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

LIU, Suzan
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. The artist has used a white foam like substance on her box which has been fashioned into a set of breasts.
creator: LIU, Suzan
creator: b. Australia
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1999

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

Rosa, Eneida
description: Caja Llena de Pajaros, 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 placed the box on a platform with various marble-like pieces positoned inside the box; the lid is propped on its side.
creator: Rosa, Eneida
creator: b. Argentina
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

PRIOTTI, Gloria
description: Untitled, 1995 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 this box on its side, the lid slid open held in place by a hand created to resemble a bookend. 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: PRIOTTI, Gloria
creator: b. Argentina
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

MOLINELLI, Eliana
description: Agua Para la Difunta Correa, Tierra, 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 enclosed with brown material secured with a leather string, tied on top.
creator: MOLINELLI, Eliana
creator: b. Argentina, b. 1936
creator: "Born in Buenos Aires in 1936, Gloria Priotti studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano, graduating in 1959. She received the Beca Durero from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes and the German Academy for Cultural Exchange in 1975, after which she moved to Berlin, where she remained until 1983 and developed an intensive body of work in wood sculpture. She was invited by the Berlin Senate to participate in official competitions for the Applied Arts in Architecture. She exhibited in Argentina and abroad, and contributed to the renovation plans for the Technical University of Berlin in 1979. She held solo exhibitions at Galerías Lirolay, Carmen Waugh, Aldo de Sousa, Álvaro Castagnino, Atica, del Retiro and Atica, the Departamento de Artes de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Art Gallery International de Buenos Aires, Gallerie Pohl in Berlin, Neue Galerie in Bochum (Germany), Kwarz Gruppe Galerie in Berlin, the Universidad Nacional de Concepción del Uruguay, and ArteBa, and participated in group exhibitions in Argentina and Germany. She received many prizes in salons in Argentina and abroad, including a competition to create a mural relief for a pedestrian tunnel in the Tempelhof district of Berlin in 1978; a prize for her bronze sculpture installed in the Berlin Sculpture Park in 1979; and a prize for her stainless steel, aluminum, and iron sculpture installed in a technical school in Berlin in 1981. She was awarded Second Prize in the Juril Clinic and Center for Art and Communication competition in 1988, and First Prize in Sculpture at the Entre Ríos Salon in 1991. Her work is associated with magical realism. Her figurative sculpture incorporates playful elements and fragments of the human figure, not always executed in the same material. Source: “Gloria Priotti.” Arte de la Argentina. Accessed February 25, 2026. https://artedelaargentina.com.ar/disciplinas/artista/escultura/gloria-priotti/."
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

Lizaso, Ana
description: Estemos Atentos!!
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 box has been painted red with a wired fixture attached on top. This box has been reconfigured in puzzle-like pieces with letters.
creator: Lizaso, Ana
creator: b. Argentina, 1950
creator: Ana Lizaso is a visual artist based in Buenos Aires whose work has received several distinctions, including the Third Acquisition Prize of the Salón Municipal Manuel Belgrano (1992), an Honorable Mention from the Museo de Arte Moderno (1996), the Second Prize at the Salón Nacional (1996), and a Creativity Mention from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (1999). She was also invited to participate in the Trabucco Prize, awarded by the National Academy of Fine Arts of Argentina, in 2001, 2004, and 2007. Since the early 1990s, Lizaso has exhibited widely in group shows, salons, and sculpture programs across Argentina. She also participated in thematic and traveling exhibitions, sculpture competitions—among them the Parque de la Memoria competition—and projects organized by galleries such as Laura Haber, Ática, and Cecilia Caballero. Her participation in Palacio Alcorta led to her inclusion in the Argentine Foreign Ministry’s collection. Throughout the decade, she continued to contribute to design-focused initiatives and served as both curator and participant in sculpture programs.
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

Labiano, Maria Estela
description: Cobijando Vida
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 box, the artist has draped a crocheted fabric over the lid with various vegetation in the interior.
creator: Labiano, Maria Estela
creator: b. Argentina
creator: Estela Labiano was born in Mendoza in 1955. She obtained a Licentiate and a Teaching Degree in Visual Arts at the National University of Cuyo. As an artist, she specializes in drawing, characterizing the practice as such: "with the simplest resource—a single line—I feel I can describe the earth, the sky, and ourselves." During the last Argentine military dictatorship, she went into exile in the city of Puebla, Mexico, together with her husband, the late sculptor Chalo Tulián. While there, she taught at the Institute of Visual Arts in Puebla. After returning to Argentina, she taught at the university level in San Juan and Mendoza, and has been a professor at UNCuyo since 1988. She participated in solo and group exhibitions in Mexico, Chile, the United States, Italy, and Argentina. She received numerous awards throughout her career, including first prizes at the Salón de Dibujo Joven, Mendoza (1980); Primer Certamen de Murales, Guaymallén, Mendoza (1980); V Concurso Nacional “Las Américas”, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico (1983); Salón Bienal de Artes Plásticas (Mendoza), Drawing (1988); Salón Vendimia de Artes Plásticas (Cuyo), Drawing (1989), and IX Salón Bienal de Artes Plásticas (Mendoza) (1994).
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

