Although I could write pages and pages about Bettie Ward’s incredibly precious and profane show at Southwest School of Art and Craft, I’m giving you 15 reasons to go see this show:
1. Embroidery can be subversive.
2. Where else will you see a peppermint striped dick?
3. Breasts become rosettes; become targets.
4. Our Lady of the Cupcakes
5. Picasso, Miro, sexual imagery full of flying genitalia
6. Look for the arbor of fluffy penises
7. A video of Patricia Pratchett singing Guantanamera
8. Smudgy drawings that are mimetic of Darger or miscreants
9. Heart shaped doilies sprouting cacti and fellatio
10. Tiny golden shoes
11. Birds flying out of a woman’s mouth
12. The titles: The Girl who had a relationship with the Spiney Tree of Life Cactus
13. The Marvelous Hysterical is better than porn
14. Imaginative scenes of apocryphal beings
15. Bettie Ward is a San Antonio gem.

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