In the world, there are very few preserved art environments built by women. Two other significant sites are Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California, and Helen Martin’s Owl House in South Africa (which had the benefit of Athol Fugard writing a play about it, The Road to Mecca). Nohl and these two female builders owned their own land, which is not an insignificant detail. Land ownership confers independence and power. Women are still often denied this gentry status. It’s probably the single reason why there aren’t more art environments built by women. hyperallergic/168575/a-single-woman-is-a-witch-battling-to-save-the-art-environment-of-mary-nohl/
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:49:14 +0000
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