2 300 434 https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/839818a54f7a89a6f443ec5d1d604f11.jpg 683d3c9ac29394475b4eebf91843632c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.gudrunfilipska.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gudrunfilipska.com/</a> <a href="https://theshelfgallery.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://theshelfgallery.wordpress.com/</a> Medium film photography printmaking Artist Statement The Shelf Gallery: The Shelf Gallery is a small gallery space on a shelf in our house in Fordham, Cambridgeshire. The gallery is situated above our record collection and below our book shelves and is run by me, <a href="http://www.gudrunfilipska.com/">Gudrun Filipska</a> and my daughter Sigi. We specialise in showing diminutive and site specific works and curate a running programme of tiny exhibitions. The shelf gallery was started as part of my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/residencyinmotherhood/">Artists residency in motherhood</a> in 2016. The concept of the Shelf Gallery makes a statement about the difficulty in obtaining and affording a ‘traditional gallery space’ as well as raising issues around the tensions between domestic and ‘professional’ spaces and the implicit assumption within the industry that these spheres remain separate. It addresses the difficulties in conducting an artistic or curatorial practice within a domestic space and the challenge artists/gallery owners who are parents also face. We believe we are the smallest open by appointment gallery in the world. The Shelf Gallery will open in time for the first world wide <a href="http://www.wasbiennale.com/about/" target="_blank">Apartments and Studios Biennial</a>. Nov 2016 with an exhibition of photographic work by the <a href="https://gudrun-filipska.squarespace.com/config/pages/57aef3bd1b631b641dfdbe7e" target="_blank">fmr group.</a> Artist Statement: My practice is interdisciplinary in nature, I work across mediums including drawing, print and video and also consider writing to be part of my practice. My work has at its root a concern with transience, particularly walking, and I make visual and auditory works primarily responding to industrial landscape and the territories which surround my home in East Anglia. Location The location of the interview Fordham, Cambridgeshire Topic Artist Residency in Motherhood home exhibition space mother daughter collaboration Apartments and Studios Bieniall domestic space curatorial practice walking Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Gudrun Filipska Title A name given to the resource Gudrun Filipska artist residency in motherhood collaboration curatorial practice domestic exhibition space home exhibition space mother/daughter collaboration https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/cfff4c0e8d2ce3647339983c0d98c669.jpg 2dc08ffddabcafd0bae190aca2cd04ce Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 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 social practice works that explores women’s work inequity in its many forms. Cooking, cleaning, childcare and eldercare responsibilities often still default to women, keeping them from advancing at work and in society. Even community volunteerism—care-taking of the larger community—falls disproportionately on women. This project documents the physical, emotional, and practical effects of these imbalanced burdens. The inequalities that working women face are both systemic and pervasive, and those biases affect individual women differently. As such, the concepts for the Carrying Stones works are viewed through an intersectional lens, and are distilled from the personal narratives of women of diverse ages, ethnicities, 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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 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 https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/ddbc6fc00f72815bc30b355db9bb822a.jpg ee57308a469e31946301e2ad48ab9a46 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.pennydavis.com" target="_blank">www.pennydavis.com</a> Topic making with children play toys food naughtiness mother's verb list Medium sculpture video performance Location The location of the interview Leicester United Kingdom Artist Statement I am an artist working primarily in sculpture but also, drawing and video performance. I am interested in exploring the connections between maternal subjectivity and sculptural form and process. Building upon the legacy of artists such as Barbara Hepworth and Phyllida Barlow but also inspired by Richard Serra’s ‘Verb List’, I make sculptural assemblages using materials for their specific values as they can be applied to my experience of motherhood. Most recently this practice has extended to video and performance and I have begun to use my own children as assistants in the work I produce. Aesthetically and politically, I am engaged with a history of abstract sculpture which carries the weight of a very masculine modernism, minimalism and post-minimalism. Yet, I am particularly interested in how Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theories of maternal experience intersect with existing assumptions of abstraction in contemporary sculpture, of how sculpture might reveal the physical and emotional tensions of maternal ambivalence. I am interested in how abstraction can articulate maternal embodiment and the phenomenological experience of motherhood and how the interactions between form and material might reveal this. The sculpture has become concerned with this relationship between mother and child as temporary and contingent. The materials are both fragile and of low value: willow, packaging, polystyrene, building materials. There is a combination of natural and synthetic, using materials and processes to explore tensions associated with fine art and craft. The integrity of support is always in question in the sculptures dependency upon the environment. The viewer is never quite sure of which part supports what, and if you took a part away, there is the feeling that the entire structure would fall apart. An illusionistic treatment of material generates a mystery around its original identity – natural apes synthetic and vice versa. Within the construction, qualities of weight and strength are confused by their placement in relation to other sculptural parts or to the architecture. Surfaces are intensely worked to create a contradiction in scale: the viewer must physically engage with the sculpture whilst also pausing to observe intimate surface detail. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Penny Davis Title A name given to the resource Penny Davis food Leicester play sculpture toys United Kingdom video performance https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/39d2ffe69322fd8ed5d6940ee82eaba9.jpg b2a54ac3164b23798d3695a6d3ce63cd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://raisecain.net" target="_blank">http://raisecain.net</a> Topic self-imaging identity mothering authotheory personal boundaries Medium performance photography film writing Artist Statement My current work focuses on the prurient maternal. How is being a mother not a sexual act/event/activity? I explore the boundaries of motherhood using performance, writing, photography and film. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Magda Title A name given to the resource Magdalena Olszanowski autotheory film identity mothering performance personal boundaries photography writing https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/3ad4b2ef701fc942b0b33de9bed29a28.jpg 0b42d64c9ada4b7ba59837b5e2ff1e5c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.xscollective.com.au/" target="_blank">http://www.xscollective.com.au/</a> Medium sculpture Location The location of the interview Mildura Victoria Australia Artist Statement Danielle Hobbs explores ideologies, contradictions and complexities of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ motherhood with her labour intensive, fastidiously crafted wardrobe of clothes for her children, offering a poetic response to the artist’s first-hand experience of Postnatal Depression. Hobbs’ meticulously constructed garments are enriched with talismans, amulets and charms, and laced with traces of strangely familiar, slightly subverted fairytales and myths. Their construction incorporates the psychological agency of biological materials such as collected hair, eyelashes and nails from family members as well as materials collected from native and introduced animals such as echidnas, galahs, the fox and the European rabbit. Fight or Flight takes its name from the psychological reaction that occurs in response to a harmful or threatening situation. It is a reversible caplet; one side is stitched with a bib shaped collection of porcelain human teeth replicas, the other has a generous covering of feathers from an important Australian cultural icon and (ironically) flightless bird, the Emu. The article of clothing made for the artist’s daughter can be worn baring teeth or displaying feathers depending on the chosen response to a situation. The work embodies the dual purposes of watching over the child in the mother’s absence and shielding the child from the ‘bad’ mother’s presence. These protective garments make manifest Hobbs’ hopeful coping mechanisms that enabled her to navigate and overcome her darkest moments of Postnatal Depression. Topic good mother bad mother clothing fairytale postnatal deppression costume cultural icon talisman amulet charm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Danielle Hobbs amulet Australia bad mother charm costume cultural icon good mother Mildura motherhood mothering postpartum depression Victoria wardrobe https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/beed664af8938e232ac9b28b4045c77c.jpg d60080277df9e2ea3236ab51d94c29bd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.joannarosenfeld.co.uk/home/4580745371" target="_blank">http://www.joannarosenfeld.co.uk/home/4580745371</a> Medium Theatre Maker Location The location of the interview Brighton and Hove England United Kingdom Artist Statement Motherhood: (Un)speakable, (Un)spoken is devised & performed by Joanna Rosenfeld, and devised & directed by Kath Burlinson. Lou Cope is our dramaturge and Tessa Howell our producer. Design is by Ellan Parry and Peta Taylor with music composed by Sined Jones. Supported by the Free Space Gallery, Kentish Town, the Nightingale and funded by the Arts Council of England. An early work in development was presented at The Works at Brighton Dome in February 2015. The resulting hour long performance after an r&p period was presented in November 2015, both at the Lantern Theatre, Brighton and the Bread and Roses Theatre, London. Joanna Rosenfeld says; "Unsurprisingly, I began to consider the subject of motherhood, thirteen years ago before the arrival of our first child. After experiencing a traumatic birth I felt alienated and unrepresented in my cultural environment. I kept wondering why nobody had told me about the realities of birth, the brutality of sleep deprivation, the depth of potential grief and the darkness of post-natal depression. I searched, but found very few prepared to speak with honesty, truth and authenticity. So, being a theatre maker, I began to make. I searched for ways into this complex subject, toward an understanding and a truth...ways that might lead me to a healing place, help me feel okay, normal and enable me then to define my own motherhood. I found support from the Nightingale, started working with friend and mentor, director Kath Burlinson and have received funding from Arts Council England". "Countless interviews, workshops at Lewes New School and the Brighton Dome in collaboration with Free University Brighton, and the International Women's Day, improvisations, deep felt moments of glory and shame and months of quiet reflection have now shaped the piece Motherhood: (Un)speakable, (Un)spoken, a collection of real stories from real women, unified by their honesty and courage in addressing the best kept secret, what it actually takes to be a mum". Brighton-based artist Joanna Rosenfeld returns to the stage, thirteen years after her last full production to present Motherhood: (Un)speakable, (Un)spoken. An unflinchingly honest journey and collaboration with mothers from across Sussex. Motherhood: (Un)speakable, (Un)spoken uses storytelling, live painting, projection and puppetry to explore subjects often culturally marginalised and aims to open a dialogue with audiences about what beliefs, assumptions and expectations exist around the idea of motherhood; accompanied by an original score. "The one who leaves her child to cry because she might hit her"; "The one who feeds her child liquidized Mars Bars at four months", "The one who left two of her children in Australia to pursue the man she loved." Through a framework we call "The One Who....", rolling visual and spoken text based on true stories of mothers confronts the audience with what they believe constitutes "good" or "proper" mothering. These true statements, presented without judgment, encourage the audience to reflect on their own conscious and unconscious attitudes, beliefs and judgments. Topic motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Joanna Rosenfeld acting London motherhood performance theatre United Kingdom https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/491e36e7ab2754cdf2c75b6b28e1fc46.jpg d2a035d31ea9822f825b02d4734981e7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.lindanclark.com" target="_blank">www.lindanclark.com</a> Topic motherhood Practice-led Research Methodology identity ritual personal experience public space private space Medium Installation Artist Statement My recent work explores the shifting re-interpretations of motherhood as subject matter in contemporary art. In particular, my work investigates the process of traversing mother/artist identities as a useful model to reinstate a creative space between motherhood and art practice. This premise involves re-orienting rituals and personal experience utilising a role of mother as ‘Keeper, Facilitator and Manipulator of Memory’ to create a new narrative which may highlight social undercurrents or create a new mythology. This narrative is conveyed through sculptural objects, video and sound that are used as innovative sites in installation art that blur private and public boundaries. Location The location of the interview Augustine Heights Queensland Australia Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Linda Clark Title A name given to the resource Linda Clark AUGUSTINE HEIGHTS Australia identity installation art personal experience Practice-led Research Methodology private space public space Queensland ritual https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/631a72a9754073a805c4c293b6af6341.jpeg 91538a2646b6de5073782f4583997809 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fontana di Trevi, 2016 Description An account of the resource My point of departure is based on my physical awareness. The vanishing necessity to be physically present somewhere to act opens up a large window of questions, which I detect and elaborate in my work. The confrontation of the human body, its functions and its expressions in relation to society interests me the most. There is a displacement going on which I use for a redefinition of my own identity. The female body, which undergoes complex transformations, is still under the public spotlight when it comes to a justification of professional interests. Why should it be intellectually less valuable to talk about pregnancy in a theoretical context when a woman is also pregnant at the same time? This doubt still unmasks the western belief in the dichotomy of mind and body and its gender classification. I am well aware of the risks of subjectivity, yet I think that personal drives can lead to splendid creations and discoveries. For me as an artist, life and art are closely related and they interchange their influences. The division between an in- and an out-side, a private and a public, is constantly going through an osmotic transition. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.barbaraphilipp.com" target="_blank">www.barbaraphilipp.com</a> <a href="http://www.mbassyunlimited.org/008-barbara-philipp/" target="_blank">http://www.mbassyunlimited.org/008-barbara-philipp/</a> Medium performance art video art artists' books drawing painting Location The location of the interview Amsterdam Netherlands Artist Statement My point of departure is based on my physical awareness. The vanishing necessity to be physically present somewhere to act opens up a large window of questions, which I detect and elaborate in my work. The confrontation of the human body, its functions and its expressions in relation to society interests me the most. There is a displacement going on which I use for a redefinition of my own identity. The female body, which undergoes complex transformations, is still under the public spotlight when it comes to a justification of professional interests. Why should it be intellectually less valuable to talk about pregnancy in a theoretical context when a woman is also pregnant at the same time? This doubt still unmasks the western belief in the dichotomy of mind and body and its gender classification. I am well aware of the risks of subjectivity, yet I think that personal drives can lead to splendid creations and discoveries. For me as an artist, life and art are closely related and they interchange their influences. The division between an in- and an out-side, a private and a public, is constantly going through an osmotic transition. Topic body female body identity pregnancy breastfeeding motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Barbara Philipp Amsterdam artists books body breastfeeding drawing female body identity maternal body Netherlands painting performance art video art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/a6b47af540db4bd16543701da924c1a4.jpeg bdf0ce89c18cd6c917084b0a2b2a8760 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Location The location of the interview Planet Earth Topic motherhood artist residency About <div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html"> <div class="sqs-block-content"> <h2 class="text-align-center">A self-directed, open-source artist residency to empower and inspire artists who are also mothers. </h2> </div> </div> <div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image"> <div class="sqs-block-content"> <div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-hidden"> <div class="intrinsic"> <div class="image-block-wrapper has-aspect-ratio"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html"> <div class="sqs-block-content"> <h3 class="text-align-center">You don’t have to apply. It doesn't cost anything, it's fully customisable, and you can be in residence for as long as you choose. You don't even have to travel, the residency takes place entirely inside your own home and everyday life. An Artist Residency in Motherhood is the reframing of parenthood as a valuable site for creative practice, rather than an obstruction to be overcome.</h3> <h3 class="text-align-center">On this website you can read more about <a href="http://www.artistresidencyinmotherhood.com/how-it-started">how the residency began</a>, <a href="http://www.artistresidencyinmotherhood.com/kit">become an artist-in-residence-in-motherhood</a>, nominate an artist/parent for a unique grant called <a href="http://www.artistresidencyinmotherhood.com/redthread">The Red Thread</a>, or join the <a href="http://www.artistresidencyinmotherhood.com/mentorship">mentorship program</a>. </h3> </div> </div> <div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image"> <div class="sqs-block-content"> <div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-hidden"> <div class="intrinsic"> <div class="image-block-wrapper has-aspect-ratio"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sqs-block quote-block sqs-block-quote"> </div> Organization Website <a href="http://www.artistresidencyinmotherhood.com/" target="_blank">http://www.artistresidencyinmotherhood.com/</a> Organzation Director <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank">Lenka Clayton</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Residency in Motherhood artist network artist residency artist residency in motherhood artist resource artist support https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/6085fdda13af7dc04fbe513a0bbf33f9.jpg 4c8de06dc3806a36752e38d90a85c2f8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.pillarsofhome.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.pillarsofhome.com</a> Medium photography installation Artist Statement ‘Pillars of home’ are 30 minutes long, balancing sculptures by Csilla Klenyánszki The floor-to-ceiling constructions relay on their own inner stability while being framed only by the floor and the ceiling. The in situ installations are being made during my son’s naps, when our home becomes a studio for no more than a half an hour. The colorful hand-built pillars vary in size and complexity, depending on their territory. As the objects are being piled up, they become a coherent entity, but their delicate arrangement and balancing structure makes them vulnerable as they can be destroyed at any moment. Not only the existence of the images is in danger if the installation collapses, but the noise of the fallen objects might awaken the sleeping baby, which ends the studio session. Topic artist residency in motherhood naptime infants and sleep motherhood Publications A catalog or monograph published by the artist <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/357">Pillars of Home</a> Location The location of the interview Amsterdam Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Csilla Klenyanszki artist residence in motherhood infants and sleep installation motherhood naptime photography https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/ed86bc1f2852680ac810e0a690ac1367.jpeg 9d0e5aa59387acd883c5b73284942cf2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Artists Morgan Levy <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/163" target="_blank">Anna Ogier-Bloomer</a> Exhibition Website <a href="http://calendar.artcat.com/exhibits/8176" target="_blank">http://calendar.artcat.com/exhibits/8176</a> Gallery chashama uws Gallery Location The location of the interview Columbus Avenue Upper West Side New York Curator Ad Nauseum Lyceum Curatorial Statement Ad Nauseam Lyceum is pleased to present Domestic Skin, an exhibition of photographs by Morgan Levy and Anna Ogier-Bloomer, two New York based artists whose portrayal of family is central to their work. Ad Nauseam Lyceum’s first exhibition devoted solely to photography, Domestic Skin addresses the tension between destiny and growth, presented through the lens of two distinct female photographers. Morgan Levy’s portrayal of pre-adolescent girls in paper costumes and placed against a backdrop of her landscape photographs serve as a metaphor for the psychological complexities her subjects face. Anna Ogier-Bloomer’s documentation of her middle class family in Ohio captured over a five-year period illustrates the stark reality and familiarity of loved ones in transition. Together these artists present a story of growing up female, stepping out of what’s comfortable, and whether by idealistic choice or bare necessity, putting on a new persona. Ad Nauseam Lyceum is an artist run organization committed to showcasing multi-disciplinary work by emerging artists in New York . The group aims to give young artists an opportunity to collaborate, present work, and have a creative dialogue outside the traditional art market. Founded in 2006 by Ryan Frank, Deena Selenow, and Rory Sheridan, the group has hosted previous events at Emphemeroptera Art Space, chashama, EXPLOSIVO! and Studio 717, and has collectively shown the work of over 50 visual and performing artists. Dedicated to blurring the lines between various artistic genres, Ad Nauseam Lyceum is a platform for a new generation of artists working in performance, visual art, and new media. chashama is a non-profit New York City arts organization with a nine-year history of supporting artists of all genres and experience levels by offering them access to space and major support resources. chashama provides opportunities for artists by transforming vacant real estate into multi-arts complexes and animating them with innovative and challenging art. Through low and no-cost admissions, chashama provides more opportunities for audiences as well as artists. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) October 17 - November 2, 2008 Topic growth psychological complexity family domestic gender family photography persona Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Domestic Skin Columbus Avenue domestic family growth New York psychological complexity Upper West Side https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/7508072e9f058b216450570158be11cf.JPG 581114f114136f21f3673ab82db539da Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://michellebergradford.com/" target="_blank">http://michellebergradford.com/</a> Medium painting mixed media sculpture Location The location of the interview Greenville South Carolina Artist Statement Michelle Berg Radford is an artist and educator living in Greenville, SC. She holds an M.F.A. in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She began her studio practice as a landscape painter, but has recently been exploring the meaning behind motherhood and domestic spaces through her mixed media assemblages and collages. Michelle teaches college painting, fiber arts, and theory courses. Michelle lives with her husband, Paul, and three young children and is passionate about weaving together art and daily life. Topic motherhood domestic space home baking maternal responsibilities maternal labor birthdays Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michelle Berg Radford baking domestic labor domestic space feeding the family Greenville home maternal labor mixed media motherhood painting South Carolina https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/41359d6020ba7ba9c7678d748b8a9b90.jpg 4a7bfa4f6a70f2314ae67083f4409299 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.wellesley.edu/event/node/81611" target="_blank">http://www.wellesley.edu/event/node/81611</a> Gallery Jewett Art Center Art Sculpture Court Location The location of the interview Wellesley Norfolk County Massachusetts Curator Anna Ogier-Bloomer Curatorial Statement Guests are invited to celebrate the opening of the exhibition An Intimate Portrait of Motherhood with a reception on Tuesday, March 1 at 4:00 PM. Both the reception and the exhibition are free and open to the public. This exhibition forces the viewer to confront the sensual, intimate nature of breastfeeding and the physical mother-child relationship. Through photography and video, these two artists use the lens to examine and cope with the physical, emotional and mental complexities of the mother’s body. Katie Doyle’s work gives the audience a vantage point so close they feel as if they’re seeing from inside her, while her son suckles and consumes milk or entangles his soft limbs in hers. Ogier-Bloomer’s photographs utilize a frank, unapologetic voice shared between image-maker and subject: whether she appears in the image with her daughter, her mother, or from behind the camera. Both artists examine this unique maternal communication based in touch—a language without words, rooted in biology and the senses. Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Anna Ogier-Bloomer holds an MFA in Photography & Related Media from Parsons School of Design, where she was awarded the Photography Department Prize in 2011. Shereceived her BFA from The School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she was the recipient of the Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography and a Dean's Travel Grant. Ogier-Bloomer has exhibited at galleries and museums nationally, including the Bridge Art Fair in Miami/Basel, The Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and at the Attleboro Arts Museum in Massachusetts.  She has received grants from Chashama in New York, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and CSArts Cincinnati. Anna has been an adjunct Assistant Professor at the City University of New York. She currently lives in New York City and travels often for her work. - See more at: <a href="http://www.wellesley.edu/event/node/81611#sthash.V6lNZjEu.dpuf" target="_blank">http://www.wellesley.edu/event/node/81611#sthash.V6lNZjEu.dpuf</a> Artists Katie Doyle <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/163" target="_blank">Anna Ogier-Bloomer</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) February 29 – April 1, 2016 Topic breastfeeding mother/child relationship mother's body maternal motherhood maternal body touch Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An Intimate Portrait of Motherhood breastfeeding breastmilk Massachusetts maternal body mother mother's body mother/daughter relationship motherhood photography photography and motherhood touch Wellesley https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/7e3bf147c7111679f471468db86b77ef.png 352c2cb13b23a4bf5f7c963ea01fcca9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource copyright Grace Acton Roberts Description An account of the resource copyright Grace Acton Roberts Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.graceacton.com/" target="_blank">http://www.graceacton.com/</a> <a href="http://www.graceacton.com/cry-over-spilt-milk.html" target="_blank">http://www.graceacton.com/cry-over-spilt-milk.html</a> Medium mixed media Artist Statement Grace Acton Roberts has a background in visual arts having trained as a visual artist at Keele University. On leaving university she co-curated the first UK Gypsy, Roma, Traveller art exhibition, Second Site, at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich, which went on successfully to secure Arts Council, England funding to commission new works and tour around England in 2006. She subsequently worked for a number of multidisciplinary arts organisations including Metal Culture Ltd, providing project, events and finance management. In 2011, whilst at Metal, she organised Showflat, a series of site-specific exhibitions in artists’ homes and its accompanying publication. Since 2011 she has been the coordinator for the visual arts programme at Greenbelt Festival, exhibiting artists such as Willie Williams, Anthony Green RA, Simone Lia, Michael Leunig, Nicola Green, Sokari Douglas Camp CBE, Guler Ates, Hollie McNish, Nicola Canavan and Sinéad Bligh. She currently works for Applecartlive Ltd, a Storytelling, film and theatre production company based in East London.  In 2015 she completed her MA in Curating and Collections at Chelsea School of Art, UAL, her research interests centre on feminist maternal art practice and curating the personal. Topic motherhood breastfeeding mother/child relationship feminism maternal art Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grace Acton Roberts Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Artist retains copyright to image breast milk breastfeeding feminism mother mother/child relationship motherhood https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/499852449cb39b8b120f8f4768a0ee95.jpg a238da594a774368e9f74526c33a90d3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Location The location of the interview Uttarakhand India Topic motherhood collaboration artist collective artist's residency About CreativeCollaborative Mothers is an art project initiated by New Delhi based artist Ruchika Wason Singh .Its is based on the belief, that motherhood is a universal experience and an energy; which can transform itself to the understanding of extended realities, beyond borders and cultures. The project is structured as a residency , with the aim of bringing together artist mothers for a period of one week. To collaborate , to live together, to exchange notes and to create in a homely space , is the focus of the project. The participating artists are free to explore new collaborations or find extensions of their previous projects through their dialogues. The project shall provide support of space for studio and accommodation to the participating artists, in a warm and cosy bungalow in the hills of Uttarakhand, India. All other expenses are to be borne by the artists themselves. The project is as much focused on the process , as also the product. At the end of the residency, each participating artist is expected to submit in original , two works on paper produced during the stay and a text piece on the process , impacted by the residency and the scope of exchange and dialogue it provided.The works and text submitted (in an A4 size folder) shall be a part of an archive . Currently, the project is self – funded by Ruchika Wason Singh. Participating artists are expected to apply for funding if required. Organization Website <a href="https://creativecollaborativemothers.wordpress.com/about/" target="_blank">https://creativecollaborativemothers.wordpress.com/about/</a> Organzation Director Ruchika Wason Singh Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Creative Collaborative Mothers artist collective artist network artist residency artist resource artist support India residency Uttarakhand https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/1dbedbf0407736ed66873ea4215701c1.jpg d574e7a19f9cdac587e8bc5dae58d844 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.emiliajavanica.com" target="_blank">www.emiliajavanica.com</a> <a href="http://parentskins.