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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.jillmiller.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.jillmiller.net/</a>
Medium
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
California
Artist Statement
I have initiated a collection of new works enabled by the constraints and commitment of motherhood. More specifically, I am exploring the practice of homeschooling as a lens for this work. To more authentically experience and create these works I have undertaken a six month study into my own own “homeschooling” with my seven-year-old son. Using our domestic quarters as a backdrop, and my son as a instigator and collaborator, I’ve created an ongoing body of work that examines family constructs, the maternal-child relationship, and the ways that an artist can consider parenthood as a locus for creativity rather than a distraction or an obstacle in the career path.
Topic
homeschooling
breastfeeding
public breastfeeding
lactation
nursing mothers
motherhood
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complicated Labors</a>
New Maternalisms
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/391" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Care and Feeding: The Art of Parenthood, Palo Alto Art Center, 2018</a>
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Title
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Jill Miller
breastfeeding
California
homeschooling
lactation
milk truck
motherhood
nursing mothers
social practice
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Person
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Name
Lena Simic
Gary Anderson
Neal
Gabriel
Sid
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.twoaddthree.org/" target="_blank">http://www.twoaddthree.org/</a>
Medium
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
Anfield
Liverpool
England
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<strong>twoaddthree</strong><span> are Gary Anderson, Lena Simic add Neal, Gabriel and Sid.We are artists. We are activists. We are a family.</span>
<p>Mummy and kids are in the frame and Daddy’s behind the camera.</p>
<p>We are a nice nuclear family.<br />We are a hetero-normative unit.<br />Tesco loves us, Disney adores us and McDonalds can’t get enough of us.<br />We are complicit in consumer capitalism. We, the family, are the solid bedrock of society, at least that is what we are told. Instead we will dissent! We will have fun and take the piss. We have decided to organize a programme of events in our council house for the duration of Liverpool 08 and beyond.</p>
<p>We have decided to voice our discontent. We have decided to ask questions around art and culture, money and capitalism, private and public, familial and civic life.</p>
<p>We have decided to disobey. We, as a family, have decided to be naughty.</p>
Topic
activism
nuclear family
family life
domestic life
money
capitalism
social critique
domestic labor
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The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home
activism
Anfield
capitalism
domestic labor
domestic life
England
family life
Liverpool
money
social critique
social practice
United Kingdom
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2684516f1ebcd086674364d57cb84192
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://traceykershaw.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://traceykershaw.co.uk/</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/tellmeaboutyourmother/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.facebook.com/tellmeaboutyourmother/</a>
Medium
social practice
video art
Location
The location of the interview
Nottingham
England
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
Tracey studied Fine Art at the University of Nottingham, and since graduating in 2011 has been developing her practice, which focuses on aspects of the maternal, including her evolving relationship with her son. She currently lives and works in Nottingham, practising from Backlit Studios.<br />Tracey’s maternal experience is central to her art practice. The profound and often overwhelming emotions that her motherhood brings have driven her to engage with other interrelated subjects such as fertility, ageing and the fragility of time passing.<br /><br />After creating and exhibiting a number of maternally-themed works, Tracey undertook a one year residency at the University of Nottingham in 2012/13, and used this time to start developing her current project ‘tell me about your mother’. While her early work focussed mainly on her own relationship with her son, ‘tell me about your mother’ takes a less introspective direction, aiming to both celebrate and expose the powerful, yet often problematic, relationships between mothers and their children.
