1 300 434 https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/f93015db87a8df50d450b856d06ce060.jpg cc38c2dec012949430b1f881abf240a9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Laura Larson Website The Artist's website lauralarson.net Topic hidden mother photography, adoption, transracial families Medium Photography, Writing 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/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Laura Larson 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/6def31fe8617a0eeabdeff4f39cb168a.jpg e3aba8e9e550e18b124ecdce735157a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.zoefreney.com">www.zoefreney.com</a> Medium oil paint pastel Location The location of the interview Adelaide South Australia Artist Statement Zoe Freney is an artist, writer, educator and mother. These roles jostle for attention and time, but mothering is a constant occupation, and it is this never-letting-up that is borne out in Freney’s works. For Freney, painting remains a vital means of expression. The painting Thinking of Flying (2018) describes the frustration of having to forego the creative, meaning-making practices of painting as one struggles instead with the daily tasks of child rearing and the demands of the household. But within mothering there is still room for dreaming and reflection. There are opportunities to nurture children’s imaginations, to initiate them into creative lives. While Freney’s work examines the banality and joys of mothering, it is also about transcendence. We are all thinking of flying. Topic Matricentric feminism feminist mothering empowered mothering, control lack of control definition identity maternal subjectivity Madonna ‘yummy mummy,’ maternal subjectivity contemporary painting embodied knowledge, contemporary drawing Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Silver Linings, Praxis Artspace, Bowden, South Australia, 20 June – 17 July 2019 Motherology, Collective Haunt Inc, Norwood South Australia, 8 November – 9 December 2018 Good Mother, Central Gallery, Glenside South Australia, 12 August—7 September 2018 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Zoe Freney ‘yummy mummy ’ contemporary painting contemporary drawing control definition embodied knowledge empowered mothering feminist mothering identity lack of control Madonna maternal subjectivity Matricentric feminism oil paint pastel 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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.zacharypstephens.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.zacharypstephens.com</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview New Hampshire Artist Statement Are We There Yet? is a series of large-format photographs exploring modern fatherhood. Utilizing moments of humor and satire, the highly constructed tableau images create scenarios that play out the anxieties and everyday encounters of being a dad in rural, suburban America. After finding myself married with three kids and living in a small suburban-esque neighborhood filled with cookie-cutter houses, things that I never exactly imagined or planned for, the idealized notions of the American family have become increasingly significant as well as overwhelming to me. Between the patriarchal depictions of fatherhood in the 1980s and 1990s media that influenced my idea of family through my childhood, to the contemporary pressures of being an involved and nurturing father, all the while not really having any idea of how to be a father at all, this project is my way of trying to understand where I exist within this spectrum, and what fatherhood, family, and masculinity mean to me. Each image deals with relatable parenting struggles and the stereotypes associated with fatherhood, including the realities of managing chaos, the high levels of tension, the feelings of lost identity and inadequacy, and the sheer love of being a parent. They juxtapose the highly polished and colorful elements within everyday family life with scenarios and symbolic elements that create a sense of unease and exhaustion. The result creates a surreal and often humorous narrative that provides relatability to a broad spectrum of viewers and questions the constructions that drive modern parenting. If we can’t laugh, we cry. Sometimes we do both. Topic fatherhood 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 Zachary P. Stephens https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/a19b572900e6e59c02291cf70cf28f66.JPG 4203fe8e018d2397d216f546685fc796 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://xaverine.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://xaverine.com/</a> Medium multi-disciplinary Location The location of the interview East Sussex United Kingdom Artist Statement Xaverine M A Bates is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring themes of gender, motherhood, mental health and eco-feminism. She completed her BA Fine Art at Brighton University in 2008 and has been practising since then in East Sussex. She also has a degree in Philosophy & Anthropology, lived in Mexico for 2½ years and is married to an Icelander with whom she has one daughter. She is currently coordinating The Mother Lode Project, which aims to extract the gold from challenging experiences of motherhood by giving opportunities for artists who are mothers to work with those who may be experiencing mental health difficulties as a result of motherhood. To be held at the De La Warr Pavilion in 2019. Topic motherhood mental health depression suicidal ideation identity bipolar disorder Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2018: 100 years on & what have we got? Hastings Women’s Voice @ Hastings Arts Forum, Hastings, UK – group show featuring ‘For the mothers’, a poem about motherhood 2018: oh motHER, Spilt Milk Gallery members’ show, Custom House Gallery, Edinburgh, UK – group show featuring ‘Stockpiled’ (mixed media: stockpiled medication, shredded journals, thread Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Xaverine MA Bates bipolar disorder depression identity maternal mental health mental health suicidal ideation United Kindgom https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/64d051d1e55be55c21c386533ba83b99.jpg c917f6c3ac5c3fd3fbf1e0ae03d2c473 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.williamglaserwilson.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.williamglaserwilson.com</a> Medium photography sculpture Location The location of the interview New York Artist Statement Oly’ is an interdisciplinary survey showcasing the emergence of worldly phenomena through the eyes of a young child whilst intertwining the psychological implications of becoming a parent. Through the exploration of various material forms, we’re asked to reexamine objects and experiences we’ve now come to find as commonplace to rediscover them for the “first time”. This project chronologically spans the first years of life, attempting to signify through photographic representation and manipulated physical objects memories we could never ourselves recall; whether it be the emergence of color or seeing our first children's book. By reappropriating, manipulating, and transforming children's book imagery, and a variety of household objects, we find ourselves experiencing the world through an infant. Topic perception fatherhood domesticity rituals Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource William Glaser Wilson https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/cf84943ad4db72d44e86489d13d02270.png 89432579066a700f92c937284940a8dc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.wednesdaykim.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.wednesdaykim.com</a> Medium multimedia video installation Location The location of the interview United States Artist Statement Unwelcome experiences from sexual trauma have led me to having intrusive thoughts. These intrusive thoughts and unpleasant ideas became an obsession. The hidden forces of the unconscious blend with traumatic memories and incoherent mixtures from my subconscious mind, forming bizarre images, which appeared in my daydreams and night dreams. Much of my works are like the world refracted through the prism of a schizophrenic mind. My art involves found objects, assemblage, videos, sculptures, and performance; a mixture of analog, digital, and movement. I would like the experience of viewers seeing my art to be somewhat like a game of hide-and-seek with me, psychologically. Sometimes I am hiding in my work, trying not to be found; other times, I chase viewers. I do not wish to provide or prescribe what my work means to the viewers. My hope is to connect with the viewers’ own momentary expression as they experience the recordings of my story. As far as others viewing my artwork, I like to think that momentary catharsis can occur. Topic pregnancy nightmares trauma guilty pleasure depression sleepyhead flustered scattered dangling Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. "Mother Art Prize show 2018" / Mimosa House gallery, London, UK  2019 Wednesday Kim’s Open studio (supported by The Procreate Project and Create London) / The White House Dagenham, London, UK "SUPERNOVA 2017 Outdoor Digital Animation Festival" / Denver, USA "Life 2.0", isthisit? pavilion, The Wrong Biennale 2017 / London, UK "VIDEOHOUSE II" / Deslave,Tijuana, Méxic "Lanzarote International Video Art" 2017/ Cultura Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Spain "FUSE"2017 / Ättiksfabriken Art Space and Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden "Filmideo 2017" / Index Art Center, Newark, NJ, USA "Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:"2017 / Re: Art Show, Brooklyn, NY, USA 2019 Wednesday Kim’s Open studio (supported by The <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Procreate Project</a> and Create London) / The White House Dagenham, London, UK Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wednesday Kim https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/cc69a33a1c063cbf3818964b15d68106.jpg 1c5034a49fc52d0c9dc25731730bae73 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 www.dianakrilova.com Curator Diana Krilova Gallery 5th Base Gallery, London E1 5LJ Curatorial Statement Exhibition of drawings in ink made daily by mother submerged into the world of her children. Motherhood is a state of being that passes by just as childhood does, it is often taken for granted and goes by unnoticed. There are moments of magic and times of frustration in this world of wander and learning by both sides that of mother and her children. This body of work is a tiny part of an ongoing long term journey to discover how surrounding environment is shaping us. Location The location of the interview London Artists Diana Krilova Topic motherhood environments children self and other Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Visual Diary of a Mother Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Diana Krilova children environments London mother and child https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/06555e33111fb79c69aed52c72b0b389.jpg cc0dcf966dcac48ab1044dd07658f6e7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.victorialsmits.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">victorialsmits.com</a> Medium interdisciplinary mixed media Location The location of the interview Eugene Oregon Artist Statement My art practice references my place as womxn/artist/mother where I see “motherhood as an inextricable aspect of [my] female being…[where] the possibility of formulating a grander female vision and voice becomes graspable” (Rachel Cusk, NYT). I pursue this vision in an interdisciplinary practice with found media from the mundanity of my surroundings, objects I encounter in my role as mother, in my home and backyard. This said mundanity is a collection of dryer lint, dryer sheets, fabric, my son’s drawings, found vintage books on home-keeping, stains and dyes extracted from spices and garden leaves. They are signifiers for my place but are fundamental to my practice, leading to theoretical questions and artistic experimentation: How do historic constructs of mothers conflict with matricentric feminism? How does the minutia of the mother and artist role inform maternal empowerment in opposition to hegemonic ideologies of mothering? My practice intends to challenge the traditional patriarchal role of mother. Current projects include a text over starched and ironed dryer lint series and documentation of unpaid labor in my home among smaller works. The ritual of domestic activities (lint from laundry) and the cultural female framework (quotes) are stitched over in a performative and ritualistic way to create a new liturgy. The full collective artwork includes 40 performative acts, alluding to biblical tests or trials, a wandering, leading to a theologically enlightened hierarchal perception whereby gender egalitarianism is met and integrated into spiritual life. The documenting domestic activities via GPS is translated to vector programs and laser printed on large (approximately 32”x48”), translucent acrylic. These present a visual language accounting for unpaid labor found in the home. I intend to reframe perception through formative reinvention, a taking of the mundane existence motherhood can bring and transforming it, allowing an altered and divergent path. Topic maternal place matricentric 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 Victoria L. Smits https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/ca6fb8eb11353e66ea1d5699ca542a25.jpg 7dcc0c66220d42f21756c6dc7bf14814 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.verastankovic.com" target="_blank">https://www.verastankovic.com/</a> Medium sculpture installation photography collage urban intervention performance art object sculpture photography writing interdisciplinary Location The location of the interview Ljubljana Slovenia Europe Artist Statement I am fascinated by transformation processes. I observe transforming spaces, economy, environment, cities, work, cells, bodies, knowledge, history, countries, roles, education, technology, relationships, selves, languages. Becoming and being a mother is for me all about transformation. My first solo exhibition in the Zepter Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia was called Metamorphosis . The objects I made used banal everyday objects (plastic bags) and transformed them into an immense vagina or into umbilical cords falling from the ceiling. This story from 1999 was a intimate story of separating oneself from the primary family and a story about the everyday and the environment.  From 2006 to 2012 my partner and I went through a series of unsuccessful IVFs and several miscarriages. I did several sculptural works that documented this part of our lives - like the Womb exhibited in 2010 in Museum de Ceramica de l’Alcora, Spain. It was just about the pain, I guess. In 2012, I was invited to make an urban intervention inside the Vesel Garden in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I was three months pregnant with my son and did not know what to expect about the occurring pregnancy. So I did an urban intervention with a participative performance and called this work Embryo garden. It was all about the thin line between life and death of the child to be, but also of the artistic child within myself. My experience as a parent has been both challenging and inspiring for me as an artist. I explored the relationship between the roles of artist and parent in my 2016 exhibition in the Glass Atrium of the City Hall of Ljubljana, called A Thank You Note To the Cleaning Lady. The work that lent its name to the exhibition questions the relation between reproductive, maintenance work and having greater purpose in life. As a whole, the exhibition was born as a product of broken antagonism between being a parent and an artist and of cooperation between the two roles. The installation To Include Everything, Everything, Everything, Absolutely, Absolutely, Everything especially focused on that. And the work The Map is about the child experiencing and learning by himself, and the artist-mother just observing and taking notes. In this process, I sometimes feel as if steeling from him.  Topic play daily life work/life balance parenting domestic artist/mother fertility infertility vagina parent/child collaboration World War II exploring anger cleaning maintenence everyday powerlessness ritual grandmother's 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 Vera Stankovic anger archive artist/mother calendar cleaning collage daily life domestic everyday fertility grandmother infertility installation maintenance Maps motherhood parent/child collaboration parenting plastic play Poljanska powerlessness Pozega-Slavonia pregnancy readymade ritual sculpture Serbia Slovenia toys vagina womb work/life balance World War II writing https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/c1927f55ef05957cd408c27cd35fd392.jpg cca76c1bfaa630729371fb1077be7282 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://cpacphoto.org/unveiled/">https://cpacphoto.org/unveiled/</a> Gallery Colorado Photographic Arts Center Location The location of the interview Denver Colorado Curator Samantha Johnston Curatorial Statement The Colorado Photographic Arts Center presents Unveiled – an exhibition of three photographic projects that address overlooked aspects of women’s sexuality, motherhood, and reproductive health. In her series Parturition, Lindsey Beal documents vintage gynecological tools dating back to the 1700’s, uncovering a complicated history of medicine fraught with sexism and racism. Megan Jacobs’ project “Hidden Mothers” references Victorian-era portraiture of mothers and children, offering a contemporary metaphor for the unrecognized work of motherhood. And in Wired, Sarah Sudhoff photographs sex research devices used at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction—challenging us to separate emotionless scientific inquiry from notions of sexual taboos. Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/369" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lindsey Beal</a> Megan Jacobs <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Sudhoff</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) May 17, 2019 – June 29, 2019 Topic sexuality motherhood reproductive health Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Unveiled https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/efb089d6db639d1e1b69845894aed6bc.jpg d2b396e03bd3f2ca2373a0763bc60406 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://tulika.art" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Http://tulika.art</a> Medium acrylic paint mixed media Location The location of the interview Chicago Artist Statement Combining my 4year old daughter’s sketches, my painting and my mother’s crochet-- I am working on these mixed media works during shelter in place. During the pandemic- we are coping with our ennui, anxiety and frustration through making art- my daughter and me in the US and her grandmother in India. I need for this work to document these days and remind us that no matter where we are physically on the planet, our sentiments and frustrations are real. Our losses, anxiety and fears are real. Our love, albeit virtual, is real. I hope these works will foster a dialogue of commonality of experience across the globe. These works can be part of a larger narrative about motherhood, migration and belonging. Topic infertility immigrant child-rearing pandemic collaboration across borders between my mother daughter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tulika Ladsariya Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.troycolby.