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">http://parentskins.tumblr.com/</a> Topic loss of self identity everyday activities household tasks Medium performance photography participatory Artist Statement I write plays, perform characters, design puppets and costumes, and direct live performance and video productions. Through my work I aim to amplify the complex and often contrasting emotions that permeate everyday human life, taking inspiration from my own experiences. I approach the human struggle from a standpoint of humor and empathy, and intend to blur social and personal boundaries through my work. Recent themes have included body image, international relationships, parenting, and the search for meaning (and meaninglessness) in life. I see my audience as collaborators, and often incorporate participatory elements into my performances. For example, my audience participants have worn ugly teeth while playing limbo under a giant mouth to disco music, photographed themselves washing the dishes and pumping breastmilk in full body suits, drawn sketches of me in a naked old man costume in front of others, thrown fish at a couple having (pretend) sex on a boat, and been showered in endless amounts of tomato juice. The productions I direct have featured 7-person bands, flying contraptions, red blob puppets, life-size rocket ships, fake blood, little devils, and dismembered body parts. My work is darkly humorous and celebrates the ridiculous side of life. Location The location of the interview Ann Arbor Michigan USA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Emilia Javanica Title A name given to the resource Emilia Javanica domestic life domestic space everyday activities household tasks identity loss of identity https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/3a7d5122e78baa44716f5bbebf551b4e.jpg 2736f3f140888a8ec399cf6a11e721cb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.annaogierbloomer.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">annaogierbloomer.com</a> Topic motherhood family breastfeeding Medium photography Artist Statement This work, made during the first two years of my new role as mother,demonstratesthe complexityof doing the most difficult yet most meaningful work I’d ever done. The physical act of motherhood begins at conception and continues to evolve through a child’s life. Here, I turnmy lens on these physical elements: pain on the surface of the skin, illness, emotional outpouring of love and distress, the engorgement of the breast. These things simultaneously bring excruciating physical pain and unparalleled emotional joy. Through images of my own mother, I attach a thread from one generation to the next. I confront the complexity of these seemingly contradictory states of being, and the ways in which women feel the pull of motherhood, their children, and their physical self and appearance in a way unlike anything or anyone else. Location The location of the interview New York USA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Anna Ogier-Bloomer Title A name given to the resource Anna Ogier-Bloomer breastfeeding family lactation motherhood New York pain photography United States https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/b1cad2a73918c9ae54fdd0d7bed07d15.png 4400848235334c0c8f5debdede427c65 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/drinking-from-my-mothers-saucer" target="_blank">http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/drinking-from-my-mothers-saucer</a> <a href="http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/new-gallery-38/" target="_blank">http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/new-gallery-38/</a> Medium video installation fabric textile Location The location of the interview Victoria British Columbia Canada Artist Statement My media based art practice explores the realm of the moving image as a place of re-examination and possibility. It is a way for me to pull apart and reconstruct the threads of my life. Working in video, installation, performance and photography, I investigate my body and my South Asian Muslim Canadian female identity as a social construction. The impetus for my art-making has always been curiosity, questioning and investigating. I want to uncover the place of agency within the structures that are imposed upon me. Fabric is a recurring metaphor to represent the many layers of codes wrapped around women’s bodies. It is a structure for me to hang meaning on – fabric can flow, constrain, codify and signify. It represents culture. Through observing the formal and aesthetic properties of cultural gestures such as prayer, wearing a hijab, dressing/undressing, I deconstruct and reimagine how social codes and rituals can occupy the body. I experiment by pushing gestures beyond where they normally rest. My works begin from the personal place of my Islamic South Asian Canadian heritage and end as images that can be read by a wider audience. The 6 meter long sari is abstracted into a long swath of red silk. A hooded sweatshirt stands in for a hijab. I deliberately use the conventions of mass media such as cinematic projections and seductive imagery to invite viewers to enter my work and settle in. I slow down and repeat images to facilitate reflection and reconsideration. I magnify texture and body parts so as to connect the viewer to a physical sensation. In the process of image-making I see myself and unveil meaning in my life. I invite viewers to inhabit this imaginative space and reconsider their own experience. Topic mothers of color South Asian Muslim gesture motherhood maternal care domesticity Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Farheen Haq British Columbia Canada fabric/textile gesture installation maternal care motherhood mothers of color mothers of colour muslim South Asian Victoria video https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/f366b7c6dc4a321a765949dd4632f365.jpg abf1f9bc1f7e2bdb48b1d32d9d13d3a0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Title Exhibition Exhibition Website <a href="https://newmaternalisms.squarespace.com/2016-exhibition-overview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://newmaternalisms.squarespace.com/2016-exhibition-overview/</a> Location The location of the interview Edmonton Alberta Canada Curatorial Statement New Maternalisms Redux is the third and last in the New Maternalisms exhibition series (following Toronto 2012 and Santiago 2014). It features five artists drawn from the first two exhibitions: Lenka Clayton, Jess Dobkin, Alejandra Herrera, Courtney Kessel, & Jill Miller. The work of these artists represents a spectrum of experience; it includes queer and straight identified mothers, single and partnered mothers, mothers of differently abled children, mothers of twins and singletons, and a represents range of race/class/economic privilege. This range of positionalities inflects the performance and project-based work presented here -- work that investigates the maternal iteratively, as a political and affective force. Considered individually and together, these works engage with one another and the public, drawing the community into important conversations around what it means to mother, as a non-reductive, thinking-feeling and political practice, today. A three-day colloquium, <a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.com/colloquium-overview/">Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene</a>, is being held in conjunction with the exhibition, with participants drawn from the most prominent voices on feminist art and the maternal today. The keynote presentation is being delivered by internationally recognized feminist theorist and art historian, Dr. Griselda Pollock. This colloquium, open to the public, brings crucial thinking on the anthropocene and anthropogenic climate change together with thinking on the maternal as metaphor, practice, and politics. Accompanying the exhibition there will be a film screening at Edmonton’s <a href="http://www.metrocinema.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theater</a> (3:30 pm on May 13th). The screening features two shorts, <a href="http://sheenawilson.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sheena Wilson’s</a> PetroMama and <a href="http://ginamiller.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gina Miller’s</a> Family Tissues, and a full-length screening of <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/295" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Irene Lusztig’s </a>award-winning <a href="http://motherhoodarchives.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Motherhood Archives</a>. Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lenka Clayton</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/377">Jess Dobkin</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/160" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandra Herrera Silva</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/27" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Courtney Kessel</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jill Miller</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) May 12 — June 4, 2016 Topic motherhood maternity maternal partnered mothers single mothers political art Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Maternalisms: Redux California Edmonton maternal maternity motherhood partnered mothers political art single mothers https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/8ba88ed46c87957995fa09604abfec22.jpg 7402760a904187d3d3929a47bede05e6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=people_details&id=309" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=people_details&id=309</a> Medium performance art installation Location The location of the interview Santiago Chile Artist Statement Alejandra Herrera is a visual artist and performer from Santiago (Chile), currently living in Los Angeles. She has been an active organizer, artist and teacher in the field of performance art for more than a decade and has exhibited her work extensively, both in her native Chile and internationally. She has produced and organized visual arts shows, such as the Annual Showcase of Students of the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile, exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago, "Av-ant Perfo", the first international performance art show in Valparaíso, and "Perfo Puerto", the First Latin American festival of performance art in Chile. Her recent performances question bodily sensuality and materiality, with particular emphasis on gendered power relations. She is mother to three daughters, four-year old twins Evelyn and Trinidad, and two-year old Diamanda. Topic sensuality materiality gendered power relations motherhood maternity domestic life body exploration Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. New Maternalisms Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alejandra Herrera Silva body exploration Chile domestic life installation materiality maternity motherhood Santiago sensuality https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/f8578e38ae950fda0906a659bf2fdb0d.jpeg 5d71f4e4fc4cb375e66360d3c54031b9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.jessicaplattnerart.com/" target="_blank">http://www.jessicaplattnerart.com/</a> Medium collage painting Location The location of the interview Medicine Hat Alberta Canada Artist Statement The pieces in this show were completed during my 2011-12 sabbatical leave from my position as Associate Professor at Eastern Oregon University. During this time I traded in my familiar oil paints in exchange for photos, magazines, scissors, and glue to create a group of collages depicting my infant daughter in a variety of surreal settings. The scenes were created using old doll-maker’s magazines, National Geographic magazines, Italian interior design magazines, and brochures for Canadian provincial parks and Tuscan tourism; combined with my own photos of the baby. The result is a strange world combining illogical spaces and multiple perspectives; alternately magical, disturbing, and beautiful. For me, these landscapes reflect the range of hopes and fears surrounding both childhood and child-rearing. My work is driven by the technical challenge of piecing together intricate parts to create a cohesive whole. The transitions are never actually flawless, as closer inspection reveals sharp edges and layers of overlapping images from disparate sources. I find poetry in this complex relationship between the whole and the parts; where small pieces of imagery come together to form something altogether different and new. As a mother, I wish for all the complicated facets of society to come together harmoniously for my daughter’s safe passage. The Babyscapes collages render that impossible wish visible. Topic parenthood motherhood landscapes childhood child-rearing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jessica Plattner Alberta Canada child-rearing childhood collage landscapes Medicine Hat motherhood painting parenthood https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/3705b3d39946d31facd53d0ef0e87c83.png 596b0391ab442d4df7afcf07d37fdf6d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://selinatrepp.info/section/384377-nap-animation.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://selinatrepp.info/section/384377-nap-animation.html</a> Medium mixed media animation installation performance Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois Artist Statement Rather than documenting or representing the real world, I reflect on it by moving sideways from it, constructing a parallel reality, a reality that mixes the familiar with the uncanny, real and unreal at once. The making of my work is based on experimental situations. My process is chance based. I write instructions, which lead to scenarios, open-ended structures, for performances that result in artworks. While past works have featured others performing for me, my new work puts me into the frame. Pointing the lens on myself is decidedly uncomfortable for me; I feel safer behind the camera. The decision to cast myself both as subject and object comes out of the realization that I need to work with the discomfort and tension that this action creates in me. If I am embarrassed by my work, then it is worth pursuing. Topic napping motherhood infants and sleep sleep Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Selina Trepp animation Chicago conceptual art Illinois infants and sleep installation mixed media motherhood napping performance sleep https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/7cd5cfaea25952970aeb0ac0548a95cc.jpg a53bd6d8533d4069616f6fe74a8a9743 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shira.richter1/media_set?set=a.416115354933.191433.588074933&type=3" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/shira.richter1/media_set?set=a.416115354933.191433.588074933&type=3</a> Curator Varda Genosar Orly Roman Gallery Hertzliya Artist Residence Gallery Curatorial Statement Materials: Newspaper delivery bags of Haaretz (“the land”), color clothespins, wood, wire, Huggie diapers, metal chains and hooks, neon lights Size: 1.5 X 5 meters Annual Art Alert Space/Street Artist Residence Gallery Sept 2007-Jan 2008 Curator : Varda Ginosar Most viewers approach the work with their nose… The Inspiration to create Mausoleum for the luxurious think space came at a time I was mother and parent to baby twins, and had a somewhat optimistic membership to the Haaretz newspaper. For those not familiar with the Israeli newspaper scene, haaretz is considered the most left wing and intellectual of Israel’s main newspapers. The word “Haaretz” means “The country=Israel”. My mind and body were preoccupied 46 hours a day by “something else”, so the piled up newspapers eventually found their way to the recycling bin, without their contents being digested by me. The bags in which the paper was delivered got filled with diapers soaked with the internal content of the little- one’s brand new bodies. Anyone who went through this knows that baby poo - these wee baby creations- are the most important thing in the first half year of their lives (and onward…) “Reading” the color, smell, amount, volume, quantity, and quality informs us about the health of these vulnerable and unique little creatures. Till the end of our lives, pee, excrement and blood are checked in order to “Read” our health situation. The everyday work of taking care of these miniature creatures fills the hours of the day, and the yearning for the big thinking world “out there”, gets stuffed, together with these “earthly” materials- in the trash. Sometimes we manage to recycle these yearnings into art. “High politics” are replaced -or more likely overthrown- by the pressing necessity of “low politics”. The shift in priorities doesn’t happen peacefully- at least in my case. A struggle ensues. The thing I missed most at this phase of my life, more then sleep, more then eating or bathing, was THINKING. Oh the luxury of Thinking - Seeing a thought through its natural stages of development. Mothers joke about this “haziness of mind”, the never ending interruptions. It’s good to joke, but those accustomed to a life of the mind felt this to be extremely painful. Yet one more of those transitions which is taken lightly by bystanders oblivious to the particularities. These bags of Haaretz, which signify the “thinking human”, became a sneering reminder. “You want me but you won’t have me” They said from afar. In this work the diapers, which are considered “lowly” are hung up high, “cathedral like- in the sky. The newspaper bags which represent what is considered “high” or “important” get stuffed with diapers. The high and low, important and unimportant are merged and mixed. The land of children and the land of grownups. The world of body and the world of mind, the world of doing and the world of ideas... Hung with colorful clothespins from a network of wires connected to a wooden frame, the work mimics a fancy ballroom chandelier. But there’s no time for ballroom dancing… From afar the work looks like a huge illuminated lowered ceiling, an image which dialogues with the concept “glass ceiling”. The invisible glass ceiling which we hit our heads on trying to get to jobs at the top of the big world. Work hours that you cannot possibly incorporate in a family life, unequal wages, etc. The work is hung from chains - the same chains that chain us- to our loved ones…the clothespins represent the unending repetitive, soldier like- work of laundry, washing, hanging again and again… Concealed In the midst of the chandelier is an interior lightened (enlightened) think space which one must work very to find in such a reality. In order to reach the enlightened space you have to bend down, prayer- like, and bravely go through the barrier of (smelly?) diapers. The neon lights are homage to the coldly lit infant rooms in hospitals, which I name ‘the chicken coop’. Most viewers approach the work with their nose… In short, one makes an effort to find and reach the inner lightened and enlightened private space. The inner “room of one’s own”. The sacredness is reached through allot of effort. Or, put simply “you gotta go through a lot of shit to reach the light” Once inside the illuminated space (the “room of your own”) the head is engulfed and isolated amidst the swaying hanging diapers, so whoever looks at the work from outside - sees a headless body, and visa versa. Meaning – whoever looks from inside the “think space” to the people outside of the chandelier, sees headless people. Why the headlessness? A job which is considered one in which you don’t need to think- or are not required to think -pays less. The invisible universities in which we learn this skill of bringing up our children- the hours spent talking to sisters mothers and girlfriends, reading books and articles, talking to older women – thinking about our options- doesn’t count. This is why the salaries of those who work with infants and children are so low, - it’s considered “headless” work. The work is hung in the public sphere- because I believe in hanging out our dirty laundry (instead of keeping it inside the house- hidden) and dirty laundry helps air and expose all kinds of hidden secrets. Like the economic reality of bringing up children in a state that doesn’t subsidize the first 5 years of childcare, and then doesn’t subsidize the one- to- five hours of childcare after school needed by working parents. That doesn’t allow flexible work hours for both sexes, that thinks subsidizing childcare is just for the benefit of women, and not both partners, that forces both parents to work because a family today cannot cannot survive on one salary. But never mind all this, it’s fun to punch the bags, to get lost in the think space. If you have time you can think about the bigger questions… Location The location of the interview Tel Aviv Israel Artists Shira Richter Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 2007 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Diaper Chandelier- Outstallation: Mausoleum for the Luxurious think Space diapers Israel Tel Aviv https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/a9c4759e302b4eab27e4140cb4447b5a.pdf 889d77d4ad6f78e5e41be67162823f7c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shira.richter1/media_set?set=a.10150122986754934.288901.588074933&type=3" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/shira.richter1/media_set?set=a.10150122986754934.288901.588074933&type=3</a> Curator Hadara Scheflan Katzav Gallery Tel Aviv Artist's House Curatorial Statement The National Insurance Institute of Israel defines the job of Mothering as “not working”. The first months of taking care of a baby are called “Birth Vacation”. According to the National Accounting System of the United Nations, this work- the upbringing of children, managing and sustaining a household and family “is of little or no importance”* thus, not counted in the economy of a state. In spite of the mentioned above, in 1975, in Iceland, all the women went on strike in order to challenge the system. The nation came to a standstill. A person requested to note the most important things in his/her life, mentions his/her family, life, and those who are close to him/her, before mentioning computer software, for instance. Raising a human being is the most important and difficult work there is. There is no machine that can do it. Babies who do not receive love and care- die. Our society has invented symbols to show its appreciation: money is a symbol, documents, diplomas, merit awards of all sorts, a car and a mobile phone, prizes and grants…if life is so valuable, why aren’t those working in sustaining and creating it awarded such symbols of value? The photographs shown in the exhibition were taken in the midst of work connected to taking care of small humans. Hundreds and thousands of invisible hours of work, devoid of political, economic or public value. At a certain time of the day, on the millionth time, when the light of the free sun burst in through the bars of the window shutters, something new emerged. The new image exposed a jewel, a crown, an expensive metal, an elaborate delicate garment. Mundane, everyday objects were transformed. These “visions” were a sign- this is the real value of these objects, and this is the real value of this work. Not in the sense of romanticizing this work, but in expressing the essence of value. We workers were afforded, both men and women, status symbols. *Quoted from the film Who's Counting? Marilyn Warring on Sex, Lies, and Global Economics. [Video]. Directed by Terre Nash (1995) Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/78" target="_blank">Shira Richter</a> Topic motherhood caretaking Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 2011 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource INVISIBLE INVALUABLES- Status symbols for the invisible economy of parenting Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Shira Richter caretaking Israel motherhood Tel Aviv https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/22d139469c1bd399d13e92d16bfec2f6.jpg e6bfa9bd4b4db2182d5b1b640f67a8d7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Event Type Gallery Exhibition Website <a href="https://womanmade.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://womanmade.org/</a> Gallery Woman Made Gallery Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/47" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Rachel Epp Buller</a> Curatorial Statement “Mothers” includes moving works by 37 women addressing the culturally ubiquitous role of motherhood, historically under-represented in visual art. The artists utilize a wide range of media, from photography, video, 3D, and even frosted cakes. The artists’ individual and sometimes intensely personal approaches to the subject of motherhood vary as much as their media. The work speaks to personal experiences (as a mother or as related to a mother), social constructions of motherhood, the balance of home and work, the politicization of mothers, pregnancy, breastfeeding, childbirth, bodily transformation, miscarriage, loss, and fertility/infertility. Artists are using materials traditionally found in domestic settings including clothes pins, canning jars, and yarn. Others use iconic imagery such as the Madonna and child. Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) November 5 to December 23, 2010 Topic motherhood domesticity politicization of mothers pregnancy breastfeeding childbirth bodily transformation miscarriage loss fertility infertility Artists Jjenna Hupp Andrews Kiki Augustin Melissa Ayotte Linda L. Bacon Adrian Baker Shaun Bangert Kristy Battani Jolene Beckman Cat Del Buono Corinna Button <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a> Barbara Diener Sheila A. Donovan Joy Christiansen Erb Niki Grangruth Luba Grenader Kate Hansen Kelly Harrington Katherine Michele Hatchell Judith Hladik-Voss Phyllis Hofman Lea Basile Lazarus Stephanie Lerma Melanie Lowrance Elaine Luther Julie Mader-Meersman Jennifer McNichols Maggie Meiners Freyda Miller Helen Payne Nancy Roberts Jaleesa Rosario Sarah Rust Sampedro Amanda Simons Colette Veasey-Cullors Lisa Venditelli Ellen Wetmore Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mothers bodily transformation breastfeeding childbirth domesticity fertility infertility loss miscarriage motherhood politicization of mothers pregnancy https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/909e17b91eaeeb52e3d07eef88eeff4f.JPG 31b155746b95add396d3205d0a475d68 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.zackbent.com" target="_blank">www.zackbent.com</a> Topic domestic life fatherhood rituals family history wilderness Medium photograpy video installation Artist Statement As an artist, I am drawn to incidences where the domestication and wilderness overlap and interact. The work I create takes various forms from sculptural installation, video and sound works as well as photographic studies and series. My current work draws from my experience visiting and photographing a parcel of forest fire land in Washington USA over the past year. The photographs include geometric sculptures and mythic performative acts by my sons that respond to the desolation of the forest while acknowledging the impending growth just beneath the surface of the land. The work is a study in the silence and death encapsulated in forest fires as an inside-out look at traditional views on the sublime and beauty in the wilderness. Location The location of the interview Seattle Washington USA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Zack Bent Title A name given to the resource Zack Bent domestic life fatherhood installation photography rituals Seattle video Washington wilderness https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/ed335c1e3551023e09d438384bb699d1.jpg c3b5df4175cb2354c13aee44d6495045 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://ux1.eiu.edu/~abcoddington/portfolio/index.html" target="_blank">http://ux1.eiu.edu/~abcoddington/portfolio/index.html</a> Medium fibers basketry mixed media Artist Statement My artwork borrows the technique twining from the traditional craft of basketry to create a sculptural expression of my beliefs and experiences and how they are sensed by the body. I am intrigued by the process of and differences between feeling and knowing; body and mind. Ineffable memories held by the body are more potent, penetrating and enduring than those in the mind. The forms are actuated by this somatic memory in conjunction with and investigation of the dichotomies: strength and fragility, fullness and emptiness, masculine and feminine, fertile and barren, living, aging and dead. Twining is a medium that has both the richness and familiarity of the textile surface as well as the structural integrity and expressive potential of sculpture. The hollow forms are membranes, thin skins separating the outside world from the dark interior. The openings where the two meet create a locus of intensity; the rim, the edge, the lip. These corporeal manifestations of bodily memories resonate familiarity, containment and emotion. My art is my voice, more than my words and in my work, feeling overshadows knowing. Topic fertility barrenness reproduction masculine/feminine Location The location of the interview Champaign Illinois Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ann B. Coddington barrenness basketry Champaign feminine fertility fibers Illinois masculine mixed media twining https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/00ef2fef64bd77d483ff15fab97a4f53.png c443b8cf2672ea3d367b9af423fd33ec Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://jillbakergower.com/" target="_blank">http://jillbakergower.com/</a> Medium mixed media silver sculpture Location The location of the interview New Jersey Artist Statement The female experience is a reoccurring theme in my work. My jewelry and sculpture is informed by everyday interactions and observations of gender-based expectations or generalizations. Within advertisements, popular culture, and the media; similar colors, patterns, shapes, beautification techniques, and pastimes intended for women are apparent. My material choices, surfaces, and forms are developed in one way through my exposure and interest in this experience. The shapes and forms of my pieces come from disparate inspirations including the female form, faceted gems, historic jewelry and metalwork, and tools or implements for beautification or medical procedures. The surfaces of my work are often ornate, etched with lace patterns, and at times are paired with actual crocheted elements. These choices allude to femininity initially by being flowery, lacelike, and curvilinear, by their association with popular use in women’s apparel, and since the act of crochet or lace making is currently and was historically known as a women’s skill. I choose to incorporate skin, red, and pink toned colors in my work primarily to reference human flesh, cosmetics, the body, and blood. Materials such as skin toned rubber and mirrors reference bodily transformation, self-examination, and vanity. Other materials like pearls, jewels, lustrous fabrics, feathers, enamel, hair, silver, and gold are chosen for their aesthetic qualities, emotional resonance, preciousness, and value associations. With these materials, formal considerations, and influences I create work that is both playful and beautiful and at times even absurd or humorous. Topic metalsmithing female experience femininity gender-based expectations pregnancy womb gestation Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jill Baker Gower aesthetic female experience femininity gestation jewelry metalsmithing mixed media New Jersey pregnancy sculpture silver womb https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/e7e3fe303a0561e92466ae010595b005.jpg 68fe5e13859aaf4727d9453d015fce40 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.leslirobertson.com" target="_blank">http://www.leslirobertson.com</a> <a href="http://www.leslirobertson.com/the-mother-load/" target="_blank">http://www.leslirobertson.com/the-mother-load/</a> Medium mixed media textiles installation Location The location of the interview Denton Texas Artist Statement In my artwork and creative projects, I use textile based media as a tool for communication; to record and speak about the individual, society, and the hand of the maker. I work with concepts of time, labor, and cloth as a tool for personal expression. My current body of work explores the value of cloth on both a personal and societal level. I create visual recordings through the use of detritus from my life and studio. These elements and works from the past are employed into new forms that serve to document and comment on the material objects that tangibly define the work of my hands. These are woven pieces, broken forms, and cut offs of previous works. They track time and place, creating a sequence of objects that allude to written text and recording through the use of fiber, concrete, and metal. Through community based interactive weavings, I am able to create works in collaboration with diverse individuals, providing each person a platform to express their ideas. I value textile objects and processes and by bringing them out of my studio, and recreating the way they are being perceived, I work to give the viewer a new perspective on their value. Topic individual society time labor cloth The Motherload Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lesli Robertson cloth Denton individual installation labor mixed media motherload society Texas textiles time https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/4b02a71e702fbebf34c2a591afd84153.png e0e6d4e2077a51c3972651327008bd32 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. About The Mother Load is a global network of women who have connected through the simple act of passing a name from one person to another, creating an elaborate community of women who are both artists and mothers. In 2012, US based artists Lesli Robertson and Natalie Macellaio established The Mother