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Artist Parent Organization Database
Service
An organization supporting artist parents.
Location
The location of the interview
Salem, Oregon
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Topic
reproduction
family
sex
gender
inclusive
zines
crowdsourcing
advocacy
paid family leave
care
caregiving
community
pregnancy
abortion
miscarriage
fetal loss
infertility
birth
gestation
identity
fashion
non-binary
LGBTQIA+
activism
performative action
library
collaboration
equity
policy
education
art
feminism
motherhood
fatherhood
parenthood
workshop
consent
About
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We (Cayla Skillin-Brauchle and Danielle C. Wyckoff) have come together to birth </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reproductive Media</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a project that focuses on all things family, gender, sex, and reproduction. Iterations of Reproductive Media have included a Mobile Zine Library and performative actions and workshops in which we facilitate discussions on these themes. The Reproductive Media Zine Library’s collection includes dozens of contributors who have produced zines related to these topics, ranging from personal experiences to statistics and facts. Our curatorial vision for this library is inclusive: we encourage individuals to share diverse information, experiences, and interpretations. This collection is an ongoing and ever-growing library.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Part of Reproductive Media’s larger mission is to provide educational and advocacy materials and support. Current resources we have produced as free booklets include ways to advocate for family-friendly* workplaces, suggestions for creating more inclusive educational settings, and other tools to advocate for legislative change such as ones that would support families for medical leave. (*We recognize an inclusive definition of family and remember that people receive love and support from partners, elders, children, siblings, lovers, pets, friends, and more.) </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reproductive Media stems from our shared investment in discussion and because our individual artistic practices utilize conversation and crowdsourcing as a tactic to research and create projects. Wyckoff’s project, “Please Tell Me a Story About Love,” has traveled around the world asking folks to do just that. The project’s open-ended structure situates the artist as listener, hearing and recording stories about all forms of love. Skillin-Brauchle’s “Data Collection” performances seek to create local data sets by interviewing community members in public places. While disparate in their approaches, these projects act as non-judgemental agents, recorders of contemporary experience. Our projects focus on the ‘local,’ whether that be a site or a community, and both projects collect responses that fuel our individual artwork in other material forms.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We believe that critical discussions require space. Reproductive Media creates such a space, one that is a public yet private forum, to talk about all things family, sex, gender, and reproduction: the choice to parent or not; the experiences of non-binary lives; governmental policy that is restrictive and policy that is protective; the challenges and rewards of parenting; experiences of becoming a parent through adoption, foster care, birth, or other paths; LBGQTIA+ rights; infertility and the emotional, physical and financial implications; miscarriage and fetal loss; birth control; abortion; models of prenatal care and giving birth (medical model and midwifery model); reproductive rights; reproductive privilege based on identity and socio-economics; sex; babies; gender; consent.</span></p>
Organization Website
reproductive.media@gmail.com
Organzation Director
Cayla Skillin-Brauchle
Danielle C. Wyckoff
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Reproductive Media
abortion
activism
advocacy
art
birth
Care
caregiving
collaboration
community
consent
crowdsourcing
education
equity
family
fashion
fatherhood
feminism
fetal loss
gender
gestation
identity
inclusive
infertitlity
LGBTQIA+
library
miscarriage
motherhood
non-binary
paid family leave
parenthood
performative action
policy
pregnancy
reproduction
sex
workshop
zines
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.lexmarie.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.lexmarie.com</a>
Medium
acrylic
acrylic on canvas
Location
The location of the interview
Maryland
USA
Artist Statement
As a contemporary artist, I create based on visuals concepts of the imagination and real life. Including abstract techniques in my portraits and other pieces, allows room for the audience to connect to each body of work and identify themselves somewhere in the storyline. Uniquely I chose to opt out of outlining as done in my previous works, and focused on using bold color choices. My art represents my story, but I know it’s a story many know well. <br /><br />In my Mother and Son series, I hope to reflect the honesty and beauty of motherhood, the ugly too. It’s far from perfect for any parent. No matter what walk of life you come from, this series is personal, it’s transgenerational, it’s ours. Mother and Son is a reminder that I’m not alone in this everchanging journey and makes light of precious fleeting moments along the way.
