Vrhovec, Dana
description: Untitled, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 4 x 3 1/2 x 2 1/4" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The box has been reoriented into an upright position with the interior acting as the face, with the lid acting as an overhang. The interior hosts a a small figurine of a woman wearing a black suit, black boots, and a black mask with cat ears. She has bright, yellow hair and is posed with her hands on her hips and facing out defiantly.
creator: Vrhovec, Dana
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

Stevanovi, Milica
description: Unknown Thing
description: Mixed media
description: 9 1/2 x 4 x 5" overall
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Mass of polyuretunic foam painted with warm-toned colors erupts from the interior of the box warping the sides and lid.
creator: Stevanovi, Milica
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1997

Milunovic, Vesna
description: Eternal Secret, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 7 3/4 x 6 x 6" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes.The original box is sealed and painted, with the sides depicting a fleet of puffy clouds spreading across the bright-blue sky. The lid of the box has the image of two windows beginning to open towards the cloud, and in the clearing a red apple dangles from a rope. The original box is completely sealed in a translucent, plastic pyramid, accompanied by a small, single pearlescent shell that shares the same space.
creator: Milunovic, Vesna
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

Ili, Dragana
description: Pine Box Pie, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 2 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 7 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The exterior of the box is a tin cookie container with Disney characters in bold colors printed on the lid. Interior of the box is a bed of fluffy tufts of fabric with a centralized rock.
creator: Ili, Dragana
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

Hadi-Jovani, Nevena
description: Yes, I Remember
description: Mixed media
description: 2 1/2 x 2 1/4 x 3 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Exterior of the box is covered in colorful tiger stripes whIth a metal emblem of a tiger resting on the lid.
creator: Hadi-Jovani, Nevena
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1997

Dautovi, Olivera
description: Talking Box, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 6 3/8 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2" OVERLL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Abstract sculpture emerges from the box, pushing the lid to the side as a mass of colorful wax erupts from the interior and consumes the outside.
creator: Dautovi, Olivera
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

LE, THU-HANG
description: The Power of Life, 1997
description: Mixed media
description: 3 7/8 x 6 1/4 x 5 1/4" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Foam bricks surround the wooden box and are carved and painted to resemble the texture and appearance of the earth. A variety of yellow flowers blossom from the ground and surround a sunken grave with a gray, burnt tombstone being reclaimed by the soil. The chasm in the center hosts rods of iron and spikes pointing upwards to symbolize how "death is always near by," but "flowers still live and rise above all."
creator: LE, THU-HANG
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1997

Dinh, To-Lien
description: The Flow of Time, 1997
description: Mixed media
description: 3 5/8 x 5 1/2 x 3 3/4" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The box is tilted to the side being elevated by the wooden lid that rests underneath. Woven textiles of black and purple threads are draped inside the box spilling out, cushioning a small colLection of film rolls and dried rose buds. Burned pieces of paper with writing are adhered onto the textile in the interior of the box.
creator: Dinh, To-Lien
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1997

NGUYEN THI, YEN PHUONG
description: To Know People Outside, 1997
description: Mixed Media
description: 2 7/8 x 3 1/2 x 2 3/4"
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Exterior of the box is painted silver and the front panel is stained brown, with an expressive face with glossy eyes staring out. The top of the box is decorated with a braid tied at the end with a red ribbon, and the lid is nailed shut. Nguyen Thi cites an ancient Vietnamese saying as inspiration for her work: "It is easy to know a man from his appearance, but difficult to recognize his thinking."
creator: NGUYEN THI, YEN PHUONG
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1997

Tran, Thanh Van
description: Our House, Our Home, 1997
description: Mixed media
description: 6 3/4 X 6 3/4 X 5 3/4" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist used wood sticks and dried leaves to represent a thatch-roofed cottage. Cottages are features of the Vietnamese countryside, and this one is meant to be representative of the cottage images we think of when we get home sick.
creator: Tran, Thanh Van
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1997

Hog, Ly
description: Permanent Love, 1997
description: Mixed media
description: 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 x 3 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. A couple is sealed into the box similiar to a coffin, made visible through a clear piece of plastic. Exterior of the box is painted yellow with red Vietnamese symbols with various objects including incense sticks, wax, wire, and natural fibers. Hog describes the work as a coffin that forever captures the love two people may share with one another, even if they are unable to be together due to the societal pressures that forces them to be apart.
creator: Hog, Ly
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1997