Load, in an effort to encourage dialogue and connection between women who balance artistic careers and motherhood. This project is about recording these connections and finding ways to share, collaborate and support each other and our work. Organization Website <a href="http://www.themotherload.org" target="_blank">http://www.themotherload.org</a> Organzation Director Lesli Robertson <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/145" target="_blank">Natalie Marcellaio</a> Topic motherhood artists with children women artists artist network Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Mother Load artist network artists with children motherhood women artists https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/2a51a60e3dda1533bd38ed331aea527d.jpg c94c5776ce01f5379877c12b1e374f8d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://natalie.macellaio.net/" target="_blank">http://natalie.macellaio.net/</a> Medium metal Location The location of the interview Dallas Texas Artist Statement My work marries a functional, aesthetic, and conceptual approach to metal. She works with concepts of adornment to create works that use the body to engage in conversations that draw directly from her personal life. “I was trained as a jeweler years ago, which brought me to understand the intricacies of creating work that is personal to each person wearing it and expresses parts of their life. The choice to work with precious metals has been because of their inherent strengths and weaknesses. I value silver, both for its culturally relevant quality and for its beauty. I employ copper for its strength and abundance. I am, after all, interested in creating something beautiful and desirable. As I continue to explore these personal narratives through these metals, themes that relate to my life as a mother begin to come through. My initial interest in small, intimate works, is finding a new source of expression that allows me to create intimate pieces that explore the relationships I have to my children.” Topic parent/child relationship motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natalie Marcellaio aesthetic clay Dallas installation jewelry metal mixed media motherhood parent/child relationship parenthood silver Texas https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/3184162d0737140a53e507ad029030d8.jpg 1ab8a940b8c125447c65c554523654a3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.axisweb.org/p/alisononeill/#artwork" target="_blank">http://www.axisweb.org/p/alisononeill/#artwork</a> Medium drawing film & video installation research Location The location of the interview Cambridge United Kingdom Artist Statement My practice based research uses autoethnographic and feminist methodologies to examine maternal subjectivities with a particular focus on the mother as a classed and gendered subject. <div class="more"> I am also interested in the performativity of motherhood and in examining narratives of the good and bad mother and how these narratives are perpetuated in everyday encounters and experiences. </div> Topic motherhood feminist theory the maternal autoethnography subjectivity memory remembering performativity class Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alison O’Neill autoethnography Cambridge class drawing feminist theory film installation memory motherhood performativity remembering subjectivity the maternal United Kingdom video https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/2643c3a631eca11a784e334517992647.jpeg 8bc60cfaab971b3604bffad635e6d9f0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://implausibot.com/" target="_blank">http://implausibot.com/</a> Artist Statement Dillon de Give is an artist and educator acting in a spirit of humane experimentalism. He stages subtle alterations to everyday performances that aim to distribute art in public experience. He is a co-founder of the <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwalkexchange.org&t=ZWY1MzU2ZTUwYjMzM2UwNTBhYzAxMGEzZTgyMDhlYzNjMzY4ZjE4NCxUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D" target="_blank">Walk Exchange</a>, a cooperative walking group. He organizes the annual <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fcoyotewalks.wordpress.com&t=ZTJmN2MzY2RhMjA3MjFiODliNGQzZDk5ZmMwNjA5YjljYjA3Nzk5ZCxUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D" target="_blank">Coyote Itinerancy</a>, a retreat that traces a footpath between New York City and the wild. He holds a BS in Radio/Television/Film from Northwestern University and an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University. He lives, works and helps to raise a child in Brooklyn NY. For more information you can see a <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.dropboxusercontent.com%2Fu%2F19628738%2FdeGive_cv.pdf&t=NjE2YTE4NTRkYTI2MTA2ODU4ZTg2ZDEwMTg1NjkzNWM3YzliOGRhZixUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D">CV here</a>, write an email to implausibot (at) yahoo (dot) com or call the project phone at (917)-300-9521. Medium installation performance Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Topic parenthood adulthood father/son relationship bedtime routine Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/3" target="_blank">The Letdown Reflex</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dillon de Give adulthood bedtime routine father/son relationship installation parenthood performance https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/2809ed7f0501971cff9ccb8ea468cad0.png b15dc8789ce537918ec62963bd436590 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.melissarackham.com/#!cyanotypes" target="_blank">http://www.melissarackham.com/#!cyanotypes</a> Medium photography cyanotype Location The location of the interview Spokane Washington Topic mother/daughter relationship observation isolation landscapes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melissa Rackham botanical cyanotype isolation landscapes mother/daughter relationship observation photography Spokane Washington https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/fea2248b5cdcf2c98b53e157203d780e.jpg a00417093d996ef9759548662aef52ad Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.mhurstfrye.com/origin.html" target="_blank">http://www.mhurstfrye.com/origin.html</a> Medium still life photography Location The location of the interview Seattle Washington Artist Statement Melinda Hurst Frye is a photographic artist working in themes of implied environments and shared experiences. She exhibits at CORE gallery in Seattle, Washington. Melinda holds an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and is a dedicated member of Society for Photographic Education. Melinda Hurst Frye teaches photography at the Art Institute of Seattle as well as occasional workshops in the northwest region. Topic motherhood birth family childhood domestic life environment passage of time Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melinda Hurst Frye birth botanical childhood domestic life environment family passage of time photography motherhood Seattle still life Washington https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/577038ebc29aed5d54cb228bce9bb238.png a3f0fedc8e2f959c4989028305dabb12 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://elizabethclaffey.com/" target="_blank">http://elizabethclaffey.com/</a> Medium photography installation Location The location of the interview Bloomington Indiana Artist Statement Elizabeth M. Claffey is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is an honors graduate of Earlham College and has an MFA in photography from Texas Woman's University, where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies. She received a 2012-13 William J. Fulbright Fellowship, which she used to support her documentary and creative research in Eastern Europe. Elizabeth's work focuses on the way personal and familial narratives are shaped by interactions with both domestic and institutional structures and spaces. Her work has been recognized by PDN Magazine, Project Basho Gallery, Abecedarian Gallery, The Eddie Adams Workshop, and various other galleries and publications including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Dallas Morning News, and The Kinsey Institute. <div> </div> Topic personal familial narratives domesticity maternity isolation aging illness Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth Claffey aging Bloomington domestic familial narratives illness Indiana installation isolation maternity personal photography https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/576caae6dd762a7f23f71aa0c19bda66.jpg 4c4951f417d0d7c5cab8d2a2ac55d623 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.amyholmesgeorge.com/images/" target="_blank">http://www.amyholmesgeorge.com/images/</a> Medium photography digital imaging Location The location of the interview Dallas Texas Artist Statement Amy Holmes George is a fine art photographer based near Dallas, Texas, where she has held teaching appointments at Baylor University, the University of North Texas and Collin College. As a former tenured professor of photography and digital media from Stephen F. Austin State University, Amy founded the School’s first study abroad program (based in Italy) and was nominated for the University Faculty Achievement Award in Teaching. Amy holds an MFA in photography from Clemson University and a BFA cum laude in photography and graphic design from Miami University. Amy is the Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.texasphoto.org/" target="_blank">Texas Photographic Society</a> and a member of the National Board of Directors of the <a href="http://www.spenational.org/" target="_blank">Society for Photographic Education</a>, serving formerly as Chair, Treasurer and Vendor Liaison on the South Central Regional Board. During 2010, Amy co-founded alt8, an alternative photographic processes group, which meets regularly in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Exhibited widely throughout the U.S. as well as in Italy, England, France and China, Amy's work has been featured in over one hundred exhibitions and is housed in several permanent collections, including The Getty, The Kinsey Institute and the Fratelli Alinari Museum. In 2008, Amy was awarded a Fulbright grant to fund a rephotographic project based on the Fratelli Alinari photo archives in Florence, Italy. Additionally, her work has been published recently in a variety of texts, including the third edition of<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Alternative-Photographic-Processes/dp/1285089316/ref=dp_ob_image_bk" target="_blank">"The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes"</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Printing-Amazing-Processes-Christina-Anderson/dp/0984681612" target="_blank">"Gum Printing and other Amazing Contact Printing Processes"</a>, and the fifth edition of<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Color-Photography-Fifth-Edition/dp/0240813359" target="_blank">"Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels"</a>. Topic pregnancy motherhood domesticity Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Amy Holmes George Dallas domestic motherhood photography pregnancy Texas https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/7c99bd11778e4fda1c7e132de9eccc46.png a47d778e1c75038838df9d6a82fa208d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.fisherclay.com/" target="_blank">www.fisherclay.com</a><a href="http://fisherclay.com/gallery/2015-present/" target="_blank"> </a> Artist Statement My work is either for or about the home. My artistic beginnings are deeply rooted in a potpourri of traditions that surround functional wares. I continue to respect and honor utilitarianism while simultaneously developing a body of sculptural forms. My work is either for or about the home. To me the home is more than a specific place or structure. It is often a feeling and/or geographic location. I am drawn to the domestic environment through personal artifacts, repetitious rituals and intimate relationships. The act of creating artwork that stems from this notion dissolves the boundaries between my home and studio. It allows me to embrace both the permanent and the ephemeral qualities of place and life. This mode of working unifies the home with the studio and creates an all-encompassing life aesthetic. Medium ceramics Location The location of the interview Minnesota United States Topic domesticity motherhood children child care relationships domestic aesthetics toys Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kate Fisher aesthetic ceramic art child care children domestic life balance Minnesota motherhood relationships United States https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/1659dda3c838a633ddf582e40e657192.jpg df22fe531672a3165d9f2f368498bee6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.debbieleeart.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.debbieleeart.co.uk</a> Medium painting drawing prints Location The location of the interview Leicester United Kingdom Artist Statement My style developed by working over the discarded paintings of children, combining the random marks of a child with the handwriting of an adult. Art processes from other cultures have also influenced my work, in particular Indian Patua and glass painting. My Irish grandmother passed down her gift for storytelling through art to create personal narratives. Most important to me are my two children who are a constant source of inspiration. Topic children parent storytelling Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Debbie Lee children drawing Leicester painting parent prints storytelling United Kingdom https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/afd0bf3b1a3b6a94b878c0579d49ce89.png 1b4be4f2f39ef567753ee2f69d9f71a0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.michellehartney.com/" target="_blank">http://www.michellehartney.com/</a> Medium mixed media performance art Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois United States Artist Statement Michelle Hartney is a Chicago based artist whose work addresses a broad range of topics, from women’s health issues, to the concept of heroes, love, and the cosmos. She works in a variety of materials, including fiber, wood, found objects, and most recently, performance. Her interest in using art to address social issues began during her graduate studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was an Albert Schweitzer Fellow. In 2015 she became the <a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/improving-birth">Chicago rally coordinator </a>for<a href="http://improvingbirth.org/" target="_blank">I</a><a href="http://improvingbirth.org/" target="_blank">mproving Birth's</a> nationwide Labor Day rallies. Most recently, Hartney joined <a href="http://www.everymothercounts.org/" target="_blank">Every Mother Counts </a>as a<a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/every-mother-counts">running ambassador.</a> With twenty-six years of distance running to draw from, including several marathons, triathlons, and running cross country and track for Purdue University, she is forming a team of men and women to race with and raise awareness about maternal healthcare issues. <a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/every-mother-counts" target="_blank">Click here</a> for more information about joining her team. Topic maternity feminism mother/daughter relationship pregnancy newborn healthcare mothers women women's health maternal healthcare Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michelle Hartney Chicago feminist healthcare Illinois maternal maternal healthcare mixed media mother/daughter relationship mothers newborn performance art pregnancy United States women women's health https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/389fe1960958d576cd27cbf3daa6384c.png cc94e407d31a1739b31dde11dfea58bc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Location The location of the interview Manchester United Kingdom Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/131" target="_blank">Helen Knowles</a> Curatorial Statement An exhibition exploring the politics and practice of childbirth through contemporary artwork, uniting artists and childbirth professionals to consider the social, cultural and political implications of the way we give birth. Advances in biomedical technology and the shift towards medical intervention in birth have coincided with a focus on ensuring women have an equal footing with men in the workplace, which, potentially, has reduced their importance as mothers. In this context, how free are women to give birth how they want and where they want? Birth rites was initiated by Helen Knowles, an artist and curator, whose contrasting experiences of hospital caesarean and home birth spurred her to question society’s approach to birth. She has been working alongside Phoebe Mortimer, Head of Public Programmes, to bring Birth Rites to the attention of the general public. Artists Jaygo Bloom Juan delGado Suzanne Holtom Andy Lawrence Ping Qiu Hermione Wiltshire Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 20 September to 30 November 2008 Event Type Exhibit Exhibition Website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://birthrites.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://birthrites.org.uk/</a> Museum Manchester Museum Topic childbirth birth society mothers motherhood equality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Birth Rites birth childbirth contemporary art equality Manchester motherhood mothers society United Kingdom https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/22f4aeff3353c47221fe5c3061cdd016.jpg dd9b727b9883d6d79acfc378f6263e74 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Location The location of the interview Manchester United Kingdom Topic contemporary art childbirth birth mothers motherhood equality About The Birth Rites Collection is the first and only collection of contemporary artwork dedicated to the subject of childbirth. The collection currently comprises of photography, sculpture, painting, wallpaper, drawing, new media, documentary and experimental film. It is housed between the Royal College of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians in London and Salford University Midwifery Department. Organization Website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://birthritescollection.org.uk/home/4541196091" target="_blank">http://birthritescollection.org.uk/home/4541196091</a> Organzation Director <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/131" target="_blank">Helen Knowles</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Birth Rites Collection birth childbirth contemporary art equality Manchester motherhood mothers society United Kingdom https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/2e06db629289730e56b0703c93c368e3.jpg 9801e7500009a45fbcdb1d7de3c77d9d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.helenknowles.com/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.helenknowles.com/index.php</a> Medium installation mixed media screen print Location The location of the interview Manchester United Kingdom Artist Statement HELEN KNOWLES (b.1975) is an artist and curator of Birth Rites Collection. She studied at Glasgow School of Art and Goldsmiths University on the MFA and lives and works in Manchester and London. Recent exhibitions include; Goldsmiths University Interim show, (2015), COLLABORATE! Oriel Sycarth Galley Wrexham, (2015), The Withdrawing Room, Folkstone, (2014), Mokuhanga, Tokyo (2014), ‘Private View : Public Birth’, GV Art London (2013), Women’s Art Library, Kingsway Corridor Programme, Goldsmiths University, London (2013); Life is Beautiful’, Galerie Deadfly, Berlin (2012); Digital Romantics, Dean Clough Gallery (2012) and Walls are Talking, Whitworth Art Gallery (2010). She recently carried out a residency in Moscow/Vishny Volochok with the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art. Knowles has carried out other residencies at Santa Fe Arts Institute (2013), Gatley Primary (2010), UCLAN (2002) and Jodrell Bank Science Centre and Arboretum (1999-2001). A recipient of awards from Arts Council England, The Amateurs Trust and winner of The Great Art Prize, Neo Art Prize (2012). Her work is held in public and private collections including, The Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, Winchester Special Collections, The National Art Library, RCA and GSA Special Collections, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Tate Library and Archive, Museum of Motherhood, New York and Birth Rites Collection. Topic birth homebirth childbirth pregnancy women motherhood social media censorship Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Helen Knowles birth censorship childbirth homebirth installation Manchester mixed media motherhood pregnancy screen print social media United Kingdom women https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/c46c43a7ba4f11fe58669e1c538caf3b.jpg 6791af9b590fe42c39570e0af68cde41 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Name Rosie Garton Ildiko Rippel Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.zooindigo.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.zooindigo.co.uk/</a> Medium video photography performance Location The location of the interview Nottingham United Kingdom Artist Statement Zoo Indigo is an Anglo-German contemporary performance company based in Nottingham, founded by Rosie Garton and Ildiko Rippel. They have created performance work since 2002, touring regionally, nationally and internationally. The Company have devised many multidisciplinary performance works in collaboration with artists from a variety of disciplines, and produced a range of forms of work, including theatre-based performances, street interventions and interactive site-specific projects. The performance work tends to stem from exploration with autobiography from performers and audience, with a focus on the innovative integration of digital technologies. With the use of humour, popular music and the reprocessing of cultural texts, (often iconic film images), the company juxtaposes the banalities of the everyday with the extraordinary. Topic autobiography humor popular music cultural texts children migration home displacement motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Zoo Indigo autobiography children cultural texts displacement home humor migration motherhood Nottingham performance photography popular music United Kingdom video https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/accbbb35cdd952b8f36894b64958f599.jpg 178a9fe4c388a01cf88a4586c9eb6dc8 https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/65c32696d032bd3edaf1ab0a26d59107.pdf 530169cce6592bdb12a9867f68e63abb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://pollypenrose.com/" target="_blank">http://pollypenrose.com/</a> Medium photography Topic self portrait female body femininity women social norms objectification pregnancy Artist Statement Polly Penrose studied Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts in London. She went on to work in Fashion Styling and after that worked for the photographer Tim Walker as his Studio Manager. She has always taken photographs, but started to take the practice seriously when she entered and won a competition held by the London Photographic Association in 2008. She held her first solo show, ‘A Body of Work’, at the Downstairs at Mother Gallery, London, in May 2014. She was part of a group show, Dear Sylvia, at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, March 2015 and the Hellerau Photography Award, in February 2016. She was shortlisted for the D&AD Photography Next Photographer Award in April 2015. Her work has featured on Dazed Digital, The British Journal of Photography, The Huffington Post, and many other influential blogs. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Polly Penrose female body femininity objectification photography self portrait social norms women https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/952e6b021f4acd6537a04ec0dc78bd40.JPG 3288fb0fac8ce40a102831f79dbcbdb3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://jessicapaigegreig.blogspot.com/p/contact.html" target="_blank">http://jessicapaigegreig.blogspot.com/</a> Medium mixed media sculpture video art installation photography collage Location The location of the interview Nottingham United Kingdom Artist Statement I am a mixed media artist, exploring themes of the Maternal, Relationships, Sexual Politics and the Cycle of Life. I am particularly attracted to Flora's life cycle; I link these to human experience using Anthropomorphism and Pareidolia, these are documented via Photographs & Sculptures, where inspiration from the natural world has become fundamental to my practice. My sculptures are made from non-traditional materials, based on seeds, their shape & form are often reminiscent of human body parts Currently my work focuses on pregnancy, motherhood and in particular the dynamics of Mother-Daughter Relationships, Since becoming a Mother myself, I have become obsessed with trying to document 'Moments' & 'Memories', and the 'Essence of my mother', in an attempt to understand the complex relationship that I have with my own mother. Topic maternal relationships sexual politics life cycle human body motherhood mother/daughter relationship pregnancy Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jessica Greig collage human body installation life cycle maternal relationships mixed media mother/daughter relationship motherhood Nottingham photography pregnancy relationships sculpture sexual politics United Kingdom video art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/8482c0cc38cbdfafe968701b1a35d129.png 0aff7ad78f2a519dba310f09c021b4a0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.dinahgold.com" target="_blank">http://www.dinahgold.com</a> Medium video art Location The location of the interview London United Kingdom Artist Statement I explore ways of watching, being watched and watching back, to realise ideas of speech, description and paradox through the medium of moving image. My work stems from an interest in, and long family history relating to, surveillance and voyeurism. I use my own family as a vehicle to explore critical concerns around human behaviors. I am using the work to make sense of my family and make sense of myself, I used different edits like an artist would work in paint, to create different textures which are like different levels of experience. Relating to a group of people who are close may involve different kinds of distance and closeness. The video helps me to explore and represent this, which is more complex than just being voyeuristic. Topic family surveillance voyeurism observation Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dinah Gold family London observation surveillance UK United Kingdom video art voyeurism https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/621e8caa73017480498f2dccc0a6e259.png f4ce2de672b3f56c91ee24a3a7a4d87e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Event Type Exhibit Exhibition Website <a href="http://kunsthallezurich.ch/en/playground-project">http://kunsthallezurich.ch/en/playground-project </a> <a href="http://kunsthallezurich.ch/en/publications/playground-project">http://kunsthallezurich.ch/en/publications/playground-project</a> Museum <a href="http://kunsthallezurich.ch/en/information">Kunsthalle Zürich</a> Location The location of the interview Zürich Switzerland Curator Gabriela Burkhalter Curatorial Statement <div class="views-field views-field-body-1 intro-text"> Until the 1980s – and in rare cases until today – playgrounds were places for social experiments, risky projects, and spectacular sculptures. Architects, urban planners, artists, parents, and children were invited to leave their comfort zone and to venture something new. Curated by <a href="http://www.architekturfuerkinder.ch/">Gabriela Burkhalter</a>, The Playground Project will bring many of these exemplary, but nowadays forgotten initiatives, pioneering acts, and adventures back, and install three playgrounds for children to run, hide and climb. May our cities invent new playgrounds! We’re not only showing playgrounds for kids, we also are a playground! Come, climb into our Lozziwurm, tie knots in the rope studio, sit at the large table to draw and built, and take a swing on our long ropes! </div> <div class="views-field views-field-body"> <div class="field-content read-more-content"> <div class="content-toggle"> The playground is a byproduct of the industrialized city of the twentieth century. Even now, it continues to be both an ugly duckling and a coveted space. A focal point for ideas about education and childhood, about urban planning and public space, about architecture and art, about creativity and control, the playground has repeatedly resisted institutional and ideological appropriation and grown in its own sometimes quite anarchic ways. The coexistence of contradictory expectations, moments of temporary progress, and radical developments makes playgrounds so exciting. Still, as hardly anyone sees playgrounds as part of their cultural heritage, much of their history has been forgotten or can barely be understood anymore – even if all of us often have quite precise personal memories of this niche where we met our friends, took pride in new things we dared to do, braved danger without thinking about it, and learned to confront and resolve conflicts. There have been four paradigm shifts in the development of the playground in the course of the last 150 years. First, at the beginning of the twentieth century, social reformers took children off the street and onto the playground. Then, at the beginning of the 1930s, the idea arose that children should play with natural materials rather than playground equipment. In the 1960s, the decade of autonomy and do-it-yourself, parents, children, and neighborhood groups began to take charge of playgrounds themselves. Finally, in the 1980s, with the end of social and political utopias, a crisis in playground design began. With Marjory Allen (Lady Allen of Hurtwood), Joseph Brown, Waldemar Cordeiro, Riccardo Dalisi, Richard Dattner, Aldo van Eyck, M. Paul Friedberg, Michael Grossert, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Alfred Ledermann, Bernhard Luginbühl, Yvan Pestalozzi, Group Ludic, Egon Møller-Nielsen, Palle Nielsen, Isamu Noguchi, Sreejata Roy, Niki de Saint Phalle, Josef Schagerl, Mitsuru (Man) Senda, Carl Theodor Sørensen, Alfred Trachsel et al. Including real and amazing playgrounds for real and amazing kids! Bring your parents! The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive catalog introducing, discussing and illustrating numerous projects: <a href="https://wemakeit.com/projects/the-playground-project">The Playground Project</a>, edited by Gabriela Burkhalter, with contributions by Daniel Baumann, Gabriela Burkhalter, Vincent Romagny, Sreejata Roy, and Xavier de la Salle, German / English, Kunsthalle Zürich / JRP|Ringier 2016. </div> </div> </div> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 20 February to 15 May 2016 Topic playground social experiments sculpture children architecture urban planning Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Playground Project architecture children playground sculpture social experiments Switzerland urban planning Zürich https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/dcdcb06433c1897ece531d2c803b3db4.jpg ad672fdee70e307b3d853299e93dab81 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.jacklynbrickman.com" target="_blank">http://www.jacklynbrickman.com</a> Medium photography installation sculpture drawing video Artist Statement Domestic Landscapes are oneiric installations made with light, kitchen utensils and shadows. The complexities of how we inhabit and engage with our surroundings and the entities we share them with are at the core of my work. Informed by the photographic process, larger works and installations tend to incorporate light and projection as well as sound or video while smaller scale works often consist of everyday objects and multiples. Simulating nature with man-made items and transforming life’s daily chaos into delicacy, my work edges between childlike playfulness and a longing for the seemingly out of reach. Grounded in the home and activated by life with young children, necessary and repetitive daily tasks are absorbed into my work and reappear to expose beauty through reflections on domestic life. Homage to Heqet 2012 Mott Community College Art Gallery, Flint, MI The complexities of how we inhabit and engage with the earth and the entities we share it with are at the core of my work – systems within systems. Over the past two years, frogs and toads have been a vessel for my perpetual interest in the simulation of nature. This exploration has manifested through drawing, installation, video and sound. My materials and habits tend toward everyday objects, multiples, and layers. Homage to Heqet is an extension of this work; An offering to frog-headed Heqet: Goddess of fertility, midwives, and newborns. In the spring, amidst frog calls and blooming earth and henna on my belly.13 days later, a daughter was born into water, a force of nature. Ritual is intention & process. I’m focused on honoring repetitive, menial daily tasks in mothering an infant, while embedding and reflecting on elements of our wetland counterparts. Topic nature cultural ecosystems interrelationship domestic life repetitive tasks daily tasks living with children Location The location of the interview Pleasant Ridge Michigan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jacklyn Brickman cultural ecosystems daily tasks domestic life drawing installation interrelationship living with children nature photography repetitive tasks sculpture video https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/7f931016190eb2629652b1bef4e51e45.png e70c46915e9ec1f222f2e661907746d1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Location The location of the interview Bradford Ontario Canada Topic motherhood mothering About The Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) is a scholarly and activist organization on mothering-motherhood, developed from the former Association for Research on Mothering at York University (1998-2010). The initiative houses the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (formerly The Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering), Mother Outlaws, and is partnered with <a href="http://www.demeterpress.org/" target="_blank">Demeter Press</a>. The founder and director of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement is Andrea O'Reilly, <a href="mailto:aoreilly@yorku.ca">aoreilly@yorku.ca</a>. Organization Website <a href="http://motherhoodinitiative.org" target="_blank">http://motherhoodinitiative.org</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) Bradford Canada motherhood mothering Ontario https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/e64e1b4dc2d2b09050598e186bc16515.jpg 1008249870cc32655b422a2c92db19f1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://amyfdignam.weebly.