Topic
parenting
art
motherhood
artist/mother
artists with children
breastfeeding
son
children
everyday
everyday life
single mother
single mothers
women artists
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
Artist Mother Studio x Project for Empty Space
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
Maternal Journal #2
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Title
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Lex Marie
acrylic
acrylic on canvas
art
artist/mother
artists with children
breastfeeding
children
everyday
everyday life
Maryland
motherhood
parenting
single mother
single mothers
son
USA
women artists
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Resource Library
Book
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Editor
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/47">Rachel Epp Buller</a>
Charles Reeve
Contributor
The author of an article within an anthology
Julia V. Hendrickson
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/223">Irene Pérez</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/252">Jennie Klein</a>
Tina Kinsella
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/78">Shira Richter</a>
Lydia Gordon
Caroline Seek Langill
Niku Kashef
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/98">Deirdre Donoghue</a>
Alicia Harris (Assiniboine)
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/247">Terri Hawkes</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/5">Dyana Gravina</a>
Anna Ehnold-Danailov
Line Langebek
Doreen Balabanoff
Heidi Overhill
Ruchika Wason Singh
Amber Berson
Juliana Driever
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/46">Lena Šimić</a>
Emily Underwood-Lee
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/104">Natalie Loveless</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/100">Christa Donner</a>
Andrea Francke
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/60">Kim Dhillon</a>
Martina Mullaney
Publisher
<a href="https://demeterpress.org/books/inappropriate-bodies-art-design-and-maternity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Demeter Press</a>
City of Publication
Bradford
Province of Publication
Onterio
Country of Publication
Canada
Date of Publication
2019
ISBN 13
9781772582093
Topic
maternity
maternal
expectations
norms
strategies for change
bodies
maternal body
design
art
systems design
appropriateness
inappropriateness
collectives
activism
feminism
queer bodies
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Title
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Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity
activism
appropriateness
art systems design
Bodies
Bradford
Canada
collectives
Design
expectations
feminism
maternal
maternal body
maternity
norms
Ontario
queer bodies
strategies for change
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.kimyibo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kimyibo.com</a>
Medium
printmaking
installation
drawing
cards
Location
The location of the interview
Geneva
Switzerland
Seoul
Korea
Los Angeles
California
Artist Statement
Since 2010 my art has been about processing my experience of giving birth to and raising children—both the emotional aspect of it and the social context in which my stories are situated. To create a space of shared reflection, I created a collective called Institute of Mothering Artists, IOMA. Here is an excerpt from the manifesto of IOMA: “We are writing a new definition of the word “mother” where the work of caring does not assume a body of a woman, hence we want to use “mother” as an action verb. To mother means to care for or to protect someone or something.” (an excerpt from the manifesto for Institute of Mothering Artists, 2018) My thoughts on “mothering” were inspired by the stance of women who were mothering in the margins. In a book “Revolutionary Mothering,” a collection of writings by radical and queer black feminists, the editors Alexis Pauline Gumbs and China Martens, define mothering as an act of caring, nurturing, affirming, and supporting life. For me, mothering is doing the reproductive labor with love and using this very act of caring for others to fight the injustice. It is transforming the society while being transformed by the act of caring. In my personal art making, I try to capture this metamorphosing process that takes place when we take care of one another. The spaces I create through drawing, printmaking and installation become a metaphoric place where the visual elements and logic recreate the dynamics of interpersonal relationships.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
2018 oh motHER, Custom House Leith, Edinburgh, UK
2018 Casual Kitchen Art, Curated by Super Ego, Junkere 11, Bern, Switzerland
2018 À Table, Ressources Urbaines, Genève, Switzerland
2017 Paradoxical, Pneu, Velodrome Jonction, Genève, Switzerland
2012 Reflections (Duo Exhibition), Paul Whitney Larson Gallery, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
2012 Blessings II, Gage Family Art Gallery, Augsburg College, MN, USA
2011 Women: Relationship and Identity, Curated by Sarah Sampedro, Homewood Studios, MN, USA
Topic
art
art world
artist collective
artist mother
care
care giving
care labor
care taking
care work
caregivers
caregiving
emotional space
feminism
feminist
feminist art history
gender
gender equality
interdependence
maternal ambivalence
maternal care
maternal subjectivity
mother artist
mother artists
motherhood and art
motherhood and social context
mothering
racialized mothering
revolutionary mothering
queer parenting
representation of motherhood
reproductive labor
social justice
transformation
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Title
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KimyiBo
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://laurenfrancesevans.com/">http://laurenfrancesevans.com/</a>
Medium
sculpture
collage
video
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Birmingham
Alabama
USA
Artist Statement
As an artist, I am intrigued by the materiality of the flesh and believe it to function as a microcosm that points to various aspects of the immaterial human experience. Years before ever becoming a parent, I was already fascinated by the spiritual and cosmic significance of the human belly button and its relationship to the creative act. As a child I pulled at mine, trying to flip it inside out. Years later, as a graduate student, I poured plaster into it regularly, making castings of its negative space. The belly button is the first mark that life leaves on the body; it is a scar that points to our origins.