Yhap, Laetitia
description: Untitled, 2000
description: Mixed media
description: 2 3/8 x 3 5/8 x 2 1/4" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Exterior sides of the box highlight colors representing different aspects of nature: sunlight, wind, water, wood and earth. The lid includes a dark, stormy scene with a conch shell and an eyeball appearing in the clouds staring at the viewer. Inside the box is a scroll of painted paper with repeated imagery of the sun and a hand setting/rising from the horizon line between the blue ocean and purple clouds. Across the scroll are words to be read from left to right on the top and bottom of the scroll.
creator: Yhap, Laetitia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 2000

KATIE, Tim and KING, Audrey
description: Untitled, 2001 Mixed media
description: 11 1/2 x 11" x 2 1/8" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artists paint the box white and fill it with small scrolls that spill out. The box is set against a large black panel. A white veil and words spill from the box. Artist signatures on reverse.
creator: KATIE, TIM and KING, Audrey
creator: b. United States
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 2001

O'BRIEN, Laurie
description: Overflowing, 2001
description: Mixed media
description: 4 1/2" x 3 3/4" x 2 1/8" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist paints the box green and adds the recycling symbol to the exterior to create the appearence of a recyling bin. The interior of the box is filled with scraps of plastic and a cut out of a minature Coca Cola bottle. Artist's signature on bottom.
creator: O'BRIEN, Laurie
creator: b. United States
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 2001

PAPPAS, Carolyn and MARAKOVICH, Michael
description: Untitled, 2001 Mixed media
description: 1' x 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artists wrapped the box in Coca Cola tins and placed it in a larger plastic soda bottle via a cutout. The box and other blue cutouts are placed on a layer of sand. Artist signatures on the reverse.
creator: PAPPAS, Carolyn and MARAKOVICH, Michael
creator: b. United States
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 2001

HERRERA, Katherine
description: Untitled, 2001 Mixed media
description: 4 3/4 x 1' 4" x 1' 1 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Artist has created a model airplane around the box using Coca Cola boxes and red and white paint. A small human figure sits in the pilots seat. Artist's signature on plane wing.
creator: HERRERA, Katherine
creator: b. United States
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 2001

IMANI, Mersedeh
description: A Classic, 2001
description: Mixed media
description: 3 3/4 x 2 1/8 x 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Artist has painted the box red and stood it upright. The lid acts as a door to a refrigerator with the Coca Cola logo pasted on it. Artist's signature at bottom.
creator: IMANI, Mersedeh
creator: b. United States
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 2001

FERGUSON, Kelsey and STUART, Robert
description: Coca Cola Wind Chime, 2001
description: Mixed media
description: 15 1/2 h. x 12 1/4" dia. OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The dual artist team of Ferguson and Stuart have created a wind chime from their box. Suspended upside down attached to a cone-like sturcture, the blue box holds a glass bottle of coke with wind chimes.
creator: FERGUSON, Kelsey and STUART, Robert
creator: b. United States
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 2001

MATTOON, Heather
description: The Sparkle of Life, 2001
description: Mixed media
description: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 x 2 1/4" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Artist has painted the box black and stood it upright; two doors open and inside are metal cut outs from tin with a gem in the center. Atop is a metal seated female figure wearing a crown of tin. Artist's signature at bottom.
creator: MATTOON, Heather
creator: b. United States
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 2001

DECKER, Beverly
description: Untitled, 2001 Mixed media
description: 3 1/2 x 4 3/8 x 2 1/4" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist painted the box white and added abstracted red human figures to the sides and cut outs of words on the top. Artist's signature on bottom.
creator: DECKER, Beverly
creator: b. United States
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 2001

MATHEWS BUSH, Ali
description: WATERSHEDS, 2001
description: Mixed media
description: 5 x 3 7/8 x 2 1/4" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist covered the box in tin and added cloud-like peices of tin to extend from the top. Artists signature on bottom.
creator: MATHEWS BUSH, Ali
creator: b. United States
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 2001

ANGUIANO, Luz-Maria
description: My Grandmother, 2001
description: Mixed media
description: 5 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 2 1/4" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has created a scene of minature coca cola bottles with tin coca cola advertisements in hommage to her grandmother's habits. Art description and date on the reverse.
creator: ANGUIANO, Luz-Maria
creator: b. United States
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 2001

EID AL-FADLI, Eman Hanoun
description: Untitled
description: Mixed media
description: 6 1/2 x 4 x 8 1/2"
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. As part of the Children's Box Project, the artist has used a cardboard box extending the side panels painted in bright colors creating a floor rug pattern. The upper sides are extended and include images of domestic utensils such as bowls and cups. The top is laced together with a cord.
creator: EID AL-FADLI, Eman Hanoun
creator: b. Kawait
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: n.d.

