Betsy Damon is an internationally acclaimed artist who has been called a practical visionary and a humanist. Her work has been widely reviewed, exhibited, and taught. She’s known for her performance works The 7,000-Year-Old Woman and The Living Water Garden in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. She has directed many collaborative public performance events, mostly notably in Chengdu and Lhasa, China. Betsy’s awards include the Bush Foundation, Heinz foundation, NEA, UN Habitat, Waterfront Center Top Honor, 5 awards from the ASLA, and others. For the past four decades Betsy’s work has focused on a central subject: water, which she reveals as the connective, creative and