicide by gun and how it effects those left behind and was created as a response to a gun buy-back project and a partnership between the Minneapolis police and Minnesota artists. Pieces of the dismantled guns were used as a catalyst to create works focused on gun violence.

My research revealed that citizens of the United States own over 50% of the guns on our planet of 7.7 billion people. Why? The population of the United States is 330,000 million. The U.S. homicide by gun statistics are frightening – over 14,000 in 2016 – but the research that knocked me off my chair was the suicide by gun statistics – over 20,000. Who chooses this exit and why?

Atlantic Ocean 2020

Inspired by Robert Kramer’s 1987 Documentary Route 1 USA, I am creating art works-sometimes collaboratively – inviting local artists -from objects I am finding in our waters from Key West, Florida to Fort Kent, Maine.

Exhibitions, panel discussions, student workshops, artist invitationals, school visits and adult events are being planned at many sites along Route 1, especially the previous Kramer locations. Are you aware of Kramer’s Route 1 project? Funding is also being sought to preserve the entire experience as a video documentary.

The ongoing curriculum development will be informed by the results of the research and the invited input of community members, salt sea workers of all kinds, city planners, museums, galleries and sustainability groups. Please join me. Invite me to include your Route 1 town or city. Read More

Transcending Race: But Not The 24″ Waist
96”W X 38” H X 6 “ D
Mixed Media Clay fabrication, manikins, fabric, beads and found objects

The social practice art work called Transcending Race: But Not The 24″ Waist explores the challenges faced by 60 something women as they were ” allowed” to enter the workforce.

We started seeing the term ” wonder women ” about 15 years ago. This term was used to describe how the then 50 something women had been “allowed” to go to work as long as they continued to cover the childcare, shopping, cooking and cleaning. They truly were “wonder women”. It worked for everyone until their age started to catch up with them. They started asking for help. This was not received well. THEN I started reading articles about how bitchy those baby boomer women were in their menopausal years. Darn right they were grouchy…they were exhausted!

My life size assemblage art work called Transcending Race: But Not The 24″ Waist, with a supporting research study, is an homage and a critique of the DC Comic (owned by Time Warner) Wonder Woman.

Transcending features very tired eyes in a clay mask of the artist’s face, breasts in a cage and the lasso of NO TRUTH. She wears a princess crown which embraces the multiple worldviews of the Empirical, Interpretive and Critical Theory and a 50’s style apron finished with clothespin lace and with pockets ready to receive more answers to the study question, “As a woman, what is an important life decision you have made influenced by money? “

To participate in the study: http://bridgescreate.com/women-and-money/

To view the results: http://www.bridgescreate.com/newsletter-signup

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Found In Our Waters

Totis 1 (Treasures of the inland Sea)
Mixed Media: Collected from the shores of our Inland Sea.
6 feet H x 10 feet W x 6 ” D
Our concern for the quality of our water should be a national and international dialogue. The Maine shrimp disappeared in 2013. The clam and oyster shells are 40% thinner than a decade ago. There is a toxic alert on the salmon caught in Lake Superior. The future water concerns are here today.

I seek collaborators to stage exhibitions, panel discussions, student workshops, school visits and adult events around the country. It is my belief that social practice art invites the participants to consider serious social issues while experiencing the joy of collaborative creating. Here you will view authentic voices and pictures taken with cell phones, professional and unprofessional cameras and videographers and uncut videos from the Art-A-Whirl event. Please enjoy the dynamic sound of people at an art show looking, making, and learning. Read More

Vida, Muerte y Amor

24″ T X 18″ W X 18″ D Found Objects: Arbol de Vidas, hand blown glass heart, wooden skulls, beads, resin constructions, re-purposed wood.

The Mexican culture has a very healthy attitude towards cycles of life, death and love. Inspired by the aesthetic of my second home, my indigenous ethnic origins and my age, this series asks “Is love a social construct? “How do YOU want to grow old and die.” My discussions with the elders and millennials in Zihuatenjo informed my choices of power objects in this series,

” Over the years, I have spent many intriguing hours visiting the cemeteries of Mexico. Each plot is a space simply waiting for the next visit from loved ones who remember the food, music, culture and art the person who has passed by bringing gifts, playing music and leaving food and memorabilia.

My discussions with the elders and millennials in Zihuatenjo informed my choices of power objects in this series and is created from a variety of precious materials to celebrate our universal human experience.

Covid Masks

Free Covid Masks for Essential workers.
Others Pay to Support the Project.

Hand Made. One of a Kind. $20.00- $40.00. Frida fabric is very expensive, postage is $4.50 and Cabochons are handmade and time intensive.

I have been fascinated with mask making for decades. I have around 50 masks from Mexico here in my bedroom (inspired by Frida, of course). I have created mask making lesson plans: http://recordari.com/ and visited Cajun country and was one of the first women to ride in Mardi Gras “Run for a Chicken” traditional parade. http://recordari.com/links.php?link=mask. People throughout history have always been drawn to wearing masks- they allow the wearer to adopt a different persona. It is seductive.

“I received your beautiful mask two days ago and hope you got my note. I love the colors, the style, the comfortable fit and the options for wearing it. Most of all, I the Bridges artistry behind it and will wear it proudly knowing how it will also benefit those caregivers in this pandemic.” Bonnie Brooks

See all Masks; https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/covid-masks-2/

Cognitive Dissonance occurs when what you believe to be true is in direct conflict with what you see to be true. It happens when you realize that your truth is A truth- not THE truth.

Every community enjoys many different people with different life journeys which have brought them to different belief systems. Conflict emerges when one person or group believes that their truth is THE truth. There are 7 billion people on our little planet. Is statistically improbable, and possibly breathtakingly arrogant, to believe your truth is THE truth. I have had some success facilitating events which are designed by leaders in the community from MANY viewpoints. REAL social change can be effected when the participants collect data from each other, participate in authentic dialogue AND commit to action plans…IF they let go of the idea that their truth is THE truth.

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