ANONYMOUS
description: Untitled
description: Mixed media
description: 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2"
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. As part of the Children's Box Project, the artist has used a cardboard box outfitted with various textiles and threads.
creator: ANONYMOUS
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: n.d.

SOLEIMAN, Hannan Abdel Calif
description: Untitled
description: Mixed media
description: 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2"
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. As part of the Children's box project, Soleiman has used a cardboard box embellished with family images on the interior while the exterior is outfitted with black and red yarns and a single face.
creator: SOLEIMAN, Hannan Abdel Calif
creator: b. Kuwait
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: n.d.

LEADBEATER, ALEXANDRA
description: Trust and the White Rabbit, 1997
description: Mixed media
description: 6 1/2 h. x 10 1/2" dia. OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Purple painted box positioned on a larger ciruclar purple platform; inserted vertically into the smaller box is a CD with red-brick wallpaper on one side; remaining side blank. Identifying information is on the reverse.
creator: LEADBEATER, ALEXANDRA
creator: b. United Kingdom, 1956
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1997

HAMMOND, DI
description: The Model and The Box, 1996
description: Mixed media
description: 11 1/4 x 9 7/8 x 3" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. This work includes a colorfully painted diorama with a nude female seated on a box attached at center. Identifying information printed on reverse edge.
creator: HAMMOND, DI
creator: b. United Kingdom
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1996

ALEXANDER, SALLY
description: Expressions, 1997
description: Mixed media
description: 6 x 7 1/2 x 9 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has positioned her box on red covered cardboard with sequins and a pair of blue shoes.; extending from the box is a female mannequin dressed in an orange dress positioned in front of another mannequin wearing a red skirt. The box is enclosed in a shower-like curatain. Identfiying informaton is on the reverse.
creator: ALEXANDER, SALLY
creator: b. United Kingdom, 1943
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1997

Shufang, Ye
description: Project Recipe Box, 2001
description: Mixed media
description: 3 6/8 x 3 3/4 x 2 1/4"
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Part A is the undecorated wood box. Part B is a printed packet of recipies.
creator: Shufang, Ye
creator: b. Singapore
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 2001

OLGUIN, Mari
description: Untitled, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 4 1/2 x 4 5/8 x 5 1/4" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has encased her box in a larger clear case. Inside a small figure climbs into the smaller box covered in earthen materials. Signed and dated on the clear panel behind the figure.
creator: OLGUIN, Mari
creator: b. Mexico
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

EBATA, Mika
description: Untitled, 1999
description: Mixed media
description: 4 1/8 x 5 3/4 x 4 3/8"
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has encased the box in a larger wood log. Part A is the bottom. B is the lid.
creator: EBATA, Mika
creator: b. Japan
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1999

Ghadirian, Shadi
description: Untitled, 2002
description: Mixed media
description: 3 x 2 1/2 x 4 5/8" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Artist has detailed her box in an abstracted design of blacks and browns with an equally abstracted gold figure positioned on the exterior.
creator: Ghadirian, Shadi
creator: b. Iran
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 2002

EGHBAL, Aria
description: Untitled, 2002
description: Mixed media
description: 3 x 2 1/2 x 4 5/8" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Artist has detailed her box in an abstracted design of blacks and browns with an equally abstracted gold figure positioned on the exterior.
creator: EGHBAL, Aria
creator: b. Iran, 1962
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 2002

Uutinen , Marianna
description: Boksi, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has attached a ball on the lid with a similarly round object in the interior of the box.
creator: Uutinen , Marianna
creator: b. Finland
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

Syvoja, Janna
description: Soul of Woman Is Round, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has attached a ball on the lid with a similarly round object in the interior of the box.
creator: Syvoja, Janna
creator: b. Finland
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

Lehtonen, Henrietta
description: Garden 1:100
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Lehtonen has painted her box green with a moss filled interior.
creator: Lehtonen, Henrietta
creator: b. Finland
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