Topic
motherhood
aging
fertility
passage of time
mother/son relationship
son
loss
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/404" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The M Word, One Paved Court Gallery, 1 – 12 May 2019</a>
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Tracey Kershaw
aging
England
fertility
mother/son relationship
motherhood
Nottingham
social practice
son
United Kingdom
video art
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.bethgrossman.com/gallery/lifeindiapers/" target="_blank">http://www.bethgrossman.com/gallery/lifeindiapers/</a>
<a href="http://www.bethgrossman.com/gallery/ourmothermaryfound/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.bethgrossman.com/gallery/ourmothermaryfound/index.html</a>
<a href="http://www.bethgrossman.com/gallery/firstcomelove/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.bethgrossman.com/gallery/firstcomelove/index.htm</a>
Medium
painting
sculpture
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
San Francisco
California
Artist Statement
<span>In my artwork I tell stories about what I see, what I learn and what I think. There is no lack of inspiration being a mother. My son shows me the world anew and I constantly notice my own limited adult views. </span><br /><span>In our American culture, mothers and children are marginalized, even though we represent a large consumer market. Our leadership work as mothers is undervalued and unpaid. In our society artists are treated similarly. We have held onto our visions as children do, insist on speaking our minds and do the work we love. Our work is also undervalued and underpaid in comparison to other commercial markets of similar size and scope. <br /></span><br /><span>Female art students are often told in art school "if you want to be considered as a serious artist, don't have children." In the traditional model of being an artist, one's life must be consumed by art-making. Raising children is also all consuming. It has changed my life as an artist dramatically. I am more focused, organized, energized, inspired and determined to tell my story of being a professional artist and a "good mom." <br /></span><br /><span>I chose diapers as my canvas because of their cultural symbolism. We often speak of raising children as being an endless job of changing diaper after diaper. This care-giving role is a natural part of the life cycle. Using diapers as a primary art material serves to honor our parents and caregivers who changed all our diapers. I paint, draw and write quick sketches of my personal experiences and feelings of being a mother. The artistic style is not as labored as my previous work since so many things are happening quickly and this is an immediate way to document them. </span><br /><span>This project was made possible by grants from the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation and the Peninsula Community Foundation.</span>
Topic
diapers
motherhood
American dream
gender stereotypes
middle-class family
maternal work
Virgin Mary
iconic symbolism
Madonna
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Beth Grossman
American dream
California
diapers
gender stereotypes
iconic symbolism
Madonna
maternal work
middle-class family
motherhood
painting
San Francisco
sculpture
Virgin Mary
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://methodinthemaking.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://methodinthemaking.wordpress.com/</a><br /><br />
<a href="https://methodinthemaking.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/gravidus-i/" target="_blank">Gravidus I</a>
<a href="http://clairehickey.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://clairehickey.blogspot.com/</a>
Medium
sculpture
social practice
Artist Statement
<p><span>The final presentation of my MA consists of a body of work entitled GRAVIDUS. The name GRAVIDUS is the Latin word for pregnant but can also mean heavy, burdened or teeming. This is appropriate for this work as it represents the physical aspects of my own pregnancy both internally and externally and also some of the emotional feelings that were present throughout. As a whole, the work uses the mould-making process as a basis for creating sculptural pieces and indirectly references my changing bodily state in pregnancy.<br /></span></p>
<p><span>GRAVIDUS I is comprised of a series of nine plaster blocks of variable size with different interior forms. For the MA show, it was arranged systematically over two reclaimed wooden structures. The materials used for the work’s display reference the supporting mechanism used within industry and workshop production to add strength to a final sculpture or building material. The openness of the display allows for different visual effects as the viewer moves around the piece and links to the visible internal spaces of the pieces themselves and theoretical notions of the boundaries of the pregnant body.</span></p>
Topic
pregnancy
maternal body
changing body
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Title
