tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329860882024-03-14T01:24:18.781-07:00Beauty of Water Founder's BlogLiza Behrendt's blog about Beauty of Water, international art in appreciation for water.<br>
<strong><a href="http://www.beautyofwater.org">BEAUTY OF WATER WEBSITE</a></strong>Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-44212035827295552602015-05-16T21:31:00.003-07:002015-05-16T21:31:28.913-07:00I am deeply saddened by the passing of Jackie Brookner. Her work speaks for itself.
Jackie Brookner TED Talk
Jackie's website
Arts & Healing Network Award
I will miss her, and will continue to be inspired by her.Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-60023061358784210532013-11-11T15:52:00.000-08:002016-04-02T19:53:22.948-07:00WEAD and Beauty of WaterI'm happy to have shared some documentary photos recently with WEAD, Women Environmental Artists Directory, showing past work with Beauty of Water in a painting camp in Kerala, India, for Issue 6 of WEAD's online magazine.
Speaking of water, 350.org is calling for action in support of the Philippines in relation to Typhoon Haiyan. I admire their work and encourage readers to Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-7137386929315054192012-05-24T23:50:00.001-07:002012-05-24T23:53:24.840-07:00Re-emergenceGreetings! I have been on sabbatical for nearly a year while pursuing a second Master's Degree and teacher certification. Beauty of Water has been taking a break in parallel, and some changes are underfoot. For instance, we will be switching fiscal sponsors, and may restructure the working model of this small non-profit.
In any case, our mission remains to generate collaborative art experiences Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-54046791708326148822011-09-22T21:18:00.006-07:002011-09-22T21:43:30.365-07:00An Evening With People for Puget SoundThis evening I had the pleasure of joining a gathering at the home of a People for Puget Sound Board Member. The new Executive Director, Tom Bancroft, had encouraging things to say about the good works of this ambitious group, an organization I admire a great deal. They intend to help restore the Edmonds Marsh, for instance, as well as the 30 or so other areas on the Puget Sound they care for, inLiza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-75566367982258145872011-08-05T22:39:00.011-07:002012-05-24T23:52:52.909-07:00New Items PublishedCatch a Beauty of Water story in Issue 3 of the Women Environmental Artist Directory online magazine, edited by Susan Leibovitz Steinman. This story is a newly revised version of journal-type documentation I wrote during the 2008 Beauty of Water workshop in the Kerala Backwaters.
Also available: a recent audio interview on Robin Escher's Socially Conscious Investing show. The podcast is called Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-33894883252224985512011-06-28T22:50:00.013-07:002011-06-28T23:22:34.059-07:00Global Water Dances in SeattleGlobal Water Dances, an event that was held around the world this past June 25th, is a participatory event I've long admired. At 5:00pm in each of 60 different locations a Global Water Dance performance took place, honoring local water while recognizing water worldwide, and our connection with and dependence on water.The Seattle performance, which I was fortunate to be able to attend, was held onLiza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-24249482013790634552011-04-23T23:45:00.008-07:002011-04-23T23:56:20.745-07:00Transparent DownspoutToday Mona Fairbanks and a few of us volunteers installed a transparent tube that is functioning as a new downspout in front of Fabric of Life, an idea from Carol Schillios that we all love. I can't wait to see the water running through when it rains, which probably won't be a long wait here in Edmonds, Washington.See also the work-in-progress Spirit of Water Edmonds website!BEAUTY OF WATER Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-63555550134319946122011-03-15T22:49:00.007-07:002011-03-15T23:10:00.476-07:00Spirit of Water Community GatheringLast month the Fabric of Life fair trade foundation and Beauty of Water held our second community gathering to continue cultivating creativity toward development of our project Spirit of Water.Pictured here are the fabulous Carol Schillios, who founded Fabric of Life, and her stellar colleague and assistant, Ariel Macpherson.This 7-image slideshow captures the spirit of the community gathering, Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-75922484136009268972011-02-05T20:17:00.017-08:002011-02-05T21:03:07.161-08:00Introducing Spirit of