Vauoro, Varanisese
description: My Treasure, 1999
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has encased her box in a woven material with various treaures on the inside with a black and white photo affixed to the interior lid.
creator: Vauoro, Varanisese
creator: b. Fiji
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1999

Tomuse, Kaveni
description: Mother's Endless Love - The Flow...,
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Using bright greens and pinks, the artist has painted her box into an idyllic waterfall scene while the interior reflects a body of water.
creator: Tomuse, Kaveni
creator: b. Fiji
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1999

SAANGA, Ane Sinamonana
description: Pusa, 1999
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has covered her box in a woven geometric pattern with stripes in brown, black and tan. Included are two woven discs.
creator: SAANGA, Ane Sinamonana
creator: b. Fiji
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1999

MARA, Finau
description: Pusa, 1999
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Mara has covered her box in a flat pattern of black and white stripes and triangles and has fashioned a set of earrings and a ring of the same materials.
creator: MARA, Finau
creator: b. Fiji
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1999

MARA, Finau
description: Jewelry Box (Voivoi), 1999
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Mara has covered her box in a woven geometeric pattern of brown, tan and cream colored material which is secured with a tied off knot.
creator: MARA, Finau
creator: b. Fiji
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1999

MARA, Finau
description: Jewelry Box (Masi), 1999
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Mara has covered her box in a woven geometeric pattern of brown, tan and cream colored material.
creator: MARA, Finau
creator: b. Fiji
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1999

De Bruce, William
description: Black & White, Day & Night - Oppo...1999
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist used paint, photographs, fabric, plastic dolls, and metal ornaments to create their piece. This piece is a marker for an experience or event the artists has lived thorugh, holding meaning as a ritual of celebration.
creator: De Bruce, William
creator: b. Fiji
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1999

Crick, Josiliva Navavia
description: Drinking Well (Toevu), 1999
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has configured into a water well situated in a large base with rocks; brightly colored clothespins serve as structuarl posts to support lid from which drinking vessel hangs.
creator: Crick, Josiliva Navavia
creator: b. Fiji
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1999

Salazar, Mar
description: We Are Women, 1996
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has painted her box in red, yellow and blue with female heads projecting from interior.
creator: Salazar, Mar
creator: b. Ecuador
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1996

Machuca, Mar
description: Muertes Iniles, 1996
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Machuca has placed arrow like bullets on sides and lid while an image of a skeleton like figure lines the interior detailing the title of her title to Useless Deaths.
creator: Machuca, Mar
creator: b. Ecuador
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1996

Ledergerber, Margot
description: The Mummified Stone Heart, 1996
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has written THE MUMMIFIED STONE HEART on her box lid while the interior of the box is filled with various items.
creator: Ledergerber, Margot
creator: b. Ecuador
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1996

Jaramillo, Jenny
description: Untitled, 1996
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has turned her box into a dirty kitchen with unwashed pots and pans and rats running around.
creator: Jaramillo, Jenny
creator: b. Ecuador
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1996

FLORES, Pilar
description: Couple, 1996
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Flores has dissassembled her box into three pieces; the lid is painted green with a collaged picture; the sides are blue sketch marks.
creator: FLORES, Pilar
creator: b. Ecuador
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1996

BENITEZ, Cecilia
description: Just a Tear, 1996
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Benitez has embellished her box with a purple velveteen with lace edging a flower embroidered with a hanging glass-like tear shaped amulet attached to the lid's interior.
creator: BENITEZ, Cecilia
creator: b. Ecuador
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1996

Barrag, Paula
description: My Little Box, 1996
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has painted her box in bright colors forming abstract designs overall with a mobile of similar-like objects attached to interior.
creator: Barrag, Paula
creator: b. Ecuador
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1996

BALLADARES, Marcia
description: Eu Busca de la Cruz del Sur, 1996
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Balladares has styled her box with a circular grid which spears her box and forms a cross in the interior suggested by the title Eu Busca de la Cruz del Sur.
creator: BALLADARES, Marcia
creator: b. Ecuador
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1996

ANDRADE, Dolores
description: Viaje En La Memoria, 1996
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has created a fold-out structure of her box replicating memorable experiences as suggested by the title of her box Viaje En La Memoria.
creator: ANDRADE, Dolores
creator: b. Ecuador
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1996

ALONSO, Paulina Baca
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has placed her box on a stilt-like structure and added various ceramic vessels to the interior.
creator: ALONSO, Paulina Baca
creator: b. Ecuador
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1996

