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M________, The Menopause Project
2018

Social Sculpture

Mixed Media



M______, the Menopause Project, an educational project about menopause in the form of a pop-up gift shop, envisioned community infrastructure for adult health and aging. Providing education, practices, and conversations around female health and aging, M________ made space for female and femme bodies—and those who love them—to be curious, ask questions, and share experiences.

The project offered multiple access points to ideas and information around health and aging: artist multiples inspired by health and aging by Amy Khoshbin, Chlöe Bass, and Macon Reed, a Menopause library, a Menopause Museum, and 14 free public programs and workshops.


Shop exterior, photograph by Hai Zhang

Shop interior, with custom-designed recyclable display furniture by architect Julie Moscovitz, photograph by Hai Zhang
The shop featured artist multiples by Macon Reed (left), Nancy Nowacek (middle), Amy Khoshbin (right), and Cholë Bass (fans, foreground), photograph by Hai Zhang

The Menopause Library (far wall) enabled visitors to read on site, or take home via QR code, photograph by Hai Zhang

The Menopause Museum
The program series featured presentations by experts such as icensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist specializing in sexuality and women’s health, Nicole Tammelleo, MA, LCSW
An intergenerational crowd assembled for many of the programs, inspiring future work on intergenerational exchange
The program series also featured workshops such as Jumprope As Talisman
Coach Lindsey Cormack facilitates a workshop in Powerlifting

PROJECT CREDITS
Design support: 
Julie Torres Moskovitz, Fete Nature Architecture
Project advisor: 
Dr. Melanie Brewster, Sexuality, Women & Gender Project
Website copywriting support:
Kristi Cameron 
Installation documentation:
Hai Zhang 
Video documentation:
Jill Campbell
Funding support: 
Brooklyn Arts Council
Location donation:
Recess
Wine donation: 
Dry Dock, Brooklyn
Food and seltzer donation: Fairway, Red Hook, Brooklyn



Participating Artists
Chloë Bass
Paola Citterio
Maureen Connor
Lainie Fefferman
Rose Khoshbin
Macon Reed
Program Presenters
Joan Chrisler
Lindsey Cormack
Sasha Davies
Lena DeGloma
Paula Derry
Randi Epstein
Kate Gavriel
Muksha L Jingree
Liz Margolies
Kyle Marsh
Nicole Tammelleo MA, LCSW


Special Thanks
Tomas Anthony
Alejandra Belmar
Allison Weisberg
Ashton Applewhite

Marina Zurkow

Monica Schaffer

Morgan Hille-Refakis

Lainie Fefferman

Hali Lee

Anna Conathan

Rody Dozouglou

Karla Polo-Garcia

Kay Takeda

Irene Schneeweis

Sascha Slocomb

Dr. Sari Locker

Allison Rowe

Macon Reed

Rachael Shannon

Emily Blumenfeld

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Nancy Nowacek artist is a research-based artist, designer, and educator working in visual art, public art, social practice, and socially-engaged contexts.