So let's look at the art of the women of Morocco, presented by
First in Morocco as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 80s, she returned as a scholar and researcher, with her photographer, credited in an early slide, to assist the artists in securing fair pay for their work. They were selling already, but the middlemen took a big share of the income, leaving the artisans with only a marginal return.
They're now selling on the internet, you see a slide where women are uploading their images to the sales site. They're hugely capable of everything from raising multiple children, to milking cows, to creating all kinds of textile arts, and supporting themselves and a family.
She's in search of a successor, a woman from the region with the technical and art background, so that she can give up the role of foreigner directing them, which she doesn't approve.
You can see their range, rugs -- see the crazy quilt style rugs -- to clothing, to buttons and braids, beautiful embroidery -- that work in progress makes me want to stitch -- and best of all, it's not just the older generations.
Young women are very much involved, and developing their own market for their work, embracing the technology as needed.
It's all in good hands.
