--- ---  # Yoko Ono Invites Women to Share Their Stories for Her Next Art Installation  by [Julia Zorthian](/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Sep 12, 2016 5:51 PM CUT  Artist Yoko Ono during the opening of Yoko Ono: Land of Hope exhibition at the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia on February 02, 2016 in Mexico City. Artist Yoko Ono during the opening of Yoko Ono: Land of Hope exhibition at the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia on February 02, 2016 in Mexico City.Miguel Tovar/STF—LatinContent/Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Sep 12, 2016 5:51 PM CUT Women all around the world: Yoko Ono [is calling on you](https://www.facebook.com/events/1784843968395579/ "undefined") to share your experiences and eyes for her newest artwork. The artist put out a call [on Sept. 6](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yoko-ono-arising-artwork-feminism%5Fus%5F57d6b0efe4b06a74c9f57fb3 "undefined") for women to send her photos of their eyes and written “testament\[s\] of harm done” to them for being women. She will feature the statements in multiple languages, along with the eye photographs, in her new exhibit, _A_ _rising_, at Iceland’s Reykjavik Art Museum. “I very much hope for your participation,” [Ono](http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2017363,00.html "undefined") wrote in the invitation, which she shared through [a Facebook event](https://www.facebook.com/events/1784843968395579/ "undefined") on the museum’s page. Women can submit to the exhibit throughout its run this fall and winter by dropping off their materials at the museum, sending them by mail to the museum or emailing them to arising@reykjavik.is. Here’s the full text of the call for entries: --- > “” --- The installation about difficulties women have experienced will be on display from Oct. 7, 2016 to Feb. 5, 2017. Ono has created [participatory and interactive art before](http://time.com/3850309/yoko-ono-moma-happenings-history/ "undefined"); the Museum of Modern Art [held a major exhibition](http://time.com/3850595/yoko-ono-moma/ "undefined") of her art last year. Yoko Ono Calls on Women for Next Art Installation, Arising ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4487920/yoko-ono-art-women-call/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4487920/yoko-ono-art-women-call/"},"headline":"Yoko Ono Invites Women to Share Their Stories for Her Next Art Installation","datePublished":"2016-09-12T17:51:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:21.364Z","description":"She asked women around the world to describe harm they've experienced and send photos of their eyes","url":"https://time.com/4487920/yoko-ono-art-women-call/","keywords":["motto","women","Art"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc549a048a074ef43/6988a59a0b72e3f5d76eaf59/yoko-ono-call-women-art-harm.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc549a048a074ef43/6988a59a0b72e3f5d76eaf59/yoko-ono-call-women-art-harm.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"How To Be in Yoko Ono's Next Art Installation","caption":"How To Be in Yoko Ono's Next Art Installation","creditText":"Miguel Tovar/STF—LatinContent/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4487920/yoko-ono-art-women-call/","name":"Yoko Ono Invites Women to Share Their Stories for Her Next Art Installation"}}]}] ```