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://amyfdignam.weebly.com/&source=gmail&ust=1559842557155000&usg=AFQjCNEwH_uX-DziNyIOKQNSd8dl7CtuTA">https://amyfdignam.weebly.com/</a> Medium drawings photography video performance installation Artist Statement Italian born, Amy moved to London in 1998 and graduated from Central Saint Martins College in 2005. Her work is mainly autobiographical but also holds a socio-political dynamic. Making the personal public her work originates from the female body, concepts of everyday life, loss of identity, the importance of memories and the abstraction of longing are central to her practice. Domesticity as a ‘visual language’ where maternal subjectivity is explored via different media such us drawings, photography, video installation and performance.  Topic motherhood maternity domestic women artists feminism feminist mother activism Location The location of the interview London United Kingdom Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Amy Dignam domestic drawings installation London maternity motherhood performance photography UK United Kingdom video women artists https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/bcc65dc9fd5c355bb2921ab0bcefac42.jpg 45e031ec3fd765a399550e8dc5485bfb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.facebook.com/artistasmotherasartist/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/artistasmotherasartist/</a> Gallery Lace Market Gallery Location The location of the interview Nottingham United Kingdom Curator Sam Rose Tracey Kershaw Curatorial Statement Artist as Mother as Artist is a co-curated gallery exhibition by Sam Rose and Tracey Kershaw, featuring artworks across the disciplines of video, dance on film, photography, sculpture, drawing, print, and live art and performance documents. Showcasing fourteen local and national artists whose practice is based upon the inseparable relationship between being an artist and mother, all works featured have all been nourished, enabled, influenced and created as a consequence of the artist’s maternal experiences. Additionally, there will be a series of professional development opportunities and public participatory events that will consider how parenthood can enhance creative thinking. These events will encourage debate and conversation, making the maternal a critical component of artistic discourse. Artist as Mother as Artist aims to inspire child and parent collaboration and encourage artistic practice amongst mothers, who may feel a conflict between their artistic engagement and their day-to-day caring activities. Artist as Mother as Artist project is supported by Arts Council England, ncn Lace Market Gallery, My Family Care, Lumen PR, Jazz Hairdressing and Creative Quarter Nottingham. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 22 April to 19 May 2016 Topic parenthood motherhood maternal experience parent/child relationship Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/110" target="_blank">Nicola Canavan</a> Nicola Carter and Seraina Dejaco <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/97" target="_blank">Paula Chambers</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/121" target="_blank">Amy Dignam</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/38" target="_blank">Rachel Fallon</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/127" target="_blank">Dinah Gold</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/128" target="_blank">Jessica Paige Greig</a> Dyana Gravina and Lara Gonzalez from the <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/5">ProCreate Project</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/130" target="_blank">Zoo Indigo</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/48" target="_blank">Tracey Kershaw</a> Sam Rose <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/32" target="_blank">Helen Sargeant</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/31" target="_blank">Eti Wade</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist as Mother as Artist maternal experience motherhood Nottingham parent/child relationship parenthood UK United Kingdom https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/1a88d85b2bf6c806e0c4f1984f0ef64b.png c975f9c913405edf91fac51bceea3dfa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Name Arzu Ozkal Claudia Costa Pederson Nanette Yannuzzi Website The Artist's website <a href="http://homeaffairs.website/about/" target="_blank">http://homeaffairs.website/about/</a> Artist Statement Art and caregiving intersect in the rhetoric of “labor of love”. In the art world, this belief is embodied in stereotyped notions of the artist. We are all familiar with them. There is the starving artist, the crazy artist, the hermit artist. And then there is the childless artist. Automatically assumed to be a woman, the childless artist is center stage among the handful of women art stars. As the discourse goes, this is because art making is an all-consuming undertaking antithetical to childrearing. By contrast, representations of ‘woman’ as caregiver abound in art. Images of the passive, self-less, self-sacrificing Madonna are emblematic. That both stereotypes overlay retrograde gender hierarchies and divisions of labor in art and care is corroborated by the numbers. According to a June 2015 article in ARTNews, the statistics relative to the number of women artists represented in major art museums and galleries remains dismal with the Hayward Gallery in the UK being the worst. Only 22 percent of their solo exhibitions were devoted to women in the past seven years. In the U.S., the Metropolitan Museum appears to suffer from a particularly harsh time warp. It appears that in 2012 only 4 percent of the artists they supported with exhibitions were women and that figure is worse than their 1989 figures. France isn’t far behind these bad boy scores. The Centre Pompidou has only dedicated 16 percent of its exhibition to women since 2007. Parallel statistics report that women continue to bear the brunt of housework chores and child care. One recent government-funded survey suff ices to put this in perspective: “men typically do about 9.6 hours of housework each week; women typically do about 18.1 hours. When it comes to child care, men average about 7 hours a week while women put in about 14 hours.” It appears then that the labor of love rhetoric permeating art making and caregiving is nothing but a metaphor for unpaid labor. And because of societal expectations, women artists are most impacted. Art institutions can and must play a role in changing these dynamics. The point is not to include women merely as tokens, but to structurally account for and support artists who are also caregivers. Topic feminism gender stereotypes child care caregivers women Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Home Affairs caregivers child care feminism gender stereotypes women https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/1a6e5e154c03964371d5f7a3b4e2e136.jpg 8ae9118ea86f9e5a8591066912aafbae Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Topic grants financial support award artists parents writers About <div> <div>The Sustainable Arts Foundation supports artists and writers with children. Too often, creative impulses must be set aside to meet the wonderful—but pressing — demands of raising a family. We support individual artists with annual unrestricted cash awards; at least half of these awards are made to applicants of color. We also support artist residencies in their efforts to make their programs more family friendly.</div> </div> Organization Website <a href="http://www.sustainableartsfoundation.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.sustainableartsfoundation.org</a> Location The location of the interview San Francisco, CA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sustainable Arts Foundation artists award financial support grants parents writers https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/d38a85afbce7fcabda26da3fee8aa968.jpeg fb047ff581b6b8645ccd71878ab8ecb2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.roxanaalgergeffen.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.roxanaalgergeffen.com</a> Medium mixed media painting collage installation photography Location The location of the interview Washington, DC Artist Statement  I’ve spent the last decade exploring the world of domestic life and family systems. Although I started as a painter, describing the chaotic and contradictory world of parenting seemed to require a multi-layered, eclectic approach, and I have expanded my practice to include collage, installation and photography. Recently, I’ve been drawn into the digital worlds my children inhabit so readily (in part because the subject of ‘screen’ causes so much debate and anxiety in the cultural discourse) and the imagery I’ve found there has been surprisingly inspiring and oddly familiar. One game had a pixelated, modular landscape—touched with moments of surprising, naturalistic beauty—that became an excellent metaphor for my domestic world. I use this imagery layered with realism, as well as a layering of techniques, to develop the idea of parenting and domestic life as a many-layered experience: funny, moving, and labor-intensive. Topic domestic life family systems parenting parenthood realism abstraction Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Roxana Alger Geffen abstraction collage domestic domestic life family systems installation mess mixed media painting parenthood parenting photography realism toys https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/31612b8c1e73762529362730330ba190.pdf b176ce9ee192af7514b7e43c7f97a24f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.ollyollyart.com/exhibitions" target="_blank">http://www.ollyollyart.com/exhibitions</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1666488403640036/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/1666488403640036/</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/files/original/0a2db581bf5cedf7a4f167557e29c36d.pdf" target="_blank">EXHIBITION CATALOG</a> Gallery <a href="http://www.ollyollyart.com/" target="_blank">Olly Olly</a> Location The location of the interview Fairfax Virginia Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/1" target="_blank">Sarah Irvin</a> Curatorial Statement For Domestic Territories, Washington DC area artists were invited to consider how they negotiate the use of household space with their children. The work in the show investigates physical and emotional spaces that are separate, shared or disputed. By representing the constant evolution of personal boundaries in specific parent/child relationships, the exhibit highlights topics that are publicly debated but only privately encountered. The exhibit makes use of the gallery walls, windows, ceiling, and bathroom. Artists explore the language their children use to claim space, lack of boundaries in the home, domestic aesthetics and how the artists themselves influence their children. Milana Braslavsky’s photographs consider the aesthetic of a home shared with children by visually connecting the pattern and texture of children’s toys to the form of nesting cookware. Nikki Brugnoli covers windows in the gallery with imagery and text related to her current home in which her workspace has no door, and her bedroom, a redesigned office space, has a glass door. By blocking view from the outside world, the work creates privacy in the gallery, which Brugnoli aims to maintain in her home. Edgar Endress responds to his son’s use of toys as a way to claim territory, but instead of claiming a space for himself as an individual by blocking others from areas of the gallery, he rethinks his son’s impulse by placing toys on the ceiling. Billy Frieble hijacked electronic children’s toys and reprogrammed them to mimic the movements of his infant son in an interactive sculpture that responds to the movement and body heat of gallery visitors. The artist’s observations of a developing child are translated into a piece that allows the viewer to consider growth, development and the presence of electronics in the early stages of life. Roxana Alger Geffen’s installation piece incorporates a window in the gallery and uses a combination of traditional mediums and household materials to consider how children invade mental space. Erin Raedeke’s still life paintings are constructed scenes using a combination of products and brands that represent both adult life as well as childhood. The paintings represent mark-making associated with childhood, crayon marks, alongside the mark making of adults, cursive handwriting, representing a blend of life’s stages in one visual space. Megan Wynne’s photograph, Home Birth, captures a moment familiar to most living with toddlers. The scale and detail of the photograph confronts the viewer with an intimate setting in the public space of the gallery, foregrounding the blurring distinctions of self and other that take place when raising children. Fabiola Alvarez Yursicin’s piece uses glow in the dark material as a way to consider how children absorb, alter and then reflect a version of the attitudes and habits of their parents. Artists <a href="http://milanabraslavsky.com/home.html" target="_blank">Milana Braslavsky</a> Nikki Brugnoli <a href="http://eendress.com/" target="_blank">Edgar Endress</a> <a href="http://www.billyfriebele.com/" target="_blank">Billy Friebele</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/117" target="_blank">Roxana Alger Geffen</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/45" target="_blank">Erin Raedeke</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/2" target="_blank">Megan Wynne</a> <a href="http://www.fabiola.com.mx/" target="_blank">Fabiola Alvarez Yursicin</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) February 29 - March 31, 2016 Topic domestic space parenthood toys child development mental space boundaries personal space physical boundaries electronics and children influencing children household objects mess stuff domestic objects Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Domestic Territories boundaries child development domestic objects Domestic Territories emotional space Fairfax influencing children mess Olly Olly personal space physical space stuff toys Virginia https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/51ed79092f46a2c320dd27533c7bbb83.gif e282a5cc14047e8484721b6359929702 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.lentos.at/html/en/3312.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.lentos.at/html/en/3312.aspx</a> Curator Sabine Fellner Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller Stella Rollig Gallery Lentos Art Museum Curatorial Statement Super mom or childless? It almost looks as if there were no such thing any longer as motherhood pure and simple, as if all that is left is the choice between perfectionism and resignation. Nevertheless, motherhood has many aspects: joy, an intense experience of life, love relationship, learning, exultation, on one hand, and, on the other, frustration, being weighed down by expectations and the fear of being inadequate to the task. Until the 19th century motherhood was never called into question even if in actual reality the rewards often fell woefully short of projected ideals. It was only the advent of career openings for women that created alternatives to motherhood as a fulfilled life. Pregnancy, birth, abortion, life with children, the decision against children, the struggle of children with their mothers – all these themes have their place in art. Nor did we have to wait for 1960s feminist art to produce realistic portrayals of the mother’s role but fi nd renderings of social reality and individual conflicts already as early as the beginning of the 20th century. The exhibition showcases not only shifts in the stereotypes of motherhood from 1900 to today but also the changes in the perspective from which children see their mothers. It calls into question the optimisation logic of today’s life designs and nurtures the hope of change: an ever greater number of women with children opt out of the complex, often stressful regime of everyday life, refusing to accept their life world between career, children and consumption as preordained or God-given. Location The location of the interview Linz, Austria Event Type Exhibition Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 23 October 2015 to 21 February 2016 Topic pregnancy birth abortion life with children motherhood parenting Artists Uli Aigner Ed Alcock Iris Andraschek Robert Angerhofer Siegfried Anzinger Tina Barney Max Beckmann Charlotte Berend-Corinth Werner Berg Renate Bertlmann Margret Bilger Herbert Boeckl Louise Bourgeois Candice Breitz Arthur Brusenbauch Heinrich Campendonk Hans Canon Elinor Carucci Sevda Chkoutova Larry Clark <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank">Lenka Clayton</a> Lovis Corinth Wilhelm Dachauer Carola Dertnig Rineke Dijkstra Otto Dix Nathalie Djurberg Béatrice Dreux Diane Ducruet Miriam Elia Anton Faistauer Lucian Freud Fritz Fröhlich Aldo Giannotti Burt Glinn Lea Grundig Johannes Grützke Ernst Haas Conny Habbel Maria Hahnenkamp Keith Haring Karl Hartung Karl Hauk Carry Hauser Gottfried Helnwein Hannah Höch Axel Johannessen Birgit Jürgenssen Mary Kelly Josef Kern Franz Kimm Gustav Klimt Max Klinger Kiki Kogelnik Oskar Kokoschka Silvia Koller Broncia Koller-Pinell Käthe Kollwitz Julia Krahn Johannes Krejci Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller Alfred Kubin Maria Lassnig Leigh Ledare Erich Lessing Switbert Lobisser Baltasar Lobo Lea Lublin Elena Luksch-Makowsky Karin Mack Christian Macketanz Hans Makart Jeanne Mammen Matthias May Jonathan Meese Georg Merkel Larry Miller Gabi Mitterer Paula Modersohn-Becker Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Ron Mueck Otto Mueller Alice Neel Shirin Neshat Max Oppenheimer Florentina Pakosta Rebecca Paterno Pablo Picasso Margot Pilz Hanna Putz <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/114" target="_blank">Gail Rebhan</a> Paula Rego Rudolf Ribarz Annerose Riedl Frenzi Rigling Franz Ringel Ulrike Rosenbach Judith Samen Hansel Sato Egon Schiele Zineb Sedira Ulrika Segerberg Kiki Smith Annegret Soltau Viktoria Sorochinski Daniel Spoerri Sarah Sudhoff Viktor Tischler Paloma Varga Weisz Borjana Ventzislavova mit Mirsolav Nicic und Mladen Penev Nurith Wagner-Strauss Andy Walde Alfons Warhol Gillian Wearing Helene Winger-Stein Anna Witt Judith Zillich Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource MOTHER OF THE YEAR Between Empowerment and Crisis: Images of Motherhood from 1900 to Today abortion birth life with children motherhood parenting pregnancy https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/2f9081c6a994a4f65cb60582d53df50b.jpg ad28ad3bf5706ed55ab7abb5703b3252 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.gailrebhan.com" target="_blank">gailrebhan.com</a> Topic gender parenting feminism mothering family male clutter race religion Medium photography artists' books video Artist Statement I have created artwork for over thirty years that explores mothering from a social, cultural, and emotional point-of-view. I use my family (and myself) as typical representatives of quotidian, middle-class, American family life. I draw on my experiences to create art that puts this into a social, cultural, and emotional context. In my early artwork, the act of mothering is overt, as I try to instill my values in my sons. As they grow older, that becomes harder as they engage in typical challenging behavior. The artwork reflects changing family dynamics. Through gentle humor and without didacticism, I examine inconsistencies, faults, and problematic behavior as reflected in family life. Location The location of the interview Washington DC Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gail Rebhan artists books family feminist gender Male Clutter mothering parenting photography Race Religion video https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/302ebe8b3a651c5ad410297c81086cc6.jpg 83616c0b872d48f8d3ac6148e18cdc22 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Name Jesse Burke Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.wildandprecious.co" target="_blank">www.wildandprecious.co</a> Topic father/daughter relationship fatherhood parenting nature Medium photography video Artist Statement The Wild & Precious works bring together treasures from a series of road trips traveled over 5 years by photographer Jesse Burke and his daughter Clover to explore the natural world. To encourage a connection between his child and nature, Burke used these adventures to give her an education that he considers essential—one that develops appreciation, respect, conservation, and self-confidence. Together this father-and-daughter team studied beaches, land, sky, and animals. While on the road, they documented the routes they drove, the landscapes they discovered, the creatures they encountered, even the roadside motels where they slept. This book is as much about love and parenting as it is a hands-on training manual of new age environmentalism. Wild & Precious reveals the fragile, complicated relationship that humans share with nature and serves as a call to arms for parents and children everywhere: Get outside! Bookended by poetic letters the two wrote to one another, Wild & Precious is a modern-day love story between parent and child, natural world and society. Burke writes, “I want my children to genuinely understand how magical the world we inhabit is and how we, as humans, are an integral part of the system. I want them to feel a deep connection to every aspect of their surroundings." Location The location of the interview Rhode Island, USA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jesse Burke father/daughter relationship fatherhood nature parenting photography video https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/786688114ac96155259a4d1640c0de74.png 43b08356a268f778d626c7e482c1ce84 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <div style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.luheintz.com/" target="_blank">http://www.luheintz.com/</a></div> Medium conceptual art textiles metalsmithing video sound sculpture installation performance paper works writing Location The location of the interview Providence Rhode Island Artist Statement My work is engaged in discourses around feminism, labor and technological change. Embedded in the works are confluences of technique and meaning, craft and digital media, and everyday materials with fine art forms. The work is situated at the nexus of life and art, and walks a boundary between work and love. Labor and love act broadly as dual domains which sustain my interest in the ways a subject acts and is acted upon by intersecting social, economic, intimate, emotional and political forces. While some works describe the ways in which labor and love converge in personal and economic experience, others begin to search for meanings of love that may deviate from material, economic conditions to transform the terms of our intimate and collective relationships. Topic labor love power gender consumerism intimacy communication silence Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lu Heintz communication conceptual art consumerism gender installation intimacy labor love metalsmithing paper works performance power sculpture silence sound textiles video writing https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/f0e1dff3fb61f336f392ab3e1919f30d.jpg a82562d4ffb8875f76de156dbff20bef Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.nicolacanavan.com" target="_blank">http://www.nicolacanavan.com</a> <a href="http://www.raisingtheskirt.com" target="_blank">http://www.raisingtheskirt.com</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nicolahuntercanavan/?fref=ts" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/nicolahuntercanavan/?fref=ts</a> Medium painting performance art Location The location of the interview Jarrow South Tyneside United Kingdom Artist Statement Over the last 10 years I have been developing an artistic practice which is rooted in image making and spans live work, documentations of its products & traces and the re-presentation of these in other forms. With performance at its core, I investigate themes around feminism, abjection and ritual with a focus on interpreting or creating experiences in my own body. I have an active interest in the anthropological body, exploring the ways that social, cultural and political dynamics shape the perception and understanding of the human body and how these interactions are interpreted through social engagement how they are controlled through mass media and the arts.  In 2014 I created '<a href="http://www.raisingtheskirt.com" target="_blank">Raising the Skirt</a><a href="http://www.raisingtheskirt.com" target="_blank">'</a> in collaboration with Dawn Felicia Knox, which has since had international success being named one of Dazed and Confused's photo series of the year 2015. RTS is a multi-layered arts project which calls for the (re)claiming of the cunt, we are working on representing a diverse and fierce femininity through re-appropriating the defiant act of raising the skirt which is buried deep into many of our cultures.  'Landing in Her Skin' began in the spring of 2015 and aims to document the transition of woman to mother and back again, being a mother comes with its own otherness, this project will follow the lives of women and their ever changing body. Biography Born in North East England (UK), Nicola Hunter (formerly Canavan) has been performing and showing work nationally and internationally since 2007 within programmes such as Momentum Festival (Brussels), ]performance s p a c e[ (London), Inbetween Time Festival (Bristol), City of Women (Ljubljana) and SPILL National Platform (Ipswitch). She has collaborated with Predrag Pajdic, Manuel Vason (Double Exposures) and Ernst Fischer and has been awarded the Artsadmin Bursary, the Artists International Development Fund and has been financially supported and mentored by Unlimited, Live Art Development Agency and Pacitti Company. Topic feminism abjection ritual aesthetics motherhood motherness human body Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nicola Hunter abjection aesthetics feminism human body motherhood motherless painting performance art ritual https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/4fb08c8082c1287c2148008db4da2c26.jpg 4f45bcbe1c73e2f416ab21fc4a167552 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://chloe-irla.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://chloe-irla.com/</a> Medium painting fiber textile mixed media installation Location The location of the interview Baltimore Maryland Artist Statement I maintain an interdisciplinary studio practice grounded in both traditional and alternative approaches to painting and drawing. My recent work investigates the data visualization of increments over specific time periods. I collect information within an established time constraint and then analyze the data set. Based on the conceptual direction of the project, I incorporate the use of textiles and digital media to visualize the research. The Year One series is based on one year’s worth of data collected about my daughter’s first year of life. From January 18, 2015 to January 18, 2016, I tracked the times of each nursing session, pumping session, nightly sleep and morning wake-up, daytime nap, diaper, bath, bottle, and solid food acceptance. My initial goal was to create wool blankets based on the graph-like data visualizations, but as a new parent, I simply do not have the time to dedicate to hand-felting and sewing large-scale quilts at this point in my practice. I decided to utilize digital media to create the compositions, so my process began with hand-dyeing samples of wool, scanning the samples and adjusting them into digital files, and then arranging the “tiles” into blanket-like digital compositions. Year One allows me to compare data about my daughter’s growth and development, and also visualizes the absolute time commitment that goes into being a primary caregiver. Every hour of the day with an infant is busy, and with this project, each hour is also accounted for. I can compare my daughter’s first month of life to the last month of her first year, which shows a drastic difference in feeding and sleeping routines. The overall appearance of the compositions is similar to my initial goal of creating handmade wool blankets, but the process is much better suited to my busy, primary caregiving lifestyle. Topic daughter life motherhood parenthood data tracking visualization repetitive tasks Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chloe Irla data daughter fiber installation life mixed media motherhood painting parenthood repetitive tasks textile tracking visualization https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/684e798c70d5a4ca45982c906c3031fd.jpg 5bddfbdd9ff6626bf292de2b105ec46e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.lynnlu.info" target="_blank">www.lynnlu.info</a> Topic milk lactation tending empathy reality Medium performance installation kinetic sculpture Artist Statement In my practice, the sentient body is seen as the main medium for perceiving and presenting (versus representing) meaning (versus message) through direct personal experience. Engaging vigorously with the present reality of all that is here-and-now, the meaning of my context-specific works often manifest in the resonant relationships created between myself and my audience, and between the audience themselves. My current research looks at the connection between experiential knowledge and the innate human capacity for empathy, in relation to a genre performance art I call “gutty”. This gutty form of performance art which uses the body just as it is – as vulnerable/resilient/sensitive as it is in everyday life – relies heavily on empathy to create meaning that is not merely conceptual but also affective and visceral. In other words, I look at why some performances not only tickle our brains but also quite literally leave us feeling like we’ve been punched in the gut. Location The location of the interview London United Kingdom Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lynn Charlotte Lu empathy installation kinetic sculpture lactation milk performance reality spillage tending https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/3e1af4656562eca321702dc561311494.JPG f1632ca9f6735fcc9702c88b6b64cb34 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://julielebeldanceprojects.