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.troycolby.com</a> Medium photography Artist Statement Troy was born in rural Kansas in 1975 and currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas. His work and research explores the delicate balance of family, fatherhood and the outcome of the family photo album. Motivated by intellectual and psychological inquiry of these intimate topics, Troy photographs his own family as a means of understanding the emotional qualities that come along with fatherhood. It has become his means of understanding while creating an honest interpretation of the idealized family album. He received his BFA from the Academy of Art University in 2015 and his MFA in 2019. His work has been seen in Black and White Magazine, Lenscratch, Feature Shoot, Plates to Pixels, The Photo Review, Fraction Magazine, Der Greif and FotoRoom. Topic fatherhood parenting childhood family documentary Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Troy Colby 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/9188177ba67616c39853f285bfee80d5.png 9ed2f6ab28fea78d54fe38840f800a7c Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.tracymarietaylor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.tracymarietaylor.com</a> Location The location of the interview Chicago USA Artist Statement Cried Milk (2018 - present) Cried Milk uses data collected from a smartphone app to visualize what it looks like to exclusively breast pump for twelve months. Each visualization represents one month of data. The blue rings represent one hour, the change in value tracks the hours of sunlight and darkness, while the change in saturation indicates broad weather patterns (sunny versus cloudy). The straight lines each represent one day and the yellow circular bursts represent each 30-minute pumping session. The size of each circle correlates to the quantity of milk collected. This project connect to broader cultural conversations about motherhood. As infertility rates continue to skyrocket, many women experience motherhood through a similar, clinical lens. My hope is that this project gives voice to the millions of women who have struggled to become mothers and honor the under-valued labor of motherhood. The Shape of Your Sounds (2017 - present) Using audio surveillance technologies provided by a commercial baby monitor, I capture my baby’s cries and translate that data into visual shapes. The sound waves loop back on themselves in a 360-degree rotation. The result is vaguely reminiscent of the shape of a flower; each burst of sound looks like a petal. The initial purpose for this project was to try to find visual patterns that could be more easily interpreted. However, I quickly realized this was a fool’s game; the visual patterns are as indiscernible as his sounds. Therefore, what remains is a visual record of a moment in time; a beautiful reminder of those sleepless nights when the world was comprised of just my son and myself. Sleep Regression (2016 – 2017) “Sleep Regression” is a series of intimate works that were painted in the space of nap times and record the moments I watched my son while working in my home studio. The paintings’ small size and blue palette reproduce the video format and color, mimicking the tension between the close, private space of sleep and the distance created by the act of surveillance. The effects are eerie and disturbing images of rest. Lingering in the unconscious state of sleep the baby’s body looks lifeless. Are these representations of a sleeping child or a fetus? These works are thus unusual documents of baby’s first year of life–odd surrogates for the family photo album. The gray-scale paintings, on the other hand, reinforce the reference to the sonogram, creating layers of distance. The painting series thus portrays an interesting paradox: the increasing stylistic abstraction chronicles my catharsis after years of fertility struggles as I move further away from my past sorrows, yet the works also reflect a turn inward and becomes more specific to my body (womb) and more private. The delineated forms in black, white, and grey look like the thermal imaging of a birth–drapery resembles the uterine wall, a dark ground morphs into a vaginal opening. Topic abstraction aesthetics art artist mother baby baby food bodily transformation breast milk breast pump breastfeeding breastfeeding advocacy breastmilk care care taking care work caregiving caretaking communication conceptual art contemporary art creative practice creative practice and family life cyborg daily life daily routine daily tasks data data tracking data visualization documentation domestic life domesticity early motherhood everyday activities exhaustion family and career feeding female body female experience feminism feminist feminist art food food systems gender equality gender roles good mother grief growth guilt healthcare human body infant care invisible labor isolation lactation let down reflex loss maternal experience maternal healthcare maternal time medical care milk milk jug money mother and child mother artist mother guilt mother work mother/child relationship motherhood motherhood and economic context motherhood as art practice mothering motherwork mundane details nature vs. technology nursing nursing mothers parental leave personal personal boundaries personal experience personal space pumping record keeping remembering repetition repetitive tasks representations of motherhood research and art sleep deprivation social norms son technology time unpaid labor visualizations women's health women's identity audio waves archive care labor crying data visualization documentation emotional space infants and sleep language language development sleep training Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2018- “Fits and Starts,” Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2018- “The Shape of Your Sounds” (solo), Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL Medium acylic flashe sculpture digital Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tracy Marie Taylor 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/5b6479bc670611dd2068d646b3e545d1.jpg fbbfe17db8c24291692ec96563047710 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.toritinsley.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">toritinsley.com</a> Topic motherhood breastfeeding caregiving hugs Medium painting Artist Statement My paintings and sculptures explore the all-consuming love in caring for another. Hugging bodies, dark humor, and the use of exaggerated facial features allow for the expression of the layered emotions experienced in such close proximity; feelings including joy, fear, anxiety, and adoration. These works not only serve as enduring monuments to the fleeting moments between two reliant beings, but they also highlight how painting can expose the essence of such intimacy. Location The location of the interview Atlanta Georgia Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Tori Tinsley Title A name given to the resource Tori Tinsley https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/7e7c2aa9e71ed4ad156a24d4df100bbc.jpeg f1889d497f340537eadbc9b9e4e56fdc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.tonyameeks.com">Www.tonyameeks.com</a> Topic Soulship parenting / art parenting Medium performance art Artist Statement Tonya Meeks is a performance artists creating show with her two year old son. Location The location of the interview Marina del Ray California 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 Tonya Meeks California Marina del Ray performance United States https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/94cae9053762c69d9739339a4abd9155.png 0eea4b659b44db97d608db45ab70e74d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Luce Irigaray Publisher Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 13 978-3319392219 ISBN 10 3319392212 Topic philosophy feminism birth phenomenology social philosophy psychoanalysis Date of Publication February 19, 2017 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource To Be Born: Genesis of a New Human Being birth feminism Irigaray Luce Irigaray phenomenology philosophy psychoanalysis social philosophy https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/85ca2144d7c2477891273a1f95beb09e.jpg eccbfef859457c83941333b469543b90 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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. Topic motherhood birth blood womb yoni breastfeeding children grandmothers sex symbolism myth feminism Medium acrylic ink collage watercolor mixed media fiber wheatpaste Artist Statement Tiana Traffas is currently creating a series titled Arcana Ma. Arcana meaning secrets or mysteries, Ma as in mother or motherhood: mysteries of motherhood. This ever unfolding body of work explores the taboos and experiences of motherhood through archetype, personal experience, mythology and symbolism from the ancient goddess cultures to modern-day mamas. It also includes work that views the other phases of womanhood, maiden to crone, and the life-death-rebirth cycle through the len of motherhood. Arcana Ma only exists because of her daughter's birth. The artist's initiation into motherhood cracked her wide open into a psychedelic and potent transformation, leaving her reborn on an emotional and spiritual level. The act of birth and the continuous trip of motherhood is the inspiration for this series. Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. WHY MOM Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Tiana Traffas Title A name given to the resource Tiana Traffas https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/9be937dc98a2a8560625aa4ee4f20f00.jpeg 2d03fd5be707ce4ad68c505a5d2e91fc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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/TheresaBradbury" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.axisweb.org/P/TheresaBradbury</a> Topic femininity gender roles abjection activism adulthood art artist/mother artists with children ,binary tensions body capitalism censorship mother/daughter collaboration performativity patriarchy contemporary art practice feminism feminist theory gender norms Medium performance live art photography sculpture Artist Statement Artist Statement – Theresa Bradbury My current practice is an exploration of ideas about the feminine being a social construct – an artificial masquerade. The female as living as her own spectator, the female as always accompanied by her own image. My concerns surrounding the masquerade and performative nature of femininity and the display and objectification of the female body as commodity within Capitalist society. Utilising a live art, film, photographic, performance and sculptural practice to reinforce positive feminist perspectives on the female body. To subvert the prevailing tropes of femininity as prescribed through a patriarchal lens. Investigating questions relating to the body in site, alongside themes of representation and gender, exploring and interrogating social boundaries and acceptable codes of exposure. The appropriate/inappropriate dichotomy, particularly in relation to femininity. The idea that the female body can be acted upon and coerced by external forces must be disrupted to reframe the body as active and autonomous. If the body is a surface to be inscribed upon by cultural and societal forces, what is real? My body as alienated, as belonging to the other. Constant awareness of my body, not as it is for me, but for the other. Femininity formed through the constant surveillance of ourselves against others through the mirror image, a device used to measure yourself against. My work references an anti-aesthetic, a disruption of the social and symbolic ordering of the female body, exploring a rejection of woman as idealised surface and questioning and disrupting the idea of a proper social body. Confronting the viewer with the abjection of the body, refusing containment and allowing seepage and immersion with bodily fluids. My practice attempts to erode the fetishishtic dominant structures of patriarchal Capitalism. By presenting the abjectness of the body, the work both solicits and repels the viewer and refuses the link to commodity culture. The construction of femininity as temporal and manipulable, an artifice, what constitutes femininity and who draws the boundaries? My work subverts the socially dictated artificial femininity represented through media imagery. Femininity which is something that must be purchased and imposed artificially upon the surface of the female and a radical acceptance of mess, fluids and flesh are part of feminist resistance. Location The location of the interview Shrewsbury England United Kingdom Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Theresa Bradbury Title A name given to the resource Theresa Bradbury https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/87b714cb32d42c3fccf10b0058bdbf74.jpeg a2bf1fc394cd9d3822880c1fcd14eab4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://onca.org.uk/whats-on/next/selkie-weaving-wild-feminine/" target="_blank">https://onca.org.uk/whats-on/next/selkie-weaving-wild-feminine/</a> Curator Alice Clayton Gallery O N C A Curatorial Statement Imogen Di Sapia reflects on the folklore of The Selkie through craft. This body of textile work is an exploration of motherhood and perinatal mental health through weaving, using the symbols and themes within the story to communicate the experience. The exhibition also considers ethical textiles and the use of materials and methods that consider animal welfare and the environment. Location The location of the interview Brighton United Kingdom Artists Imogen Di Sapia Lily Waugh Gladys Paulus Joanna Hruby Caroline Bond Topic motherhood mental health perinatal mental health postpartum mental health weaving textile Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Selkie; Weaving & The Wild Feminine A Textile Exhibition by Imogen Di Sapia Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Imogen Di Sapia Brighton mental health perinatal mental health postpartum mental health postpartum health textile United Kingdom weaving https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/609a190ad2dca2061279be5f5320163a.png 3035b36613921dab007e04f3953815ab Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Nancy Chodorow Publisher University of California Press State of Publication California Country of Publication USA Date of Publication July 1979 ISBN 13 9780520038929 ISBN 10 0520038924 Topic mothering motherhood sociology psychoanalysis feminist theory Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender motherhood mothering psychoanalysis reproduction sociology https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/ac9ada459eedc7f92d52bbd8eb6579c7.jpg 8fdae41e323eb45ad2dd88a7155e6f8e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Ann Crittenden Publisher Picador City of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Date of Publication November 23, 2010 ISBN 13 978-0312655402 ISBN 10 0312655401 Topic maternal work motherhood motherhood and economic context economics mothers care work Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued care labor care work caretaking economics economy and caregiving motherhood motherhood and economic context https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/933a0b0c93289a814f31ed9a6adc50ba.png 64f2acaebbc039863b2f41ca8687567a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Publisher Ariadne's Thread Date of Publication November 15, 2015 Topic child free childlessness by choice childlessness by chance prejudice against childless women childless women women without children feminist art Author <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/250" target="_self">Miriam Schaer</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 Presence of Their Absence 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/0b40dff0a9911515d0cc7fb1714c6a09.png 4038b628e268d5c6f24fb0970efdc00c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Ireland Topic parenting artists residencies precarity caretaking reproductive labor mother father time money children family feminist home creche domestic labor About The Mothership Project is a network of parenting artists in Ireland. The Mothership Project aims to support parenting artists in the development of their practice and to encourage arts organisations to make the art world a more inclusive place for artists with children. The Mothership Project wants to see societal and institutional change for parents in the art world. Being a parent can be challenging at the best of times, but with precarious circumstances and incomes, and uncertain futures parenting artists can be doubly challenged within a society that is lacking many supports for those with children. Organization Website <a href="https://themothershipproject.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://themothershipproject.wordpress.com/</a> <a href="https://themothershipproject.wordpress.com/2019/05/12/satellite-findings-publication-launch-16th-may-2019/">SATTELITE FINDINGS - Publication</a> Organzation Director The Mothership Project is currently managed collectively by four artists : Leah Hillard, Michelle Browne, Seoidín O’Sullivan and Tara Kennedy. They organise and administer the workings of the network. There are many artist parents who have contributed to this project and The Mothership exists through the collective effort and generosity of the many creative minds and caring bodies that have willed it into being. Leah Hillard Michelle Brown Seoidín O’Sullivan Tara Kennedy Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Mothership Project 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/4ddde78f3e452bd3190ff6b4ddc128a2.jpg bc31c02f049b6c46d1f985dbc4234296 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Bexhill United Kingdom Topic motherhood mental health artist mother maternal health About Mother lode: a principal vein or zone of gold or silver ore, or colloquially the real/imaginary origin of something valuable or in great abundance. [Wikipedia] The aim of this project is to extract the gold from challenging experiences of motherhood by giving opportunities for artists who are mothers to work with those who may be experiencing mental health difficulties as a result of motherhood. This involves a series of art & writing workshops at the De La Warr Pavilion in 2019 led by artist-mothers for a group of mothers referred by Recovery Partners, resulting in a series of podcasts & publication of their work, which will raise awareness of the hidden issues surrounding motherhood & mental health. The project aims to give voice to a diverse group of mothers at all stages of motherhood, whose experiences may not otherwise be heard & connect with professional women artists exploring motherhood. Anyone who identifies as a mother is welcome. The project is coordinated by artist Xaverine MA Bates. Organization Website <a href="https://themotherlodeproject.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://themotherlodeproject.com/</a> Organzation Director Xaverine M A Bates Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Lode Project 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/4970b0c63c5c1e724f4cf52a96cada58.png 02286fa8df989abaaa8277bfccc84c22 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Dorothy Dinnerstein Publisher <a href="http://www.otherpress.com/">Other Press</a> City of Publication New York City State of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Date of Publication June 17, 1999 ISBN 13 978-1892746252 ISBN 10 1892746255 Topic psychoanalysis child care gender roles caretaking care work maternal work Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise care work caregiving caretaking child care gender roles psychoanalysis https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/ada51dd5e24c72999af6748c0d35279f.png bcffe147fb052182f998c83b5cb15c36 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Editor <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank">Myrel Chernick</a> Jennie Klein Publisher Demeter Press City of Publication Bradford Province of Publication Ontario Country of Publication Canada Date of Publication May 11, 2011 ISBN 13 978-0986667121 ISBN 10 0986667129 Topic motherhood art mother artists embodied motherhood ideology of motherhood visual culture art and mothering caretaking Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art artist mothers embodied motherhood feminism motherhood mothering mothers mothers and art visual culture https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/999134d5825f1039f60fb6fc638c0abd.png d63176deebd5f6956827970db1de22c3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 United Kingdom About The M Word includes ‘The M Wall’ a collection of works dedicated to the subject of perinatal mental health and its interconnection with Art. The works included in the collection will not only be a visual depiction of the artists’ struggles, ways of coping and coming to terms with their personal maternal experiences, they will also raise the question of how art can support, reinforce and promote good mental health. The aim of this collection is to tour across the country in a variety of exhibition venues, conferences and seminars, with the intention of raising awareness of and opening up a conversation around the subjects and issues depicted within the works. It will form the basis for a growing collection and going forward, artists are able to apply to submit works into this collection by sending an email to desperateartwivesproject@gmail.com. The M wall artists are Helen Sargeant, Rachel Fallon, Caroline Kelley, Lauren Mclaughlin, Laura Fooks, Katy Howe, Amy Dignam, Debbie Lee, and Tracey Kershaw. Organization Website <a href="https://themword-daw.weebly.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://themword-daw.weebly.com/</a> Organzation Director Amy Dignam Exhibition Website <a href="https://themword-daw.weebly.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://themword-daw.weebly.com/</a> Gallery One Paved Court Gallery Curatorial Statement The M Word includes ‘The M Wall’ a collection of works dedicated to the subject of perinatal mental health and its interconnection with Art. The works included in the collection will not only be a visual depiction of the artists’ struggles, ways of coping and coming to terms with their personal maternal experiences, they will also raise the question of how art can support, reinforce and promote good mental health. The aim of this collection is to tour across the country in a variety of exhibition venues, conferences and seminars, with the intention of raising awareness of and opening up a conversation around the subjects and issues depicted within the works. It will form the basis for a growing collection and going forward, artists are able to apply to submit works into this collection by sending an email to desperateartwivesproject@gmail.com. The M wall artists are Helen Sargeant, Rachel Fallon, Caroline Kelley, Lauren Mclaughlin, Laura Fooks, Katy Howe, Amy Dignam, Debbie Lee, and Tracey Kershaw. Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/97" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paula Chambers</a> Katy Howe Leni Dothan <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/48" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tracey Kershaw</a> Sophia Marinkov Jones Leanne Pearce <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megan Wynne</a> Dawn Yow Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) May 2 - May 12, 2019 Curator <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amy Dignam</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 M Word 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/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/74a4a3a0e20982315a0ee1f99c82dfc0.jpg a359993c8b3acf50a29271e7176845f7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Massimiliano Gioni Publisher Skira Date of Publication April 5, 2016 ISBN 13 9788857228600 ISBN 10 8857228606 Topic iconography of motherhood maternity visual culture art history Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Great Mother: Women, Maternity, and Power in Art and Visual Culture, 1900-2015 art art history ida applebroog leonora carrington louise bourgeois magdalena abakanowicz maternity motherhood mothers visual culture https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/6879e5262cb9e377c7e3d58fdff4ff99.jpg 4aba0e661f5c73f7e77b4ce49e157512 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.masseyklein.com/the-end-the-beginning">https://www.masseyklein.com/the-end-the-beginning</a> Gallery Massey Klein Gallery Location The location of the interview New York USA Curator Ryan Massey Curatorial Statement Massey Klein is pleased to present The End & The Beginning, a two-person exhibition exploring themes of life and death through works on paper by Alice Gibney and Sarah Irvin.   