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Claire Hickey
pregnancy
pregnant body
sculpture
social practice
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://kimdhillon.wordpress.com/invisible-spaces-of-parenthood-isp-with-andrea-francke/" target="_blank">https://kimdhillon.wordpress.com/invisible-spaces-of-parenthood-isp-with-andrea-francke/</a>
Medium
social practice
writing
Location
The location of the interview
Vancouver Island
Canada
Artist Statement
<span>Kim Dhillon writes, organizes projects, and makes works </span><span>that explore the legacies of Second Wave feminism and of Conceptualism. </span><span>She is part of the on-going research collaboration Invisible Spaces of </span><span>Parenthood with artist Andrea Francke. In 2010, Dhillon initiated _Crib </span><span>Notes _(2010-ongoing), a series of talks and tours for parents and </span><span>carers with children under 5 at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. She has </span><span>since 2012 led a campaign for changes in policy and infrastructure at </span><span>the Royal College of Art to increase accessibility, support, and </span><span>visibility of parents in the student body and faculty. This research led </span><span>to the publishing of a chapter on “Invisible Care: Care Provision for </span><span>Infants and Children in UK Art Schools” in the forthcoming _We Need to </span><span>Talk About the Family: Essays on Neoliberalism, The Family, and Popular </span><span>Culture _(Cambridge Scholars). She has developed a course module </span><span>"Radical Pragmatics" (2014) for MA level art and design students at the </span><span>RCA to re-imagine the potential of workplace childcare in an art school.</span>
Topic
childcare
parenthood
nursery
creative platform
feminism
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Title
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Kim Dhillon
childcare
creative platform
England
feminism
London
nursery
parenthood
social practice
United Kingdom
writing
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
http://www.christadonner.com
Topic
community
motherhood
collaboration
childcare
Medium
drawing
painting
printmaking
installation
social practice
Artist Statement
Artmaking is my microscope and my scalpel: the tool I use to investigate the human organism through sensation and imagination. My recent studio practice looks to early feminist sci-fi while drawing from the matriarchal colony structures of social insects and the internal ecosystems of the microbiome to propose speculative models for human communities of the future, and to reimagine the architecture of our own bodies. Such inquiry must incorporate the experiences of others if it is to evolve. Embedded in my artistic practice is an exchange between individuals and communities that extends from the fictional to lived experiences and experiments. In 2012 I initiated the creative platform <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cultural ReProducers</a>, which incorporates artist interviews and skillsharing, small-press zines, collaborative events, institutional interventions, and an active online forum to explore the intersection of parenthood and creative practice. My speculative work in the studio is amplified by the community of creative thinkers and cultural workers raising children who I collaborate with and advocate for. This community will continue to evolve as its participants grow and change.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/388">Mother Load</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
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Title
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Christa Donner
Chicago
childcare
collaboration
community
drawing
Illinois
installation
motherhood
painting
printmaking
social practice
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.carrying-stones.com/ties-that-bind/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://wwww.carrying-stones.com</a>
Medium
sculpture
performance art
data visualization
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
San Francisco
California
USA
Artist Statement
The Carrying Stones Project is an ongoing series of sculpture, data visualization, and<br />social practice works that explores women’s work inequity in its many forms.<br /><br />Cooking, cleaning, childcare and eldercare responsibilities often still default to women, keeping them from<br />advancing at work and in society. Even community volunteerism—care-taking of the larger<br />community—falls disproportionately on women. This project documents the physical, emotional, and<br />practical effects of these imbalanced burdens.<br /><br />The inequalities that working women face are both systemic and pervasive, and those biases affect<br />individual women differently. As such, the concepts for the Carrying Stones works are viewed through an<br />intersectional lens, and are distilled from the personal narratives of women of diverse ages, ethnicities,<br />orientations, working roles, and socio-economic statuses.