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://julielebeldanceprojects.wordpress.com/</a> Topic embodied parenting co-creation of dance with 0-4yrs olds choreography parenting dance and children Medium dance performance Artist Statement I engage the public in their discovery of the experience of dancing. This practice has led me to develop tools for hospitality in performance and in the performing body. I seek to install dance ideas in theatres or public spaces in such a way that both public and performers will be invited in. Play is central to my practice in its power to re-shape reality. In my work, professionals and non-professional, young and old alike are capable, make choices and solve problems, lead and follow, create and collaborate. I make dances with and for parents/caregivers and babies/toddlers/children. I facilitate groups of youth, adults and elders to find their unknown dances as collectives and as individuals. My creative processes are sometimes held in theatres and often in public spaces because they hold our collective experiences/stories and affect how we move, behave and think. My goal is to create and produce contemporary choreographic works. To collaborate, exchange creative tools and to articulate new ideas between peers and mentors is integral to my creative process. I choose an esthetic of encounter and dialogue between dance and music over the practice juxtaposition of the two art forms. Video, photo and writing documentation are present throughout the creative process and inform its development or exist as a stand alone artistic output. Movement making is the result of problem solving with the collaboration of dancers. I seek learning opportunities with local mentors such as Karen Jamieson for deeper embodiment in the facilitation of my work in professional or nonprofessional contexts. I travel to the United States to study Ensemble Thinking with Nina Martin, a set of dynamic composition tools. As I become more aware, I stand against artistic and cultural appropriation and carry the knowledge and ideas with respect for peers, artistic mentors and ancestors. Location The location of the interview Vancouver British Columbia Canada Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Julie Lebel Title A name given to the resource Julie Lebel choreography co-creation of dance with 0-4yrs olds dance embodied parenting parenting performance https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/9c6d9c6ff1a60fd9c6ab323b70f5d979.jpg 2884ab83c44e633e6abb1fb189510313 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.heatherpassmore.com/" target="_blank">http://www.heatherpassmore.com/</a> Topic fertility social justice environmental issues domestic scenes Medium printmaking painting pen drawings Artist Statement My practice generally incorporates quotidian and discarded materials with painting, drawing and photography. I work across a variety of media as needed. My projects frequently intersect social justice and environmental issues using materials which bear histories of taste and accumulations of labour. These include illegal milk from community supported agriculture, linoleum from demolished Vancouver real estate, used t-shirts, old mattresses, yarn, spray-paint, and art-world form letters. I seek to connect viewers to ascribed hierarchies of value through the use of various socio-historically laden materials. Discomfort with the nexus of art, power, and knowledge leaves me keen to undermine art as a sphere remote from those without the requisite privileges for access. My artwork often displays concern with its own assumption of cultural value. As a prestigious realm of knowledge and culture, I see art functioning in part to legitimate and perpetuate uneven distributions of cultural power and authority. I am especially interested in the gender dimension to these politics. My work often registers the potential for critical autonomy outside the realm of elite art. Here I investigate how leisurely modes of insight outside bourgeois categories of competence, and value may harbour disalienating potential through a general will to knowledge, self-representation, and creativity. I strive to nuance my considerations rather than reassert a dichotomy between high and the low taste. Many of my projects extend the notion of art as an everyday category of experience and popular practice in radical disalignment with consumer culture. I often re-valuate media in order to highlight certain quotidian experiences and practices as potential sites of consciousness-raising, if only as a reconfiguration of unwanted material bearing the broken utopian promise of the commodity. Location The location of the interview Vancouver Canada Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Heather Passmore culture environmental issues fertility painting pen drawings printmaking social justice https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/dee2271c94009f18beaea547d71907e0.png 4c78093e9d30b35f2dda3f8582de3eed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://maternalecologies.ca/" target="_blank">maternalecologies.ca</a> Medium performance video art Location The location of the interview Edmonton Alberta Canada Artist Statement Maternal Ecologies uses the frame of performance to recast the daily practices of early motherhood. For 3 years I reflected on, inhabited, and researched my experience of early maternal life through the FLUXUS-inspired format of the instruction piece. Year 1, Action A Day (Maternal Prescriptions) was performed for 84 consecutive days. Year 2, Action A Day (Inhabiting Firsts) was performed for 210 consecutive days. Year 3, Action A Day (Gone/There) was performed for 84 consecutive days. The project ended when my son turned 3. Topic daily practice motherhood Fluxus documentation art and research infants infant care breastfeeding Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank">New Maternalisms - Chile</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/65" target="_blank">New Maternalisms - Toronto</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natalie Loveless Alberta breastfeeding Canada curator daily practice documentation Edmonton infant care motherhood research research and art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/3284b76f39094cf05d6df90b34335116.jpg 02591ddf1f1b982fecbce38f0753d826 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 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> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Christa Donner Chicago childcare collaboration community drawing Illinois installation motherhood painting printmaking social practice https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/a7a0bc57de6e89f8b612056929363bb3.pdf b47ef750b34efe63788bbd81d96e4b21 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Location The location of the interview The Netherlands Topic motherhood maternal theory maternal thinking maternal labor About m/other voices foundation is a non-profit organisation created for the purposes of initiating, supporting, doing, promoting, raising awareness and giving visibility to maternal thinking, -theory and -research within the arts, culture, philosophy and the society at large, as well as to increase the participation of mothers in the production of art, culture and theory. The foundation undertakes activities to further the cause of mothers, and others engaged in maternal labour, as thinkers and as producers of knowledge, through activities including, but not restricted to, to the organisation of reading groups, field trips, exhibitions and publications, community involvement groups, dialogue, seminars and conferences and the building and maintenance of local and international communities and networks between mother artists, researchers and others interested in engaging in the doing of maternal theory. <div> </div> Organization Website <a href="http://www.mothervoices.org/the-mothernists/" target="_blank">http://www.mothervoices.org/the-mothernists/</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource m/other voices maternal maternal theory motherhood https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/9fab55cbc2c288c792bdc0a76c2b8417.jpg 4aecbbeee16959a8cb410b391a56f44e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.paulachambers.co.uk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.paulachambers.co.uk/index.html</a> Medium sculpture installation Location The location of the interview United Kingdom Artist Statement My mother was not a feminist, yet growing up in 1970s suburban north London I was witness to, and complicit in, her active refusal to conform to the expectations of a good housewife. Cleaning, tidying, dusting, washing up, were all low on the list of my mother’s priorities, instead she played tennis, she grew vegetables, she went out dancing; my sister and I were left to our own devices. As a feminist artist, I have adopted my mother’s domestic dissent, integrating it as philosophy into the processes and outcomes of my art making practice. I do not have a studio but make art in my kitchen; I rarely clean or tidy up, I utilize my domestic space and the objects that inhabit it, as a temporalized site of domestic resistance. The domestic objects and household ornaments of our childhoods take on an emotional value that shape our notions of self; that construct significant personal identities. In the body of work " "Transcendental Housework", I subvert these domestic objects that haunt our retrogressive imagination. This is dysfunctional furniture and ambivalent ornamentation. Sculptural objects, both floor based and wall based seem to lurk or loiter in the gallery space, they have a whiff of discontented anthropomorphism. Topic motherhood feminism childhood domestic space housework 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> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paula Chambers childhood domestic feminist installations motherhood sculpture United Kingdom https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/20b2269e1feaaa4095eb9e8f2d9df002.png 18e05f3e5c8115fa1a82a8130e4ad390 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.ellinakevorkian.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.ellinakevorkian.com</a> <a href="http://www.ellinakevorkian.com/#!raising-children/c20q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.ellinakevorkian.com/#!raising-children/c20q</a> Medium painting photography video performance Artist Statement Ellina Kevorkian is an interdisciplinary artist who creates hybridized relationships between painting, photography, video, and performance. Using tropes, humor, and the visual languages of art and popular culture, Kevorkian suggests other possibilities in the ways women are represented. Kevorkian has shown in Los Angeles and beyond; among the many, Western Project, a showing of selected videos at MOCA, Los Angeles, and inclusion in the Southern California Council of the National Museum of Women in the Arts sponsored retrospective Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006. As a commissioned artist for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions she presented Recollecting Performance, an exhibition of 1970s and e.1980s garments worn by Southern Californian performance artists for Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983, as part of The Getty funded initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980. Kevorkian’s year-long, site-specific installation for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, violetagainstwomen.tumblr.com, can be viewed online. An AVK Arts Foundation grant supported her recent artist-in-residency at The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. The resultant piece Some Dreams Contain Dead Time was performed on the Royce Hall Stage. Her work has been written about in The LA Times, The LA Weekly, ArtForum, ArtPulse and Artnet. She received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University and graduated from the inaugural year at the Institute of Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University. She's a recent participant in Portland Emerging Arts Leaders (PEAL) which is affiliated with the Emerging Leaders Network, a program of Americans for the Arts. She is currently is an Artistic Director for Residency Programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Topic feminism children motherhood Location The location of the interview Minneapolis Minnesota USA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ellina Kevorkian children contemporary art feminism humor motherhood painting performance photography video women representation https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/6000a8fef6659add8c4d341885d0ec68.png f8b0f8cce604c57d92d4b982623f5063 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.jennifercopp.com" target="_blank">http://www.jennifercopp.com</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview Winter Springs Florida Artist Statement Against Myself, Together I Stand: I am an Artist, a Teacher and a Single Mother, all titles that I am proud to call myself. With all of these titles I bear the solo responsibility of telling our story (my daughter's and mine). I am her memory, guide and compass. Life moves quickly and the images that we make together are the times that we get to play and escape into our own world; my love for my daughter is infinite, and is chronicled by the images that we make together. Truthfully I have really struggled over the years. I have done most everything in my life without money and shear determination. Whether it was driving across the country by myself for work, going to graduate school for photography or simply going it alone as a single parent. It is with a great sense of grit and hope that I have tried to approach most things with in my life. I feel that at this moment that I am on the precipice of finding the work that I have been seeking to make my since I started. There is a calmness and playfulness that drives me now, a curiosity to keep exploring new things photographically. The idea of working in separate panels stemmed from the struggle of having a wiggly small child and I wanting to find a way to get both of us in the photograph together. I wanted to make the photographs myself and did not want to, or could not afford to hire a photographer to do it for me. So I had to think about what I wanted in the photograph with us, and what the background was going to be like. The next question would be, “what will connect us and unite us visually”, then I would begin to construct my image in my head. The introduction of multiple-selves into my current work began to materialize as I felt the burden of having to be multiple selves for my daughter. I have to be her protector, nurturer, fixer of broken toys and more. There are no breaks for the solo parent. I find myself simultaneously being several people at once on a daily basis. My daughter and I have created a small bubble that is the two of us alone. The actual space of my photos is constructed, often due to the constraints of photographing in small spaces around my house or in quick shots taken with my daughter in our real daily life. The extension of panels, repeated visual space and simply flipped mirror images, helps to elongate the space around us, putting us further into the setting of my memory. I am a single Mother, artist and teacher and all these things combined leave little time for the reflection on the immediate “now”, photography gives opportunity to my daughter and myself. Our journeys are full of life, taste, and laughter, indulging in the imagination of the very young and easily embellished imaginations. Life is awkward, and truth is painful, memories are not the truth and history will be a combination of all these factors anyway. As a Mother/Photographer/Biographer I do not take the recording of our shared history or events lightly. However as a photographer I try to focus my view of life in such a way as to be able to see staged tableaus in every place that I encounter. I can see in my minds eye the moment before and after the event that I am capturing with my camera. There is a prevalent feeling for me in which I want to save moments, small moments that happen briefly and then vanish and are gone. I record moments in time so that I can go back and look at them again and again. I am captivated with light and the small moments in time that occur within every day. Once the final images are twisted, turned, color corrected and turned again, even slight adjustments pop into place and then the meaning is there, it is saved, it is more truthful than the truth. I am creating the memory of my daughter’s childhood, the bubble in which we are in, our internal memory, whether it be flawed, imperfect or not quite real. Topic motherhood mother/daughter relationship single mother maternal identity maternal body infants and movement domestic space Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jennifer Bronwynn Copp domestic scene domestic space Florida maternal body maternal identity mother/daughter relationship motherhood photography single mother Winter Springs https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/3bcaf60332871978877b5215d1cab2b7.jpg 6f805b187de96e5b783e4cf62a2d3322 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Topic motherhood women mothering online resource About In our contemporary ceramic community many women have gracefully tackled the lively experiment that is being both artist and mother. Mothering is a complex subject that touches many aspects of an artist’s life and practice. These dual roles simultaneously impact each other both practically and conceptually. As many women have discovered, to experience maternity is to epitomize the vessel. This along with clay’s often-recognized metaphoric relationship to the stages of life itself, provides artists who utilize clay in their work a unique perspective on the art/motherhood lively experiment. Over the past year(s), Kate Fisher has been surveying, interviewing and documenting a cross section of ceramic artists who are also mothers. Examining how children, or the circumstances of their lives as they include them, changed and impacted the work these artists choose to make and/or how they make it. The goal of <a href="http://www.bothartistandmother.com" target="_blank">www.bothartistandmother.com</a> is to present an ongoing digital record of interviews and stories from women ceramicists. The hope is that this project will provide insight and encouragement to talented female artists, which in turn impacts the field’s future. Initially the site includes profiles of 11 artist/mothers.This is important, because it encourages talented female artists, which in turn impacts the field’s future. Initially, the site includes profiles of 11 artist/mothers. The hope is to repeat the interview process with additional artist/mothers in the future. Site visitors are able to listen to or download interviews with the artists, read transcriptions of the dialogues and view links to related events, information, and exhibits. The site’s flexible format will accommodate an ever-expanding narrative and exchange of stories, questions, and advice designed to help artists communicate. Organization Website <a href="http://www.bothartistandmother.com" target="_blank">www.bothartistandmother.com</a> Organzation Director Kate Fisher Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Both Artist and Mother motherhood mothering online resource women Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.lauralarson.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.lauralarson.net</a> Medium photography video writing Topic adoption motherhood photograph transracial families Artist Statement The assumption of objectivity that continues to haunt photography—the desire to trust our eyes—is a central concern of my work. Mining the intersection between documentary and poetic practices, my subjects range from dollhouses to dirty hotel rooms to the paranormal. My work poses questions about the medium and its terms of representation: its materials, histories, and social meanings. While I identify as a photographer, my work encompasses film, video, digital media, and writing. I see my photographs as a product of my skepticism and desire to believe in the medium of photography. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Laura Larson adoption motherhood photography video writing https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/97e2cfa7ec62f0f598784a3eb156ac88.tif d086f96fdc12af0cc8b8d594997f1f9b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.rosiegunn.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.rosiegunn.co.uk/</a> Topic motherhood parenting childhood pregnancy school chaos family life domestic scenes Medium photography video art installation art Artist Statement The 3 screen high definition video installation ‘living room’, captures the banality of the domestic scene and contrasts this with the performance that the children create with in it. The living room is perhaps their stage – a place for them to try out ideas and show off. But also a multifunctional space for them to play, work, argue, relax and so on. It is a rather claustrophobic and chaotic piece that reflects the dominance that the kids have in the family living room during the holiday period. "As a mother and woman artist, I have been interested in my son’s games, words, songs and drawings and have made other work around these themes. Recently my daughter is becoming part of this work. The dialogue I have with my kids about the work I make is really important. I continue to ponder the implications of featuring my children in artwork that I might exhibit publicly and want to include them as part of a playful process in it’s development. I hope they regard the resulting images as representing celebration, desire, passionate attachment as well as sometimes showing trouble and tension." Location The location of the interview Farnham Surrey United Kingdom Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rosie Gunn chaos childhood family life Farnham installation art motherhood parenting photograph pregnancy school Surrey United Kingdom video art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/19a3a033a3b74a48f9d195d2bb1e94f0.jpg 54e662608df88145ac66d49c53c7215e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Location The location of the interview New York Topic artists with children artist collective artist network online resource creative careers professional practices digital resource About The Center for Parenting Artists is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to encouraging and sharing resources for artists with children. Our members represent all of the arts- painters, opera singers, actors, activists, theorists, and more. It is of vital importance to the arts community, and substantive thinking within our fields, that artists have longevity in their creative practice and represent varied life experiences. To that end, the Center for Parenting Artists promotes the improved visibility of artists with children, as well as child and partner-friendly: – grants and opportunities – artist residencies – legislation on children and families – childcare policy – education policy and access – cooperative strategies – arts organizations – arts policy – business practice and ethical compensation practices – residential and studio access stability Organization Website <a href="https://centerforparentingartists.wordpress.com" target="_blank">https://centerforparentingartists.wordpress.com</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Center for Parenting Artists artist collective artist network artist support artists with children digital resource New York parenting professional practices resource https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/6d709b72f5ecb3baf3f285991b103768.jpg e91acd79ef94b59a64cd515368519445 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://mamsie.wikispaces.com/file/view/Shira+Richter.pdf" target="_blank">https://mamsie.wikispaces.com/file/view/Shira+Richter.pdf</a> Curator Varda Genosar Gallery Hertzliya Artist Residence Gallery Exhibition Title The Mother, Daughter and Holy Spirit Event Type Exhibition Location The location of the interview Herzliya Israel Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/78" target="_blank">Shira Richter</a> Topic motherhood maternal body postpartum body Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 2006 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Mother, Daughter and Holy Spirit Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Shira Richter Herzliya Israel maternal body motherhood photography postpartum body https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/08b6952b0987ecb952d9ec420850f4b5.jpg 1e74169a3a5a0010f2b529667f22d484 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shira.richter1/about?section=bio&pnref=about" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/shira.richter1/about?section=bio&pnref=about</a> Topic motherhood and political context motherhood and economic context motherhood and social context invisible labor mothering motherhood mother work maternal body postpartum body Medium film photography video art visual performance lectures prose academic writing poetry Location The location of the interview Israel Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/79" target="_blank">The Mother, Daughter and Holy Spirit</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Shira Richter Title A name given to the resource Shira Richter academic writing film invisible labor Israel lectures maternal body mother work motherhood motherhood and economic context motherhood and political context motherhood and social context mothering performance art poetry postpartum body prose video art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/1591489c57d509f9f451a6b4edfb5099.jpg 8108ba2ce98c407e42682ffd0402d51f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.rachelfoster77.com/" target="_blank">http://www.rachelfoster77.com/</a> Medium oil painting Artist Statement The voice of the mother is strong in my domestic scenes; she is an omniscient force, a conductor, or a referee. Chaos and clutter are represented with repetition and an uncomfortable relationship with perspective. The drama and disruption are tempered with an overt appreciation for the physicality of the act of painting and the closeness of family. Building the domestic environment with color and pattern, and representing the daily conflicts and developments with symbolism and metaphor are some of the ways I tell the story of the evolution of the family. The unexpected crisis has become a distinct character in my paintings, an insistent, loud, and powerful figure. Relationships shift and strain under the weight of the addition, creating opportunities for growth, and causing each member to adjust expectations held dear for the future. The unappealing and frightening moments are as beautiful as the peaceful and happy times, and require people to reevaluate their priorities. Topic children domestic scenes chaos maternal subjectivity maternal voice Location The location of the interview Olsburg Kansas Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rachel Foster chaos domestic scene maternal subjectivity maternal voice oil painting https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/22cd9c1a5260f92ef5404c2687988472.jpg b987d4c79712235e48bfba1532f1db33 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Name Paula McCloskey Sam Vardy Website The Artist's website <a href="aplaceoftheirown.org" target="_blank">aplaceoftheirown.org</a> Topic maternal subjectivity maternal trauma maternal affect family art activism matrixial social practice research art and research family collaboration Medium writing drawing film photography performance Artist Statement A self-organised practice, a place of their own, is an open experiment, that we resist categorising as either art, research, everyday activism, spatial practice or film-making (and yet which engages with all of these things). Our practice engages the family in an exploration of the production of subjectivity. A place of their own is comprised of us two (Paula McCloskey and Sam Vardy) and our four children. Location The location of the interview Sheffield United Kingdom Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource a place of their own art and research collaboration drawing family art activism family collaboration film maternal affect maternal subjectivity performance art photography research Sheffield social practice United Kingdom writing https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/6336856bbeb9657ba08b4d4b53e6a538.jpg 18e936bc0c096c17a7064b3adbf020b1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Decades of Dreaming of You 2012, hair embroidery on mother's (artist's) hair from gestation period, thread from unraveled pillowcase, 3 x 5 x 5". Text reads "Decades of Dreaming of You" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.katekretz.com/work-by-series/#/new-gallery-2/" target="_blank">http://www.katekretz.com/work-by-series/#/new-gallery-2/</a> Medium sculpture embroidery hair fiber textile Artist Statement “I often experience news stories of inhumanity as a literal blow to my body, and carry the negative energy around with me until I process a way to remove it from my person through transformative creation. My work functions as a meditation, a healing prayer, a potent incantation to embed the finished object with as much power as possible, to rival the impact of that original negative impetus for making it. I am aiming for a beautiful, exquisitely-crafted gut punch. I consider the inordinate amount of time invested in each piece as a gift given to the viewer. In this day and age, it often feels as though the earnest, cathectic things I make are an act of profound resistance: I give birth to the tactile as I am swallowed by the virtual. I obsess over craft as our world becomes disposable. I wield emotion in its messiness because it’s uncool. I work until my hands shake, because the world does not care. I am banging my head against the wall, but the stain is beautiful.” Topic motherhood gestation motherhood and creative practice Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kate Kretz embroidery fiber gestation hair longing motherhood motherhood and art practice sculpture textile https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/46f6b7765a42c0c3af549ebd6c995230.jpg 2d4792beebf077c0316010b3a76b43dd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.artlist.cz/katerina-olivova-108635/" target="_blank">http://www.artlist.cz/katerina-olivova-108635/</a> <a href="https://vimeo.com/user2505168" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/user2505168</a> Topic motherhood breastfeeding activism family child as artist Medium performance art video art activism texts Location The location of the interview Brno Czech Republic Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kateřina Olivová Title A name given to the resource Kateřina Olivová activism breastfeeding child as artist family motherhood performance art text video art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/0729564cb1c780e71d62b47b688eb884.jpg f52bc598fba9da08e20d995f502675b6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://students.colum.edu/deps/glass-curtain-gallery/exhibitions/division-of-labor/index.php" target="_blank">http://students.colum.edu/deps/glass-curtain-gallery/exhibitions/division-of-labor/index.php</a> Curator Christa Donner Thea Liberty Nichols Gallery <a href="http://students.colum.edu/deps/glass-curtain-gallery/index.php" target="_blank">Glass Curtain Gallery</a> Exhibition Title Division of Labor: Chicago Artist Parents Event Type Exhibition Curatorial Statement Division of Labor addresses the impact of parenthood on an artist's creative practice and career. Featuring a select group of emergent to internationally recognized contemporary artists working across media, a diversity of perspectives and approaches are represented. Division of Labor examines direct links between the aesthetics, materiality and meaning of an artist’s work in relation to parenthood while also revealing unexpected moments at the intersection of art-making and family life. Inventive modes of display, all-ages events and advocacy-based auxiliary programming combine the creative approaches to art-making-while-parenting. Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/33" target="_blank">Alberto Aguilar</a> Candida Alvarez Claire Ashley <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/42" target="_blank">Lise Haller Baggesen</a> Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford Heather Mekkelson John Preus Brittany Southworth-LaFlamme Tony Tasset Ann Toebbe Jim Trainor Selina Trepp Andrew Yang Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) November 20, 2014 – February 14, 2015 Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois Topic creative practice creative careers family life parenting and creative practice parenting and creative careers parenthood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Division of Labor art making Chicago creative careers creative practice creative practice and family life family and career family life Illinois https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/be79acacfdc4bce9f622f840d00e07ce.png 4aaa5fa665dd9bcb983d881f5e286b05 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.emmafinucane.com/" target="_blank">http://www.emmafinucane.com/</a> Medium screenprint photography video art performance art printmaking installation Location The location of the interview Bray County Wicklow Ireland Artist Statement I develop artwork through dialogue, process based, participatory and collaborative practice. I investigate the way we connect and communicate with others and ultimately how it contributes to the quality of our lives. I am looking at the role of the artist in society and questioning how “useful” the role of art can be when entering into different areas. My work has frequently combined education, research and artistic practice. My visual research consists of screen print, digital images and photography, slides and video experiments. I have been using video in both documentary and performance based formats, combining live action with static projections, improvisation and language. I am currently Artist in Residence in UCD College of Health Sciences where I am the principle investigator on a research team with a midwifery lecturer Dr. Maria Healy (UCD) and midwife, Teresa McCreery based at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street. Together we are working on the research initiative: An interpretive phenomenological study: Illuminating childbirth experiences of women attending a midwife-led service via visual art works. Insights from this research will highlight women’s lived experiences of childbirth vis visual artworks and academic publications. The final artworks will be included in the UCD Health Sciences Library in book format as an educational tool alongside academic books. Topic childbirth motherhood maternal education parenting Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Emma Finucane Bray childbirth County Wicklow education installation Ireland maternal motherhood parenting performance art photography printmaking screenprint video art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/8f74b9cc5916aeb8936dfaf4d390aecf.jpg 34b0132e13eb6e7905b57af64177262d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Event Type Exhibition Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=226" target="_blank">http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=226</a> <a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.ca." target="_blank">newmaternalisms.ca</a> Location The location of the interview Toronto Ontario Canada Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/104" target="_blank">Natalia Loveless</a> Curatorial Statement <div>New Maternalisms is a multi-pronged project conceived of by art historian, curator, and conceptual and performance artist <a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/Faculty_and_Staff/Faculty/Natalie_Loveless.aspx" target="_blank">Natalie S. Loveless</a> in 2010. It consists of three curated exhibitions (New Maternalisms in 2012, held at the <a href="http://www.mercerunion.org/" target="_blank">Mercer Union</a>; New Maternalisms Chile in 2014, co-curated with<a href="http://www.artes.uchile.cl/noticias/40662/soledad-novoa-la-mujer-a-la-que-hay-que-tratar-con-cuidado" target="_blank">Soledad Novoa</a>, and held concurrently at the <a href="http://www.mac.uchile.cl/" target="_blank">Museo de Arte Contemporáneo </a> and the <a href="http://www.mnba.cl/617/w3-channel.html" target="_blank">Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts</a> in Santiago de Chile; and New Maternalisms Redux in 2016, held at the University of Alberta’s <a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/fab_gallery.aspx" target="_blank">FAB Gallery</a>), satellite events surrounding these (most notably the colloquium Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene, co-organized with <a href="http://sheenawilson.ca/" target="_blank">Dr. Sheena Wilson</a>), an individual three-year artistic research project, <a href="http://www.maternalecologies.ca/" target="_blank">Maternal Ecologies</a>, and publications (both catalogues and critical writings).