Alice Gibney’s illustrations in The End & The Beginning are humorous explorations of humanoid and animal figures.  Her characters twist, rise, dance, and praise; their movement captured through frames as if they are sequences in a stop-motion film.  The charcoal, color pencil, and ink on paper drawings range in scale from 1:1 ratio of human proportions to small, intimate sketches. Gibney’s works were created in response to a sudden and unexpected loss of a loved one.  Her figurative drawings began to blur and erode as the artist’s emotional life and identity spread itself across the paper in a performative gesture of mourning and reflection.  Celtic myths, slapstick humor, and Samuel Beckett became the beacons of light that shifted the artist’s perspective and made room for grief to evolve into a new tale. And so these characters were born to tell a new story: one wrought with paradoxes and clumsiness. They belong to a world that is not ours, but has the flavor of somewhere familiar. A tent, a child’s playtime sculpture, synthetic wigs, and exaggerated clothing cover their frames and become their bodies. Gibney is a Canadian artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.  This is her second exhibition with the Gallery. Sarah Irvin’s graphite drawings on paper record the experience of new life and motherhood.  At various times while breastfeeding, the artist created drawings that codified her daughter's action of eating. Loops go up with a suck and round down with a swallow, transcribing the unreadable language of a baby at the breast.  Also while breastfeeding, Irvin used a digital program to track the start time, breast side, and duration of each feeding.  From this immense amount of data, the artist created an interactive sculpture resembling a card catalogue that allows the viewer to not only review different sessions, but physically acknowledge the significant amount time and energy needed for an often unacknowledged task.     In the artist’s rocking chair series, the act of caring for a baby is codified as a form of mark-making. Pieces of graphite hung from the underside of Irvin’s glider rocking chair and created marks on a piece of paper attached to the stationary base. The series began when her daughter was born and was completed the day she turned one. Anyone who used the rocking chair during the first year of the child’s life participated in the creation of the works.  In addition to the original works on paper, the Gallery will release a limited print edition of the first and last breastfeeding and rocking chair sessions as well as a small edition of breastfeeding record logs for the collector to “complete” on their own. Irvin is an American artist who lives and works in Richmond, Virginia.  This is her first exhibition with the Gallery.  Artists Alice Gibney Sarah Irvin Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) January 11 - February 17, 2019 Topic breastfeeding rocking chairs infant care parenting data visualization Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 End & The Beginning breastfeeding data visualization infant care New York rocking chair USA 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/627f38aa621b2ba2eeb28f54797dac5c.jpg 64e7f28a1fe1b2ba09c1e9d4be957b25 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://mfgallery.net/BFart/BFart.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://mfgallery.net/BFart/BFart.html</a> Gallery MF Gallery Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Curator Leigh Pennebaker Martina Secondo Russo Curatorial Statement In honor of International Women's Month, MF Gallery is hosting an art show that explores the joys, challenges, and body-politics of breastfeeding and motherhood in the 21st century. Part of the proceeds will benefit La Leche League. Co-Curated by Leigh Pennebaker, (founder of @breastfeedingart feed on instagram) and Martina Secondo Russo, (owner of MF Gallery) this show will feature artwork in a variety of media from two dozen international artists, including Nicoz Balboa, Christa David, Jess Dobkin, Debbies Drummond, Marina Font, Geertje Geertsma, Aimee Gilmore, Jenna Gribbon, Samantha Hahn, Sigal Arad Inbar, Kasey Jones, Raeleen Kao, Lucy Knisley, Rachel Marcotte, Tara McPherson, Anna Melo, Jenny Middleton, April Rose, Martina Secondo Russo, Debra Sheldon, SWOON, Lexx Valdez, Anna Wiggins, Megan Wynne and more. Today, many female artists are moving beyond the ancient Madonna archetype and creating fresh and exciting work using their firsthand experience with breastfeeding to explore what it means to be women, mothers, and feminists. These artists are making work that celebrates the naturalness and normalcy of breastfeeding and pushes back at a culture that penalizes and censors women’s bodies at every turn. Breastfeeding can be one of the most beautiful and fulfilling journeys in life, but women who wish to nurse their babies often face an uphill battle in a culture that doesn’t provide adequate postpartum support, and in which women are constantly judged and criticized no matter what they do. Even street harassment takes specific form, as strangers admonish mothers to ‘cover up’ while breastfeeding in public spaces. Artists are harnessing such experiences and using them as fuel to create while deepening the discourse around mothers, babies, and our mammal bodies. A portion of the proceeds from artwork sales will be donated to La Leche League of Brooklyn, the local chapter of La Leche League International, whose mission is to help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education, and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother. Artists Nicoz Balboa Christa David Jess Dobkin Debbies Drummond Marina Font Geertje Geertsma <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/298" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aimee Gilmore</a> Jenna Gribbon Samantha Hahn Sigal Arad Inbar <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/367">Kasey Jones</a> Raeleen Kao Lucy Knisley Rachel Marcotte Tara McPherson Anna Melo Jenny Middleton April Rose Martina Secondo Russo Debra Sheldon SWOON Lexx Valdez Anna Wiggins <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megan Wynne</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) March 10 - April 22, 2018 Topic breastfeeding motherhood babies breastfeededing advocacy public 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 The Art of Breastfeeding: Modern Narratives of Motherhood breastfeeding breastfeeding advocacy mothers public breastfeeding public space 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/536c287ce65bb2dee7e2788bf1b8409f.jpg 7f2daa478e1bc32e24d4aa5c21c9051e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.susannedutoit.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.susannedutoit.com</a> Medium painting drawing Location The location of the interview United Kingdom Artist Statement The subjects in most of my paintings of Motherhood are my daughters, who now have young children of their own. They are dealing with the same tensions and sacrifices that I did. My work are mostly intimate scenes, and have a strong undercurrent of exhaustion and melancholy reflecting the epic, amazing and difficult nature of motherhood itself. Running through them is the conflict between the incredible beauty of new life, and the sacrifices made by the mother to enable it. I am able to dig deeply into these feelings because, in a sense, I am reliving my own experiences through them. Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Motherhood - Felix and Spear Gallery, London 2017 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Susanne du Toit https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/4c91a6b059c79f2c4e269fb0fe626714.png acbd78ac926a511bbfea295ad57e525e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.susanmerrick.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.susanmerrick.co.uk</a> Medium live art installations film photography Location The location of the interview London United Kingdom Topic invisible private labour feminism domestic violence domestic abuse women women artists time restraints production private sphere language power communication artist residency support friendship aerobics semaphore sign language activism community voices politics autonomy empowerment gender social relations power relations artist voice Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. A Series of Events Two, Princes Hall, Aldershot A Series of Events One, Platform 1 Gallery, Wandsworth, London Inside Out 2018 Leyden Gallery DAW Public Takeover 2018, Bank, London Kunstal 45 Summer Exhibition 2017, Den Helder, The Netherlands DAW Public Takeover 2017, Outside Tate Modern, London DAW Midsummer Madness, Leyden Gallery (June) DAW Performance Takeover, Leyden Gallery (April) MotherHouse 2016 FiLiArt Exhibition, Iklectik, 2014 Artist Statement Susan Merrick is a multi-disciplinary Artist. She is interested in conversations, language and communication, in questioning whose voices are heard, and in the access and spaces that can challenge or facilitate this. With a background in BSL/English Interpreting and Sociology she makes work, projects and collaborations exploring these themes, utilising a context-based mix of social engagement, live art, public installations, film making, collections and documentation. With relation to the maternal, she is researching through practice language and social support/attitudes and the power this has on maternal mental states, bodily autonomy and status. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Susan Merrick https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/62a3dc14b88970e2234d3f440ffd015c.jpg e7b2c486ae15375c0bf44bdc0a381c78 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.susandonath.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.susandonath.com/</a> Medium Farbfotografie auf Alu-Dibond Location The location of the interview Dresden Germany Artist Statement Im Kontext des Lockdowns im Frühjahr 2020 mit der Schließung der Kindertagesstätten, Schulen habe ich mich als alleinerziehende Mutter und Soloselbstständige in der Situation befunden 2 Kinder durchgehend mit Homeschooling zu betreuen und zu versorgen. Parallel dazu habe ich versucht meine künstlerische Tätigkeit bzw. Selbstständigkeit aufrecht zu erhalten. In dieser Situation habe ich mich in die primäre Rolle als „Mutter“ verordnet gefühlt. Topic mutterschaft Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Susan Donath https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/fcc6c722e03b5de8bf5841444c442389.jpg 4a16c6fa73551b4b0f919db424da4303 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Anne Mavor Contributor The author of an article within an anthology Christine Eagon Publisher Rowanberry Books Date of Publication October 15, 1996 ISBN 13 978-0965372404 ISBN 10 0965372405 Topic motherhood artist mothers mothers personal narrative motherhood and art 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 Strong Hearts, Inspired Minds: 21 Artists Who Are Mothers Tell Their Stories artist mothers mother artists mother as artist motherhood mothers https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/3761609bc349e26c589bf55508c5ae17.jpg d1cb7be071baff8802671bae06bbed80 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://vimeo.com/168804441" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://vimeo.com/168804441</a> Medium film video Location The location of the interview London United Kingdom Sofia Bulgaria Artist Statement Ever since Stiliyana fell pregnant in 2015, she has been exclusively interested in the maternal-female body as a ‘subject-in-process’. The methods used for the examination is taking the woman as both the surveyor and the surveyed within her entity as two constituent, yet always distinct elements within her identity as a woman. ‘Women watch themselves being looked at’. During the birth of her daughter Stelena, her artistic focus took more institutional direction and started questioning the definition of labour during the negotiations between the woman and institution. A question which arose during the birth was whether the woman’s labour begins when she is officially admitted to the hospital and agreed by the personnel and whether the maternal experience is filtered through a screen of social influences. Her film ‘Parturition’, shot whilst giving birth at St Thomas’s hospital used the personal processes of both labour and birth as instruments to trace their appearances as a journey outside memory and rational thought, to a place that supplies material for the production of meaning that remains forever out of reach, but turning it into a live project by directing and acting in a diversification of roles. The artist believes that the processes of both birth and labour are the transformative events through which the birthing mother would be able to recognise, consequently materialise her subjectivity. The conceptual division which the woman experiences during birth giving creates a space of progression. Progression from the internal feminine environment of the womb to the external space of life itself. The consciousness becomes the expanding womb as the woman turns into an extension.  Stiliyana continues to be interested in the theme of deinstitutionalisation. She would like the birthing mother to be turned from a medical object into a celebratory matriarchal reproductive economy. Birth is neither a disease, nor an illness. In fact, it is the most beautiful battle which leads to even more beautiful experience, the one of motherhood. Topic reproduction birth womb medicalization of birth labor and delivery subjectivity 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/299" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Left Overs</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 Stiliyana Minkovska birth Bulgaria childbirth England film labor and delivery London medicalization of birth reproduction Sofia subjectivity video womb https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/9a8a04e6c1472cf5f1219b4b303c9d2f.jpg ebdad4b3164e2eaed7b2281a99493412 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.stefaniekoseff.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.stefaniekoseff.com/</a> Medium video installation Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement “I AM HERE YOU ARE SAFE” is an interactive video installation, an ongoing diary of motherhood, exploring the emotional and societal contradictions of becoming and finding one's place as a mother. Using footage of my own children and archival footage, each “video box” traces a theme and explores that theme through fragments of images, incomplete thoughts, constant interruptions: simulations of life with small children. Topic motherhood pregnancy birth baby monitors sleep labor and delivery food allergies illness hospital children and safety Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Unfinished Business Art Show May 2019 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stefanie Koseff Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.staceystormes.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.staceystormes.com</a> Medium interdisciplinary video new media 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 Stacey Stormes https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/0c2b7d439ff6fb3ab3dd2ea0ca9e2522.png e714b9de3399f2603503397760c22e98 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Edinburgh Scotland About Spilt Milk is a not-for-profit arts organisation who support and promote the work of artist-mothers. Founded by Lauren McLaughlin, Spilt Milk is a curated platform showcasing the beautiful, exciting, diverse and groundbreaking artwork being produced by International female artists who are practicing art alongside raising children. As well as providing opportunities for artists to exhibit work, gain exposure and sell work, we are also creating links with flexible/affordable childcare models in Scotland and the rest of the UK in order to make it easier for artists with children to create new work and sustain their careers. We aim to facilitate an exciting programme of exhibitions, events and workshops which will create a supportive and collaborative community for female artists and their children to fully engage with the contemporary art world. Organization Website <a href="https://www.spiltmilkgallery.com/" target="_blank">https://www.spiltmilkgallery.com/</a> Organzation Director Lauren McLaughlin Topic childcare non-profit gallery online gallery Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Spilt Milk Gallery childcare Edinburg motherhood motherhood and art practice Scotland https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/15aad49e420ccd4485a575b44d3513e5.jpg 4875a6dfe078764cdd1ef67404c61393 https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/01936cbd461da771a6351d92f90b0bfd.jpg 88f282060b38b177933c072306b5c20b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.sofiaroncero.com">www.sofiaroncero.com</a> <a href="http://www.sofiaroncerostudio.tumblr.com">www.sofiaroncerostudio.tumblr.com</a> Topic intervention on maternity objects Artist Residency in Motherhood Medium video photography photocopies performance Artist Statement Multidisciplinary artist, focused on the search for the limits of identity. Location The location of the interview Madrid Spain Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Sofía Roncero Title A name given to the resource Sofia Roncero artist residency in motherhood maternity objects objects photocopies photography video https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/599526a8ed2893fdd7084bfdbb515955.jpg d1fc6ab3f0957dfc5878b30b1e498021 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.shwetabist.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.shwetabist.com</a> Medium digital color photography Location The location of the interview New York Artist Statement Rooted in love, my work investigates the intimate relationship between mother and child and the reciprocity of mothering within this relationship. I draw attention to the emotional labor of mothering and the ambivalence often felt by mothers in their role as carers— aspects often overlooked in mainstream representations of motherhood. Topic maternal subjectivity emotional labor of mothering how it feels to be a mother the psychological experience of being a 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 Shweta Bist 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/85da3d5caa0395e78e0dc1585b14cde5.jpg 114eabbc295bbdeb9549e36a50513847 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.sherfickart.me">www.sherfickart.me</a> Topic motherhood medication post-partum depression anti-depressants family family history medical care medicine Medium mixed media installation textile mixed media textile Artist Statement As an artist, I never identified myself with my family. My having a family was just a part of my biology, driving relations and the cause of both joy and sorrow. All of these identifiers caused ambiguity within me. Constriction, restraint, joy with sorrow, and invisibility were the products of my familial experiences. Unfortunately, this separatist attitude developed into a denial of my complete person. I AM a woman, a daughter, a granddaughter, an aunt, a sister, a wife, and a mother. I carry the practices of many generations- messages of motherhood and womanhood in my very veins and soul. As I began an archeological dig into my familial ties, I re- discovered and acknowledged - for the first time - my family history and existence. My works now include the very ambiguity I feel over this issue. The use of domestic and childhood materials and constructions of fabric and vintage apparel reveal the paradox of family history – myths, storytelling, truth, lies, misunderstandings, and, above all, the difficulty of unconditionally loving one another. By questioning what family ties mean to me, I offer a record of one artist’s journey into acceptance and the embrace of the familial spirit I have denied for years. My work now reflects the depolarization of my familial/individual self. My art intends to question the roles of women and women artists. My use of domestic and childhood materials and constructions of fabric and prescription bottles reveal the paradox of the life of this woman artist. I have embraced my love of the color pink and the vintage teal that stands for home and comfort and I celebrate the drugs which allow me to create and thrive. By questioning what femininity and pharmaceuticals means to me, I hope to offer a record of one-woman artist’s journey into acceptance and the embrace of the feminine spirit I have denied for years. Recent works visualize the depolarization of my artist/feminine self.  In <a href="https://www.sherfickart.me/#/artgallery/a-paxil-a-day/">A PAXIL A DAY</a>, I chose to display the medications themselves in clear, pharmacy style mylar bags. Hung plainly on the wall in a grid pattern, I make my medical and emotional history transparent to the viewer. I am not ashamed of needing the prescriptions, I am proud of myself for seeking and developing a regime for well-being. A PAXIL A DAY serves as an announcement and/or ‘bulletin’ board of my status. By celebrating the pharmaceuticals which help me to live and thrive, by being unashamed to live authentically – I hope to alleviate the social prejudice that exists against mothers on medication. In <a href="https://www.sherfickart.me/#/artgallery/coping-skills/">COPING SKILLS,</a> I have confronted and embraced my history of medical issues and my use of anti-anxiety and anti-depression prescriptions. After a practice of collecting all the prescriptions and their bottles since 1997, I chose to crazy quilt them with vintage fabrics utilizing tatting thread in rough, utilitarian stitches. By displaying these bottles (45 which equal one year of medications) on a plain wooden altar with a plexi-mirrored shelf, I celebrate the life I have been able to live due to their remedies. As a result of pharmaceutical intervention, I maintain a well-being of physical and emotional health which allows me to be the best wife, mother, artist, and human I can be. Location The location of the interview Spring Hill Tennessee 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 Sher Fick Title A name given to the resource Sher Fick anti-depressants family family ties installation medication mixed media motherhood postpartum postpartum depression textile https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/1fe1a3fec4884770ddf21b515b500d72.jpg dc326640bbdb90e521591f81798a62ae Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.sheilahwilson.