FILM SCREENING
Swimming Through & Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
part of the Women Walking to Water: A Wilderness Mindset Convening exhibition
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | 7:00 pm
MOSAIC EventSpace | 49 Main Street, North Adams, MA 01247
Sauna. Cold water plunging. What drives some women to seek out these extreme temperatures,
both cold and hot, and often while in the company of other women? Peek into two other
convenings of women, water, and conversation. We’ll begin with Swimming Through, a documentary short featuring three women who dip daily into Lake Michigan as a
way to move through the pandemic. In the documentary feature Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences in a deeply moving
and breathtaking approach to issues of trauma, healing, and community.
The film screening is part of Women Walking to Water: A Wilderness Mindset Convening, an exhibition, film screening, and conversation centered on Wilderness Mindset,
a methodology and framework developed by Professor of Art Melanie Mowinski as a way
to embrace uncertainty and practice embodiment. Women Walking to Water is on view at Gallery 51 from February 7 - March 28, 2025.
This event is free and open to the public.
PANEL & CONVERSATION
with Suzi Banks Baum, Brece Honeycutt, Melanie Mowinski, Sarah Pike, Lori Spencer,
and Jessica Yurkofsky
part of the Women Walking to Water: A Wilderness Mindset Convening exhibition
Wednesday, March 26, 2025* | 5:30 pm
MOSAIC EventSpace | 49 Main Street, North Adams, MA 01247
At each monthly convening of Women Walking to Water, Melanie Mowinski provided the
participating artists with a different question and reading to center each conversation
around Wilderness Mindset. She asked, "how is Wilderness Mindset a tool to recenter
the soul; a process to help release reaching; a way to reframe fear; a feminist reclamation
of freedom; eco-theological and an invitation to redefine dominion; and how is all
of this about becoming?" Join the artists as they share some of their answers to these
questions and more.
This panel and conversation is part of Women Walking to Water: A Wilderness Mindset Convening, an exhibition, film screening, and conversation centered on Wilderness Mindset,
a methodology and framework developed by Professor of Art Melanie Mowinski as a way
to embrace uncertainty and practice embodiment. Women Walking to Water is on view at Gallery 51 from February 7 - March 28, 2025.
This event is free and open to the public.
*Previously scheduled for March 5, 2025.
All events are open to the MCLA community and the general public.