Many creation myths describe our world as originating from a central point. The Greek term omphalos (navel) can refer to various symbolic centers that are believed to connect the earthly and divine. Just as the human belly button marks our connection to (and inevitable separation from) our mothers, these so-called navels of the world are often associated with myths of cosmic origin, functioning as physical markers of the very sites at which our earth was supposedly born into existence. This symbolism can be found across cultures and religions: ziggurats, temples, holy mountains, the tree of life, and more.
I’m excited and inspired by the navel, umbilical cord, and placenta as both site and symbol of the simultaneity that is embedded in the human experience. Questions of origin and existence are constantly shaping how I think about my creative work, and my belief is that the work of the artist, and perhaps especially the mother artist, is primarily ontological. Just as the human belly button marks both a connection to and a separation from our physical origins, the work that I make points to a similar simultaneity of opposites, referencing the body’s attraction and repulsion but also the immaterial void of human longing in us all.
Before becoming a mother, I thought of attachment and separation as psychologies experienced by the child. I didn’t realize until experiencing it firsthand that, not unlike the blood circulating through the placenta, these psychologies very much go both ways. I’ve been thinking a lot about this entanglement and have been working it out in a recent body of work. At times I imagine vividly that my daughter and I are still connected by this cord. It’s a tug of war. Often, I tug at the cord, longing for my independence from her, and more often than not, she tugs to bring me closer, unwilling to let me exist apart from her.
Topic
pregnancy
breastfeeding
let down reflex
placenta
umbilical cord
belly button
knots
faith
religion
christianity
attachment
extended breastfeeding
creative act
origins
symbolic centers
Virgin Mary
Christ
breastmilk
breast milk miscarriage
birth and death
birth
artist mother
artist parents
art
artist network
artist/mother
artist/parent/academic
bedsharing
cosleeping
body
bodies
boundaries
devine feminine
early motherhood
early parenthood
education
embodied motherhood
embroidery
family and career
female body
feminist
gestation
lactation
Madonna
maternal
materiality
milk
nursing
pieta
subjectivity
teaching
ritual
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
Wrapped Up, Tied Up, Tangled Up – solo – 2019 – Samford Art Gallery – Samford University – Birmingham, AL
ArtFields – 2019 - The ROB – Lake City, SC
Art|Mother – Unfinished Business Art Show – 2019 – Los Angeles, CA
Are We There Yet? – CIVA Juried Exhibition (forthcoming - June) – 2019 – Johnson Gallery– Bethel University – St. Paul, MN
Simultaneous Letdown – solo – 2019 (forthcoming - October) – Gatewood Gallery – University of North Carolina, at Greensboro – Greensboro, NC
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Title
A name given to the resource
Lauren Frances Evans
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.axisweb.org/P/TheresaBradbury" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.axisweb.org/P/TheresaBradbury</a>
Topic
femininity
gender roles
abjection
activism
adulthood
art
artist/mother
artists with children
,binary tensions
body
capitalism
censorship
mother/daughter collaboration
performativity
patriarchy
contemporary art practice
feminism
feminist theory
gender norms
Medium
performance
live art
photography
sculpture
Artist Statement
Artist Statement – Theresa Bradbury My current practice is an exploration of ideas about the feminine being a social construct – an artificial masquerade. The female as living as her own spectator, the female as always accompanied by her own image. My concerns surrounding the masquerade and performative nature of femininity and the display and objectification of the female body as commodity within Capitalist society. Utilising a live art, film, photographic, performance and sculptural practice to reinforce positive feminist perspectives on the female body. To subvert the prevailing tropes of femininity as prescribed through a patriarchal lens. Investigating questions relating to the body in site, alongside themes of representation and gender, exploring and