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.sheilahwilson.com</a> Topic research and work interested in domestic and motherhood as expanded field Medium photography video writing Artist Statement "Conflating the miraculous with notions of chance and arbitrariness, Sheilah Wilson’s work alludes to religious motifs from a perspective of a sincere and heartbroken skeptic. It often centers around the empty center, an impossibility that she bravely faces while connecting history, land and personal experience into fluid and surprising actions within her artistic practice." Leeza Meksin for Temporary Contemporary Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Denison University Title A name given to the resource Sheilah Wilson https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/4790f609da5fcfa4e1754c4051f92d34.jpg f49f68f87805dac0a5b293e2d004f6d8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://fazakasgallery.com/portfolio/she-i-la-group-exhibition/" target="_blank">http://fazakasgallery.com/portfolio/she-i-la-group-exhibition/</a> Curator LaTiesha Fazakas Gallery Fazakas Gallery Curatorial Statement An all-female group exhibition to coincide with International Women’s Day 2017, featuring work by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous multidisciplinary contemporary artists. This group of Vancouver-based artist mothers will be presenting a unique collective and heterogeneous artist talk on motherhood and art practice and the intersections between reproductive and artistic labour. The panel discussion, in the form of an informal dialogue, will elaborate a utopian model for a feminist, women-centred, sustainable creation process that integrates life and all of its chaos into a viable and valued way of being and creating without being marginalized by and excluded from the male-dominated art system. Location The location of the interview Fazakas Gallery, 688 E Hastings St, Vancouver, Canada Artists Gabriela Aceves-Sepulveda Matilda Aslizadeh Jeneen Frei Njootli Robyn Laba Natasha McHardy Yvonne Muinde Joyce Ozier Heather Passmore Maria Anna Parolin Rosa Quintana-Lillo Sarah Shamash prOphecy sun Damla Tamer Charlene Vickers Carollyne Yardley Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) March 8, 2017 Topic motherhood Indigenous artists pregnancy reproduction motherhood and art practice artistic 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 SHEILA: Women, Art, and Production Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Heather Passmore artistic labor Indigenous motherhood motherhood motherhood and art practice pregnancy reproduction 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/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/325b469ce503f49b61b4bffcefa97498.jpg 3280aca14321035e21c63571ad6549bc https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/d178c44552ee06ba8e5845e05cf88cc8.jpg 1f7fa106954ca80d0e5eeda9cde4778c https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/0bd888d9653702740b8c93a8a848e676.jpg 72f1ff645354051b7dbd85f22e54e488 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.saskiasaunders.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.saskiasaunders.com</a> <a href="http://www.instagram.com/saskia_saunders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.instagram.com/saskia_saunders</a> Medium Textile sculpture fabric paper acrylic monoprints Location The location of the interview Buckinghamshire United Kingdom Artist Statement Saskia Saunders creates textural artworks using domestic materials, such as string, household linens and paint, that are metaphors for the fragility of life. This triptych of monoprints explores the ebb and flow of Saunders' identity, at times all consumed by motherhood, at times emboldened by it. The print blocks were created from nappy sacks wrapped around baby car seat packaging, the detritus of Saunders' day to day life as a mother. From her travels in Japan, Saunders is inspired by the concepts of negative space (Ma) and embracing imperfections (Wabi-sabi).Creating space in each piece for the mind to focus, notice details and the light between. Saunders' work is strongly linked to a sense of place, the home. Her art is an invitation to experience a calm pause, a moment of contemplation in a world of clutter and noise. Saunders achieved a First Class degree Woven Textiles at the University of Brighton and has worked with woven textile design companies and social enterprises in New York, China and Cambodia. Topic motherhood car seat nappies diapers detritus of motherhood 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/299">Left Overs</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 Saskia Saunders acrylic artist residency in motherhood canvas detritus of motherhood diapers fabric ink monoprints motherhood nappies paper Textile sculpture 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/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/2afcf352d60c40fac06ea025a41a991b.jpg f2bf9540650db5736f0f352441303ab7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.sarahnguyenart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.sarahnguyenart.com</a> Medium artist books Location The location of the interview Missouri Artist Statement There are only two things that I wanted to be in this life, an artist and a mother. My work is inspired by the intricacies of family life and of familial relationships. I use a balance of abstract and representational forms in order to sever the connection between shape and meaning, connecting the viewer instead to the gesture of the brush or cut of the knife, so that s/he becomes complicit in the art. Myths, reverence and refinement of nature, and observance of daily life, are the concepts behind my work, expressing the vulnerability of motherhood and my own obsession of caring for a son with a fatal genetic disease. How Does your Garden Grow? Consist two Jacob Ladder books. One side of the Jacob Ladder’s books contains printed images of original paintings of plants, which have been used to assist abortions, and the other side has information of how each plant was used in abortions. The Jacobs’ ladder format references the child’s toy and has biblical implications. The paintings of the plants are impressions of the plants. They are not botanically accurate paintings. Nor are the instructions, formulas, and information about the plants, any more than vague descriptions of what these plants were used for and how they were used. These books are not meant to guide or instruct women on how to obtain abortions through these particular means. These plants are not viable options to reproductive health. They are meant to only be impressions of the past and predictions for the future. Can be viewed at the Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College. This series is part of my work which addresses political and cultural happenings in the United States of America. The stories and myths of a culture convey a sense of place and a sense of the people who inhabit that place. In this way, visual art that interacts with with a story enters a narrative sphere where it must encounter the local. Topic abortion family life 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 Sarah Nguyen 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 https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/301b46e924fd92f9937194edeb43c81d.jpg 96e8dd7c8f4edc2f450209ddd3eca4ff Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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="sarahdolanart.com">sarahdolanart.com</a> Topic nursing sleep naptime breastfeeding body maternal body Medium fibers printmaking recycled materials Artist Statement I create work during times while my child sleeps, primarily during the midday nap. During this nap-length studio time I use materials on hand, including my clothing and nursing pads, combined with additional elements of embroidery or paint. I use these materials to explore the maternal body, breastfeeding, and the emotional and physical changes that occur throughout the process of being the mother of a young child. Location The location of the interview Alexandria Virginia 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 Sarah Dolan Title A name given to the resource Sarah Dolan body breastfeeding fiber nap naptime nursing printmaking recycled material https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/97e711d81cec991f8e2f487d423ee28f.jpg 1b9226d02746332e8de58a222e97646b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.sarahubbs.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.sarahubbs.com</a> Medium sculpture glass plastic drawing installation mixed-media Location The location of the interview Tuscon Arizona Artist Statement My work is about the crossing of consumer culture with the deeper human instincts of value, care, intimacy, and play. Utilizing the framework of assemblage, I look for traces of objects within the shapes of body parts and discarded product packaging. My mold-blown glass sculptures are created from plaster casts of the body and vacuum-formed plastic toy and product packaging. The pieces reference the doubling of time and identity, drawing on my experience as mother and daughter. Topic consumer culture consumption related to childhood gift giving play intergenerational care caregiving as mother and daughter repitition work fragility value materiality of childhood Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Painting At Night, Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN (curated by Melanie Cooper Pennington for The Artist Mother Podcast) Femme Vitale, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga, TN (curated by Leah Dalton and Raquel Mullins) Care, Virtual Exhibition Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sara Hubbs https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/17bdc1e6e1f8e8dda3bc665a9bc42123.jpg 0dc8329efd505b32db620df021c46147 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Echoes of Silence Description An account of the resource film still Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.sarabrighty.co.uk">www.sarabrighty.co.uk</a> Topic pregnancy birth miscarriage loss Medium mixed media installation photography drawing scuplture Artist Statement My ongoing practise researches and investigates parenthood, including; pregnancy, child birth, the relationships we have with our children, and considers that parenthood may not always be that of gaining a child but may be about losing them too. I create installations as a visual interpretation of sensitive and personal experiences. I work across a variety mediums and disciplines using photography and film, painting, drawing and sculpture and the components can also be viewed as individual pieces. Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Sara Brighty Title A name given to the resource Sara Brighty birth drawing installation installation art loss miscarriage photography pregnancy sculpture https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/d21ef38b40990e18f7c8c2e2b002e10f.jpg 14045843ed81f156bc5b7a58194e6856 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.sallylewry.com" target="_blank">http://www.sallylewry.com</a> Topic artistic practice mother/artist identity identity shocks of motherhood shifting identity Artist Residency in Motherhood Medium performance art visual art mixed media Artist Statement Based in Melbourne Australia, I am an independent artist and writer working within various mediums including performance and visual arts. My work engages with a deep sense of socio-political content examining the human condition. I value long, intuitive processes in which I interrogate shifting identities and personal politic; the starting point of a work often arising from lived experience. My current enquiry investigates themes of motherhood and grief. Valuing highly-skilled craft, my practice engages in somatic research, movement, imagery, language, light, sound and a range of mixed media within solo and collaborative contexts, collaborating with a range of artists from various disciplines. My current enquiry explores forms and processes within a visual arts context while my lineage in performance making continues to inform the work I make. I seek to create moving and challenging relationships in which an audience can be active and present. I invest in on-going training and research, in various forms and value shared dialogue within a community of artists in order to facilitate a rigorous and pertinent practice. Engaged in exploring the possibilities of various forms I am invested in creating a body of work which speaks to the time in which it is created. Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Sally Lewry Title A name given to the resource Sally Lewry https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/95ea434006f65fb30bcc3e4e592a847a.jpg 3fecabebc224d94e46bbbc3f2753d5f6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.RuthChase.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.RuthChase.com</a> Medium acrylic on canvas public art video Location The location of the interview California Artist Statement I struggle with the notion of what a woman is. My work explores what it means to be a woman and the struggle to understand all that entails including motherhood. I create large intimate paintings inspired by images and content that women have submitted and from selfies that my daughter has taken. I also create public art installations and video from public engagement projects. Motherhood opened a world within me that is both painful and empowering. Causing me to reevaluate the roles I have resisted and submitted to, and how I see myself as a woman. Using my daughters’ selfies, I am able to capture the complexity of the mother/daughter relationship. Experiencing my daughter’s adolescence has awoken memories, causing a deep reflection on how our childhood shapes us as women, and the role vulnerability plays in our development. Working with content that people have submitted allows me to step back and see a broader view of the female experience. I use social media as a communal aspect of my process that takes me out of the isolation of my studio and expands my understanding of women outside of my own experiences. Topic artist as mother mothering relationship with child reflections of adolescence through 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 Ruth Chase 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/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/d46e8ceacd81f54660e4f581035d8d8d.jpg 5f89c555126881edfc8b70ac81c5e7f0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.ronnikomarow.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.ronnikomarow.com</a> Medium "Dairy of a Bake Sale Diva," installation, 8 ft. x 8 ft. x 8 ft., 400 handmade papier maché cupcakes, 125 ft. of hand lettering with oil crayon on vellum. Other works are artist's books and prints (monotype, monoprint, drypoint, relief). Location The location of the interview Massachussetts Artist Statement Mine is a humble journey, creating art inspired by stories that are mundane if deeply personal, though stories with aspects that can resonate on a considerably broader scale. For over a decade I have tapped into my experiences in mothering as inspiration for my work, celebrating the small but essential moments that illuminate this life-long journey. My artwork uses whatever media seems to best fit the story, taking shape through prints, drawings, book-like forms, collages, assemblages and most recently through larger-scale mixed-media installations. While my art practice can take serendipitous turns, I continually rely on my grounding in traditional study of color, form, line and shape. I also rely on continued reading and reflection on what it means to raise children in such uncertain times. Topic parenting of a middle-school child (equity in education) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ronni Komarow https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/33e48990f2629d814e5eea03012e41a7.jpg a5b3da59769c6920f366e662f1f027e9 https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/3e9d6890b298bb14905a1f22cbff966b.jpg fa45b16a0b038272b9e3d7e86ca78335 https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/4794f4ae6f1fcf8d22c0a6afc50f4f35.jpg 8adf4b40cc2d0764d05cd8aa16ffb492 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://whitewatergallery.com/roman-charity/">http://whitewatergallery.com/roman-charity/</a> Curator Serena Kataoka – Executive Director Gallery <a href="http://whitewatergallery.com/">White Water Gallery</a> Curatorial Statement This exhibition explores an under-examined motive for discomfort with breastfeeding: that it is a powerful display of human interdependence. I also intend the project to raise questions about the politics of milk, women’s breasts and the use of public space. Location The location of the interview North Bay Ontario Canada Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/105">Heather Passmore</a> Topic breastfeeding interdependence public space breasts milk Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) August 28 – September 30, 2018 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Roman Charity Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Heather Passmore breastfeeding breastmilk Canada interdependence milk mothers Ontario public space https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/84e00c00056b4e8e01a42d00f04577db.jpg 4952a9c07f57db47cf49b7b0b61a0499 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.robynleroyevans.com" target="_blank">www.robynleroyevans.com</a> Topic mother-artist body motherhood pregnancy childbirth ambivalence Medium photography video installation Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Robyn LeRoy-Evans Title A name given to the resource Robyn LeRoy-Evans ambivalence body childbirth installation mother as artist motherhood photography pregnancy video https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/a96fbddd704105b9428358a82f270e02.jpg 3f9c6a20ce7ffcd59d3f1fa5c2278fe3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.robinassner-alvey.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.robinassner-alvey.com</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview St. Louis Artist Statement As a forty-three-old plus size woman and artist who has two young children, I feel an irresistible need to photograph myself. Navigating motherhood is a unique experience, one that I wasn’t prepared for but one that I have thoroughly embraced. I’ve always had a strained relationship with my body, but once my daughters were born that relationship changed. I grew new life inside of me and now I was nourishing them from my body. I’m still amazed that I was able to create an entirely new life inside of myself and that my body knew exactly what to do to make that happen. These photographs capture the various facets of motherhood and the toll it has on the body. I also have been using alternative photographic processes like Cyanotypes and Turmeric printing, to make photograms with the postpartum detritus leftover from my cesarean aftercare. The enormously large pads, the flimsy mesh underwear, and the restrictive belly bands are used to help start the healing process once the baby has been born. They are peculiar objects that became fodder for me to come to terms with my childbirth experiences. Topic 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 Robin Assner-Alvey https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/0f6c7f1e3e152dae0ea413888dc50ed3.jpg cd9fc7191ccc2629f95d7503270e4113 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.reneeromero.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.reneeromero.com</a> Medium film photography digital media cyanotype Location The location of the interview Los Angeles California Artist Statement Using film based photography, and alternative photographic processes I explore my identity, familial relationships and caretaking of my 20 month old daughter. My most recent completed body of work, A Physical Memory is a collection of 365 polaroid images taken in 2018 capturing an intimate look into my daily life from family, snapshots, pregnancy, and new motherhood. In the spring of 2020 I began a self guided artist residency, using my daughter as an inspiration rather than obstacle in my art practice. Creating cyanotype prints of the toys she leaves on the floor. Topic childcare parenting play pregnancy fatherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Renee Romero https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/e08abe5415066fb0f453a481bc36de3a.jpg 97eacb62c0c448598f33b7088515d03e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.rcoutureart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.rcoutureart.com</a> Medium photography sculpture installation video Artist Statement Influenced by the personal and the political, I explore a wide range of themes within my work. I have developed a diverse practice that allows my ideas to dictate media, form, and process. The project SUBROSA (Miscarriage) explores the confusion, sadness, conflicting emotions, and the process of moving forward after miscarriage. Sub rosa is the Latin term for "under the rose," which means "in secret.” For many, miscarriage is a secret and solitary experience. This may seem odd given one in four pregnancies result in miscarriage, approximately 750,000 to 1,000,000 every year in the United States. However, scores of women or families miscarry alone due to the “12-week rule.” Medically, miscarriage is treated as a “routine pregnancy complication.” Your doctor or midwife explain options. You receive a booklet with pictures and explanations designed to inform a woman/couple of the why’s and what-happens-next. People are uncomfortable talking about pregnancy loss, so they don’t. How do you mourn someone who never came into being? There are no rituals for miscarriage, thus no cultural steps or process designed to aid in mourning. You try to imagine a new future, a new what-happens-next. And in time, you do, though it is difficult. Topic motherhood postpartum depression miscarriage Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Renee Couture https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/83cfde19b1d5a417654dfc04385a4554.jpg 3e6ad2bf48003136707f474ba05aeb58 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.renee-bouchard.