OBAYA, Sandra Ceballos
description: Huir No Es Posible, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Obaya has fashioned her box with locks of human hair to indicate no hair is possible as indicated by the title.
creator: OBAYA, Sandra Ceballos
creator: b. Cuba
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

NUEZ, Roc Garc
description: W.C., 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Nuez as fashioned her box into a water closed with toilet.
creator: NUEZ, Roc Garc
creator: b. Cuba
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

DIAZ, Cirenaica Moreira
description: Untitled, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has reconfigured her box by hanging the sides and tops with a hanger suspended with cords.
creator: DIAZ, Cirenaica Moreira
creator: b. Cuba
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

SWINBURNE, Jan
description: Invonluntary, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: `The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has secured a grill like structure as the lid enclosing what appears to be an interior female form. The box, reminiscent of a hope chest, is a powerful symbol--- resonating, archetypal symbol of woman herself. The boxes express the hopes dreams, and conception of women and their quest for freedom of expression thoughout the world. WBB honors their vitality, wisdom, sensitivity and collective power -- Lorraine Serena, Founder/Director.
creator: SWINBURNE, Jan
creator: b. Canada
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

SMIRLE, Sandra
description: A Portable Muse
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: `The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Smirle has outfitted her box with electrical wires and an on/off switch while supporting a glass lid with the word Muse. The box, reminiscent of a hope chest, is a powerful symbol--- resonating, archetypal symbol of woman herself. The boxes express the hopes dreams, and conception of women and their quest for freedom of expression thoughout the world. WBB honors their vitality, wisdom, sensitivity and collective power -- Lorraine Serena, Founder/Director.
creator: SMIRLE, Sandra
creator: b. Canada
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

PACKER, Reni
description: Canadian Nest, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: `The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Ms. Packer has painted her box blue-green turning it into a nest like structure with brown eggs inside while more fully formed fish-like forms are attached to the exterior.
creator: PACKER, Reni
creator: b. Canada
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

Okano, Haruko
description: Kitsune Inari, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: `The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. This box details Inari the Japanese kami (a type of god or spirit in the Shinto religion) of prosperity, tea, agriculture (especially rice), industry, and smithing. This deity has many faces and has changed over time and is more recently associated with foxes, called kitsune, who act as Inaris messengers and receive protection in return. The fox appears to be female and rides in the box and dons a smiling grin with various ornaments hanging over her seated figure.
creator: Okano, Haruko
creator: b. Canada
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

KLUNDER, Barbara
description: We Create Life, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: `The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has detailed a woman and her womb with a baby on the exterior of the box. On the side is written WOMEN CREATE LIFE.
creator: KLUNDER, Barbara
creator: b. Canada
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

ERGLIS, Kristine
description: Kristine's Hope Chest, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: `The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Various objects flank this box as the artist has included a checkerboard pallet while a human-like clay figure is embracing the box complete with decorative stamps on the interior. The box, reminiscent of a hope chest, is a powerful symbol--- resonating, archetypal symbol of woman herself. The boxes express the hopes dreams, and conception of women and their quest for freedom of expression thoughout the world. WBB honors their vitality, wisdom, sensitivity and collective power -- Lorraine Serena, Founder/Director.
creator: ERGLIS, Kristine
creator: b. Canada
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

EDWARDS, Linda
description: Web of Complexity
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: `The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Ms. Edwards has retained the natural surface of her box but has added a tan substance resembling that of bread on the lid and interior.
creator: EDWARDS, Linda
creator: b. Canada
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

DAIN, Kathryn
description: Reliquary, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: `The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has wrapped her box in white material featuring images of straw baskets.
creator: DAIN, Kathryn
creator: b. Canada
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

Brown, Kate
description: Six Interconneting Planes of Ca...
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: `The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Ms. Brown has painted her box green which has been flattened to form six interconnecting planes as the title suggests.
creator: Brown, Kate
creator: b. Canada
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

Brown, Shirley
description: Two Virgins, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Brown has embellished her box by adding gold trim and various colored beads to the exterior; the interior opens into thirds with the Virgin Mary on the left, and Queen Elizabeth (the first) on the right known as the Virgin Queen as she never married. The interior is outfitted to resemble a confessional.
creator: Brown, Shirley
creator: b. Canada
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

