Artist/Photographer Linda Gammell and
Book Artist and Installation Artist Sandra Menefee Taylor
Artists' Statement We are a collaborative team who, since 1989, have been working with rural women and rural issues.
We believe the link of rural and urban relationship, as well as
our bodies to the land is crucial to change the way farming and health are performed and how consumerism is managed.
Our issues address rural identity, stereotypes of rural women, and most recently, rural women's importance inthe social, spiritual, and political movements of sustainability and food. We have conducted numerous workshops with rural women in the Midwest, where conversations with them were recorded and photographs were made (by us and the women). Our research has resulted in three artist's books, exhibitions, installation art, and a video about sustainable production and eating of our food.
Our concern is that women's part in rural culture is invisible.
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