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Your Donations Do Our Work
Your Donations Do Our Work (2009) was a two-month project created alongside feminist colleague Suzanne Lacy.Your Donations Do Our Work was an exhibition where a community thrift store located in University of California, Riverside Sweeney Art Gallery, aimed to collect undesired items from the members of the community. These donated items would then be refurbished by volunteers and distributed to a “barter-system like store” in Laton, California where Master of Fine Arts students attending Otis College exchanged these renovated items with consumers for community organization work. Bowers and Lacy stated that their real goal was to observe what “gender, labor, class, and race” seem like on a more personal community level. The idea of integration between multigenerational feminists lead to the construction of this collaboration.