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.renee-bouchard.com</a> Medium painting Location The location of the interview Vermont Artist Statement Renée Bouchard Artist Statement 2020 “If we look at looking too long, it falls apart. Underneath the benign surface of the orderly world is the ‘optical unconscious,’ a deceptive, fragmentary domain that has to be forcibly reconstituted in order to make daily sense.” James Elkins I intersect child rearing and art making as a form of resistance to the long held suppression of unwaged mothers and artists. Since my 7 year old son was a toddler, he often has been invited to participate with me in the studio. I see children’s art as the earliest and most abstract search for language. Within the performative moments of our collaborations I constantly (re) construct my relationship with visual culture, woman’s work, and my most intimate self. Escaping the confines of one reality and entering an alternate reality is often where I find freedom within the complexity of the mind and the emotions it houses. I use titles to constrain the viewer within my abstract, representational paintings. Color for me is the machine that organizes the movement within the space. I use the color wheel to juxtapose pleasure and the abject with ideas of power and freedom from the perspective of a woman. I work in spurts on several paintings simultaneously in a journalistic manner, documenting clusters of daily life. Language, media, music, and studio detritus weave together with memory and the present act of painting. “Forever – is composed of Nows.” Emily Dickinson Topic antepartum postpartum Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Renée Bouchard https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/98015d3663fd364a7813c78243b97252.png 131b8cae3dc2815811716d4bc54ebfc5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Editor <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/47">Rachel Epp Buller</a> Contributor The author of an article within an anthology Heather Belknap Jensen Marguerite Gerard Deborah J Wilk Paula J Birnbaum Jessica Dallow Andrea Liss Erin Barnett Cecily Cheo Elzbieta Korolczuk Charles Reeve Mariangeles Soto-Diaz Diana Quinby Sandra Matthews <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/114">Gail Rebhan</a> Jessica D Clements Jackie Skrzynski <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/196" target="_self">Denise Ferris</a> Maru Ituarte Erika Swinson Joan Linder Nane Ariadne Jordan <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/204">Elizabeth MacKenzie</a> Natasha Christopher <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Myrel Chernick</a> Publisher Ashgate City of Publication Farnham Province of Publication Surrey Country of Publication England Date of Publication 2012 ISBN 13 9781409426134 Topic feminist art theory feminist theory The Feminist Art Project art history maternal body mother as artist curating breastfeeding motherhood childbirth Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reconciling Art and Mothering art history breastfeeding childbirth curating feminist art theory feminist theory maternal body mother as artist motherhood The Feminist Art Project 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/587721c91608b1837e4c8f5d20cb076f.jpg bd97ddd3f5bc528d7d9bf6ed84761a83 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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="rebeccaackermann.com/art" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rebeccaackermann.com/art</a> Medium clay sculpture Location The location of the interview San Francisco California Artist Statement I sculpt tiny clay foods and household items in an attempt to reclaim domestic space separated from the actual highly gendered labor of caretaking. My art practice grew out of my need to care for my own mental health while working and parenting my daughter. I have found that when I'm able to create space for my own work, caring for my child, my family, and my community nutures and expands my mental health and sense of self. When I don't reserve any energy for my own growth and processing, caretaking can feel stunting, overwhelming, and like a minefield of anxiety and obligation. Topic clay, cooking cooking domesticity motherhood sculpture Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2021, Care Virtual Exhibition Curated by Kaylan Buteyn and Benz Amataya Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Ackermann https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/db19ba996faba1b04f977ceacc206848.JPG a8ddc4156a9c5ea7ce970fd275ca270a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.ArtistRaulGonzalez.com">www.ArtistRaulGonzalez.com</a> Topic stay-at-home parent fatherhood gender roles primary caregiver domestic labor identity labor Medium drawing painting performance Artist Statement My work explores topics such as work, fatherhood, identity, gender roles, construction, labor, the working class, identity, and abstraction. I use versatile methods of painting, drawing, printmaking, performance, and dance. I believe in demystifying the canvas, redefining social stereotypes, and working towards evolving as an individual, father, and artist. I use my artwork to share my personal experience and to educate. I also use it as a place to share energy, joy, and love. What we create is both a reflection of the internal self and the world we absorb. I am constantly exploring new cultures through music, dance, and art. Through my experiences, the artwork I create evolves just as well. My motto is Werk. Hustle. Sleep Repeat. Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Raul Gonzalez Title A name given to the resource Raul Gonzalez abstraction domestic labor drawing fatherhood gender roles identity painting performance primary caretaker stay-at-home parent working class https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/05666a63e0ef3f76453521ec0c8ab194.jpg 0dc0a1d6d16263d3b3964fffd32ff5b0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.rachellebeaudoin.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.rachellebeaudoin.com/</a> Medium video performance animation Location The location of the interview Peterborough New Hampshire Artist Statement In performances, videos, I confront stereotypes and tropes of gender representation to create a space of uncertainty. I research and deconstruct the ways in which women are portrayed in popular culture and on the Internet. I contrast the natural world and the outdoors, to trends, themes and memes from the web, mashing up Kardashian culture with the rural, forested environment in New Hampshire where I live. Thighbrows, thigh gaps, and facial masks become fodder for my work. I use humor and sarcasm as an entry point into issues of gender, power and class in order to call out the invisible structures and sexism that pervades both the physical world and the online world. Masks, makeup and identity are also a fascination of mine. Often employing physical comedy, my videos document performances in which I explore the pressures and contradictions I face on a daily basis. I push concepts from web videos and advertising to the absurd so that the content becomes humorous and sometimes alarming. Since becoming a mother, this experience has become part of my work. I have created videos to address the infantilization of expectant mothers and reality of caring for children and parents. Personal, sometimes awkward, yet open and inviting, the work emphasizes the physicality of the body, showing both vulnerability and strength, following in the tradition of feminist performance art. This work comes from a place of experience and honesty. Topic sandwich generation biodata infantilization of pregnant people body changes stretch marks invisible labor emotional labor Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Maternochronics You Are Not Wonderful Just Because You Are a Mother Artist/Mother Podcast, online, juried by Qiana Mestrich In Union, Remotely, Shaker Museum, Mount Lebanon, NY Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rachelle Beaudoin 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/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/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/eb698806c6a1cb520282a2c0ce582823.jpg 0ed90458b384f9363f9e508d9a23730f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://criticalmediartstudio.com/index.php/2017/10/opening-of-quality-time-an-exhibition-by-the-artmamas-at-the-artbutus-gallery-in-the-coast-capital-library-kpu-kwantlen-polytechnic-october-2-27-2017/" target="_blank">http://criticalmediartstudio.com/index.php/2017/10/opening-of-quality-time-an-exhibition-by-the-artmamas-at-the-artbutus-gallery-in-the-coast-capital-library-kpu-kwantlen-polytechnic-october-2-27-2017/</a> Curator Art/Mamas Gallery The Artbutus Gallery in the Coast Capital Library , KPU | Kwantlen Polytechnic University Curatorial Statement This exhibition brings together individual works from A.M. (art/mamas), a group of Vancouver-based artist mothers, whose discussions have centred on motherhood and art practice and the intersections between reproductive and artistic labour. A.M. aims to elaborate a model for a feminist, women-centred, sustainable creation process that integrates life and all of its chaos into a viable and valued way of being and creating without being marginalized by and excluded from the male-dominated art system. Location The location of the interview The Artbutus Gallery in the Coast Capital Library , KPU | Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC, Canada Artists Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda Damla Tamer Sarah Shamash Maria Anna Parolin Heather Passmore Natasha McHardy prOphecy sun Robyn Laba Matilda Aslizadeh Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) October 2 - October 27, 2017 Topic artistic labor feminism motherhood and art 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 Quality Time Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Heather Passmore artistic labor Canada feminism mother artist mother as artist reproductive labor sustainable practice https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/43d6ba07672bbe457f67070ee1dc0c21.jpg ad6d4c4447e83d9a89e63284384ef976 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.qianamestrich.com/hard-to-place" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.qianamestrich.com/hard-to-place</a> <a href="http://www.qianamestrich.com/photography-trust-your-struggle" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.qianamestrich.com/photography-trust-your-struggle</a> Medium photography book Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement <h1>Hard To Place</h1> For all loves never allowed to be. Hard To Place is a true story about race, family and the child welfare system in post-war Britain. Combining confidential, UK government documentation with archival and (auto)biographical photography, this series traces the experience of Joseph, an orphan boy of Nigerian and Irish parentage growing up in 1960s/70s London. As a “half-cast(e)” child, in England, Joseph was considered “hard to place” amongst the mostly white, adoptive families. Joseph is my husband. On our first date he nervously told me his life story, continuously pulling at his sleeves to hide the ink of bad decisions made during his teenage years as a black skinhead. The little boy seen in Hard To Place is our son. The images in the book provide a visual alternative to the official, master narrative of child welfare that many mixed-race children are imprisoned by. <div> </div> <h1>Trust Your Struggle (2010)</h1> In 2010 during the months after giving birth to my son, I turned to the camera to work through a period of intense loneliness I had never felt before. Feelings of joy and love for my new baby came with equal sentiments of fear and isolation. This “post-partum” situation challenged me to make photographs within the spatial limits of our apartment and to visualize my entrance into motherhood. During this time, my photographic practice allowed me to hold on to a creative aspect of my previous self that I felt was slipping with every diaper change and breastmilk-pumping session. Trust Your Struggle is a photographic essay that documents what is often considered taboo when publicly discussing the new mother experience: the isolation, hectic days, sleepless nights, physical pain and those rare, selfish moments. Topic motherhood child welfare mixed-race children post-partum early motherhood breastmilk baby food baths 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 Qiana Mestrich baby food breast pump breastfeeding breastmilk child wellfare early motherhood early parenthood mixed-race children wellfare 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/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 https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/7be9d42c6621aed4dd2891926803b603.png abbefbc5fb6ad97865859a8553e0b502 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Mary Kelly Publisher Routledge & Kegan Paul Date of Publication 1983 ISBN 13 9780710094957 ISBN 10 0710094957 Topic art and motherhood feminist art mother-child relationship maternal desire maternal identity Lacan formation of a mother embodied motherhood motherhood as social construct language acquisition of language psychoanalysis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Post-partum Document acquisition of language embodied motherhood formation of a mother Lacan language Mary Kelly maternal identity mother/child relationship postpartum postpartum document psychoanalysis 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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://monyarowegallery.com/artist.php?aID=259" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://monyarowegallery.com/artist.php?aID=259</a> Medium acrylic on panel Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement I make paintings centering around my daily life. I paint what I know or think I know about the everyday experience of being alive. The paintings tend to explore the intimacy of domestic space The quieter familiar and private moments at home or abroad. I paint self portraits and portraits of my husband and child. They reflect part of the ritual or routine of life. This is the world of my home, wherever that maybe. I work from photos but also from the memory of those moments. It is what is there and sometimes from what I want to be there. Like any work from life there are a lot of truths and untruths. Topic birth pregnancy breastfeeding domestic life Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Polina Barskaya https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/ebe31be06a0247e8220400e32b3dca10.png d4a5fdc82f045b1300bbb08e441029fe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://candelabooks.com/gallery/exhibition/pine-tree-ballads/#1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://candelabooks.com/gallery/exhibition/pine-tree-ballads/#1</a> Gallery Candela Gallery Location The location of the interview Richmond Virginia USA Curator Gordon Stettinius of Candela Books Curatorial Statement In the early 1900s, artist <a href="https://candelabooks.cmail20.com/t/y-l-kkjkduy-ttuyktttf-t/">Paul Thulin</a>‘s great-grandfather settled on an island off the coast of Maine because it resembled his homeland of Sweden. Over a century later, his family returns to the same area, Gray’s Point, each summer. Throughout his life, Thulin’s great-grandfather shared exquisitely detailed accounts of early settlers at the New England apple orchard; Such characters include a one-legged ship cook, a widowed schoolteacher, and an ingenious Native American blacksmith. The tales were an intricate mix of facts and lore that fueled the imagination and, on occasion, had the power to transform daily floorboard creaks and shadows into enduring ancestral spirits. Pine Tree Ballads is a poetic memoir, featuring the artist’s daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother as a single protean character (or multiple characters?) vibrating in time, navigating the mysteries and menace of a shared ancestral forest. This deeply personal photographic sequence is part visual narrative of family myths and part origin story. Pine Tree Ballads is fueled by both truth and imagination, which, in many instances are the fundamental ingredients of our personal history. The “docu-literary” structure of this monograph celebrates and fully exploits the duplicitous nature of photography/text to be simultaneously interpreted as both fact and fiction. At the surface, this project explores the emotive, contextual, and material constructs of history, culture, personal identity, memory, and folklore. Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/373">Paul Thulin</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) February 28 – April 20, 2019 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pine Tree Ballads daughter family myths father folklore Maine memory personal histories personal identity photography poetry https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/f492c04be0739a4aa61ee5eb7ffaf37c.jpg 8de212f0320998023402cb3ca3373db9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Editor <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/171">Csilla Klenyánszki</a> Contributor The author of an article within an anthology Bogyó Virág (Graphic Designer) City of Publication Budapest Amsterdam Date of Publication April 2019 ISBN 13 978-90-829885-0-5 Topic artist mother, artist/mother motherhood care child care family and career domestic space home isolation humor maternal work mother artist identity chaos naptime motherhood and creative practice stay-at-home parent studio time work/life balance survival handbook Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pillars of Home artist mother artist/mother book Care chaos child care domestic space family and career home humor isolation maternal work mother artist identity motherhood motherhood and creative practice naptime stay-at-home parent studio time survival handbook work/life balance https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/a7296982f9389d9613f0563156394712.jpg f2a0fcbc4a6fc7057dabd109b125d2a2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. ISBN 13 978-1-927335-92-5 Year of Publication December 2014 Editor Amber Kinser Kryn Freehling-Burton Terri Hawkes Contributor The author of an article within an anthology Courtney E. Brooks Kelly A. Dorgan Laura Endacott Bronwyn Preece Martha E. Gonzalez Joani Moartenson Lisa Sandlos <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/104" target="_blank">Natalie Loveless</a> Kelly Jeske Elyse M. Warford Lynne M. Webb Pavna Sodhi Sheilah Wilson <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/200" target="_blank">Jennie Klein</a> J. Lauren Johnson Date of Publication January 7, 2015 Topic motherhood activism public space mothers performance Publisher Demeter Press City of Publication Bradford Province of Publication Ontario Country of Publication 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 Performing Motherhood: Artistic, Activist, and Everyday Enactments activism motherhood mothering performance 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/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/34eb41f17690c26bca71da6ee75b6488.jpg f446039b229acae194df2ff8f62c50e1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.paulthulin.com/">https://www.paulthulin.com/</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview Richmond Virginia USA Topic photography poetry personal histories father daughter Maine family myths personal identity memory folklore 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/375">Pine Tree Ballads, Candela Gallery</a> Publications A catalog or monograph published by the artist <a href="https://store.candelabooks.com/store/pine-tree-ballads">Pine Tree Ballads</a> Artist Statement <div id="event-item-type-metadata-curatorial-statement" class="element"> <div class="element-text"> In the early 1900s, artist <a href="https://candelabooks.cmail20.com/t/y-l-kkjkduy-ttuyktttf-t/">Paul Thulin</a>‘s great-grandfather settled on an island off the coast of Maine because it resembled his homeland of Sweden. Over a century later, his family returns to the same area, Gray’s Point, each summer. Throughout his life, Thulin’s great-grandfather shared exquisitely detailed accounts of early settlers at the New England apple orchard; Such characters include a one-legged ship cook, a widowed schoolteacher, and an ingenious Native American blacksmith. The tales were an intricate mix of facts and lore that fueled the imagination and, on occasion, had the power to transform daily floorboard creaks and shadows into enduring ancestral spirits. Pine Tree Ballads is a poetic memoir, featuring the artist’s daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother as a single protean character (or multiple characters?) vibrating in time, navigating the mysteries and menace of a shared ancestral forest. This deeply personal photographic sequence is part visual narrative of family myths and part origin story. Pine Tree Ballads is fueled by both truth and imagination, which, in many instances are the fundamental ingredients of our personal history. The “docu-literary” structure of this monograph celebrates and fully exploits the duplicitous nature of photography/text to be simultaneously interpreted as both fact and fiction. At the surface, this project explores the emotive, contextual, and material constructs of history, culture, personal identity, memory, and folklore. </div> </div> <div id="event-item-type-metadata-artists" class="element"></div> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paul Thulin daughter family myths father folklore Maine memory personal histories personal identity photography poetry Richmond USA Virginia https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/b28d7b3e1ffebe4779f85c42674c74ff.jpg 4ec163cf3c9935af08dc35e716b618c4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://paulflippen.com/section/206602_The_Birds_and_The_Bees.