April 16, 2019 by Jennifer Rodrigo · Arts & Culture

Yoni Art Is a Thing—And It’s Seriously Empowering

Yes, she goes there. Charlotte Criste creates “Yoni Expressions,” part art, part female empowerment and acceptance.

In Grace and Frankie Season 3, the marketing for the duo’s new vibrator featured a vulva painting. This might have been played for laughs on the show, but in real life, it’s the kind of painting Austin artist Charlotte Criste does—with a quite serious effect on women who participate.

Criste’s art is called “Yoni Expressions”: the word “yoni” means female sexual and reproductive organs in Sanskrit. Criste facilitates the creation of paint and paper impressions of individual vulvas, a live process that empowers through a bold letting-go, given that many women were raised to feel a sense of shame about their vagina’s appearance.

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