
Welcome to Beauty of Water!
Beauty of Water generates collaborative art experiences in communities around the world on the theme of appreciation for water. We are volunteer-based, co-creative, and non-profit. Beauty of Water projects emerge. That means we join with people who share our passion for honoring water and making art, and together we design projects and carry them out. Let’s play!

Spirit of Water Edmonds
In collaboration with Fabric of Life fair trade shop in Edmonds, Washington, USA, local artist Mona T. Smiley-Fairbanks, and members of this community, Beauty of Water is co-creating a system for the roof of the shop to catch and reuse rainwater. Check out the Spirit of Water Edmonds website.
We’re in the early stages and it’s not too late to get involved. Drop us a line to find out more. We welcome wild imagination!

The Womens Environmental Artists Directory is a leading resource for ecoart and ecoartists.
The current issue of the WEAD online magazine, edited by Susan Leibovitz Steinman, includes a version of the story of the Beauty of Water Kerala Backwaters Workshop (see our Accomplishments page for more context). Read the story.

Top photo by V.Sasikumar, Beauty of Water collaborator.

AHN Award
Each year the Arts and Healing Network presents surprise awards to healing artists who are making a difference in the world. Beauty of Water was recently honored among four artists including founding director Liza Behrendt, for “bringing transformational creativity to one of the most important and threatened resources on our planet – WATER.” More…
Beauty of Water is delighted to be a project of the International Humanities Center.
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