interrogating social boundaries and acceptable codes of exposure. The appropriate/inappropriate dichotomy, particularly in relation to femininity. The idea that the female body can be acted upon and coerced by external forces must be disrupted to reframe the body as active and autonomous. If the body is a surface to be inscribed upon by cultural and societal forces, what is real? My body as alienated, as belonging to the other. Constant awareness of my body, not as it is for me, but for the other. Femininity formed through the constant surveillance of ourselves against others through the mirror image, a device used to measure yourself against. My work references an anti-aesthetic, a disruption of the social and symbolic ordering of the female body, exploring a rejection of woman as idealised surface and questioning and disrupting the idea of a proper social body. Confronting the viewer with the abjection of the body, refusing containment and allowing seepage and immersion with bodily fluids. My practice attempts to erode the fetishishtic dominant structures of patriarchal Capitalism. By presenting the abjectness of the body, the work both solicits and repels the viewer and refuses the link to commodity culture. The construction of femininity as temporal and manipulable, an artifice, what constitutes femininity and who draws the boundaries? My work subverts the socially dictated artificial femininity represented through media imagery. Femininity which is something that must be purchased and imposed artificially upon the surface of the female and a radical acceptance of mess, fluids and flesh are part of feminist resistance.
Location
The location of the interview
Shrewsbury
England
United Kingdom
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Theresa Bradbury
Title
A name given to the resource
Theresa Bradbury
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Location
The location of the interview
Berlin
Germany
About
MATERNAL FANTASIES is an evolving and interdisciplinary group of international artists and cultural producers based in Berlin, Germany. We (re)connected in 2018 to share experiences and insights into the most marginalised topic within both the art world and feminist discourse: Motherhood.
We join forces to embrace, discuss, elaborate and express contrasting experiences and family stories, memories, fantasies, desires and horror scenarios related to ‘Maternal Fantasies’.
Currently we meet every three-weeks to examine through artistic research, collaborative artworks and lived experience the dynamics between artistic creation and motherhood seeking to shape the discourse of motherhood through our artistic working process.
We are an organic group that produces works in different constellations between the individual group members.
Current group members are: Aino El Solh, Hanne Klaas, Isabell Spengler, Lena Chen, Magdalena Kallenberger, Maicyra Leão, Melanie Schlachter, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Olga Sonja Thorarensen, Sandra Moskova.
Organization Website
<a href="https://www.maternalfantasies.net/">https://www.maternalfantasies.net/</a>
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://www.maternalfantasies.net/">https://www.maternalfantasies.net/</a>
Medium
photography
video
performance
collective
creative writing
Artist Statement
MATERNAL FANTASIES is an evolving and interdisciplinary group of international artists and cultural producers based in Berlin, Germany. We (re)connected in 2018 to share experiences and insights into the most marginalised topic within both the art world and feminist discourse: Motherhood.
We join forces to embrace, discuss, elaborate and express contrasting experiences and family stories, memories, fantasies, desires and horror scenarios related to ‘Maternal Fantasies’.
Currently we meet every three-weeks to examine through artistic research, collaborative artworks and lived experience the dynamics between artistic creation and motherhood seeking to shape the discourse of motherhood through our artistic working process.
We are an organic group that produces works in different constellations between the individual group members.
Current group members are: Aino El Solh, Hanne Klaas, Isabell Spengler, Lena Chen, Magdalena Kallenberger, Maicyra Leão, Melanie Schlachter, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Olga Sonja Thorarensen, Sandra Moskova.