</div> <div> </div> <div>The first New Maternalisms exhibition asked: Forty years after the intervention of feminist art, what is the experience of the daughters of that era who have become mothers? What are the discursive and material differences between early maternal artworks of the 1970s and those being produced in the first two decades of the 21st century? How might a return to the discourses that shaped the birth of feminist art help reshape how to think about the contours of political and activist art in today's cultural climate? Grounded in these questions, this exhibition brought together a group of artist who use performance to bring attention to the embodied, biological, and material enmeshment of early maternal practice in the context of feminist art theory and practice today.</div> <div> </div> <div>This second iteration of New Maternalisms was a co-curation with the Chilean curator Soledad Novoa. It brought together North American and European artist (curated by Loveless) with Chilean artists (curated by Novoa) to stage an international conversation on the status of the maternal in contemporary art. These works reflect the expressed need of many artists to find creative ways to integrate their practices as mothers, artists, curators, writers and teachers. By taking seriously the need to create from local conditions and materials, these practices give visibility and value to motherhood in art and as art.</div> <div> </div> <div>New Maternalisms Redux is the third and last in the New Maternalisms exhibition series (following Toronto 2012 and Santiago 2014). These exhibitions feature performance and project-based artists working with the maternal as a contemporary political and affective force. New Maternalisms Redux features five artists culled from the first two exhibitions, each of whom have been investigating the maternal, iteratively, for years. A three-day colloquium, <a href="http://newmaternalisms.squarespace.com/colloquium" target="_blank">Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene</a>, will be held in conjunction with the exhibition and include a number of prominent voices on feminist art and the maternal today (including Mary Kelly and Dr. Griselda Pollock as keynote participants). This colloquium, open to the public, brings crucial thinking on the anthropocene and anthropogenic climate change together with thinking on the maternal as metaphor, practice, and politics.</div> Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank">Jill Miller</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/160" target="_blank">Alejandra Herrera Silva</a> Lovisa Johansson Marlene Renaud-B Hélène Matte <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/search?query=lenka+clayton&submit_search=Search" target="_blank">Lenka Clayton</a> Beth Hall and Mark Cooley Masha Godovannaya Gina Miller Dillon Paul & Lindsey Wolkowicz Victoria Singh Alice de Visscher Christine Pountney Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Fri March 23rd - Sun March 25th Topic feminist art maternal motherhood maternity art and activism Gallery <a href="http://www.mercerunion.org/" target="_blank">Mercer Union</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Maternalisms - Toronto feminism feminist art maternal maternity motherhood performance works political art video works https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/4a5daa183dcc3c21fcd52dac95f50c3f.jpg 718e48a6f5c4d42c5a012aa1490a7e9f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Event Type Exhibition Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.com/2014-overview/" target="_blank">http://www.newmaternalisms.com/2014-overview/</a> <a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.ca." target="_blank">newmaternalisms.ca</a> Location The location of the interview Santiago Chile Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/104" target="_blank">Natalie Loveless</a> Soledad Novoa Donoso Curatorial Statement <div>New Maternalisms is a multi-pronged project conceived of by art historian, curator, and conceptual and performance artist <a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/Faculty_and_Staff/Faculty/Natalie_Loveless.aspx" target="_blank">Natalie S. Loveless</a> in 2010.  It consists of three curated exhibitions (New Maternalisms in 2012, held at the <a href="http://www.mercerunion.org/" target="_blank">Mercer Union</a>; New Maternalisms Chile in 2014, co-curated with<a href="http://www.artes.uchile.cl/noticias/40662/soledad-novoa-la-mujer-a-la-que-hay-que-tratar-con-cuidado" target="_blank">Soledad Novoa</a>, and held concurrently at the <a href="http://www.mac.uchile.cl/" target="_blank">Museo de Arte Contemporáneo </a> and the <a href="http://www.mnba.cl/617/w3-channel.html" target="_blank">Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts</a> in Santiago de Chile; and New Maternalisms Redux in 2016, held at the University of Alberta’s <a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/fab_gallery.aspx" target="_blank">FAB Gallery</a>), satellite events surrounding these (most notably the colloquium Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene, co-organized with <a href="http://sheenawilson.ca/" target="_blank">Dr. Sheena Wilson</a>), an individual three-year artistic research project, <a href="http://www.maternalecologies.ca/" target="_blank">Maternal Ecologies</a>, and publications (both catalogues and critical writings).</div> <div> </div> <div>The first New Maternalisms exhibition asked: Forty years after the intervention of feminist art, what is the experience of the daughters of that era who have become mothers? What are the discursive and material differences between early maternal artworks of the 1970s and those being produced in the first two decades of the 21st century? How might a return to the discourses that shaped the birth of feminist art help reshape how to think about the contours of political and activist art in today's cultural climate? Grounded in these questions, this exhibition brought together a group of artist who use performance to bring attention to the embodied, biological, and material enmeshment of early maternal practice in the context of feminist art theory and practice today.</div> <div> </div> <div>This second iteration of New Maternalisms was a co-curation with the Chilean curator Soledad Novoa. It brought together North American and European artist (curated by Loveless) with Chilean artists (curated by Novoa) to stage an international conversation on the status of the maternal in contemporary art. These works reflect the expressed need of many artists to find creative ways to integrate their practices as mothers, artists, curators, writers and teachers. By taking seriously the need to create from local conditions and materials, these practices give visibility and value to motherhood in art and as art.</div> <div> </div> <div>New Maternalisms Redux is the third and last in the New Maternalisms exhibition series (following Toronto 2012 and Santiago 2014). These exhibitions feature performance and project-based artists working with the maternal as a contemporary political and affective force. New Maternalisms Redux features five artists culled from the first two exhibitions, each of whom have been investigating the maternal, iteratively, for years. A three-day colloquium, <a href="http://newmaternalisms.squarespace.com/colloquium" target="_blank">Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene</a>, will be held in conjunction with the exhibition and include a number of prominent voices on feminist art and the maternal today (including Mary Kelly and Dr. Griselda Pollock as keynote participants). This colloquium, open to the public, brings crucial thinking on the anthropocene and anthropogenic climate change together with thinking on the maternal as metaphor, practice, and politics.</div>   Artists Catalina Bauer / Amelia Ibanez Yennyferth Becerra Carolina Hernández <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/160" target="_blank">Alejandra Herrera Silva</a> Loreto Pérez Ángela Ramirez Gabriela Rivera Alejandra Ugarte Ximena Zomosa <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank">Lenka Clayton</a> Leena Kela <a href="Courtney%20Kessel" target="_blank">Courtney Kessel</a> Tanya Lukin-Linklater <a href="Irene%20Lusztig" target="_blank">Irene Lusztig</a> Hélène Matte <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank">Jill Miller</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) June 25th - June 28th, August 27th Topic feminist art motherhood maternity maternal mother/daughter relationship political art activist art Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Maternalisms - Chile Chile feminism feminist art maternal maternity mother/daughter relationship motherhood political art Santiago https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/aa35184d422f681ad9e0f90481f19537.jpg 735d3b9597c4a4c83d1f5b2ad779f053 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.trishmorrissey.com/" target="_blank">http://www.trishmorrissey.com/</a> Medium photography installation video art spoken word Topic motherhood parenthood parent/child collaboration face painting pregnancy karaoke family dynamics family vacation parenting Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Trish Morrissey face painting family dynamics family vacation installation karaoke motherhood parent/child collaboration parenthood parenting photography pregnancy spoken word video art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/a60a7557cab2f47ffe561b98cf28ccec.jpg 6df8725a23ec08f7105eef04366c2953 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://lizziephilps.com/" target="_blank">http://lizziephilps.com/</a> Medium walking installation theatre mother/daughter relationship Location The location of the interview Bristol United Kingdom Artist Statement I make participatory performance projects, including theatre, installations, site-based and walking events. The work is playful and irreverent, and explores the sensory, the landscape, and the ways audiences can create and negotiate meaning. I make performance to address the limitations of language, my fascination with identity politics, and my desire to illuminate and document the performative in daily life. I am currently developing Live Art walking practices around the personal geographies and the intimate (and simultaneously very public) performances associated with parenting. Topic maternity motherhood parenting childcare Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lizzie Philps bristol childcare installation maternity motherhood parenthood theatre United Kingdom walking https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/4dce8404f48f4a2af257242db65d8dff.jpg 54fcf549b1741adaf437c00e0d68101e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 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 Kim Dhillon writes, organizes projects, and makes works that explore the legacies of Second Wave feminism and of Conceptualism. She is part of the on-going research collaboration Invisible Spaces of Parenthood with artist Andrea Francke. In 2010, Dhillon initiated _Crib Notes _(2010-ongoing), a series of talks and tours for parents and carers with children under 5 at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. She has since 2012 led a campaign for changes in policy and infrastructure at the Royal College of Art to increase accessibility, support, and visibility of parents in the student body and faculty. This research led to the publishing of a chapter on “Invisible Care: Care Provision for Infants and Children in UK Art Schools” in the forthcoming _We Need to Talk About the Family: Essays on Neoliberalism, The Family, and Popular Culture _(Cambridge Scholars). She has developed a course module "Radical Pragmatics" (2014) for MA level art and design students at the RCA to re-imagine the potential of workplace childcare in an art school. Topic childcare parenthood nursery creative platform feminism Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kim Dhillon childcare creative platform England feminism London nursery parenthood social practice United Kingdom writing https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/a41cc580284d85a711dfbc83d3099d36.jpg b164c39d88008b6f3cc41a34f7b06f6c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://methodinthemaking.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://methodinthemaking.wordpress.com/</a> <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 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. 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. Topic pregnancy maternal body changing body Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Claire Hickey pregnancy pregnant body sculpture social practice https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/2bd6a34486129043b2f5a445acac870e.jpg b9c0c55f36394681735d43a9760177a5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://madisonomahne.com/" target="_blank">http://madisonomahne.com/</a> Medium performance art sculpture drawing fiber Location The location of the interview Cleveland Ohio Artist Statement WOMB PROJECT STATEMENT: This 9 month long documentation explores the physical changes artist, Madison Omahne experienced throughout her first pregnancy.  By crocheting around herself during this period, she creates a "womb-like" soft sculpture, which protects and comforts her, just as her womb protects and comforts her growing baby.  Omahne utilizes the repetitive process of crocheting, a traditional craft, to reflect on her pregnancy, her body, and her baby growing inside.  As her baby continues to grow and begins to manipulate her body, it is apparent that the sculpture is doing the same.  The more the baby grows, the more difficult it becomes for the artist to continue creating her work.  However, it is inevitable that she continues.  This is catharsis.  At last, when the sculpture is complete it is then deconstructed by the artist to reveal the greatest work of art, her baby. BIO Madison Omahne received her MFA in Sculpture at Brooklyn College in 2011, where she studied under renowned artists such as Vito Acconci and Patricia Cronin.  She currently lives and works in her home studio with her husband, son, and two dogs in Cleveland, OH. Topic pregnancy domestic objects interior/exterior womb maternal body 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/290" target="_blank">Of Women</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madison Omahne drawing fiber interior/exterior maternal body performance performance art pregnancy sculpture womb https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/0fa26d544059e4ee30231f5cd76083b7.jpg 5693f26852667ad03f9f198526c537b2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Topic changing models of motherhood motherhood and fertility motherhood and loss motherhood and the media motherhood and memory motherhood and mental health motherhood and place motherhood and sexuality motherhood and technology motherhood and visual art motherhood and writing motherhood and work other-mothers photography writing poetry About The egg, the womb, the head and the moon is an online, interdisciplinary, collaborative arts project that that will last for nine months (42 weeks)–a time frame that purposefully mirrors that of the duration of pregnancy. The site contains moving and powerful art and texts by artists, performers, photographers, academics and poets exploring a diverse range of subjects about the maternal. At the end of the 42 weeks (May 2014) a celebratory exhibition will be held at The Artsmill Gallery in Hebden Bridge. The exhibition will be born out of the communications and interactions made visible through this space. The site includes documentation of visual art work, video, sound, performance and texts including contextual dialogue and blog posts that have arisen through the creative process. It is our aim to share our collective research and reveal the cross-disciplinary and collaborative nature of our practice in order to connect and exchange ideas with a wider audience. Organization Website <a href="http://www.eggwombheadmoon.com/" target="_blank">http://www.eggwombheadmoon.com/</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The egg, the womb, the head and the moon artist collective collaborative project fertility loss mental health motherhood other-mothers photography poetry sexuality technology the media writing https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/c7abac46fab3562cedf6313a8c65ae43.jpg 28ee8f79ca8547876f54e9dcb873ab86 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. 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 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. 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. 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." 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. This project was made possible by grants from the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation and the Peninsula Community Foundation. Topic diapers motherhood American dream gender stereotypes middle-class family maternal work Virgin Mary iconic symbolism Madonna Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Beth Grossman American dream California diapers gender stereotypes iconic symbolism Madonna maternal work middle-class family motherhood painting San Francisco sculpture Virgin Mary https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/3b80b353ee37f8d0f7f022be1fe257ca.jpg 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. 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. 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> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tracey Kershaw aging England fertility mother/son relationship motherhood Nottingham social practice son United Kingdom video art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/f45a30a2bf49947ced4c710cb090de9c.jpg 872724fec44356adf0bea0f68899b278 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://balance.ddtr.net/" target="_blank">http://balance.ddtr.net/</a> <a href="https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&isbn=9781409426134&lang=cy-GB" target="_blank">Reconciling Art and Mothering - Book</a> Medium writing curating printmaking book arts Location The location of the interview Bethel College Kansas United States Artist Statement <div>Dr. Rachel Epp Buller is a feminist-art historian-printmaker-book artist-professor-mother of three whose art and scholarship speak to these intersections. In her dual practice of critical and creative work, she turns to writing, making, and curating to increase the visibility of issues around motherhood, care work, and the maternal body. Her maternal writing includes books - Reconciling Art and Mothering, Mothering Mennonite, and Have Milk, Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding - and essays in n.paradoxa, Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, Studies in the Maternal, and in many edited collections. Her recent prints and artist books explore family identities, shared knowledge, imagined histories, and textual references to traditions of fine handwork passed on between generations of women. As a professor at a liberal arts college, she values collaboration in many forms and frequently works with colleagues across disciplinary boundaries. </div> <div> </div> Topic maternal body shifting identities care work breastfeeding parent-child collaboration maternal collaboration familial heritage handwork traditions Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rachel Epp Buller bookarts breastfeeding care taking care work curating familial heritage handwork traditions maternal body maternal collaboration parent/child collaboration parent/child relationships printmaking shifting identities writing https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/c1ef902bbd1820e497ffec880b69b729.jpg 38da7a5f28dc4b55e93afc5449c374b3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. 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 twoaddthree are Gary Anderson, Lena Simic add Neal, Gabriel and Sid.We are artists. We are activists. We are a family. Mummy and kids are in the frame and Daddy’s behind the camera. We are a nice nuclear family. We are a hetero-normative unit. Tesco loves us, Disney adores us and McDonalds can’t get enough of us. 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. 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. We have decided to disobey. We, as a family, have decided to be naughty. Topic activism nuclear family family life domestic life money capitalism social critique domestic labor Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 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 https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/aaa6e4f9ea9644093ba008649670f053.jpg 5c6969fb7afd8d9986dc170fae57b9d9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.erinraedeke.com/" target="_blank">http://www.erinraedeke.com/</a> Medium painting Topic still life domestic space mess children's toys memory writing domestic objects laundry birthday parties crayons children's food animal crackers oreos peeps candy Location The location of the interview Washington DC Artist Statement I am interested in the unwanted and dismissed. Objects are both stumbled upon and purposefully chosen. Thoughts, memories and past experiences are scavenged through in an effort to find meaning and uncover connections. My paintings document this search. The set-up allows me to object to preconceived ideas and assumptions; challenge an image or impression that is forced upon an object or relationship. Everything has meaning. Seemingly random objects we encounter, no matter how unceremoniously, hold a flood of associations and truths buried in the sub conscience. The only way to tease them out is through sensitive observation and suspension of prejudice. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Erin Raedeke animal crackers birthday parties cake candy corn children's food crayons domestic life domestic objects laundry memory oreos painting party favors peeps still life toys https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/5f071837edc1072d48ab7f0abaaf9e0f.jpg 09988cf8e39d830c2860ae729adafa73 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.lenkaclayton.com/</a> <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/#/artist-residency-in-motherhood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Artist Residency in Motherhood</a> Medium conceptual art video art drawing sculpture performance art Location The location of the interview Pittsburg Pennsylvania Artist Statement In 2012 I founded <a href="http://www.residencyinmotherhood.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An Artist Residency in Motherhood</a> — a structured, fully-funded artist residency that takes place inside my own home and life as a mother of two young children. Artist residencies are usually designed as a way to allow artists to escape from the routines and responsibilities of their everyday lives. An Artist Residency in Motherhood is different. Set firmly inside the traditionally “inhospitable” environment of a family home, it subverts the art-world’s romanticization of the unattached artist, and frames motherhood as a valuable site, rather than an invisible labour for exploration and artistic production. As the first artist-in-resident-in-motherhood I aim to embrace the fragmented mental focus, exhaustion, nap-length studio time and countless distractions of parenthood as well as the absurd poetry of time spent with young children as my working materials and situation, rather than obstacles to be overcome. The following works are amongst those made during my tenure as Artist-in-Residence-in-Motherhood; <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/the-distance-i-can-be-from-my-son">The Distance I Can Be From My Son</a> <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/all-the-scissors-in-the-house-made-safer">All Scissors in the House Made Safer</a> <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/objects-from-my-sons-mouth">63 Objects from My Son's Mouth</a> <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/womens-intuition-hats">Women's Intuition (hats)</a> <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/moons-from-next-door">Moons From Next Door</a> <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/one-brown-shoe">One Brown Shoe</a> The project is archived in full at <a href="http://www.residencyinmotherhood.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.residencyinmotherhood.com.</a> On conclusion of my tenure in May, 2014 the project will be passed along to two new residents. An Artist Residency in Motherhood was funded by the Robert C. Smith Fund and the Betsy R. Clark Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation and a Sustainable Art Foundation Award, and supported in kind by Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse.An Artist Residency in Motherhood was exhibited at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts in 2012, and documents and works from the project are currently being exhibited in Complicated Labors at University of California Santa Cruz, curated by Irene Lusztig & Natalie Loveless until March 15th 2014. Topic motherhood motherhood and studio practice studio time mental focus household safety children and safety care taking choking hazards children and independence 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> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/417" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bodies of Work, Baxter ST Camera Club of New York</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lenka Clayton care taking children and independence choking hazards conceptual art dogs drawing household safety mental focus motherhood motherhood and art practice Pennsylvania performance art Pittsburg sculpture studio practice studio time video art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/2eff88924a00cef896ec9a087de0296a.jpg 7fedf08451427e598595f5d6931b03a1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://milaoshin1.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://milaoshin1.wordpress.com/</a> Medium writing curating poetry video art Topic pregnancy birth home birth childbirth trauma Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project Afterbirth - Curator</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mila Oshin birth childbirth trauma curating home birth labor poetry pregnancy writing https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/04610c481954fe0ab57e2bea5d3d3c66.jpg 290e2337d435e9dadee3f04f0729eb0c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://lisehallerbaggesen.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://lisehallerbaggesen.wordpress.com/</a> <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988418554/mothernism.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988418554/mothernism.aspx</a> Medium installation writing audio Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois Artist Statement Mothernism is a nomadic tent camp audio installation and a book, dedicated to staking out and making speakable the “mother-shaped hole in contemporary art discourse.” Since 2013, the installation has travelled to various venues in the United States (The Poor Farm in Manawa, Vox Populi in Philadelphia and Ordinary Projects and the Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago) and has also spawned a series of panels and “story time” readings as well as the curatorial project 3am Maternal at Vox Populi in Philadelphia. The Mothernism installation will tour in spring 2016 to The Elisabeth Foundation and A.I.R. Gallery and to The Contemporary Austin. The book, with pictures of the installation, was published in 2014, by Poor Farm Press and Green Lantern Press. It is available in the US through SPD: <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988418554/mothernism.