Bourgeois, Gail
description: Heart-A-Facts, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: `The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Bourgeois has painted her box in pink hearts while the interior houses a black and white photograph of a female figure, most likely the artist. The box, reminiscent of a hope chest, is a powerful symbol--- resonating, archetypal symbol of woman herself. The boxes express the hopes dreams, and conception of women and their quest for freedom of expression thoughout the world. WBB honors their vitality, wisdom, sensitivity and collective power -- Lorraine Serena, Founder/Director.
creator: Bourgeois, Gail
creator: b. Canada
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

BEAR, Shirley
description: Untitled, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has kept the box in a natural state while drawing a set of grasping hands in black and white on lid and sides.
creator: BEAR, Shirley
creator: b. Canada
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

BAIRD, Rebecca
description: Untitled, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Baird has left the surface untreated but has etched hieroglyphs on the sides and topside of box. Lid is enclosed with rope-like braid. This box has been reconfigured into a puzzle. The box, reminiscent of a hope chest, is a powerful symbol--- resonating, archetypal symbol of woman herself. The boxes express the hopes dreams, and conception of women and their quest for freedom of expression thoughout the world. WBB honors their vitality, wisdom, sensitivity and collective power -- Lorraine Serena, Founder/Director.
creator: BAIRD, Rebecca
creator: b. Canada
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

AZIZ, Sylvar
description: Agora, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Box has been painted brown with an orange like structure with colored piecess affixed to the tops and sides. Single black chess piece sits at lower right edge.
creator: AZIZ, Sylvar
creator: b. Canada
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

WINSOM
description: Untitled, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has created a picnic area from the box lid while the remainder of the box includes a mermaid flanked with candles and food.
creator: WINSOM
creator: b. Canada
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

SABIC, Anela
description: Arvo Tree, 1998
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Arvo Tree has been left untreated on the exterior while the interior is filled with a plastic bag and what appears to be seeds.
creator: SABIC, Anela
creator: b. Bosnia and Herzegovina
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1998

SNAMI, Ni Putu
description: Bali Spirit
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Covered with black and white fabric, this box includes black, white and red attachments extending from the interior of the box.
creator: SNAMI, Ni Putu
creator: b. Bali
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

Ursprung, Eva
description: Pitstop, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Reflecting an auto race, this box carries a black and white checkered motif enclosing two drivers changing tires. The word PITSTOP is painted white on lower edge.
creator: Ursprung, Eva
creator: b.Austria
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

SCHAUMBERGER, Imgard
description: Lettner-Letter-Brief
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has retained the natural condition of the box but has inserted carved media with the word LETTNER.
creator: SCHAUMBERGER, Imgard
creator: b. Austria
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

ROSALIA, Renate
description: Here it Is, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Rosalia has retained the natural look of the box while it is perched on foam.
creator: ROSALIA, Renate
creator: b. Austria
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

RAMIREZ, Carmen
description: The Past Never Returns
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has painted her box white and detailed the exterior with hash marks representing the number five; the interior houses a series of colored hair-like forms. As the title suggests, this box has been turned into a stack of sticks which have been bundled.
creator: RAMIREZ, Carmen
creator: b. Austria
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

POCK, Ingeborg
description: Gebdelt - Bundled - Focused, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has painted her box white; an open red and green book sits at the center with red and green threads.
creator: POCK, Ingeborg
creator: b. Austria
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

KLUCARIC, Claudia
description: Withdrawal, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. This box includes a drawing of hearts and a walnut form on lid. As the title suggests, this box has been turned into a stack of sticks which have been bundled.
creator: KLUCARIC, Claudia
creator: b. Austria
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

JAUK-HINZ, Doris
description: Passive......Active
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. This box has been wrapped in gold with a printed message on the interior discussing passivity.
creator: JAUK-HINZ, Doris
creator: b. Austria
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

HABINGER, Renate
description: Of Sticks a Stack- a Stake (a Fa..., 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. As the title suggests, this box has been turned into a stack of sticks which have been bundled.
creator: HABINGER, Renate
creator: b. Austria
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

WILLS, Liz
description: The Price of Beauty, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has embellished her box with pink colored fake rhinestones on the exterior interspersed with words more closely associated with women such as cellulite. There is also a hairdryer, rollers and a pink shoe.
creator: WILLS, Liz
creator: b. Australia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

WALLER, Ruth
description: Souvenir from Hawaii, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. This box has been detailed on the interior and exterior with pastel colored fragments representing Hawaii as the title suggests.
creator: WALLER, Ruth
creator: b. Australia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