Topic
parenting
caretaking
non-binary parenting
women's work
women's labor
gender inequity
wage gap
unpaid labor
unpaid work
work life balance
feminism
intersectional feminism
domestic work
housework
elder care
data visualization
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
(Opening September 2019) “Counting the Hours: Art, Data, and the Untold Stories of Women’s Work,” Sculpture, photographic portraiture, social practice, from The Carrying Stones Project, Code and Canvas, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Art Market San Francisco, 2 main floor on-site installations from The Carrying Stones Project
Force of Nature: Women’s Work Visualized," sculpture, photographic portraiture, social practice, from The Carrying Stones Project, Classic Cars West Gallery, Oakland, CA. Curated by Dasha Matsuura, director, Spoke Art (solo)
"The Weight of Your World," social practice public interactive event, Classic Cars West Gallery, Oakland, CA
"Ties That Bind," public sculpture, social practice, and performance, from the Carrying Stones Project, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA (solo)
"Ties That Bind," social practice public sculpture assembly event, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA
"Ties That Bind," 10-minute performance with 13 actors, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA
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Title
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Sawyer Rose
arenting
California
caretaking
childcare
data visualization
domestic labor
domestic work
elder care
feminism
gender equality
gender inequity
housework
intersectional feminism
non-binary parenting
performance art
sculpture
unpaid labor
unpaid work
wage gap
women’s labor
women’s work
work life balance
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Website
The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="http://www.jessdobkin.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jessdobkin.com</a></p>
Medium
performance
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
Toronto
Canada
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I’ve been a working artist, curator, community activist and teacher for more than 25 years, creating and producing intimate solo performances, large-scale public happenings, socially engaged interventions and performance art workshops and lectures. My practice extends across black boxes and white cubes, art fairs and subway stations, international festivals, and single bathroom stalls. I’ve operated an artist-run newsstand in a vacant subway station kiosk, a soup kitchen for artists, a breast milk tasting bar, and a performance festival hub for kids. I’m forever inspired by the rebel queers, renegade witches, and other dyke moms I run with, and bound to many brilliant artists, activists, spell-casters and healers. <span class="s1">For many years I made performances that drew from my own experiences of trauma and transformation, intimacy and motherhood. More recently, I’ve experienced a shift in my practice, where my attention has turned to wider theoretical questions about the nature of performance itself to </span>ask questions about when, where, how we perform - in theatres and galleries, on social media, and in our everyday lives.</p>
Topic
abjection
activism
adulthood
aging
archive
art
art and research
artist mother
art making
artist parent
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autobiography
binary tensions
bioethics
biology
birth
birth and death
birth trauma
bleeding
body
body exploration
body transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastmilk
care
censorship
childhood
creative practice
creative strategies
cultural reproducers
culture
curating
curation
curator
curatorial practice
documentation
domestic labor
domestic life
domestic space
domesticity
early motherhood
early parenthood
empathy
ethics
exhaustion
family
family accessible event
family portrait
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
gender
gender roles
gender stereotypes
human body
humor
identity
interdisciplinary
intimacy
invisible labor
lactation
love
materiality
maternal
maternal body
maternal bodies
maternal care
maternal desire
maternal experience
memory
menstruation
mess
milk
mother
mother artist identity
mother as artist
mother body
mother/artist identity
mother/child relationship
motherhood and political context
motherhood
motherhood and art
motherhood and art practice
motherhood and creative practice
motherhood and social context
motherhood and studio practice
motherhood as art practice
mothering
mothers
nursing
nursing mothers
objectification
parent
parent artists
parent/child relationship
parenthood
parenting
parents
patriarchy
performativity
personal experience
play
subjectivity
power
public breastfeeding
public space
pumping
queer
queer identity
queer parenting
representation
representations of motherhood
research and art
resistance
ritual
rituals
sexuality
single mothers
single mother
social justice
social practice
stories
storytelling
theory
time
transformation
trauma
vagina
visual culture
woman
women
women and gender studies
women artists
women representation
women's health
women's identity
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar 2006, 2012, 2016
Imagined Family Portraits 2007 - ongoing
Free Childcare Provided 2013
Fee for Service 2006
Being Green 2009
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Title
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Jess Dobkin
abjection
activism
adulthood
ageing
archive
art
art and research
art making
artist mother
artist parent
artist-parents
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autobiography
binary tensions
bioethics
biology
birth
birth and death
birth trauma
bleeding
body
body exploration
body transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastmilk
Care
censorship
childhood
creative practice
creative strategies
cultural reproducers