Gerdes, Rosemary
description: Eva Travels, 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 Eva Travels, the artist has detailed an apple on the underside of the box with EVA and ADAM written on the edges with a robust female like sturcture perched on top.
creator: Gerdes, Rosemary
creator: b. Argentina, 1947
creator: Rosemary Gerdes was born in London, UK, on April 30, 1947, later settling in Argentina, where she became a naturalized citizen. She specializes in wood sculpture and painting. Since 1973, she has exhibited her work in Argentina, Mexico, France, Italy, Slovakia, and other countries. In 2004, scholars Karina Blaiotta and Jorge Rempel posited that Gerdes is “passionate about wood as a noble, natural material, immensely rich in expressiveness and variety. Transforming it into an artistic expression is her urgent goal.” She has exhibited since 1973 in Argentina and abroad — including Mexico, France, Italy and Slovakia — and has been active in international sculpture festivals and biennials. Over the course of her career, she has received numerous honors, and her work is a part of collections around the globe, such as the Museo Rosa Galisteo (Rosario); Museum of Fine Arts (Chaco); Beato Angélico Museum (La Plata); Sívori Museum (Buenos Aires); Museum of Gabrovo (Bulgaria); Museum of Modern Art (Toluca, Mexico). Gerdes participated in public carving competitions and wood-sculpture events in Chaco; Buenos Aires Botanical Garden; Camille Claudel Festival (France); Fairbanks, Alaska (invited artist); La Bresse (France); Højer (Denmark); Banská Štiavnica (Slovakia); Sennori (Sardinia); Playground Rodovre, Copenhagen, European Capital of Culture. In the 2000s and 2010s, she taught classes at the Eduardo Sívori Museum in Buenos Aires.
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

DRAGOTTA, Susana
description: Ojos Para Ver el Mundo
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 an eye-like structure with nails and organic materials.
creator: DRAGOTTA, Susana
creator: b. Argentina, b. 1956
creator: "Susana Dragotta is a prominent Argentine artist and designer specializing in costuming for dance and theater. Trained at the School of Arts and Design at the National University of Cuyo, she is also an educator in her fields. Throughout her career, she has received major honors, including the Grand Prize at the National Salon in Textile Art (2009) and Merit Diplomas from the Konex Awards (2002 and 2012). Since 1989, Dragotta has explored sculpture through paper weaving, creating large-scale works that represented her at the 5th Havana Biennial (1994). In 1997, she launched the series Corazón maldito, blending sculpture and costume design. The project earned recognition from experts such as Gracia Cutuli, who highlighted her work in publications of the National Academy of Fine Arts. In the 2000s, she turned to soft sculpture, using contemporary techniques and vinyl textiles to produce collapsible, portable pieces. Her work is included in major Argentinian collections such as the Museum of Modern Art of Mendoza, the Macro-Castagnino in Rosario, the MALBA collection, and the Palais de Glace. In 2010, she took part in the group exhibition Southern Identity: Contemporary Argentine Art, organized by the Smithsonian Latino Center with Argentina’s Secretariat of Culture." Source: Satsch Gallery (@satsch_gallery). "Susanna Dragotta." Instagram, October 31, 2024. https://www.instagram.com/p/DBzfZAyqmHW/.
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 1995

ANONYMOUS
description: Untitled
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 Untitled, this box is adorned with white and silver intricately placed beading.
creator: ANONYMOUS
creator: b. Afghanistan
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: n.d.

ANONYMOUS
description: Untitled
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 separated in half with each covered in brown fabric with pink lace.
creator: ANONYMOUS
creator: b. Afghanistan
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: n.d.

ANONYMOUS
description: Untitled
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 rich green fabric highlighted with green beads.
creator: ANONYMOUS
creator: b. Afghanistan
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: n.d.

ANONYMOUS
description: Untitled
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 box is covered in blue knitted weave.
creator: ANONYMOUS
creator: b. Afghanistan
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: n.d.

ANONYMOUS
description: Untitled
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 chosedn to use a wall paper-like material with white stripes and flowers pinted on a blue ground for her box.
creator: ANONYMOUS
creator: b. Afghanistan
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: n.d.

ANONYMOUS
description: Untitled, n.d.
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 Untitled, a flat pattern design of blue blue beads highlighted with white covers the box.
creator: ANONYMOUS
creator: b. Afghanistan
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: n.d.

ANONYMOUS
description: Untitled, n.d.
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 is also painted in reds and greens with the edges outlined in black.
creator: ANONYMOUS
creator: b. Afghanistan
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: n.d.

ANONYMOUS
description: Untitled, n.d.
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 Untitled, the artist has used a beaded application overall; the lid has been separated in to two parts.
creator: ANONYMOUS
creator: b. Afghanistan
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: n.d.

ANONYMOUS
description: Untitled
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 Untitled, the box is covered with red and green paint with the edges detailed in black.
creator: ANONYMOUS
creator: b. Afghanistan
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: n.d.

ANONYMOUS
description: Untitled
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 Untitled, the artist has used black and white beads to cover her box.
creator: ANONYMOUS
creator: b. Afghanistan
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: n.d.

Shekeba, Saifi
description: Untitled, 2003
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 Untitled, Shekeba uses a flat pattern design in reds and blacks to cover her box.
creator: Shekeba, Saifi
creator: b. Afghanistan
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 2003

MUJAHID, Rahima
description: Untitled #3
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 Untitled #3, Mujahid covers her box in red fabric with white beaded accents to create a cradle-like structure.
creator: MUJAHID, Rahima
creator: b. Afghanistan
source: Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena
date: 2003