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://paulflippen.com/section/206602_The_Birds_and_The_Bees.html</a> Topic birth family planning gestation Medium painting Artist Statement This body of work, inspired by the birth of my son, explores the complications of love, pleasure, and the act of creation – literal and metaphorical, biological and artistic. Pollinating birds and bees suggestively interact with abstractions derived from decorative patterns of antique marriage certificates – a union of instinctive desire with cultural expectations of formalized relationships. These crisply painted elements are layered over digital transfers of the chemical synthesis of progesterone (the “pregnancy hormone” necessary for healthy fetal development, and a major ingredient in many forms of birth control). These images are further layered over manipulated lace patterns found on internet photographs of lingerie and wedding dresses – mechanized patterns that, like lace itself, exist simultaneously to display and obscure. Location The location of the interview Colorado 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 Paul Flippen Title A name given to the resource Paul Flippen https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/7e71b299cd76686a987903cbf46578e1.jpg e76881e23a6c0672e611b81cfb48c7c7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.artpatti.com" target="_blank">www.artpatti.com</a> Topic Child care motherhood postpartum body maternal mental health Medium Mixed media time based, social-practice painting Artist Statement Patti Maciesz is a Polish-American artist and curator based in Oakland, California. Her paintings explore place, narrative and identity and blend digital and analog techniques. Her work has been exhibited in Paris, Warsaw, Vermont, New York and Oakland. She graduated with a degree in Visual Arts from Bennington College in 2007 and later managed the Aldrich Editions program at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. She has since curated multiple international exhibitions including the inaugural exhibition at the Centre Du Mode et du Dessin for Chic Art Fair in Paris, Nowa Soda, an artist-in-residency program in Krakow and most recently Country Singer, a digital art show at Heron Arts in San Francisco featuring artist Dmitri Cherniak. Her recent work takes on the secrecy surrounding postpartum life by presenting the often brutal and sometimes comic realities of early parenthood. In a series of watercolor paintings the artist shares relatable and intimate portraits of her changing body, as well as documentation of the endless minutiae and unrewarded sacrifice of caring for a new child. Part figurative abstraction, part charting and time-sheet, Maciesz resists the invisibility that envelopes mothers with her work. Location The location of the interview Oakland California Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Patti Maciesz Title A name given to the resource Patti Maciesz body California childcare maternal mental health mental health motherhood Oakland postpartum body postpartum maternal body https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/df8b63c31813a8dcced1cb565a1117ee.jpg b1c79e85ec8f35fbbed4340a4306feee Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.Oonahyland.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Www.Oonahyland.com</a> Medium printmaking sculpture artists books Artist Statement I'm interested in how Silence from a trauma affects the descendents of a person. Forms of epigenetic history . How memory can be erased , masked and hidden and the consequences of doing so. I'm making work about the Magdalene laundries and mother and baby home. I am a child of a victim of these abusive homes in Ireland. Topic Active Forgetting Project memory trauma transgenerational trauma mother and baby homes Bon Secours Tuam silence haptic art transparency installation book art frottage Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oona Hyland https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/d2416b4409aa9b0892b7301325ccd2e6.jpg 425954069723b1403404859445447984 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Composite Tension Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.oliviadefleuriot.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">oliviadefleuriot.com</a> Topic maternal body domestic labor mother/child intersubjectivity Medium fabric yarn thread foam wire metal ink paper Artist Statement As an artist and mother, I interweave the performative gestures of motherhood in my soft sculptural forms, consisting of fabric, yarn, and thread. My recent work, presented in the four-part installation, "Composite Tension" ("Corpus", "Slew", "Cleave" and "Tensile"), is informed by a personal archive, "Documentation Series: Year Off" (2018), where I took videos of my maternal body in relation to my child. I re-watched the videos each day and wrote my observations in two notebooks. The notebooks recorded my anxieties of being a good mother; separation, and the weaning process. I shredded and incorporated the handwritten pages into the sculpture "Corpus". The pregnant body is a vessel for containment, yet it exudes and spills out. The messiness extends to how the pregnant/maternal body exists as a part of another and is undefinable within patriarchal-capitalistic society. Through the discourse of craftivism, I investigate the tensioned relationship between motherhood and the artworld. The sculptures in "Composite Tension" are more than just undefinable messy bodies—they are messy bodies with the potential to speak about care within an institution. The softness, labour, and time speak to care. As I place them in the gallery space they remain as caring objects; as soft undefinable bodies. They are messy bodies; they are political bodies. Location The location of the interview 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 Olivia de Fleuriot Perry Title A name given to the resource Olivia de Fleuriot Perry and paper domestic labour fabric foam ink maternal body metal mother/child intersubjectivity thread wire yarn https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/e11a50043df02a6258a1e5f2e225791f.pdf e255f7bd963b7e28da63f0beecf440aa https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/22bd0064c357d62b2f7e45d3cd75d0e7.png 03fb0ebf17424796d0cf52853cb60136 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Of Women Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.rockawayartistsalliance.org/" target="_blank">https://www.rockawayartistsalliance.org/</a> Gallery Studio 7 Gallery, Fort Tilden Location The location of the interview Rockaway New York Curatorial Statement In celebration of Women’s History Month, Rockaway Artist Alliance honors women and women artists of our generation. Madison Ohmane Artist Statement: Artificial Human Milk The disconnect between mother and infant. The mother’s milk is removed from the breasts with a machine, it is transported, it is cooled for preservation, it is stored and readily available for consumption at a later date, it is consumed by the infant every 3 hours in her presence or not. The direct relationship between mother and infant is removed. The process becomes mechanical. The milk becomes a product. The mother’s milk becomes artificial. When the mother/infant relationship is diminished, what is the end result? What happens when the infant is removed from the mother’s womb and placed in an artificial environment? What happens when the substance made specifically for the infant is replaced with something artificial? When does science take a step back and let nature resume its course? Or not? This work, Artificial Human Milk utilizes familiar plastic milk jugs and infant bottle nipples to represent food as commodity. The objects are placed at eye height to confront the viewer’s relationship with their own children; with their own mother. Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/51" target="_blank">Madison Ohmane</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) March 10 - April 8, 2018 Topic food systems breast milk breast feeding breast pump pumping bottle milk jug Related Resource <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/51" target="_blank">http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/51</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 Of Women bottle breast milk breast pump breastfeeding food systems labor milk jug New York pumping Rockaway https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/e3bcc2ffa84da728f160026030dccd08.png 64b49192a1c6ce3b24318751636f291b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Adrienne Rich Publisher W. W. Norton & Company Date of Publication October 1, 1976 ISBN 13 9780393312843 ISBN 10 0393312844 Topic feminism gender birth feminist theory embodied motherhood patriarchy institution of 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 Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution birth embodied motherhood feminism feminist theory gender institution of motherhood patriarchy Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.noelash.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.noelash.com</a> Medium oil painting watercolor woodworking Artist Statement For two months my daughter refused to bathe. What was once a non-issue now haunted us both, and we each had our coping mechanisms: she begging and wailing and writhing, I waiting her out, struggling to keep her little skull from dashing on the porcelain. My sanity always felt in peril, and I stared deep into the foggy glow of the tiled walls. I could never predict the transition from weeping into giggling, the point when her little person couldn’t pour all her focus onto fighting me. Distracted by the pleasure of warm water, she somehow forgot to keep crying, and I’d breathe to help my brain cool down. Topic motherhood childrearing childbirth Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. WHY MOM Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Noël Ash https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/cf4cc4550d6e4d25b03251940d63e611.jpg befd951a4f80991a076c1791571fcbb8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.NicoleMcCormickSantiago.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.NicoleMcCormickSantiago.com</a> Medium oil charcoal graphite monotype Location The location of the interview Virginia Artist Statement I have always painted my immediate surroundings in an effort to decipher the world around me. Often my works depict familar domestic scenes with simple yet layered narratives. My most recent works are a thinly veiled attempt to navigate my journey through the convoluted dynamics of parenthood and the unavoidable life transitions inherent on this journey. Topic motherhood domestic home children chaos birthday parties parenting 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 Nicole M. Santiago 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/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/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/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/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/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/900a87a32d62df93cdbf8fd973636bfc.png 0f2ca6f06ad18920730dc58347f096f6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.nannalysholt.dk">www.nannalysholt.dk</a> <a href="http://www.nannalysholthansen.com">www.nannalysholthansen.com</a> Topic pregnancy motherhood motherartist mothervoice technolgy cyborg feminism language posthumanism meditation memory theory intergenerational Medium live performance video installation sculpture photography poetry sound Artist Statement MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Art. BFA Faculty of Art, Design & Music, Kingston University London. In her artistic practice Nanna Lysholt Hansen is investigating relationships between the body, language, voice, gender and technology. By using her own personal experiences of the female body, sexuality, pregnancy, birth and motherhood she draws attention to the body as a technological and biological intergenerational mediator of knowledge, voice and memory. Location The location of the interview Copenhagen Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Nanna Lysholt Hansen Title A name given to the resource Nanna Lysholt Hansen biology copenhagen cyborg feminism installation intergenerational language live performance mediation memory motherartist motherhood mothervoice photography poetry posthumanism pregnancy sculpture sound sound art technology theory Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.myrelchernick.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.myrelchernick.com/</a> Medium projections and multimedia installation single channel video photography Location The location of the interview New York, NY USA Artist Statement Myrel Chernick grew up in Metuchen, New Jersey, traveling to Paris for a year with her family at age nine. There she discovered culture, history, literature, art, food, beauty. This formative experience fueled her determination to leave the suburbs and live a different life. Chernick’s fascination with language began with her experience of learning French with the facility of childhood, understanding that it was very different from the language she knew, and that language was connected to culture. She studied art, receiving her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago after having moved to New York to participate in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Influenced by the conceptual art she saw around her, she sought to combine her love of literature and writing with light-filled installations. She began adding short phrases to her installations in 1977, influenced by Marguerite Duras, her austere but sensuous language, and her focus on the spaces between the words. Living in New York, Chernick has continued to work with projections and multimedia installations, single channel video and photography, while taking a detour to raise twins, curate two exhibitions on motherhood, edit The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art, and to expand her writing to include longer text/image works. She spends as much time in Paris as she possibly can, and is currently writing and illustrating a hybrid novel that takes place in her favorite city. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Myrel Chernick installation New York projections single channel video USA https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/e5f33fbb5c7c4bb3725e0f14478947e3.jpg 304137b45ba549a96b7f09f9f53bebe3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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="myacluff.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">myacluff.com</a> Medium ceramics drawing Location The location of the interview Belgrade Montana Artist Statement Motherhood is a multi-faceted experience. Through figurative ceramic sculpture and drawing, I attempt to bring equal attention to both the light and darker aspects of motherhood to show the importance of a well-rounded narrative to this universally recognized role. The ease of sentimentality that arises with the stereotypical ideals of mothers and babies is charming, but does not tell the whole story. And in my work, I aim to tell the whole story. Through depictions of the female form and mother, along with symbols such as the blanket, the pelvis, and the child or infant, I set up both familiar and slightly askew scenarios to challenge generalizations of motherhood. By examining the changes my children bring to my life, my work becomes loosely biographical. Though I also find richness in tapping into the stories and experiences of other mothers I find in literature, artwork, and in personal relationships. I take all those combined experiences to analyze the commonalities that mothers experience but do not always speak to openly. I employ comparisons of hard vs. soft and durable vs. fragile through the use of clay as my primary medium. I intentionally utilize the direct association of the body to the experience of motherhood by including the human figure, and embrace the vulnerabilities, raw emotions, and loosening of boundaries, both physical and emotional, that exponentially change women who take on this mantel. Through covering or wrapping various parts of the body I enhance my conversation concerning boundaries, and the contrasting elements of comfort and suppression. Overall, I elaborate on the taboo that while most mothers love their children more than anything else, they all also grapple with varied human emotions as patience and endurance is tested. Topic motherhood pregnancy female body pelvis reproduction postpartum mental health touch boundaries the body infancy childhood mother/daughter relationship maternity Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2020 WOMENANDCHILDREN, Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture, Bozeman, MT 2019 Dynamic: A Celebration of the Female Experience, (Featured Artist) AVA Community Art Center, Gillette, WY 2017 Fulcrum, 321 NE Davis, Portland OR 2017 Urban Artist Showcase, Parish Gallery, Chehalem Art Center, Newberg OR 2016 Identity, City Club of Portland, Portland OR Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mya Cluff 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/2c50e8ba746bf2849f65d2a3ea9b2239.JPG f693bd4584c0f380353e2cb3f3fb0033 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://gallery400.uic.edu/our-events/upcoming-events/opening-reception-alberto-aguilar/">https://gallery400.uic.edu/our-events/upcoming-events/opening-reception-alberto-aguilar/</a> Gallery Gallery 400 Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois USA Curator Lorelei Stewart Curatorial Statement Alberto Aguilar’s first large scale survey explores how the Chicago-born and based artist’s various life roles and surroundings have shaped a searching, inquisitive practice that is grounded in, and produces, a radical everyday. Aguilar’s creative work often incorporates whatever materials he has at hand and has extended into collaborations and exchanges with others, including his own family. Navigating measurement and limits, of his own body or in his ready materials—whether it’s the structure of a sheet of mini legal paper or the territory of an area rug, to name a few examples—his work bridges media, from painting and sculpture to video, installation, performance, and sound as well as the use of social media and teaching as art forms. Though his hand, direction, or intervention is typically straightforward, seemingly simple, his work has an enticing self-effacement that sparks curiosity and identification. Moreover, Aguilar’s systems-based processes build into their own monumentality, hinting at the broader implications of the deeply democratic ethos at the heart of his work. Beyond the works in the gallery space, the exhibition expands to include interventions into Gallery 400’s home building, extended projects off-site, and digital forays that may or may not be announced as part of the exhibition Artists Featuring: Isabella Aguilar, Joaquin Aguilar, Madeleine Aguilar, Paolo Aguilar, Sergio Manuel Aguilar, Sonia Aguilar, Dana Bassett, Alex Bradley Cohen, Pete Fagundo, Chiara Galimberti, Kirsten Leenaars, Nazafarin Lotfi, Jorge Lucero, John Preus, Josh Rios, Alexia Rodriguez, Edra Soto, Southwest Signs, Clintel Steed, Hui-min Tsen, Rafael E. Vera, Danny Volk, Sean Ward, Jim Woodfill, and more <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/33">Alberto Aguilar</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) April 26-June 15, 2019 Topic collaboration walking everyday life passage of time performance play democratic routine routine repetition fatherhood sound conversatinos monument domestic sale signs legacy commemoration Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource moves on a human scale https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/f6a897fcd235fe75e8a937a7ec5e3498.png 9bcfb01091c913241db7752b10714449 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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. Organization Website <a href="http://motherswhomake.org">http://motherswhomake.org</a> Location The location of the interview United Kingdom About  Mothers Who Make is a growing national initiative aimed at supporting mothers who are artists - professional and/or passionate – writers, painters, actors, dancers, musicians, film-makers....every kind of maker is welcomed, and every kind of mother.    MWM was born in London in 2014 with Theatre Maker and Improbable Associate Director, Matilda Leyser. The initiative grew from Leyser's sense of there being experiences and challenges specific to being both a mother and an artist. She noticed many parallels between the two roles: both are concerned with creativity and play, both require stamina, patience, sensitivity, both keep her up at night. At the same time she was struck by the strength of the cultural assumption that the two were incompatible: she was told she must compromise on either her creative work or her mothering. She wanted to challenge this. She put out an invitation to mother-artists, across art forms, to join a peer support group to which they could also bring their children of any age. The response has been extraordinary.   MWM has rapidly spread across the country. There are currently regular peer-support groups meeting at 22 major arts-related venues in different regions, with more groups in the process of starting across the UK in 2019.   