culture
curating
curation
curator
curatorial practice
documentation
domestic labor
domestic life
domestic space
domesticity
early motherhood
early parenthood
empathy
ethics
exhaustion
family
family accessible event
family portrait
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
gender
gender roles
gender stereotypes
human body
humor
identity
interdisciplinary
intimacy
invisible labor
lactation
love
materiality
maternal
maternal bodies
maternal body
maternal care
maternal desire
maternal experience
memory
menstruation
mess
milk
mother
mother artist
mother artist identity
mother artists
mother as artist
mother body
mother/artist identity
mother/child relationship
motherhood
motherhood and art
motherhood and art practice
motherhood and creative practice
motherhood and political context
motherhood and social context
motherhood and studio practice
motherhood as art practice
mothering
mothers
nursing
nursing mothers
objectification
parent
parent artists
parent/child relationship
parenthood
parenting
parents
patriarchy
performativity
personal experience
play
power
public breastfeeding
public space
pumping
queer
queer identity
queer parenting
representation
representations of motherhood
research and art
resistance
ritual
rituals
sexuality
single mother
single mothers
social justice
social practice
Stories
storytelling
subjectivity
theory
time
transformation
trauma
vagina
visual culture
woman
women
women and gender studies
women artists
women representation
women’s health
women’s identity
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.mariavelascostudio.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.mariavelascostudio.com</a>
Topic
multiple authorship
single mother
artist-parent-academic
intimacy
Medium
installation art
participatory art
social practice
collaboration
Artist Statement
My work exists at the intersection of art and social practice, where dialogue, process, and participation lead to new insights. I create site-specific installations, urban interventions, and participatory projects to investigate spaces, architecture; history; and, foremost, the human interactions intersecting them. My artistic practice is an opportunity to connect with a community, examine cultural conditions, and question assumptions about what we take for granted. Specifically, I deal with issues of displacement, migration, gender identity, vulnerability, and the structures of authority that govern our lives. To challenge the idea of ‘single authorship,’ I create open-ended works that invite viewers to become participants and even co-creators of the artistic experience. Ultimately, I see my practice as both social sculpture and an architecture of intimacy, conflating the private and the public, the inner and outer world; the work always in progress, seeking the necessary complicity with viewers. My creative interests have been amplified by becoming a mother. However it has been challenging to figure professional logistics, since parenting is rendered invisible - in the arts, in academia and the culture at large. "Intertwined Worlds" is a sketchbook collaboration with my ten-year-old son, Alex, who loves to draw and is a young artist. Through this exploration, I find a poignant unfolding of our worlds, a sort of peeking in each other's minds.
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Contributor
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F. María Velasco
Title
A name given to the resource
F. María Velasco
artist-parent-academic
collaboration
installation art
intimacy
multiple authorship
participatory art
single mother
social practice
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<p><a href="http://www.celiarocha.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.celiarocha.com</a></p>
Medium
drawing
photography
installation
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
Santa Ana
California
Artist Statement
<p>I am a Portuguese interdisciplinary artist living and working in Southern California. My lived experience and my interest in activism are the driving forces in my creative process. I use my artwork as a tool for activism, drawing on social issues that have affected me on a personal level, such as my experience of motherhood, the politics of childbirth or sexual violence. My artwork explores universal issues of gender and collective identity, culture, memory and loss, while it is imbued with the feeling of saudade, a typically Portuguese trait roughly translated as a nostalgic longing or yearning of someone or something of the past.</p>
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<p>I have used a wide range of media - including painting, installation, social practice, video and sound - but drawing and photography remain at the core of my practice. Influenced by Vija Celmins's drawings, Andrea Bowers use of text and activism and Suzanne Lacy’s commitment to social justice, my work examines inequality and is borne out of a desire to call attention to the often invisible and overlooked issues that affect primarily women.<br /><br />@celiarochastudio</p>
Topic
parenting
caretaking
pregnancy
labor
childbirth
motherhood
maternal
c-section
cesarean section
natural birth
home birth
feminism
breastfeeding
baby clothes
babies
children
maternal mortality
Exhibitions
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2021 <a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/606" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maternochronics</a> | Virtual exhibition | maternochronics.com
2018 Maternal Matters | Bolsky Gallery | Otis College of Art and Design | Los Angeles
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Title
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Célia Rocha
babies
baby clothes
breastfeeding
c-section
California
caretaking
cesarean section
childbirth
children
drawing
feminism
home birth
labor
maternal
maternal mortality
motherhood
natural birth
parenting
photography
pregnancy