The current trend in higher education values the interdisciplinary approach.  My work focuses and refines that idea, merging dualities:  Scholarship and art; the inner and the outer self: the masculine and the feminine.

For forty years, as a professional printmaker, bookbinder, painter and hand paper maker, I have exhibited my work internationally. Recently, I have made monumental site installations that illuminate our relationship with the environment, and delve into the collective unconscious of our culture. Pursuing my art making and research, I have lived in Florence, Italy; Brno, Czech Republic; and Çatalhöyük, Turkey.

Books are my favorite studio format because they are magic: instruments of intellectual growth, vehicles for exploration, and eyes that peer into other dimensions, even other universes.

Conceptual art is my other love because if requires a commitment--psychological, as well as physical--to process. Monumental earth sculptures, miles of paper at the seashore, in the forests, and huge spirals at ancient sacred sites, are my temporary--destined to be absorbed by the earth--projects. Communicating with the universe in a "big" way, these projects have changed lives, and fostered new ideas in their viewers as well as in their maker.

Teaching Experience

Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA Department of Mythological Studies Adjunct Faculty, Course taught: Goddess Traditions
University of Missouri St. Louis, MO, Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, Adjunct Faculty, Courses taught: The Goddess Through History and Art; Women and Religion
Forest Park Community College, St. Louis, MO Mathematics Department, Adjunct Faculty, Courses taught: Calculus I, Elementary, Intermediate and, College Algebra, Basic Math

Papers and Presentations

"Installation Art as Scholarly Methodology: the cases at Tesetice-Kyovice and Çatalhöyük", International Society for Literature and Science, Denmark.
"Turning Through Time: Communication with the Distant Past", WECSOR, St. Mary's College, CA
"Stories in Stone: Neolithic mythology in Central Euope", Theoretical Archaeology Group, Dublin, Ireland
"The 7500 Year Old Sacred Story", American Academy of Religion, Azuza, CA
"The Virtual Rondel--Collaborative Story and Site", Plasy, Czech Republic
"Footprints at Tesetice-Kyjovice", UNESCO International Symposium, Natural Sacred Sites, Paris, France.
"Two Beaches and a Woodland Path", Association of Cultural Mythologists, Woodstock, NY
"The Artist as EcoFeminist", National Woman's Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO
Auroch Imagery at Çatalhöyük,” Transanatolia Conference, British Museum, London.

Lectures and workshops

"If God Were Half a Man. . .", New Orleans, LA, San Francisco, CA
"Images of the Feminine Divine: Archetypes in Contemporary Life", Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, Women's Caucus for Art, MJF Studio Gallery, St. Louis, MO
"The Creative Journey", Center for Contemporary Art, The Wellness Community, Jewish Community Centers Assn., St. Louis, MO.
Ongoing classes and workshops in non-traditional printmaking, papermaking, watercolor painting and monotypes, and imagination enhancement.

In 1999, Dr. Momi formed Mythic Travel, Inc. through which she organizes and leads study tours in Turkey and the Czech Republic.

Education

Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, M.A. Ph.D., Mythological Studies with a Concentration in Depth Psychology
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, B.S. , M.S. Systems Science and Mathematics
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Santa Reparata Graphic Arts Centre, Florence, Italy
University of Miami School of Art, Miami, FL

Solo Exhibitions

"Footprints in Time," Miami University, OH
"Otisky Minolusti", Czech Republic
"Celebrations", Santa Barbara, CA
"Connections", National Women's Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO
"The Feminine, Goddesses All Around", Pacifica Grad. Inst. Carpinteria, CA
"Visual Meditations", Montecito, CA
"Books and Two Sided Prints", Drury College, Springfield, MO
"Cycles, an Artist Book",St. Louis, MO
"Loose Pages", Chicago, IL
"The Book of Her", St. Louis, MO, New Orleans, LA
"Passages and Reflections", St. Louis, MO
Plus numerous other solo exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Birth of Wisdom, Santa Fe, NM
Alchemy, Nabisco World Headquarters, NJ
Parker Inst. Invitational, New Orleans, LA
"Women of the Book: Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes, Los Angeles, CA
" Women Artists Works of Paper", Los Angeles Printmaking Society, LA, CA
"Crossings", St. John's College Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Harper National Print Exhibition, Harper College, Palatine, IL.
Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO.
"The Layered Perspective", Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.
Annual International Salon, Academie Lyonnaise de Peintres Associes, Lyon, France.
Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD; juror: Dr. Virginia Mecklenburg, Smithsonian Institution.
"Quattro Amici", Florence, Italy
"The Prints and the Paper", St. Louis, MO. Honorable Mention.
"Six Artists", St. Louis, MO; curator: Susan Waller.
"Cultural Mirrors", St. Louis, MO; Pattengale Annual Memorial Prize.
Four States Exhibition, OAW, Tulsa, OK; Corrubia Memorial Award.
"Contemporary Women Artists VII", St. Louis, MO; juror: Miriam Schapiro.

Dr. Momi has art in public collections in St. Louis, Missouri, and in private collections in Missouri, Illinois, Florida, Colorado, Montreal, Canada, Istanbul, Turkey, and Mexico City, Mexico.

Site Installations

"Dance of the Hunted", Çatalhöyük, Konya, Turkey
"Turning Through Time" Çatalhöyük, Konya, Turkey
"Footprints at Tesetice-Kyovice", Czech Republic
"Hendry's Beach Walk", Santa Barbara, CA
"Carpinteria State Beach Walk", Carpinteria, CA
Monterubio's Woods Forest Walk and Healing Grove", Bourbon, MO
"Rebirthing Barrow" St. Louis, MO.
"Goddess Emerging", St. Louis, MO
“Spine,” Carpenteria, CA

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