TALBERT, Patricia
description: Keep Pacific Nuclear Free
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has detailed the words Keep Pacific Nuclear Free on the lid with buttons on the front and sides. Interior is striped in red set against a deeper shade of brown.
creator: TALBERT, Patricia
creator: b. Australia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

SLON, Tina
description: Bush Box, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has replicated a box carrying artistic supplies and drawing pads for possible use in the bush.
creator: SLON, Tina
creator: b. Australia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

SHERIDAN, Ann
description: Pandora's Box, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. This artist has painted her box in bright yellows and oranges with a woman's full silhouette on the interior with a torso image on the underside of the lid. The box, reminiscent of a hope chest, is a powerful symbol--- resonating, archetypal symbol of woman herself. The boxes express the hopes dreams, and conception of women and their quest for freedom of expression thoughout the world. WBB honors their vitality, wisdom, sensitivity and collective power -- Lorraine Serena, Founder/Director.
creator: SHERIDAN, Ann
creator: b. Australia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

ROSS, Virginia
description: My Favorite Things, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. This box has been painted in bright colors with a sun's face on underside of lid while rock-like forms populate the front.
creator: ROSS, Virginia
creator: b. Australia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

ROBSON, Diana
description: We Are This and That and...n, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has fashioned her box with facial photographic images and a tape measure.
creator: ROBSON, Diana
creator: b. Australia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

MILNE, Elizabeth
description: The Bible, 1999
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has fashioned her box into a bible by replicating the volume of pages and the title inscription. The box, reminiscent of a hope chest, is a powerful symbol--- resonating, archetypal symbol of woman herself. The boxes express the hopes dreams, and conception of women and their quest for freedom of expression thoughout the world. WBB honors their vitality, wisdom, sensitivity and collective power -- Lorraine Serena, Founder/Director.
creator: MILNE, Elizabeth
creator: b. Australia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1999

Mifsud, Bette
description: Untitled, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has retained the original surface of the box and has embedded a darkened silhouetted figure on the interior.
creator: Mifsud, Bette
creator: b. Australia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

MARIN, SERAPHINA
description: May You Continue To Inspire
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has replicated an altar like structure by painting her box in gold which opens onto a gold heart positioned against a red ground. Attached at top is a candle like fixture.
creator: MARIN, SERAPHINA
creator: b. Australia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

KENYON, Therese
description: Pressing Issues, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has carved her box resembling that of an etched print; a typwriter ball is affixed to lid.
creator: KENYON, Therese
creator: b. Australia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

Huynh, Nghi San
description: Welcome, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has positioned her box on its side creating a welcome mat and a faux fireplace facade with hair representing flames.
creator: Huynh, Nghi San
creator: b. Australia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

FIELDSEND, Jan
description: Keeping the Lid On
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Fieldsend has painted her box white with metal cone attached at top with hair strands sticking out the sides and from underneath.
creator: FIELDSEND, Jan
creator: b. Australia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

BARRY, GENEVIEVE
description: Untitled, 1999
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. Box with various painted symbols of the Australian flag.
creator: BARRY, GENEVIEVE
creator: b. Australia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1999

ALVAREZ, ADRIANA
description: Magic Box, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. In this representation, the artist has outfitted her box in bright green with multiple electronic components and circuit boards attached to the exterior including plugs at both sides.
creator: ALVAREZ, ADRIANA
creator: b. Australia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

VELASCO, Heras
description: Untitled, 1995
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has darken her box to appear burned; lid is open with spent matches and a mirror is on the underside of the lid. On the end is written a CONFIRMATION AND DISCOVERY OF WITHCRAFT.
creator: VELASCO, Heras
creator: b. Argentina
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

VEGEZZI, Deana
description: Solidaridad!
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has painted her box red and attached a pleated accordian like structure spread across the interior attached with a red string.
creator: VEGEZZI, Deana
creator: b. Argentina
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

VALDIVIESO, Laura Cristina
description: El Secreto II
description: Mixed media
description: 3 X 4 X 2 1/2" OVERALL
description: The Women Beyond Borders Art Collection includes over 900 self styled wooden boxes reflecting on a specific woman's self-identity using a variety of multi-media processes. The artist has configured this box into a display case by elevating the lid supported by transparent material with a sculptural-like structure inside.
creator: VALDIVIESO, Laura Cristina
creator: b. Argentina
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995