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988418554/mothernism.aspx</a> Topic motherhood motherhood and art practice contemporary art discourse science fiction disco music biography 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> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lise Haller Baggesen audio biography Chicago contemporary art discourse disco Illinois installation motherhood motherhood and art practice Mothernism music science fiction writing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Title Mommy Event Type Exhibition Exhibition Website http://yaleunion.org/mommy/ Gallery Yale Union Location The location of the interview Portland Oregon Curator Hope Svenson Robert Snowden Curatorial Statement "A group show that considers the mother, with work by Lutz Bacher, Susan Cianciolo, Sonya Hamilton, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Eliot Porter, Aura Rosenberg, Diane Simpson, Barbara T. Smith, Frances Stark, and Rosemarie Trockel. It will also include new site-specific works by Cathy Wilkes and Anicka Yi, and a performance by Karin Schneider. This exhibition assents to the mystery and chaos of motherhood. It is made with ambivalence toward coherent ideas of maternity. It is made in reaction to the circumference of saccharine sentimentality and repressive rage that persists in culturally mediated visions of the mother, a circumference that tightens like a noose around the necks of actual women. This show laments the culturally constructed binary of “family vs. career,” while acknowledging the persistence of that obstacle in the lives of artists. I believe there are more irreducible things at stake. This show is all of the places in between, the making-do, the quotidian, the disobedient, the law-abiding, the carnal, the repulsive, the both-and. I made this show with a desire to capture what is true—and not what resembles the truth—in my experience as a mother." Curatorial Statement From <a href="http://yaleunion.org/mommy/" target="_blank">http://yaleunion.org/mommy/</a> Artists Lutz Bacher Susan Cianciolo Sonya Hamilton Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven Lynn Hershman Leeson Eliot Porter Aura Rosenberg Diane Simpson Barbara T. Smith Frances Stark Rosemarie Trockel Cathy Wilkes Anicka Yi Karin Schneider Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) October 10–December 20, 2015 Topic motherhood mystery chaos family vs. career sentimentality rage Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mommy chaos family vs. career motherhood mystery Oregon Portland rage sentimentality https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/bef5137bb140a72dec22265a5d220a26.pdf 5341d6ceaaae5ae8174d8a51b1c58fe1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainy Day Treasures Pamphlet Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://a-small-lab.com/projects/child-scale-city" target="_blank">http://a-small-lab.com/projects/child-scale-city</a> Location The location of the interview Tokoyo Japan Artist Statement "......These safe and slow pathways are perfect for tiny feet and their larger commute-weary companions. Dense greens and colourful scented collages reside at the height and scale of little eyes and noses. Irrepressible hands thrive on the mixture of gravel, sand, grass, rocks, sticks and fallen fruit that compose Tokyo carpets. In summer developing ears drink in crickets, cicadas and neighbourhood rustlings...." A small study on the child's perception of the street. This document traces the everyday treasures of a rainy day walk to the local sento in suburban Tokyo. It is part of a broader and slightly wonky research and practice agenda on the hand made, everyday creativity, play, and usable environments. Topic walking city children in cities research creativity play everyday treasures suburban life environment Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chris Berthelsen children in cities city environment everyday treasures Japan play suburban life Tokoyo walking https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/3f61edaef3afa8a13498d9359c1d0ed4.jpeg ca180c84e21a95b63475c380cc9e81b7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.rachelfallon.com/">http://www.rachelfallon.com/</a> <a href="http://www.procreateproject.com/portfolio/rachel-fallon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.procreateproject.com/portfolio/rachel-fallon/</a> Medium sculpture peformance photography metal textile paper Location The location of the interview Bray County Wicklow Ireland Artist Statement Fallon’s work explores themes of protection and defence in domestic and maternal realms. Her practice encompasses sculptural work in metal, textile and paper; drawing, performance and photography. Conflicts and ambivalences within familiar territories inform the initial choice of materials and technique for each work. The methods of making are crucial to revealing new ideas and resolving thought processes intrinsic to the original starting point of the piece. As well as an individual practice, Fallon also works in collaborative groups and collectives, both in Ireland and England. The two disparate ways of working feed into one another and are therefore equally important parts of her practice. Topic protection defense maternal protection maternal defense ambivalence Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rachel Fallon ambivalence Bray County Wicklow defense Ireland maternal ambivalence maternal defense maternal protection metal paper performance protection sculpture textile https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/af8e3ffcaa10fd98db5bc6e9f0cca8b1.jpg ed2db97f6f80ceb9408c22d8e03d1c11 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.magda-stawarska-beavan.com/mother.php" target="_blank">http://www.magda-stawarska-beavan.com/mother.php</a> Medium printmaking screenprint digital audio technology Artist Statement In Mother Tongue (2009) traditional printmaking methods (screenprint on paper) connect with new (digital audio) technologies. I use the recorded sounds of my child’s speech development, from his first noises when he was born, to the words and sentences which he has spoken since; from birth to three years old in three minutes. My aim is to engage the viewer first with the work visually, by drawing them to the delicate marks on the paper, then to persuade them to try to decipher phonetic bilingual text or to interpret the waveforms. They can then activate the sound connected to the visual. Each sound pieces for each print is three minutes long and not repeated, this allows for a chronological audio experience. The three prints depict recognizable visual representations of sound such as wave forms and phonetic symbols. These marks are visual artefacts of temporal sounds. Although these particular marks are associated wit the objectivity of technology and linguistics, the refined use of aesthetics; colour tone and scale bring to the work a level of personal account. I am trying to represent a passage of time and preserve the ephemeral moments in the development of a child’s relationship with language. This is also essentially an investigation into the parental obsession with passing on our identity through and to our children. Topic speech development data visualization phonetic symbols audio waves language parental obsession identity Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> Location The location of the interview Manchseter United Kingdom Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Magda Stawarska-Beavan audio audio technology audio waves data visualization identity language language development Manchester parental obsession printmaking screenprint silkscreen speech development United Kingdom https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/501ce44d45e776a05a6d932d4ab94e8c.jpg 70ca6e9067ba0c3a4e4f04d8cbc2b5f1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.kasalova.eu/fabrica.html" target="_blank">http://www.kasalova.eu/fabrica.html</a> <a href="http://www.kasalova.eu/state.html" target="_blank">http://www.kasalova.eu/state.html</a> <a href="http://www.kasalova.eu/jamy-video.html" target="_blank">http://www.kasalova.eu/jamy-video.html</a> Medium drawing photography painting video art Location The location of the interview Prague Czech Republic Topic pregnancy pregnant body transformation silhouette Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jana Kasalová Czech Republic drawing painting photography Prague pregnancy pregnant body silhouette transformation video art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/dbeece619409f77454fab35c6a046ccd.jpg c26ad6a5a90f885711c6e4cb7eba4ebf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.pieshake.com/#!experimental-shorts/cx06" target="_blank">http://www.pieshake.com/#!experimental-shorts/cx06</a> Medium film video art Location The location of the interview Richmond Virginia Artist Statement Since the mid-1990s, I have been making films about outsiders, misfits and everyday radicals, telling stories that occupy the intersection of intimate experience and public discourse. Several of these works are lyrical explorations of motherhood made with a hand-cranked 16mm film camera. These experimental shorts and looping projections mine the tension between the subjective, lived experience of women and mothers; our interior lives of fantasy and projection, and reality as refracted through our media-dense world. Topic motherhood 16mm film camera maternal ambivalence sex education conception gestation pregnancy families homes domestic life Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sasha Waters Freyer 16mm film camera conception domestic life families film gestation homes maternal ambivalence pregnancy Richmond sex education video art Virginia https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/41e8a620cd250d3b1b6e2ed288081faf.jpg 98c8a5b1fbafa02096dfb4c89432c39d https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/6e5e41aa6a088830f2130a54fb180576.jpg 6fd3685d7612b1665e139c335f3d4c1c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://albertoaguilar.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://albertoaguilar.org/</a> Medium interdisciplinary Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinios Artist Statement I, I am, I am here. Now I am here. Where are you? I make work where I am. I have allowed for questions. I look for the simplest solution. I have allowed for contradiction. I have allowed for open-endedness. I want my work to clearly communicate. I allow my hand to show to disrupt any illusion. I use language, text, and my voice as pliable forms. I build bridges of communication through various forms. I let the form of the work reflect the actions of its making. I arrange ordinary materials for people to rethink perception. I organize things through value, size or other default methods. I establish a framework to stay focused and reach an end point. I use the materials that are at hand to capture fugitive moments. I look for underlying patterns within existing structures and systems. I measure, demarcate, and play with existing structures and systems. I use repetition and the mirror image as a way to multiply visual potency. I use repetition and the mirror image as a way to multiply visual potency. I construct situations and spaces for people to interact and share a moment. I rearrange ordinary objects for people to see their surroundings in new light. I recognize what is already there allowing it to bring deeper implication to my work. I make, repeat, and persevere allowing meaning to emerge through the act of doing. I allow the path I take to show in the work so that others can enter and exit as I have. When I arrive at the end there is always surprise. Topic fatherhood family portrait parent/child collaboration museums domestic objects 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/384">moves on a human scale</a> <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> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alberto Aguilar Chicago domestic objects family portrait fatherhood furniture Illinois interdisciplinary museums parent/child relationships weddings https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/244feb6e84db2f5f39bdb7ca9e2b9225.jpg 98ec535e131fb2cdda8c19a466a64f8c https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/1b891af0a6a976fa3bd7982e9b4c5af6.jpg 5107111b15115bff6bdcac1774cafb22 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.helensargeant.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.helensargeant.co.uk/</a> Medium drawing painting installation video art sound performance photography Location The location of the interview Todmorden England Artist Statement Sargeant makes artwork about the female body, identity and mental fragility. She works across drawing, painting, photography, sound, video, performance and installation to explore her ideas. Sargeant's arts practice is communicated through the visceral physical reality of the female body and psychological contexts. The work combines fiction and autobiography. Central to this practice is the utilisation of lived experience as a way to communicate emotions directly to an audience by making the personal public. "We are born and we make marks through the vapour of our first breath, through our first excrement and from the saliva of our mouths enclosing around our mothers breasts." – Helen Sargeant Recent drawings represent the vulnerability and power of the biological body through pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. The pregnant body is schematised and seen as, a vessel or a holding place. Dr Jacques Rangasamy writes: "In her drawings, the space of pregnancy overflows the confines of the body; expectations are transmuted into feelings, and are located in parts of the body that are connected by tubular structures, the curved flights of single arrows and what appears as knotted ropes or rosary beads. It is perhaps an echo of the intelligence of life as it is instinctually felt rather than reasoned and rationalised. And therefore more authentic.In the way Chinese artists use ink as a symbol of the creative potential of the Tao, or primordial essence, Helen Sargeant uses ink to represent the bodily fluids essential to the alchemy of life. The ink and the forms it engenders form part of the same organic nature." Drawings representing birth were recently published in Studies in the Maternal visual editor Rebecca Baillie writes: "In her series’ of birth drawings Sargeant unites the public practice of watching YouTube birth videos with the more personal experience of giving birth oneself. The drawings aim to expose both the physical and emotional experience of birth, paying attention to feelings of emotional detachment during the delivery of her sons The birthing body is explored as an indicator of cultural and social anxiety, giving voice to pain and trauma beyond that of the actual birth." Images documenting breastfeeding through drawings and photography look to show maternal jouissance and the sensual pleasures of the mother baby relationship. Maternal subjectivity is further explored within recent photographs documenting a performance where Sargeant bakes at home with her children to make loaves of bread formed into birthing figures that are subsequently eaten by her family at breakfast. Another performance documents her baking bread from the dust in her vacuum cleaner. Throughout this practice Sargeant seeks to explore, challenge and critique normative discourses and idealised representations of motherhood. Topic pregnancy birth motherhood breastfeeding bread baking fertility pain identity vulnerability Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Helen Sargeant birth bread baking England motherhood pregnancy Todmorden https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/ff2f419ea5a6f842e5109e47fd1d99e2.jpg e9f366ee7cca645afad4d19a170e0a2d https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/ba442baba0fa8b6896d5d37510cb91c9.jpg 813408112d5f462f19660863c9f8cfb2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.etiwade.com/" target="_blank">http://www.etiwade.com/</a> Medium photography video art Artist Statement Motherhood is often precieved as uncomplicated, joyous and fulfilling. Albeit, some sacrifices have to be made, career aspirations restricted but on the whole motherhood is thought of as a welcome transition in every woman’s life. Popular and traditional representations of motherhood, young, attractive smiling women holding beautiful, healthy babies in nappy adverts or highly publicised and Photoshopped images of WAGs and other celebrity mums in the popular media, which resonate with the archetypal ‘Madonna and Child’ religious iconographic paintings confirming fulfilment and comfort women supposedly derive from the maternal role. What is omitted and obscured in these dominant forms are the realities of motherhood as experienced by most women, especially, and most intensely, with the first child. Becoming a mother affects an extreme and abrupt change in a woman’s life, constituted of loss of identity, loss of financial independence, loss of personal space and time, loss of status and extreme restrictions of freedom in addition to the changes in the body; often irreparable scars and physical trauma. Going through these changes, learning to accept what is lost and discovering the joys of the maternal role is a gradual process. When my eldest was born I found the transition to motherhood almost unbearable and the invisibility of similar experiences, the lack of realistic role models only increased my own feelings of isolation and insecurity. Only with the birth of my second child I began to question and articulate my initial trauma. My work hence had been concerned with articulating honestly what I perceive to be my maternal subjectivity. Topic maternal subjectivity bath time family portrait 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/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eti Wade bath time family portrait maternal subjectivity photography video art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/ac93e27aeec9e4b1b720b6a22a96579d.pdf ec906508e312246ca9ad1b79f4b29d84 https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/c887af14d625256afe06b71b5ebe3de8.jpg 437dd955466c9416066f5a2504367291 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.belindakochanowska.com/" target="_blank">http://www.belindakochanowska.com/</a> Medium photo-montage photo-collage Location The location of the interview Brisbane Australia Artist Statement Kochanowska uses an intuitive and self-reflexive process of photo-montage to express her psychological, spiritual and physical experience of pregnancy, motherhood and the natural world. Kochanowska draws from 16th, 17th and 18th century anatomical, botanical and natural history illustration to construct works teaming with fleshy distortions, flora, fauna and fantastical locations. Alternative mythologies are presented that are at once joyous, surreal, organic and deformed, blossoming with life, yet also brimming with a haunting disquiet. Biography Belinda Kochanowska is an artist based in Brisbane, Australia. Her practice frequently explores issues of memory, environment, women’s identity and physicality. She has exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions in Australia, UK and USA, including international publications. Kochanowska has also worked as the Executive Officer for the Queensland Centre for Photography. Her work has been shortlisted for an international art prize and recently chosen for a 3 year International Exhibition touring the UK, Europe and USA: “Project Afterbirth”. Her work is held in “The Birth Rites Collection”, University of Salford (UK) and the collection of the Royal College Of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (UK). Topic women's identity memory environment pregnancy postpartum depression anxiety birth pregnancy and fear Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Belinda Kochanowska anxiety Australia Brisbane fear photo-collage photo-montage postpartum depression pregnancy and fear women's identity https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/df9abff046da0cc60f1453e4a1d21608.jpg 9cca16a1c09c29ae821b4f6562c2fe4f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Location The location of the interview Boston Massachusetts Topic parenting surviving in an expensive town creative practice and family life cost of living artist collective About Being a parent is pretty challenging. And raising a kid while trying to be an artist/writer/you-name-it can feel pretty overwhelming– especially when you throw in Boston’s insanely high cost of living. But we’re creative people. Maybe if we get together and talk and listen, we can find ways to support each other. Maybe we can focus some of our creative energy on the problems that all parents face, and find some solutions. Maybe we can make it easier for ourselves in the process, and for other artist/parents down the road. “How to be an artist and a parent?” is a series of discussion events and an online forum. It’s set up by Greg Cook and Tim Devin, but is inspired by some initiatives in other cities. Things like Cultural Reproducers in Chicago, and Invisible Spaces of Parenthood in London. Organization Website <a href="https://howtobeanartistandaparent.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://howtobeanartistandaparent.wordpress.com/</a> Organzation Director Greg Cook Tim Devin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource how to be an artist and a parent? artist collective Boston cost of living creative practice creative practice and family life family life Massachusetts parenting https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/b8d64cc83dbdb28853fc0c20f728110a.jpg 804fc477e525d362a9aee471a0e3199c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.bethgoobic.com/#!metamorphose/cghg" target="_blank">http://www.bethgoobic.com/#!metamorphose/cghg</a> Medium ceramics Location The location of the interview Pompton Lakes New Jersey Artist Statement Metamorphose is an ongoing conversation in clay about the journey of becoming a mother and being a mother. It takes place in this study of a common utilitarian household item, the mug. These mug forms are endowed with the presence of both vulnerability and strength. They celebrate the glorified transformation of the pregnant body, but they bring visibility and conversation to the continuing transformation of the body and person after birth. That they are mugs points to the commonness of everyday lived experiences by wo/men in motherhood and motherwork. Each mug is entirely different reflecting the fact that the experience of mothering is unique to each individual person, even though motherwork is quite often mistaken as a universal concept. These kinds of assumptions about the universality of mothering actually makes the personal experiences of each person doing it invisible. Metamorphose is meant to resist that kind of assumption. The mugs are a reflection of the pregnant body, the very beginning of the anatomical journey of the female body as it enters motherhood but the mugs also celebrate and acknowledge the transformation of the female body after pregnancy, post birth, which in our society, is a less celebrated transformation, and a less visible journey. Post birth bodies deserve the patience, celebration and glorification that childbearing bodies receive. Post-birth bodies are spacious, healing and rehabilitating, while still maintaining a new additional life. The mugs acknowledge, give presence, and beautify the body post birth. These mug forms acknowledge the more subtle but continual anatomical journey our bodies endure during motherwork and also a person’s transformative and altering personal journey throughout motherwork. Pertaining to motherwork this conversation in clay is not exclusive to birth mothers, but opens up this conversation to all caregivers that take on motherwork. A man, or a non-biological parent may not physically go through the birthing journey but that person can experience the altering and changing of their own bodies and spirits throughout the journey of motherwork. The common daily motions endured during motherwork, and the effects and marks that motherwork experiences leave on our bodies are also portrayed here in these mugs. With the unknown journey and struggles that each child brings, caregivers are altered in person as they journey with that child through the highs and lows of each experience. This altering of person throughout the lifelong journey of motherhood, so private and personal, joyful and painful, messy and beautiful is celebrated and acknowledged in these basic everyday utilitarian objects. Like motherwork, the mugs are individual, unique and beautifully imperfect. The forms are altered, and asymmetrical, with undulating rims and drippy glazes. I choose to alter the form as a way to represent and interpret how we are altered in person and body in motherwork. The mugs are fired in a salt and soda kiln resulting in much surface variation among the cups. Each of these mugs are a functional sculpture and an experience, inviting the viewer to apply their own experiences in motherhood and motherwork to the conversation. The vulnerable yet commanding forms salute the invisible labor of caregiving and everyday experiences of motherwork, which involves a metamorphosis of person and body. Metamorphose is an artistic attempt to make the invisibility of motherhood and motherwork visible in households and workspaces via an everyday utilitarian object. Topic motherhood becoming a mother transformation postpartum body pregnancy mugs Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Beth Goobic ceramics motherhood mugs New Jersey Popton Lakes postpartum body pregnancy transformation https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/b8ef86770d42346767f6fb4569bc46e7.jpg 476102094e0f24d890710f6d7e149606 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://courtneykessel.com/home.html" target="_blank">http://courtneykessel.com/home.html</a> Medium performance art sculpture installation video art sound Location The location of the interview Ohio Artist Statement My current work and research is focused on the possibility of what a feminist form may consist of beyond current feminist content, imagery, and histories. Through sculpture, performance, video, and sound, I perform a visibility that, in normative patriarchal society, is preferred to remain invisible. The question of feminist form transcends the product and is inclusive of my practice and methodology. In doing this, a slippage occurs where the separation of studio activity and domestic responsibility is blurred. In the performance In Balance With, my six-year-old daughter, Chloe, and I sit at opposite ends of an empty sixteen-foot seesaw. During the thirty-minute performance, I add items that represent our lives such as toys, her books and sketchbook, my research books, food, laundry, tools, and pots and pans to her side of the seesaw. Constantly checking in with her well being, I continue until both sides have reached equilibrium. While hovering in a balanced state, I am continually counteracting her every move. Here we remain until she is ready to come down. In communication the entire time, the words we share are available to the audience but are not for the audience. This piece is the confluence of many of my ideas. It relays and relies upon the non-privileged, unspoken language of the maternal, the process as opposed to the product, and the repositioned domestic dialog. When the performance ends, what remains is a laden seesaw complete with identifiable objects representing one’s life: a sculpture that tells a tale. The non-hierarchical triad of feminism, language, and maternity forms the unique basis for my work. The French feminist Luce Irigaray describes woman “as waste, or excess, what is left of a mirror invested by the (masculine) ‘subject’ to reflect himself, to copy himself”1. I use language as a medium in my work to represent the gap in both “meaning” and “intention,” as well as the notion of “excess” as Irigaray connotes. How does the methodology I will use be sympathetic to feminist form? How will my decisions be based on this? Feminist form is non-hierarchical. It has options and choices; it is excess and multiplicitous, not singular. It will not be categorized, but create it’s own category. It is a process that is not based on product. It accumulates and is messy, but is not interested in making messes. It is an invitation, not a statement. Topic motherhood daughter feminism language domestic life 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">Complicated Labors</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/274" target="_blank">Labors</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank">New Maternalisms - Chile</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/161" target="_blank">New Maternalisms - Redux</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Courtney Kessel daughter domestic life feminism language motherhood Ohio performance art sculpture sound video art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/4996ea76f895bc842db66bfbf00b4ad9.jpg 608bef1ce965d9e29729ab139126cccf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://alvarezerrecalde.com/" target="_blank">http://alvarezerrecalde.com/</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview Barcelona Spain Artist Statement "Themes inspired by my personal experiences such as vital cycles, birth, motherhood, illness, immigration, ageing and death are found throughout my body of work. I create images that become a document of our love, our fears and our conquests. My artwork is a contemporary social commentary through which I like to challenge the singular story that has been told and reinforced as a way of normalizing roles and attitudes. I cherish plurality and my way of doing so is to contribute images and testimonies that expands perspective and the constricted existing imagery. Within a common experience like expecting a child or the passing away of a parent, we find transcendental truth. Art has the potential of transmitting that emotion to confront our daily numbness with something that is authentically substantial and profound. I believe that there is a manipulative and deliberate lack of information that hinders the understanding of just how empowering and transformative motherhood can be. I cherish plurality and my way of contributing is to share my experiences in order to expand the constrained social imagery. In "Birth of My Daughter", a self-portrait while giving birth, I take off my "cultural" veil. My maternity is not virginal or aseptic. I am the archetype of the primal woman, the woman beast that has nothing prohibited. I show a maternity not seen through the eyes of Eve (the divine punishment "you will give birth with the pain of your body"), but seen through the eyes of Lucy (the earliest hominid found to date). These photographs can help others rethink the idea of the fragile, painful, out of control and overly medicated birth that is considered the norm in many countries. How I relate to nudity and blood is a mirror of my fascination with life. I am accepting of my changing body, amazed with how my children grow, and intrigued by the aging process. The blood and nudity seen within the context of my artwork is linked to authenticity and undiluted sensuality. I create images that become a document of our love, our fears and our conquests." <a href="http://imowblog.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/in-conversation-with-ana-alvarez.html" target="_blank">Interview with Her Blue Print</a> <a href="http://flicmagazine.com/mag/en/2014/07/ana-alvarez-errecalde/" target="_blank">Interview with Flic Magazine</a> Topic motherhood birth postpartum body aging daughter breastfeeding Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ana Álvarez-Errecalde aging Barcelona birth breastfeeding daughter motherhood postpartum body pregnancy Spain https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/f5d1bf5a15d5d3ca3e864d19499ac03b.jpg 43ce4793979fb3136049eead8116247a https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/212d1270372f9001ab68928f2ca7e349.jpg d309803587a997c973465c914df3d5f5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://danilarumold.com/gestationpaintings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://danilarumold.com/gestationpaintings/</a>  <a href="http://danilarumold.com/#/abstractnarratives/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://danilarumold.com/%23/abstractnarratives/&source=gmail&ust=1558475421198000&usg=AFQjCNFLJoC7uNy6CiP5m-9eRloxpt7mNw" rel="noopener">http://danilarumold.com/#/abstractnarratives/</a> Medium painting drawing mixed media Location The location of the interview Albuquerque New Mexico USA Artist Statement Gestation: As the name suggests it was inspired by my pregnancies. Responding to my experience of motherhood, my work is involved with the repetitive nature of parenting and how that can been reflected in art and the practice of mindfulness. Other concerns within the work are family, the process of birthing and its counterpart, loss. Although these issues have been personal concerns, they are ones which have been shared by woman throughout history. Danila Rumold’s current series dissolves things seemingly in opposition. Deconstructing conventional notions of painting in her work, Rumold crosses over from painting into large-scale collage and installation. Employing household tools, such as stove-top burners and washing machines in the materials’ preparation, she blurs the commonly separated roles of care-taking and art-making. Sleeping, cooking and eating on top of paper results in spontaneous mark-making, which Rumold explores as formal abstractions while referencing the body. Using semi-translucent Mulberry paper stained with earthy colors made from regional plant and food dyes, Danila brings the components together with readymade art materials. Inviting everyday experiences and chance to catalyze the work, Rumold integrates the unconscious and conscious; art and life. Topic gestation pregnancy repetition loss mindfulness family dynamics Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Danila Rumold California family dynamics family life gestation mindfulness motherhood pregnancy repetition San Francisco https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/6794a54d47b40f9564dbb0587ef406f9.jpg 96fd74ca1010683c04717109bdab20dd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. 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> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jill Miller breastfeeding California homeschooling lactation milk truck motherhood nursing mothers social practice https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/1d4ac9171cbd93d4dc71ebaa9e728a8c.jpg 9e2d3bd89e8953a6f05b51a70fc2146e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="Website%20www.kristinemoran.com" target="_blank">www.kristinemoran.com</a> Medium painting Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement Through formal and abstract gestures, Kristine Moran presents a new series of paintings that consider the complexities of relationships and the charged psychological spaces that emotional exchanges can perpetuate. This is visualized by Moran's concern with bodily actions and the moment when an emotion or vision becomes articulated through the body and directed towards a familial or intimately related figure. In Moran's coherent yet clouded scenes, these actions are transformed by the artist into something more symbolic, possibly reminding the viewer of their own ties to other people or moments of intense outpour. In many ways, Moran's paintings are a reflection of the physical and metaphysical spaces she has occupied or continues to occupy. The artist's studio, her home, and her art practice coalesce in unexpected ways. During countless hours spent observing and interacting with friends and family, issues of gender politics, domestic labor, relationship failures and personal moralities are laid bare to dissect. Various series of paintings have come to echo Moran's transition into motherhood and at the same time, becoming motherless. Whether through observation or lived experience, these moments make their way into loose narratives that form the basis for her paintings. These are often filled with absurdity, dark humor, and euphoria, mirroring the qualities of life. Moran's interchange of the personal and professional is deeply connected to a lineage of female artists who have utilized their lived experience as a means of speaking to what it means to be alive. The artist sees her work closely aligned with the practices of Alice Neel, Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Murray and Frances Stark. Topic birth domestic labor motherhood children and restaurants Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kristine Moran birth Brooklyn domestic labor motherhood New York https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/fe65bfe2a5253d7034a01e298d3dbde7.jpg ee939958816ae7e2bc88d620810e1f5e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Exhibition Website makermamas.org Curator Danila Rumold, Lucy Robinson, Jacquelyn Krieger Gallery The Shop at Flywheel Press Topic studio practice and parenting artist collective meet up group childcare About "Our intention is to create a community of mothers who are also artists, in order to help balance a life where child rearing and domestic life are constantly juxtaposed to the demands of making ones own art. We meet monthly to share about our different creative processes and to discuss various topics that explore creativity and motherhood. Most importantly, we have a built-in system for childcare in exchange for studio time." <a href="http://makermamas.org/2015/05/07/maternal-matters-2/" target="_blank">From Maternal Matters Essay</a> Organization Website <a href="http://makermamas.org/" target="_blank">http://makermamas.org/</a> Organzation Director <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/25" target="_blank">Danila Rumold</a> Lucy Miller Robinson Jacquelyn Richey Krieger Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maker Mamas Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Danila Rumold artist collective childcare studio practice https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/be105ab1dae6c57532d77b378ad6954b.jpg 8107421bcc1973a1681e3cd0ae314ea9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Location The location of the interview Barnstaple Devon United Kingdom Topic birth pregnancy research interdisciplinary midwifery women and gender studies social justice early parenthood research institute About Project AfterBirth began an exhibition intended to contribute to an interdisciplinary research initiative led by Project AfterBirth and a team of academics from the fields of obstetrics, mental health, midwifery, media studies, social justice, and women and gender studies, which is aimed at shedding light on modern pregnancy and birth practices and their impact on 21st century early parenthood experiences. Organization Website <a href="https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/</a> Organzation Director <a href="https://milaoshin1.