Topic
academic writing
ambivalence
anger
art
art and research
art history
art making
artist collective
artist mother
artist network
artist residency
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
artists with children
binary tensions
body
capitalism
care
care labor
care work
caretaking
choreography
collaboration
collaborative project
community
discourse
contemporary art practice
costume
creative strategies
curatorial practice
daily practice
daily routine
daily tasks
domestic objects
domestic scene
domestic space
economy and caregiving
empathy
ethics
everyday activities
fair wages
relationship
feminism
feminist art
feminist art theory
feminist theory
feminist theory
gesture
identity
ideological motherhood
immigration
instinct
intuition of motherhood
interdependence
interdisciplinary
intergenerational
intersectionality
labor
maintenance
maternal
maternal affect
maternal ambivilance
maternal anxiety
maternal body
maternal bodies
maternal care
maternal collaboration
maternal defense
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
maternal healthcare
maternal identity
maternal labor
maternal lineage
maternal mental health
maternal practice
maternal protection
maternal relationships
maternal subjectivity
maternal theory
maternal thinking
maternal time
maternal voice
maternal work
practice-led research
race
representation
representations of motherhood
reproductive labor
resistance
single mother
skillshare
social practice
story telling
studio practice
subjectivity
text
theory
time
women representation
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
M1, Arthur Boskamp Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, April 2019 The photo-text installation "Like so many..." was exhibited at "Colleagues Wanted I - Superheroines and visionary associates for everyday challenges", at alpha nova galerie Berlin in September 2018.
upcoming: Soloexhibition, M1 Arthur Boskamp Foundation, Hohenlockstedt, March 2020 catalogue, Maternal Fantasies, to be published March 2020
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maternal fantasies
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Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://www.tracymarietaylor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.tracymarietaylor.com</a>
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
USA
Artist Statement
Cried Milk (2018 - present)
Cried Milk uses data collected from a smartphone app to visualize what it looks like to exclusively breast pump for twelve months. Each visualization represents one month of data. The blue rings represent one hour, the change in value tracks the hours of sunlight and darkness, while the change in saturation indicates broad weather patterns (sunny versus cloudy). The straight lines each represent one day and the yellow circular bursts represent each 30-minute pumping session. The size of each circle correlates to the quantity of milk collected. This project connect to broader cultural conversations about motherhood. As infertility rates continue to skyrocket, many women experience motherhood through a similar, clinical lens. My hope is that this project gives voice to the millions of women who have struggled to become mothers and honor the under-valued labor of motherhood.
The Shape of Your Sounds (2017 - present)
Using audio surveillance technologies provided by a commercial baby monitor, I capture my baby’s cries and translate that data into visual shapes. The sound waves loop back on themselves in a 360-degree rotation. The result is vaguely reminiscent of the shape of a flower; each burst of sound looks like a petal. The initial purpose for this project was to try to find visual patterns that could be more easily interpreted. However, I quickly realized this was a fool’s game; the visual patterns are as indiscernible as his sounds. Therefore, what remains is a visual record of a moment in time; a beautiful reminder of those sleepless nights when the world was comprised of just my son and myself.
Sleep Regression (2016 – 2017)
“Sleep Regression” is a series of intimate works that were painted in the space of nap times and record the moments I watched my son while working in my home studio. The paintings’ small size and blue palette reproduce the video format and color, mimicking the tension between the close, private space of sleep and the distance created by the act of surveillance. The effects are eerie and disturbing images of rest. Lingering in the unconscious state of sleep the baby’s body looks lifeless. Are these representations of a sleeping child or a fetus? These works are thus unusual documents of baby’s first year of life–odd surrogates for the family photo album.
The gray-scale paintings, on the other hand, reinforce the reference to the sonogram, creating layers of distance. The painting series thus portrays an interesting paradox: the increasing stylistic abstraction chronicles my catharsis after years of fertility struggles as I move further away from my past sorrows, yet the works also reflect a turn inward and becomes more specific to my body (womb) and more private. The delineated forms in black, white, and grey look like the thermal imaging of a birth–drapery resembles the uterine wall, a dark ground morphs into a vaginal opening.