WaterI am thrilled to introduce Spirit of Water, a community art and rainwater catchment project initiated by volunteers in a partnership between Fabric of Life and Beauty of Water. Spirit of Water has now begun and will take place over time, as our collaborative process is as important to us as our end results. We are excited about both.We were honored to inaugurate Spirit of Water yesterday with an Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-17835782357815377132010-11-18T19:05:00.004-08:002010-11-18T19:21:59.110-08:00Essays on Beauty"...beauty may be contentious and difficult to define, but it’s also one of the great goods of human life. It is something we all crave..."The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment has published seven commissioned essays on beauty. I did not find these provocative, rather they comforted me.As Hasan Bakhshi writes, "The appreciation of beauty is a fundamental part of what it meansLiza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-23416969438757826992010-10-14T22:01:00.008-07:002010-10-14T22:37:20.992-07:00Local HappeningsI enjoy focusing on the global level, as I've written of here before. Yet I appreciate being grounded and local, too!Last night I joined pals from Sustainable Edmonds at an event for Sustainable Works hosted by Green Drinks. It was a clear evening and I enjoyed a spectacular sunset over the Olympic Mountains and Puget Sound on my bike ride home.Speaking of the sound, People for Puget Sound Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-77673822576096297782010-08-26T16:21:00.015-07:002010-08-26T17:17:48.193-07:00Sound with Water at Arts in Nature FestLast weekend at the Arts in Nature festival I got to be a kid again. The "Sound Cabin" hosted by Amber Kai Morgan and Garrett Kelly of Hollow Earth Radio was a blast! They had hung an underwater microphone in a tank of water, and provided inspiring tools like leaves and shells for making surprising sounds, using the water as part of the instrument. It was really fun!Now I'm wondering about Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-18780118625749447612010-07-18T00:04:00.020-07:002010-07-18T11:40:51.707-07:00Beverly Naidus and the BeallI recently had the pleasure of traveling by bicycle and ferry to see Beverly Naidus, shown here, eco-artist, professor, and author of several books including Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame, at her home on Vashon Island in the Puget Sound near Seattle.Beverly has begun a new, multi-faceted work called "Eden Reframed: An Eco-art Project for the Beall Greenhouses" in partnership with Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-22505471987259160812010-05-26T16:25:00.005-07:002010-05-26T16:42:49.523-07:00New Beauty of Water WebsiteI am delighted to announce the newly redesigned Beauty of Water website, integrating more photos, sharing more information about our projects, and making it easier to connect with our work.We loved the old site, but simply outgrew it. Please drop a line to send your thoughts on what you like and what could make this new website even better. Thanks!BEAUTY OF WATER WEBSITELiza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-44880357877367851362010-04-28T19:31:00.012-07:002010-04-28T21:21:23.207-07:00Scriber Lake High School Mini-Coursetranquility / splashy / opaque / beauty / refractive / wet / glowing / soaking / marveling / drenched / promiscuous / strange / pure / pristine / abrasive / bottomless / transparent / wonderful / polluted / creative / loud / majestic / devious / developing / abused / living / powerful / taken for granted / luminous / beautiful / Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-54760433102726991062010-02-02T21:21:00.022-08:002010-02-02T22:05:42.806-08:00ResurfacingBeauty of Water is alive and well. Waves of activity swirl and dissipate, while under the surface churning continues.I am reminded of the first phase of our work in India, during which new connections formed like a neural network, and every day was exciting in the project's new location.I notice the same tentative yet grounded exploration here in Edmonds, Washington, a quiet hum of happenings andLiza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-15521106836247982602009-10-06T20:10:00.034-07:002009-10-09T14:47:18.152-07:00At Home in the Puget Sound RegionThere have been many changes in my life in the past few months. I now live in the Seattle area, USA, with my father and husband, within bike or bus distance of my sisters, their lovely families, and our visiting Swiss friends. Wow! I lived in ths area after college, and in 2007 while launching