Betsy Damon’s

WATER TALKS

Empowering Communities to Know,
Restore, and Preserve their Waters.

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“I have seen so much change, and that includes advances in living standards for millions of people on the one hand, and the increasing destruction of the environment on the other. Somehow, we must find a middle path. This is why Betsy wrote this book.”

—Dr. Jane Goodall

Betsy’s show at La MaMa Galleria • Fall 2021

PASSAGES: RITES & RITUALS

“…radical relics of a time when many artists from oppressed groups were finding their voices through experimentation. … almost like creative consciousness-raising.”
—The New York Times

Select Writings
Chengdu Urban Rivers Association
Chengdu Urban Rivers Association

Many environmental efforts in China fail because they are too narrowly focused and lack sufficient cooperation among the various sectors. After ten years of involvement in Chengdu, Keepers of the Waters has built many coalitions across government, NGO, and community sectors in the municipality.

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25 Years on Water</em>
25 Years on Water

In this piece, written for Womens Eco Artist Dialog , I examine water’s role at the center of my evolving practice over the course of nearly 40 years.

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Public Art Visions and Possibilities: Views from a Practicing Artist</em>
Public Art Visions and Possibilities: Views from a Practicing Artist

This chapter in The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm covers two formative public art experiences: Living Waters of Larimer and Keepers of the Waters Chengdu.

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About Betsy

Our world’s living systems are endlessly exciting and constantly humbling in their complexity. My skills as an artist allow me to center water as the foundation to all life. In my journey to understand water, my partner is science and my driving purpose is curiosity. I look through the mist to examine the vast expanse of interconnected living systems that contains you and me.