Topic
abstraction
aesthetics
art
artist mother
baby
baby food
bodily transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastfeeding advocacy
breastmilk
care
care taking
care work
caregiving
caretaking
communication
conceptual art
contemporary art
creative practice
creative practice and family life
cyborg
daily life
daily routine
daily tasks
data
data tracking
data visualization
documentation
domestic life
domesticity
early motherhood
everyday activities
exhaustion
family and career
feeding
female body
female experience
feminism
feminist
feminist art
food
food systems
gender equality
gender roles
good mother
grief
growth
guilt
healthcare
human body
infant care
invisible labor
isolation
lactation
let down reflex
loss
maternal experience
maternal healthcare
maternal time
medical care
milk
milk jug
money
mother and child
mother artist
mother guilt
mother work
mother/child relationship
motherhood
motherhood and economic context
motherhood as art practice
mothering
motherwork
mundane details
nature vs. technology
nursing
nursing mothers
parental leave
personal
personal boundaries
personal experience
personal space
pumping
record keeping
remembering
repetition
repetitive tasks
representations of motherhood
research and art
sleep deprivation
social norms
son
technology
time
unpaid labor
visualizations
women's health
women's identity
audio waves
archive
care labor
crying
data visualization
documentation
emotional space
infants and sleep
language
language development
sleep training
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
2018- “Fits and Starts,” Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018- “The Shape of Your Sounds” (solo), Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/471">2019 - "While I Was Away" (solo), Roman Susan Gallery, 1224 W. Loyola Ave. Chicago, IL</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/495">Painting at Night, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN</a>
Medium
acylic
flashe
sculpture
digital
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Tracy Marie Taylor
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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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
A name given to the resource
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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Resource Library
Book
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Author
Sheilah Wilson
Publisher
Sheilah Wilson
City of Publication
Columbus
State of Publication
Ohio
Country of Publication
United States
Date of Publication
2016
Topic
motherhood
art and motherhood
art
zine
mothers
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Title
A name given to the resource
Mother Mother
artist-parents
motherhood
motherhood as art practice
mothering
parenting
zines
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Resource Library
Book
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Author
Anne Truitt
Publisher
Penguin Books
City of Publication
London
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Date of Publication
March 6, 1984
ISBN 13
978-0140069631
ISBN 10
0140069631
Topic
artist-parents
motherhood
mother artists
art and mothering
art
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Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
art
artist mothers
artist parents
mother artist
motherhood
mothering
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Motherhood in the Art World cover
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Book
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Author
Claudia Sandoval Romero
City of Publication
Vienna
Country of Publication
Austria
Date of Publication
2015
Topic
motherhood
art and mothering
art
visual culture
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Motherhood in the Art World
anna oppermann
annegret soltau
elaine reichek
ewa partum
faith ringgold
feministo
fina miralles
friedl kubelka vom groeller
gina pane
hackney flashers
helke sander
kirsten justesen
laura mulvey
lea lublin
louise bourgeois
mako idemitsu
maria evelia marmolejo
martha rosler
Mary Kelly
mierle laderman ukeles
mimi smith
mother artist
mother artists
motherhood
motherhood and art practice
motherhood and economic context
motherhood and social context
niki de saint phalle
ree morton
susan hiller
tina keane
ulrike rosenbach
ursula reuter christiansen
valie export
zorka saglova
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Resource Library
Book
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Editor
Michi Jigarjian
Qiana Mestrich
Publisher
Secretary Press
City of Publication
New York
State of Publication
New York
Country of Publication
United States
Date of Publication
January 1, 2015
ISBN 13
978-0988321441
ISBN 10
0988321440
Topic
maternal thinking
motherhood
mother artists
art and mothering
visual culture
art
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Title
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How We Do Both: Art and Motherhood
art making
artist mothers
artist parents
mother artists
motherhood
motherhood and art practice
mothering
mothers
New York
visual culture
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Resource Library
Book
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Editor
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank">Myrel Chernick</a>
Jennie Klein
Publisher
Demeter Press
City of Publication
Bradford
Province of Publication
Ontario
Country of Publication
Canada
Date of Publication
May 11, 2011
ISBN 13
978-0986667121
ISBN 10
0986667129
Topic
motherhood
art
mother artists
embodied motherhood
ideology of motherhood
visual culture
art and mothering
caretaking
Dublin Core
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The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art
artist mothers
embodied motherhood
feminism
motherhood
mothering
mothers
mothers and art
visual culture