Beauty of Water, so this is one of my homes.It's been a joy to be here, but I deeply miss India and the Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-61514550677443287852009-08-16T11:48:00.002-07:002009-08-16T21:46:46.275-07:00The Rainbow Rainstick: A Collaborative PieceThis summer these children collaboratively produced this stunning rainstick, which carries a lot of love and intention, and donated it to Beauty of Water!Teachers Emily Frost and Gena Rabinowitz founded a unique environmentally focused art camp held in Oakland, California, which explored a different aspect of the environment each day. The young artists of the Rainbow Rainstick made the instrumentLiza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-18750860374340156872009-07-31T09:16:00.014-07:002009-08-02T08:10:19.239-07:00Delightfully Rainy Day at NISH"I loved to feel the rain," said Subhash Viswan, a student in the first batch of the fine arts degree program at the National Institute of Speech and Hearing (NISH) in Trivandrum, after a day of making art on the theme of appreciation for water with Beauty of Water earlier this month.His enthusiastic comments were translated by Degree Section Coordinator Shirly G., who invited Beauty of Water to Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-82250032037065503452009-07-12T04:20:00.044-07:002009-07-13T21:16:24.389-07:00WE DID IT! Collaborative Painting at TriprayarA quietly breath-taking spot on the Triprayar River near Thrissur, Kerala, India, was the site for a deeply gratifying experience for me as founding director of Beauty of Water. Ten painters, a mixture of amateur and professional, with yours truly included, painted one painting together on one canvas!This Beauty of Water Painting Camp took place from June 26-28, 2009, and was graciously hosted byLiza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-78026167909872880282009-06-20T01:18:00.026-07:002009-06-27T05:41:08.662-07:00Return to the MothershipHello from Trivandrum! I am in my last weeks in Kerala, India, now drawing my face-to-face involvement to a close for this chapter in the evolution of Beauty of Water. While I expect to return for some awesome upcoming programs, it's time to recharge my batteries in the USA, and support ongoing developments here from afar.The amazing Latha Kurien Rajeev is continuing with several programs in Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-15325039288670824912009-05-18T19:03:00.014-07:002009-05-20T05:41:49.782-07:00California as InspirationI had the pleasure of a brief visit to the San Francisco Bay Area earlier this month, where I met with inspiring people like Askia White, pictured here. Askia is working on a home-use energy collector combining systems of rain catchment, gravitational force of flowing water, solar, and wind technologies in one artistic sculpture you can put in your yard. Wow! Wow! Wow!Askia is part of Andrée Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-24083926648976815712009-04-28T14:44:00.006-07:002009-06-07T05:24:34.536-07:00Welcome, Krishna MayurBeauty of Water welcomes our new publicist and planner, Krishna Mayur from Hyderabad. A professional business consultant with specialty in public relations and communication, he also promotes community events such as blood donations and recycling programs.Krishna Mayur is passionate about the environment, especially water. He has already come up with immediately actionable ideas for focusing Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-35964640080780551382009-03-10T02:21:00.011-07:002009-03-10T03:12:06.031-07:00Pongala FestivalToday is Pongala, an annual, sacred festival held in Trivandrum to honor the Goddess. At 5:30am I arose and walked 5k to the home of dear friends Susan and Dr. Raj, who live near Attukal Temple, locus of the event. Most of the 2 million or more women attending, mainly Keralite Hindus, were already in preparation.Here are two short videos with ambient sound taken on my walk home at 10:00am. The Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32986088.post-77302289154546455102009-03-02T06:27:00.006-08:002009-03-10T03:13:50.019-07:00UpdateI am deep in the throes of grant proposal writing, please wish us luck! A very exciting art installation called Lucid has been conceived by Latha Kurien Rajeev and me, with influences and input from many. More on this one day soon! There are also signs of growth for Watermark, a show of solo works and performance on the theme of appreciation for water.In January I started my journey toward a Liza Behrendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484064034905151556noreply@blogger.com