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Mila Oshin</a> Kris Jager Gallery <a href="http://www.whitemoose.co.uk/site/" target="_blank">White Moose</a> Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Mila Oshin</a> <a href="https://drunkwithjoy.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Kris Jager</a> Artists Alison O’Neill Amanda West <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/30" target="_blank">Belinda Kochanowska</a> Carole Evans Chris Anthem Clare Archibald <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/27" target="_blank">Courtney Kessel</a> Csilla Nagy Danielle Hobbs <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/135" target="_blank">Debbie Lee</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/31" target="_blank">Eti Wade</a> Geoffrey Harrison <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/32" target="_blank">Helen Sargeant</a> Hester Berry Ione Rucquoi <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/36" target="_blank">Jana Kasalova</a> Jenny Lewis Josie Beszant Laura James Wray <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/111" target="_blank">Lu Heintz</a> Madison Omahne <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/37" target="_blank">Magda Stawarska Beavan</a> Marilyn Kyle <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/38" target="_blank">Rachel Fallon</a> Rocio Saenz Ruth Gray <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/35" target="_blank">Sasha Waters Freyer</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/11" target="_blank">Sarah Sudhoff</a> Tareg Morris <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/62" target="_blank">Trish Morrissey</a> Event Type Exhibition Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Sat 3 Oct 2015 – Fri 13 Nov 2015 Curatorial Statement The triumph of new motherhood. Stillbirth. Full-time fatherhood. Single parenthood. Miscarriage. Bringing up a child near a warzone. Bilingual speech development. Postnatal depression. Infertility. Adoption. These are just some of the themes dealt with in the 39 works of art showcased as part of Project AfterBirth; the first ever international exhibition on the subject of early parenthood, launching at White Moose gallery, UK, this October. Each of the 39 works in the exhibition – which spans the visual, performance, literary, film and digital arts – were made in the 21st century and represent the personal pregnancy, birth or new parenthood experiences of 30 international contemporary male and female artists. Due to the lingering taboo status of parenthood in the contemporary art world and its perceived inferiority as a subject, most of the works have never been shown publicly before. At times hilarious and at times deeply moving, the exhibition stands to leave a lasting impression on parents, but will also resonate with anyone in terms of their own individual birth and childhood journeys. The exhibition is also a first in demonstrating the profound influence pregnancy, birth and new parenthood experiences can have on the practice of 21st century female and male artists. Exhibition Website <a href="https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Project AfterBirth birth early parenthood England London midwifery pregnancy research research institute social justice United Kingdom women and gender studies https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/6beec4585e5d3615050f31fa38c55983.jpg fffa59f735a7950c8d603c52256a6f6f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://nataliemball.com/section/33295.html">http://nataliemball.com/section/33295.html</a> Medium performance art installation Artist Statement "To Be Continued" is a claim for visual sovereignty. It is about taking back power through the relationship of a mother and her daughter in relation to historical genocide and disenfranchisement of the Modoc and Klamath people. I enlist auto-ethnography as an apparatus to offer you a visual articulation of a mother’s conscious actions to connect her daughter to her complex history, her water, her land, and her cultures for survival. For me, for my family, for many native people, and for my daughter the “Indian Wars” are not over. “To Be Continued” acknowledges my daughter’s Indigenous womanhood within a reality where the wars have not subsided. There are other kinds of war, with legislation, not howitzers; water rights, land acquisition, dam removal, salmon restoration, self determination and blood quantum. There is always a fight. When Ojibwe scholar Scott Lyons writes about native identity, "When the Indian speaks, it always speaks as an Indian," he is stating that it is not possible to ignore the complex narratives that create the idea of the Indian. I address this through traditional native markers, quilt pieces, a pony, but just in case you missed that the Indian is speaking as an Indian, I put the name Modoc in lights at the center of the piece. The door and floor put the installation in space and time, adding another layer of information. The space is being occupied, at least for the time being. What always was Indian land is back to being Indigenous space. The installation leaves no doubt, occupied or not, the space is Indian, Modoc in lights, telegraphing presence and native survivance. Topic motherhood mother/daughter relationship daughter native american genocide heritage Klamath Tribe Modoc Tribe auto-ethnography Indigenous womanhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natalie M. Ball auto-ethnography daughter genocide heritage Indigenous motherhood installation Klamath Tribe Modoc Tribe motherhood Native American performance art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/6d7417262bb95944a536c9f0af34d0bf.jpg e790bfa18f91cde575220c268093852c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://denisewhitebreadfanning.com/homeland-security.html" target="_blank">http://denisewhitebreadfanning.com/homeland-security.html</a> Medium sculpture performance art installation Location The location of the interview Michigan Artist Statement Created from the perspective of mother, Homeland Security is an ongoing body of work comprised of (often futile or absurd) survival and escape gear made by a mother to protect her family and loved ones from a threatening array of inevitable tragedies or disasters, from simple domestic accidents to acts of terrorism and environmental catastrophes. Fusing the artist's converging interest in survival preparedness and mundane domestic survival, this body of work continues to manifest as a response to the ever present fears of the mother/caregiver, who, influenced by media and the societal commodification of fear, desires to protect that which she most fears losing. Using language culled from Survival Preparedness Handbooks which often doubles as domestic survival mantras, the work explores the line between utmost gravity and the absurd, between our real and daily dangers, and the sense of humor necessary for our survival. All of the work in this series speaks to human fears of loss and mortality, as well as the ego attached to the implied ability to prevent such mortal guarantees. Topic motherhood protection survival disasters accidents survival planning handbook survival preparedness fear maternal fear mortality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Denise Whitebread Fanning accidents installation lifeboat maternal fear Michigan mortality motherhood performance art sculpture survival survival gear survival handbook survival preparedness https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/b56c2fc3aacdeff990b0b6ba133a60d2.jpg 7209bd4de6eacb5ddfd5ae6b3e5882c3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/14" target="_blank">www.hillerbrandmagsamen.com</a> Medium photography video art performance art Location The location of the interview Houston Texas Artist Statement “I HOPE YOU’RE NOT PLANNING TO SELL YOUR HOUSE ANYTIME SOON” — someone attending one of our art openings — This is what people often say when they first see our work at art openings, exhibition talks, or film festivals. While they could be commenting on our nominal status as not-so-starving artists, it is more likely that they’re referring to the nature of our work itself. Home, family, belongings—nothing in our life is left un- deconstructed in our art—often quite literally, as sofas, bedroom walls, and dinnerware come under physical attack. We draw no line between our lives and our art. We are the photographers and the photographed; our home is our canvas, our family is our subject, and our actions are our content. As the collaborative artistic team of Hillerbrand+Magsamen, we draw upon the rich Fluxus practice of incorporating humor, performance, video and everyday objects and we expand our personal family life into a contemporary art conversation about family dynamics, suburban life and American consumer excess. This new kind of “suburban fluxus” generates work that documents and re-contextualizes our objects and possessions of self, family and culture, the role of the camera in contemporary art and challenges presumptions of the everyday. We have presented our videos in prestigious international film and media festivals including SCOPE Basel, WAND V Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, New York Underground Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Boston Underground Film Festival, LA Freewaves New Media Art Festival. Our cinematic based installations have been seen in Hong Gah Museum in Taiwan, the Hudson River Museum, Woodstock Center for Photography, Museum of Fine Art Houston, Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film, and Houston Center for Photography. We have been awarded grants from Austin Film Society’s Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund, Ohio Arts Council, Houston Arts Alliance and a Carol Crow Fellowship from the Houston Center for Photography. We live and work in Houston, TX with our two children Madeleine and Emmett." -From the Artists' website Topic family life suburban life Fluxus home belongings Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hillerbrand+Magsamen belongings family life Fluxus home Houston performance art photography Suburban Fluxus suburban life Texas video art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/c8985d8733ed1785134802987e034672.jpg 3e87e4559930086e8c61f3f9fd23b54a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://annakell.com/section/396317_DRAWING.html" target="_blank">http://annakell.com/section/396317_DRAWING.html</a> Medium Graphite on paper Location The location of the interview New York City New York Topic breastfeeding motherhood portrait newborn son nursing mother Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anna Kell breastfeeding New York newborn nursing mothers portrait son https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/607ebf6e27fdc9711bbb2e7b366a97f2.jpg ded7ea99b9b7f4b5827176e97e88cb55 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.rebecca-silberman.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.rebecca-silberman.com/&source=gmail&ust=1558475421184000&usg=AFQjCNFwi0u_fzEKNRjDRoUA_ZXf33cEwg">https://www.rebecca-silberman.com/</a> <a href="https://procreateanthology.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/rebecca-silberman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://procreateanthology.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/rebecca-silberman/</a> Medium tintype Location The location of the interview Virginia Artist Statement "On roughly the same day each month for nearly 14 years, I have made a full body portrait of my daughter, Rosalee, on a black backdrop, spanning from newborn to, now, a young woman. The project, which was first exhibited in early 2014, a month after my daughter Rosalee turned 12, consisted of 144 8” x 10” tintype plates. While this started out as something I intended to pursue only during my daughter’s first year of life, it quickly developed into a compulsion of record-keeping, which also includes notebooks full of writing and drawings." -Rebecca Silberman, from the <a href="https://procreateanthology.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/rebecca-silberman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(Pro)Create Anthology</a> Topic portrait newborn record keeping daughter 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/391" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Care and Feeding: The Art of Parenthood, Palo Alto Art Center, 2018</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rebecca Silberman daughter motherhood newborn portrait record keeping tintype Virginia https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/2be907ab5fd400f44f557811e36f570a.png d141e17537285e4f0ef5f62883922748 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.sarahsudhoff.com/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.sarahsudhoff.com/home</a> Medium peformance art photography video Topic breastfeeding motherhood postpartum body 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/398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unveiled, CPAC, Denver, Colorado</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sarah Sudhoff breastfeeding motherhood performance art photography postpartum body video art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/e0234aca526aa906106477e83c3b44a0.jpg 9b0ccf9e06983b3146b417c13e4bc682 https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/e02fe8cac8ab6cf93fda9c333fcf6836.jpg e2cde0fef1d0833eec4dfa0beb03d998 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Location The location of the interview Los Angeles California Topic blog curating creative practice and family life artist collective About Broodwork is the ongoing art and design project founded by Iris Anna Regn and Rebecca Niederlander to investigate the interweaving of creative practice and family life. BROODWORK’s multi-faceted approach of talking, blogging, designing, event-making, and curating exists to examine and illuminate, and also to foster an advantageous environment that will in itself stimulate innovation. Mission: the cross-disciplinary art and design project that names the previously unspoken community of practitioners whose work realized an unexpected perspectival shift after becoming parents. All creative practitioners find themselves at crossroads throughout their life; however, being affected by the specific juncture of practice and family is not generally acknowledged for its true impact. Who would have thought that writing for his son about a bear named Winnie-the-Pooh would catapult the political satirist A. A. Milne from Punch magazine into the stratosphere of literary history. His era’s exception, however, is our rule; the convergence of family and practice is recognized by BROODWORK as a pivotal influence to produce profound and unexpected work. Through its multi-faceted approach—including talking, curating, designing, and blogging--BROODWORK exists to investigate and illuminate, and to foster an advantageous environment that will in itself stimulate innovation. Curatorial installations are a predominant expression of BROODWORK in which Regn and Niederlander work hand-in-hand with creative practitioners to facilitate an entirely new conception of specific works within their practice. All BROODWORK events incorporate participatory elements that foreground the intergenerational and community-building aspects of the project. BROODWORK also collaborates with other organizations to further the discussion of creative practice and family life. Regn and Niederlander act as Family and Practice Advisor for the Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles, write about interweaving family and practice for the Herman Miller Lifework blog, and design the SUNBLOCK series of family-oriented events for the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. Organization Website <a href="http://www.broodwork.com/" target="_blank">http://www.broodwork.com/</a> Organzation Director Rebecca Niederlander Iris Anna Regn Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Broodwork artist collective California Los Angeles https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/08541270b5e3ba97b65d53ca1558d609.jpg 6dfb40e3810eff69dbe22fd088f9b4d9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Location The location of the interview New York Topic motherhood mother studies museum education center pop-up exhibits About "The Museum of Motherhood (M.O.M.) is an exhibition and education center dedicated to the exploration of family – past, present, and future with a focus on mothers, fathers, and families. M.O.M.’s mission is to start great conversations, feature thought-provoking exhibits, and share information and education. Our aim is to collect, preserve, and disseminate articles, books, artifacts, images, and research on the science, art, and history of all aspects of procreation, birth, and caregiving. We care about those engaged in these activities, and actively promote members of the community interested in the emerging areas of Mother and Father Studies. M.O.M. is the first and only social change facility of its kind. We do not discriminate, are open to all perspectives, and recognize diversity as a guiding premise. The museum is currently online only, with events throughout NYC, as well as strategic Pop Up Exhibits as we search for our next-stage physical location." -Description from http://mommuseum.org/about-2/ Organization Website <a href="http://mommuseum.org/" target="_blank">http://mommuseum.org/</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Museum of Motherhood (M.O.M.) mother studies motherhood museum https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/e2327d00f59770df403bf20ddb6481e5.png 2df495635da3942955f260a7ee9bb9c0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Topic mother studies father studies motherhood fatherhood digital humanities peer reviewed journal interdisciplinary About "The JourMS (Journal of Mother Studies) is a peer reviewed, international, interdisciplinary open-access, journal built digital humanities hybrid project. " -Description taken from https://jourms.wordpress.com/about/ Organization Website https://jourms.wordpress.com/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Journal of Mother Studies family mother studies motherhood mothering museum museum of motherhood peer reviewed journal https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/f585507e70b75494632a986cd4b991d8.png 7b906d539b93f481a986427d957bd4c0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Topic parenting and studio practice autobiography writing studio practice About The (Pro)Create Anthology is a collection of narratives about the intersection of studio practice and parenting. Submit your story by emailing procreateanthology@gmail.com Organization Website <a href="http://procreateanthology.wordpress.com" target="_blank">www.procreateanthology.wordpress.com</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (Pro)Create Anthology autobiography fatherhood motherhood studio practice https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/a89b627cea43a6312465f5efbb361af1.png b293c47c754cc33fda3cc1691a841468 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois Topic parenthood and studio practice parenthood and art artist collective creative platform About "Cultural ReProducers are an evolving group of active cultural workers who are also parents. This site is for anyone interested in making the art world a more inclusive and interesting place by supporting arts professionals raising kids." -Cultural ReProducers Organization Website <a title="Cultural ReProducers Website" href="http://www.culturalreproducers.org/" target="_blank">http://www.culturalreproducers.org/</a> <a title="Facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1726671380893208/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/1726671380893208/</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cultural ReProducers artist collective Chicago creative platform Illinois https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/0a55fbeef0204c027f84971272ef3cf3.png c41cf92753227ddba10ed464722ec779 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Topic artist network blog curating zine art prize Mother House studio collective interdisciplinary online gallery About ProCreate Project is a platform aiming to provide practical help and financial support for artists, enabling them to continue producing work during We aim to help artists build and combine their new existence as mothers with their practice. Mission – Build a platform that can provide practical help and financial support for artists and help artists build and combine their existence as mothers with their practice. – Connect artists with the forefront of creative business, creating networks and links with relevant movements, scenes and diverse niche groups. – Support, showcase and promote artist’s projects through on and off line events, activities and campaigns. – Develop communities that encourage open discussions between mother-artists and audience. – Provide space, facilities and drop-in childcare services to enable creative development. Organization Website <a href="http://www.procreateproject.com/" target="_blank">http://www.procreateproject.com/</a> Organzation Director Dyana Gravina Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource ProCreate Project artist network blog breastfeeding pregnancy Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Gallery UC Santa Cruz Sesnon Gallery Curator Irene Lusztig Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Lenka Clayton</a> Mary Kelly <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/295" target="_blank">Irene Lusztig</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Jill Miller</a> Mother Art Collective Alejandra Herrera Silva Mierle Laderman Ukeles Natalie Loveless <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a> Mark Cooley Beth Hall Masha Godovannaya <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/27" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Courtney Kessel</a> Ellina Kevorkian Dillon Paul Lindsey Wolkowicz Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) February 5 - March 15, 2014 Curatorial Statement "Nearly forty years after Mary Kelly’s germinal 1976 exhibition of Post-Partum Document, the work of women artists who explicitly engage with images, processes, and experiences of maternity remains marginalized in the art world. Despite a notable resurgence of attention to the maternal in 21st Century art theory and practice, such work is, more often than not, read inside a discourse of indulgence, sentimentality, and identity rather than as representative of larger concerns with ecological systems, ethics, care, or labor. Complicated Labors investigates this problem, bringing together historical and contemporary work addressing maternal labor to ask questions about the status of feminism — and feminist art — today. The exhibition will be accompanied by a one-day symposium on February 5, 2014 at UCSC, with a keynote address by foundational feminist artist Mary Kelly. The symposium will create a space for critical interdisciplinary dialogue around issues of maternity, feminism, art-making, and writing, explicitly putting the 1970s in conversation with the current moment and putting writers in conversation with visual artists. Complicated Labors builds on recent group exhibitions on the topic, including Myrel Chernick’s and Jennie Klein’s 2004 and 2006 Maternal Metaphors and Maternal Metaphors II and Natalie Loveless’s 2010 New Maternalisms. This exhibition addresses recent books such as Andrea Liss’s 2009 Feminist Art and the Maternal, new journals such as Studies in the Maternal, and new collectives such as Broodwork." - From http://people.ucsc.edu/~ilusztig/complicated_labors/about.html# Topic maternity creative practice feminism motherhood Exhibition Website <a href="http://people.ucsc.edu/~ilusztig/complicated_labors/about.html#" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://people.ucsc.edu/~ilusztig/complicated_labors/about.html#</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Complicated Labors: feminism, maternity and creative practice feminism maternal labor maternity https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/1a38eee3b1d8dd889e2b34fd1d3e1bb4.pdf 5475198bd74288b4e1635548c1682c5d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) January 30 - March 12, 2016 Curator Amber Berson Juliana Driever Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/143">Dillon de Give</a> Home Affairs Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley) Lise Haller Baggesen LoVid Shane Aslan Selzer Gallery EFA Project Space Curatorial Statement The Let Down Reflex is an exhibition that attempts to recognize the complexities of parenting in the art world, and asks if a better alternative for families can exist. Calling out a slippage in today’s feminist art world, the curators summon a group of artist-parents to contribute to a springboard for re-imagining an art world where “Mom” is not a demeaning characterization, where childcare is factored in for participating artists at art spaces, and where artists aren’t forced to choose between home and work because of a lack of parental leave. The “let down reflex,” a term referencing the involuntary reflex that causes nursing mothers to produce breast milk, takes on a double meaning in this exhibition, referring here to the reflexive tendency of letting down parents, and particularly mothers, within the flawed labor system of the art world. Topic fair wages art world parenthood Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/the-let-down-reflex/" target="_blank">http://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/the-let-down-reflex/</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Letdown Reflex art world breastfeeding childcare fair wages families let down reflex New York nursing mothers parental leave https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/e575810d53cff883fcfc893f9f4a28fa.jpg 727957a8a37e50bb7e9552c2990475b1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://meganwynne.net/work/motherhood/photography" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://meganwynne.net/work/motherhood/photography</a> Medium photography Topics The topics addressed within the Artist's work. bed sharing breastfeeding motherhood parenthood domestic space personal boundaries Location The location of the interview Norfolk Virginia Artist Statement My recent work focuses on the subject of myself and my daughters to speak about the intensity, intimacy, and interdependence of motherhood. Playing with the persona of the mother and the mother-as-artist, the work brings up uncomfortable questions about identity, autonomy, and childrearing. The images are at once familiar and unfamiliar, inviting and repelling. The work often straddles the line between referencing the family snapshot and cold clinical documentation. There is also ambiguity in how the individuals in the scene are emotionally and physically relating to each other. This uncertainty helps to create a sense of surreality in the work, and dark humor and melodrama within the narrative further push this aspect of the imagery. I use these devices to reflect on the deeply mysterious, contradictory, and often unknowable psychological undercurrent beneath everyday experiences of interconnection. The mother-child relationship is the most primary and foundational relationship in one's life. In addition, there is a deep transgenerational legacy of the mother-child dynamic, in which beliefs, behaviors, and past traumas haunt one generation to the next. In my work I explore my maternal inheritance, as I address the intensity and profound complexity of the bond I have with my children. These depictions of the maternal experience challenge dominant reductive and over-sentimentalized representations of motherhood, as well as idealized and over-simplified perspectives on childhood. Topic motherhood bedsharing domestic space breastfeeding personal boundaries Artist Residency in Motherhood birth childbirth 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> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Megan Wynne bedsharing birth breastfeeding childbirth domestic space lactation motherhood photograph photography and motherhood pregnancy United States Virginia https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/49ed2d09c8f7d03c18a5a48f4845163d.jpg 455a2d6a5c744c18099bc4e5f0bcac11 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.sarahirvinart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.sarahirvinart.com</a> Biographical Text When I started my graduate program in 2013, I was confident that becoming a mother was not compatible with my studio practice. In the middle of my first semester, I began to question this assumption. As an experiment, I assumed the opposite was true, that there was work that I could only make if I was a mother. I was suddenly able to envision not only the work, but also myself in the role of “mother” for the first time. Three months later I was pregnant and I got to work. Creating in this way allows me to form myself in a role of “mother” and in turn motherhood continually redefines my practice. The work opens up dialogues about circumstances that are publicly debated, but only privately experienced. I measured my stomach with a piece of yarn at navel height the day I found out I was pregnant. I tied the yarn off in a loop. I repeated this every day until the day I went into labor. Every week of the second trimester, I lifted 26 pounds, one pound over the recommended amount a pregnant woman should lift, using a block and tackle pulley system and created a transfer drawing with the impact when it was dropped from nine feet. I established mechanisms to capture the physical actions of parenting as a mark on a page, beginning while I was in labor. For instance, the area rug in the nursery created transfer drawings as we walked across the room, the glider rocker created drawings as we rocked, and the stroller created drawings as we strolled. These works were enabled by the activities of our daily lives and captured the kinetic energy and labor involved in the care and nurturing of an infant. During the second and third months of my daughter’s life, I created a series of watercolors exclusively while she slept, with each set considered complete when she awoke, allowing my circumstances to dictate aspects of my creative output. While breastfeeding, I made drawings on paper I created from my bed sheets with looping marks corresponding to individual suck and swallow motions of nursing providing a real-time read out of this experience. I commissioned a reproduction of the plastic measuring scoop that comes in a container of Similac infant formula to be cast from silver baby spoons. Other iterations of this series include my daughter’s nursery as camera obscura; cyanotypes created with her blankets, toys and clothing; early stages of her own mark-making captured through fingerprint dust; silverpoint drawings tracing her early movements made with jewelry from my grandmother; and paintings made with a baby bottle and formula. As a whole, this project-based work is a personal narrative taking form as poetic visual data. The works are exhibited as sets and series. An entire year’s action of rocking a baby is a set of 59 drawings made with our rocking chair. One year of walking across a nursery rug is a row of 12 large transfer drawings. Fifty feet of watercolors represent a tiny sampling of the available time during early parenthood when the baby slept. The work visualizes how care taking has shaped me as an individual and how it has transformed my mark making. I view everything related to the experience of parenthood as a valid subject matter and/or mark making tool and this has opened up new methods of creating. The pieces are derived from the everyday. The interface of specific materials and processes with the everyday provides an entry point into broader topics of gender, production, reproduction, care, biological processes and cultural systems. Medium painting drawing papermaking video art photography installation Topics The topics addressed within the Artist's work. motherhood parenthood breastfeeding infants and sleep pregnancy Location The location of the interview Richmond Virginia Topic breastfeeding motherhood infants and sleep pregnancy baby formula caretaking gender and caretaking domestic labor maternal ambivalence Artist Residency in Motherhood gender equality home domestic space care work 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/274" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Labors</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/392">The End & The Beginning</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sarah Irvin ambivalence body breastfeeding care work domestic labor domestic space drawing gender gender equality home infant care labor maternal abivalence maternal body maternal time motherhood mothering painting paper papermaking repetition repetitive tasks ritual tracking video