How does MWM work?   MWM meetings take place monthly in an arts-related venue. It is critical that the meeting is given the status of a participatory workshop, a rehearsal or class. A local mother-artist acts as a facilitator and participants are supported to exchange and work in a variety of ways. They explore emergent themes in their mothering and their making, points of connection between the two roles, points of dissonance, particular challenges, helpful resources. Examples of recent themes include: how to change and maintain your practice; the positive impact of motherhood on your work; housework – who does it?!                Every MWM meeting models a rare space in which participants are recognized and valued equally in their dual roles of mother and artist. The sessions are adult-centred but children are welcome to attend. Each MWM group shares a common ethos and practice but is able to grow and develop in response to the needs and interests of the regional artists that attend it. We want as many people as possible to be part of the unfolding MWM conversations. We do not seek to define who is a 'mother' or an 'artist'. Our reach is across generations and artforms - we are thrilled by the plurality of voices that are part of this discussion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Who Make Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lizzy Humber Producer MWM https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/c662fc8dad5b4c740e34b1e998430341.png 3fdcbdff87c9a4786bfa5579f1a47ebd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Topic Artist Residency collaborative caretaking About About: Mothers in Arts supports women artists who are also mothers and shines a light on the mother-shaped blindspot within the art world. It puts forward a discussion about a problem that affects many young artist women when they become parents. Even though many artists have children, parenthood - specially motherhood - remains stigmatized in the art world. Therefore, besides the physical and mental challenges of childbearing an added feeling of isolation can be felt by many mothers. We believe that women have to remain part of the art community after they’ve become mothers. Mothers in Arts is a platform for artists and through an artists in residency we want to stimulate young women artists with children. Being a mother is not a stigma; motherhood can accompany a successful artistic practice. Residency: Mothers in Arts Residency (MA Residency) will be a studio space combined with a communal nursery. The Residency is specialized in supporting young emerging women artists, who are also mothers. Mothers in Arts is free of charge; the artists agree on take turns to work and look after each others children around an organized work schedule. MA Residency provides studio space for 3 artists and their children. The residency invites emerging woman artists to apply whose children are between 3 months an 24 months old. (3 months is the given maternity leave in the Netherlands and 2 years is the age, when according to the new regulation of childcare, children are provided with 2 days a week subsidized daycare) This “in between” period is crucial for an artist-parent: through the strict schedule and the constant attention which a baby requires, critical practice becomes limited. The Residency gives young mothers an opportunity to continue their artistic development. MA Residency takes place in Amsterdam between March 2017 and May 2017, and will be finished with an exhibition in June 2017. Organization Website <a href="http://www.mothersinarts.com/residency" target="_blank">http://www.mothersinarts.com/residency</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 Mothers in Arts Residency 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/0d55cda769a791970a56798dd80ec017.png 494f0830155340361ffea12ca2f8e6f6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/42">Lise Haller Baggesen</a> Publisher Green Lantern Press City of Publication Chicago State of Publication Illinois Country of Publication USA Date of Publication October 10, 2014 ISBN 13 978-0-9884185-5-4 Topic literary nonfiction feminism contemporary art Mothernism Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mothernism Amsterdam Chicago contemporary art Denmark feminism literary nonfiction Mothernism Netherlands science fiction Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.lylarye.com/1.IMAGES/Information/Bibliography/2003Motherlode_Eichhorn.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.lylarye.com/1.IMAGES/Information/Bibliography/2003Motherlode_Eichhorn.pdf</a> Gallery Women's Art Resource Centre (WARC) Location The location of the interview Toronto Ontario Canada Curator Gretchen Sankey Virginia M. Eichhorn Artists Nicole Collins Janeita Eyre Rae Johnston Lyla Rye Pearl van Geest Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) September 6 - October 4, 2003 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource MOTHERLODE 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/42edf00dd3aacce9773a762e3850155d.png 30d4adce039d7b38607913f3bf68094a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 in the Art World cover Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Claudia Sandoval Romero City of Publication Vienna Country of Publication Austria Date of Publication 2015 Topic motherhood art and mothering art visual culture Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 in the Art World anna oppermann annegret soltau elaine reichek ewa partum faith ringgold feministo fina miralles friedl kubelka vom groeller gina pane hackney flashers helke sander kirsten justesen laura mulvey lea lublin louise bourgeois mako idemitsu maria evelia marmolejo martha rosler Mary Kelly mierle laderman ukeles mimi smith mother artist mother artists motherhood motherhood and art practice motherhood and economic context motherhood and social context niki de saint phalle ree morton susan hiller tina keane ulrike rosenbach ursula reuter christiansen valie export zorka saglova 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/11022529590c269bf33d16b90394585e.jpg 664fbf743e533b99f5222524370018a0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Sheilah Wilson Publisher Sheilah Wilson City of Publication Columbus State of Publication Ohio Country of Publication United States Date of Publication 2016 Topic motherhood art and motherhood art zine mothers Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Mother artist-parents motherhood motherhood as art practice mothering parenting zines https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/54c660412b652d268c5af64316a5df17.png 248f4b189b267a0432c3d1e4ef4b9942 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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. Curator Michelle Hartney Curatorial Statement MOTHER LOAD is an interdisciplinary show featuring female identifying visual artists, musicians, dancers, writers, and performers making work about fertility, miscarriage, pregnancy, birth, postpartum depression and PTSD, postpartum sexuality, and motherhood. Artists Seeley Cardone <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/100">Christa Donnor</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/298">Aimee Gilmore</a> Katrina Majkut Michelle Hartney <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/42">Lise Haller Baggesen</a> Lea Tschilds Angela James She Speaks In Tongues Becky Levi Mary Sue Reese Michi Jigarjian <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/237">Qiana Mestrich</a> Christen Clifford Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mother-load-tickets-61180257798" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mother-load-tickets-61180257798</a> Gallery Collaboraction Theatre Company Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois USA Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) May 25, 2019 Topic fertility miscarriage pregnancy birth postpartum depression PTSD postpartum sexuality 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 Mother Load https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/fe072dff387d5e4d432492a42c1a516c.jpeg f3b54364e219c8f12a877dd1ec0bac3c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.motherinthemother.co.uk/exhibition" target="_blank">https://www.motherinthemother.co.uk/exhibition</a> Curator Melissa Hardwick Ruth Sidgwick Carolyn Hassan Gallery <a href="http://freespaceproject.org/exhibitions/" target="_blank">Free Space Gallery</a> <a href="https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/fresh-arts/fresh-arts-exhibitions" target="_blank">Fresh Arts</a> <a href="http://kwmc.org.uk/projects/category/exhibitions/" target="_blank">Knowle West Media Centre</a> Curatorial Statement A mixed media, exploration of maternal lineage. Shows work created over a three year participatory arts 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/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pippa Robinson Title A name given to the resource Mother in the Mother exhibition maternal lineage motherhood https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/ad2607adc05b4fa0fc7c2a06549bc918.jpg 4fd9652339028699e31195912a37f5b5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://monikastocktonmadd.wixsite.com/maddux">https://monikastocktonmadd.wixsite.com/maddux</a> Medium installation sculpture Location The location of the interview Wichita Kansas USA Artist Statement My research is into the multiple aspects of motherhood and I am investigating the obsession that develops in response to the psychological impact of loss, specifically the effects of miscarriage. To that I’ve added a study about the desire to become like my mother and the inability to do the same mother/daughter things I had anticipated. This desire developed into an obsession. I am curious about why I feel I need to produce a female offspring. I have asked myself if it stems from a maternal need that is unfulfilled by my sons, or if it was ingrained in me by my family dynamic, the environment in which I was raised. I was either naturally predisposed to nurture or I was trained, from the beginning, when I received my first doll that cared for, pretended was my own child and named her Hannah. My mother had 3 daughters and she made matching dresses for us and I couldn’t wait until I had a daughter to wear my handmade dresses. I am examining whether it is that I WANT to be like my mother or that I am EXPECTED to be like my mother. The narratives of MONIKAHOUSE are; motherhood, loss caused by miscarriage, obsession and its manifestations, desperation, dealing with resolution and hard adoptions of reality. All the work stems from this ‘brain’. It represents all my experiences as a mother, a daughter, a sister, a wife. In this space, I can create or recreate any experience I wish. It is an environment akin to a forest. It is often that you are not allowed to remove or even directly interact with the environment, however, you are encouraged to simply observe. An experience that is no less dynamic than if you were allowed to interact. Think Hiking verses Camping. For the last several years I have been creating rooms in a house, now I am using a house for installations of rooms. My thesis exhibition consists of sixteen rooms in an 1891 Queen Anne home that I have transformed into my life size dollhouse. I have used textiles, ready-made objects from my childhood, furniture and building materials, to create a continuous body of work. Topic miscarriage fertility infertility keepsakes obsession pregnancy tests installation art performance art dollhouse life size dollhouse monikahouse womanhouse motherhood loss daughter Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. MONIKAHOUSE in Riverside. MFA Thesis Exhibition. Wichita, KS. (2019) Publications A catalog or monograph published by the artist Sometime Babies Die, Children’s Book. March 2019 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monika Stockton Maddux daughter dollhouse fertility infertility installation installation art keepsakes life size dollhouse loss miscarriage monikahouse motherhood obsession performance art pregnancy tests sculpture womanhouse Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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/1b56b3d70b80bd400495dc36b3301c02.jpg fa4b4821ac98d74b9b927c562f75eb7e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.mirtakupferminc.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.mirtakupferminc.net/</a> <a href="http://www.gitterarts.net/mothers_info.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.gitterarts.net/mothers_info.htm</a> Medium textile sculpture Location The location of the interview Buenos Aires Argentina Artist Statement With everything what represents in general the role of the mother and in Jewish culture in particular ,Mirta Kupferminc´s work caused surprise to the artist herself . The impact around the presented work , overflowed any expectations about it. Mirta approaches that mother from seeking and highlight the multiple aspects of this multifaceted role , especially emphasizing its individuality as a woman but also as a collective and even mythological aspect. Mirta choose to work loyal to her eclectic style which prevails the transgression of structures and aesthetic formalities : appeals to the use of different materials and techniques responding exclusively to her conceptual idea and practical needs in every case . The artist says : “My proposal is to make soft habitable sculptures that function as attire , clothes , or a dress. Given that clothing covers us , but also allows us to show who we are. That “second skin” shows out an image, but as I can get inside “the body ” , I am submitting myself to the experience of being “ in” that mom´s body. ” As in concentric circles, where one lives inside the other, the artist creates a sculpture with a specific gravity itself but where the symbolic proposal is reinforced when one manages to get inside the artwork, literally. A living sculpture that can protect or devour us ; both physically and symbolically. Soft sculpture whose name contains a pun : “Eve : Chair of all mothers “ refers to the chair as an object as well as to the main, the primeval . Topic motherood individuality maternal body Jewish culture clothing Wichí culture Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mirta Kupferminc Argentina Buenos Aires clothing individuality Jewish culture maternal body sculpture textile Wichí Culture https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/33a6bab520c00070ca6589ee96052224.png dc3952fb62c0494467b4dd1791738542 Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.miriamwinsor.com/the-dual-impossibilities#1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.miriamwinsor.com/the-dual-impossibilities#1</a> Medium photography writing Artist Statement Photography and text often have a symbiotic relationship; one aids and enhances our understanding of the other. We are able to create nuances of meaning by combining them. In this project, I attempt to make sense of my expectations of motherhood, the reality of the experience and my emotional responses to both. I use images and text relating to me and my daughter to explore the limitations of representation inherent in both mediums - it's impossible to fully represent the variety and breadth of the emotions or to show more than a tiny fragment of the relationship she and I share. Topic motherhood expectations v. reality childbirth maternal guilt mental health Location The location of the interview 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 Miriam Winsor childbirth maternal guilt mental health photography text writing https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/7ae7fe6a5e266d1216bb06154b8d47d2.jpg e3609d1123dbcd6f3b65b8a05d4f764a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.miriamschaer.com/" target="_blank">http://www.miriamschaer.com/</a> Medium books sculpture installation photography Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York USA Artist Statement My work is an exploration of questions for which I find no easy answers. Usually, I use a variety of materials and media to build narratives or depict the complexity of situations not easily resolved. Recently, my work has focused on the relationship of motherhood, and the absence of motherhood, especially how women without children fare in a world that values women largely for their fertility. I became sensitized to the relationships between these conditions as my own mother began to exhibit signs of dementia. As we age, how do we negotiate the role reversals inherent in coping with parents who live beyond the point at which they can care for themselves, as they become, like small children, individuals cared for by their own children, now adults? Finding no simple answers, I hope my work stimulates a dialogue about these difficult issues. Topic mother child fertility absence of motherhood childlessness by choice childlessness by chance Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Miriam Schaer book installation photography sculpture https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/80fa5756d33b7ada6ae745e7fffad753.jpg f6e860f13673dce7220473f4b7866114 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.momlists.tumblr.com" target="_blank">www.momlists.tumblr.com</a> Topic motherhood exhaustion sleep, coparenting relationship love awe struggle Medium paper pen ribbon waxed thread public art Artist Statement I am interested in using art to challenge people to think critically about cultural mythologies embedded in our everyday lives. I take familiar things, pry them open, look for truths, that people prefer stay quiet. In a cuddle session with my toddler, I find the eroticism in the pleasure of his skin on mine. My work is about careful noticing and reporting back. My current guerrilla public art project called #MomLists, consists of 150 lists about my motherhood experiences. #MomLists peels back the happy family selfies we see on social media and searches out an alternative motherhood narrative. #MomLists aims to spark dialogue and add to the conversation about parenting, motherhood, and sexism. I write about things that most moms don’t talk about: experiencing a new well inside of me bubbling with inexplicable rage, fists pounding thighs; feeling overwhelmed by how much I am needed; the pleasure I get from my son’s soft, little body. Though the writing is personal, so much of it is universal—exhaustion, gender roles, the decrease of sex in parenthood. Each list is handwritten on a 4x6 card. A top layer of bright decorative paper is sewn on top. Each piece hangs from a ribbon. The colorful paper with dangling ribbon tendrils creates a whimsical effect. The viewer wants to touch it, and unlike most art, #MomLists requires interaction. The reader has to lift the pretty exterior to get to the gritty, vulnerable list underneath. For this exhibit, I’d like to hang 30 of them in a square/box shape to mimic the box of the identity “mother.” In the sea of early parenthood, where one day bleeds into the next, the act of making—cutting, sewing, hand writing, stamping—then feeling the tangible, finished product in my hands, feels like a relief. Each piece is a clearly laid-out goal—the opposite of the uncertain, haphazard nature of raising a child. Location The location of the interview Berkeley California Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Minna Dubin Title A name given to the resource Minna Dubin paper pen ribbon waxed thread https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/cb2fe0139093e1d77edd0a7b22711e45.jpeg d683fec4742d325959658d102a71fa00 https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/fec869dac130d884d3b48fce8fde5c49.jpg 756db176e0306a7403efd79a06fe6fc7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://mindysuewittock.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://mindysuewittock.com&source=gmail&ust=1558529991740000&usg=AFQjCNE_q8zcFGKriAyNrfYSyfoq16r4oQ" rel="noopener">mindysuewittock.com</a> Topic motherhood nostalgia play memory Medium soft sculpture fiber art Artist Statement <div>In my work I use sewing and stitching techniques to create soft sculptures and textiles that are inspired by nostalgia, motherhood, play and form. I gather domestic textiles and objects to build pieces that explore the intersection of my childhood memories and my current experiences in motherhood.  As a mother working from my home studio, I am often stitching next to my daughter as she plays. It reminds me of my own childhood and I gather inspiration for the creation of my work.  I use recycled domestic textiles imbued with memories; outgrown clothing, threadbare pillowcases, sun-bleached curtains, all of which add context and familiarity to the objects I create. Each piece is overrun with purposeful embellishment adding both physical and metaphorical layers.</div> <div></div> Location The location of the interview Cedarburg Wisconsin 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 Mindy Wittock Title A name given to the resource Mindy Sue Wittock artist residence in motherhood fiber memory motherhood nostalgia play soft sculpture 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/c23bd60adda282846270f21cc288eb14.jpg 171896a27cca7f9826a4ecf00b24ecb6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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="Mpetersonart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mpetersonart.com</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview New Hampshire USA Artist Statement I focus on reclaiming the iconic image of the nursing mother through a photographic series of 35 continuous frames documenting the last time I nursed my infant titled Jamie’s Last Breast. In the images my child is clothed while I am disheveled and openly processing the intense loss that this moment signifies. The images highlight the contrasting experiences of the mother and child. The unfiltered documentation of this process is meant to be a rebuttal and a resistance to the traditional and often religious representation of the relationship between the mother and child in which the emotional experience of the mother is negated. Topic nursing weaning 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 Michelle Peterson 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/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/4eb1fa2840e363ddc85a7d7eaeb4a39e.jpg 55517596702d0601e1bd896d33e1b538 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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. Location The location of the interview Paris France Artist Statement Michele Landel creates intensely textured and airy collages using burned, quilted, and embroidered photographs and paper to explore the themes of exposure, absence, and memory. She manually manipulates digital photographs to highlight the way images hide and filter the truth. She then sews layers of paper together to create bandages and veils and to transform images into fragile maps. Michele is an American fiber artist. She studied Fine Arts and Art History at the University or Pittsburgh and the University of Texas. Prior to moving to France, she was involved with the Pittsburgh Three Rivers Arts Festival and worked for the gallery, Exit Art in NYC and the American Institute for Architecture in Washington, DC. Her work has been exhibited in the US, UK, and France. She lives and works in Sèvres, France. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://michelelandel.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://michelelandel.com/</a> Medium paper thread embroidery collage multi-media mixed media Topic loneliness exhaustion depression isolation confusion and anxiety juxtaposed with idealized domesticity and femininity 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/299" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Left Overs</a> <a href="https://www.whoisyourshero.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sheroes</a> <a href="http://www.59rivoli.org/2018/02/26/biowoman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biowoman</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 Michele Landel collage depression embroidery exhaustion isolation loneliness multi-media paper thread https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/5cab30e84930d0df39e485f7ff687319.png 6033d51b7c2c1df9340616f1db771121 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.michelejaquis.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.michelejaquis.com</a> Topic parental roles and responsibilities baby wearing miscarriage Medium video installation Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Michele Jaquis Title A name given to the resource Michele Jaquis https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/595ea613327e5dc1122c669ff47fbf8d.jpg 50a1bd741d08fe14f83ff2670e334e74 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.metrasaberova.com/">https://www.metrasaberova.com/</a> Medium video art animation performance painting installation Location The location of the interview London United Kingdom Riga Latvia Artist Statement Taking the bodily, medical and performative contents that make up my artistic practice, I use my own orchestrated experiences of medical tourism procedures as a public platform to encourage discussion about the cultural, political and social meanings assigned to the female body and its capabilities. The bodily interventions include tubal ligation in Thailand, hymenoplasty in Poland, IVF consultations in Bulgaria and full breast tattoos in Latvia. I believe that upholding the high status of motherhood and treating childfree people as deviations from the standard of motherhood is clearly limiting to childfree women in terms of their acceptance as valuable contributors to the society and as people free of biological determinism. The aim of my artistic research is to contribute to the growing field of investigation in the childfree lifestyle and to question the standard of the normativity of motherhood for women in the Western society and to link the social stigmatization of childfree people with investigations in sociology, performativity, bioethics, body art, feminism and queer theory. Topic childfree motherhood pregnancy IVF sterilization gender queer body feminism bioethics performance Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://kunstimaja.ee/2017/11/metra-saberova-pimpin-yo-mama-crib-avamine-17-11-kl-18-00">Solo show Pimpin' Yo Mama Crib, curator Šelda Puķīte, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu, Estonia</a> <a href="https://www.biennalejce.com/en/home/">Jeune Creation Europeenne touring group exhibition in France, Italy, Denmark, Romania, Spain, Portugal and Latvia in 2018/2019</a> The Next Thing, Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, Moving Image Gallery, Bury, UK MOTHER, CINEMQ, Elevator, Shanghai, China Queer Art(ists) Now, And What? Queer Arts Festival, The Mill Co. Project, London, UK International Videoart Week of Lanzarote, CIC El Almacen, Lanzarote, Canary island Hiding in plain sight, The Flying Dutchman, London, UK is this (not) a woman, tAD gallery, Texas, USA Visions, Nunnery gallery, Bow arts, London, UK RETHink Art Digital Festival, Crete, Greece Amy Johnson Festival, The 75 Seconds Film Challenge, Hull, UK Big Screen, Latitude festival, UK Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mētra Saberova animation bioethics body childfree feminism gender installation IVF Latvia London motherhood painting performance pregnancy queer Riga sterilization United Kingdom video art https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/643500edecaa26e798265f648be173e0.jpg 6c1f29580a7c796b3dcc158dbcc6b470 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.meredithstarr.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.meredithstarr.com</a> Medium drawing painting cyanotype extended reality Location The location of the interview Plainview New York Artist Statement Meredith Starr’s projects are attempts to reflect our own humanity back at us. She transforms the mundane ephemera she’s noticed, houseplants she nurtured or accidentally killed, plastic she and her family accumulated in a year, records of how her time was divided as a working mother. The medium of her projects serves the subject-matter. She simultaneously works in analog processes like cyanotype printing and contemporary technology like virtual and augmented reality, sometimes in conversation with each other. Her artworks are often metaphorical or invented landscapes with narratives that reveal relationships the body has to objects, her children, and the earth. They are tactile, immersive and often interactive. Starr uses play and humor throughout her work to make subtle commentary about the state of our ecology, domesticity and gender politics. Specific artist statements from some of the projects about Meredith's experience as a mother are described below. Tracking.... depicts a study of the pursuit of ideal uteinizing hormones and estrogen levels for conception. The recording of the daily data output from a fertility monitor attempts to bring humor to an often taboo subject- fertility, by confronting the viewer with the “smiley face” image. An investigation of identity politics, the piece juxtaposes pop culture imagery with the loss of womens’ voices and their reduction to reproductive capabilities in contemporary culture. You Have My Attention... We are made of time, and we are bound to time. Time’s elasticity and the significance we assign to how we spend it has confounded and inspired artists and writers, such as Jorge Luis Borges in his mediation on time, and Ursula K. Le Guin in her Hymn to Time. The ability to self track our time with “smart” technology now gives us the ability to trace our hours. You Have My Attention is influenced both by daily data points generated by self-tracking and “The Daily Rituals of How Artist’s Spend Their Time.” These paintings seek to expand the conversation with a visual representation of a working artist and mother’s complicated life, a reflection about its larger patterns and nuanced detail.This project is about careful observation, identity politics and the powerful patterns of daily routine. Every Second Feels Like Left...Printed with the sun, the cyanotypes in this project record brief moments of time outside during the pandemic. The artist observes, and sometimes marvels at, the brutal and enduring activity of the wasps, crickets, cicadas, mice, rabbits, and birds. “Every Second Feels Like Theft” is full of their wings, their songs, their beating hearts and sometimes their torn, broken bodies. It’s also full of the miscellany collected, used, reused, and discarded during lockdown (broken plates; abandoned egg shells; neglected houseplants; scans from medical appointments; forgotten nylons; plastic bags; lawn ornaments) and the ephemera of physical lives (baby teeth, locks of hair, beard shavings, nail clippings). The process of creating a cyanotype and watching the rich blue emerge over time is itself a metaphor for the absurd struggles of the pandemic. Through the artist’s images in Every Second Feels Like Theft, the humor and joy of forced time with family during the pandemic is revealed. The artwork contrasts with and complements poems written by Sarah Kain Gutowski as part of an 82 page manuscript, which puzzles through the sameness and silence of quarantine, the listlessness of isolation, and the slow burn of our changing relationships. Together, image and text reflect emotions the pandemic made more prevalent and more extreme in our lives as mothers: our fears, our anxieties, our devotions, our whims, our regrets, and our loves. Topic fertility mothering during the pandemic the relationship between mothering and 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 Meredith Starr https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/895074614f6ff4ecc1c8d9bc9960fc48.jpg 6ba4dc5bdb940105aba2ebf689c823a3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.mequittaahuja.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.mequittaahuja.com</a> Medium painting drawing Location The location of the interview Weston Connecticut Topic pregnancy IVF miscarriage sleep death birth grandmother maternal lineage love fertility family the body mother and child self-portraiture home domesticity grief sonograms art history Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, Curated by Adrienne L. Childs Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mequitta Ahuja 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/a00678cb4648bd9c258d7b16bb5c5eda.jpg 038dd4b061d629136ee781648dd485a9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.melissamurraynyc.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.melissamurraynyc.com</a> Medium watercolor acrylic ink on paper Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement In my new series, Mother Tongue, I am exploring the emotions associated with Motherhood. Pulling imagery from personal domestic spaces I am creating a multidimensional metaphor reflecting on the moments one has when mothering another human being. This series is a space in which I explore feelings of loss, weight, clumsiness and a joy that can only come from selflessness. Each painting in the series represents a consecutive moment in a timeline from conception to present day. They are about making new spaces where there is no room, facing death while creating life, losing yourself through transformation, they are about fear and the unknown. Mother Tongue is the journey of giving yourself entirely to another person. Topic mother mothering motherhood motherhood experience mother and child Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2019 Collage, Site:Brooklyn, NYC  2019 Every Woman Biennial, NYC  2018 Dynamic Intimacy, Kean University’s Howe Gallery, Union, NJ 2016 The Weight We Hold, Curated by Melissa Murray, Causey Contemporary, NYC 2016 Spring/Break Art Fair, NYC 2015 Echoes, A.I.R. Gallery, DUMBO, Brooklyn  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Murray https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/4895e5cde73e035f7173be6a57317a71.jpg 6020d4b1d0176ae911067d10767b8a87 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.melissalouisebolger.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.melissalouisebolger.com</a> Medium colored pencil and watercolor on paper Location The location of the interview San Francisco California Artist Statement My current work is guided by the loss of my mother, who died tragically at a young age. Many years after she died, I received a wildly colorful, crocheted Afghan blanket she had made. Holding this Afghan, I could see the hours she spent sewn through each stitch and knot. It was a profound moment in my life and a turning point for my art practice. I used this blanket as a point of reference to unlock early memories of my childhood, finding a renewed bond with my mother. I selected my favorite color square and asked my siblings to select their favorites too. I took all of our favorite colors, crocheted a granny square and then drew that object that connects us all. As I worked, I thought about all the hours that go into being a parent. I thought about domesticity and womanhood, and the creativity behind the crafts that help us meditate, heal and decompress. These realistic renderings are portraits of connections to family. These drawing are my way of giving something back to my mother and also creating something completely new from an old object. 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 Melissa Louise Bolger 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/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/91e835008ec2c94e3d453220f9b0e080.jpg 2e4243340f7cf442525a7b272ea0c771 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.meganjacobs.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.meganjacobs.com</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview New Mexico Artist Statement Hidden Mothers references the early usages of photography when exposure times were long. Mothers who wanted a photograph of their child would commonly be hidden under a piece of fabric in order for them to hold their child, thus ensuring a sharp image. The practice to omit mothers in these late 19th century images, which are often referred to as hidden mother images, says something about the value of mothers during these times. Within the series, formally similar images are created as a metaphor for the unrecognized physical and emotional work that mothers do to support and nurture their children in contemporary times. Each mother is wrapped in a floral bed linen that both elicits traditional notions of femininity and domestic spaces and recalls the memories that have been imprinted upon each mother. There is a tension between hiding and revealing: the mothers’ identities are obscured yet the vibrant sheets accentuate their presence in my series. However, the traditional hidden mother images eradicated nearly all indications of the mother's presence. The images, in other instances, expose specific aspects of the mothers’ identities. The interplay between hiding and revealing explores the complexities of motherhood and functions to illustrate the mutability of identity and in some cases an erasure of self. 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 Megan Jacobs https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/00bfda6cb5ad04958cc5ba2404c49538.gif 21cddd297930a85e7da987ad9b47609c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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. Location The location of the interview Interlochen Michigan Medium ink graphite acrylic paint oil paint animation performance Artist Statement I am a young adult cancer survivor and recently had my first child. These life events have greatly impacted my creative practice. Confronting my own mortality at age 25 and then experiencing the fragility and strength of birth, I have become obsessed with tracking time- documenting the small, routine moments of my life and my child's life. I am interested in content and parts of life that loop and repeat. I find that abstracted, repeated marks communicate the passage of time and memory best in my work. I want to give the viewer intimate, personal moments that capture the both fleeting and endless seconds of being alive. Topic documentation passage of time mortality tracking repetition play alter egos ritual autobiography Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.meganlynnhildebrandt.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.meganlynnhildebrandt.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 Megan Hildebrandt acrylic paint alter egos animation autobiography graphite ink Interlochen Michigan mortality oil paint passage of time performance play repetition ritual tracking Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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="meenakhalili.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meenakhalili.com</a> Medium digital illustration collage Artist Statement 100 Days of Honest Pregnancy is a series of illustrations documenting 100 days of preparing body and mind for the unexpected. A drawing a day in our final trimester. Wide-ranging content laced with humor, overwhelming anxiety, and simultaneous joyous excitement. Artist Bio: MEENA KHALILI is a professor of design and interaction, who makes daily drawings of things. She is an artist who uses design as a strategy for creation, and a designer who brings artistic methods to her solutions. Khalili is the recipient of the National Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement in Graphic Design by the Southeastern College Art Conference. Her work has shown at the Type Director’s Club of New York, Chicago Design Museum, and galleries throughout North America, Canada, China, Indonesia, Croatia, Australia, and Moscow, with illustrations and book art in permanent collections at the VCU Libraries Special Collections and Archives, the Omni Hotel Louisville, and the Library of Congress. Her interdisciplinary research moves between traditional design and studio art practices and explores UX, storytelling, typography, and language through design, illustration, moving image, and book art. Much of her research takes inspiration from her experience as an Iranian-American. A native of Washington, D.C. and Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Visual Art + Design, Meena holds a BFA in Illustration and an MFA in Visual Communication + Graphic Design from VCUarts and completed study at the Illustration Academy, and the LdM Institute in Florence, Italy. Meena is the Co-Chair of the National AIGA Design Educators Community Steering Committee. In addition to her international exhibitions, she maintains an active speaking schedule with engagements and workshops throughout the U.S., and internationally most recently in Hong Kong, Doha, and Venice. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meena Khalili https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/d181e83a9fec50d4b1919b83a293f633.jpg 5e0f509c843b462fca7f60eedfd69f7e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.sedimentarts.org/exhbitions/#/maternity-leave-paranatural-pregnancies-1/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.sedimentarts.org/exhbitions/#/maternity-leave-paranatural-pregnancies-1/</a> Gallery SEDIMENT Location The location of the interview Richmond Virginia United States Curatorial Statement Maternity Leave: Para-Natural Pregnancies is a collection of six suits that invoke notions of “anti-fertility” and preternatural birth. Exploring various birthing phenomena through myth-making, the outfits work to disintegrate the stigmas, regulations, and narratives surrounding the relationship between having a uterus and giving birth. With wearable suits as our medium, we give power to the performative identity. We deconstruct conventional outfit making materials to imagine a fashion that can shift our reality of what giving birth means. Our labor is interested in appropriating “women’s work”, emphasizing its gendering and selling ready-to-wear accessories to subvert the unpaid status of domestic and reproductive labor. The collection examines how pregnancy and birth distorts and redefines what is human and thus what is “femininity”. The aim is to shift the stigmas in the positive by investigating phenomena such as sci-fi human-alien hybrid birth, fetus mutation, Hippocrates’ treatises on infertile woman, female hominid ancestors, ancient birth control, and witchcraft. Ultimately, our suits embody characters that evoke the prehuman, the human, and the para-human - considering metaphorical fertility as something fluid and something to weaponize. Come see Maternity Leave with cash in hand to buy the ready-to-wear accessories with your contributions going to the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project (<a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FRRFP.net%2F&h=ATP3zIcgQws7dMMGKD1jVYRNgfjvXICZJ-MkTYCna45Q9nx1pihw4wfBSeSSEutZsJoPF4wEgvSRO-yhevQ6b3-a6NqtwrAYoWkRP6cYyaGVja0W0Ky-vEHYWQMGTx1w4djdQV5nADo&enc=AZNHwsnCw3e2FumMf0ngInE4jlI6BHsAQjDdyfSZzrg4Kz_emV47ajZbve5feNvYdQQ&s=1">RRFP.net</a>) to fund abortions for those that otherwise would not be able to afford them! Artists Kristen Sanders Devin Harclerode Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) March 3rd - 26th, 2017 Topic reproduction anti-fertility preternatural birth birth "womens' work" femininity stigmas identity Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maternity Leave: Para-Natural Pregnancies https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/d16d79190ee187e4d1818bed6299d36f.png 3db62892c829967df1dfd8c49e47c42c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Sara Ruddick Publisher Beacon Press Date of Publication March 1989 ISBN 13 978-0807014097 ISBN 10 0807014095 Topic maternal thinking peace peace politics feminist theory caretaking motherwork peacemaking feminist peace politics maternal 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 Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace feminist peace politics maternal practice maternal thinking motherwork peace peace politics Sara Ruddick https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/3b1565f38d232cfe847f0b3cbe6f629b.jpg 2e4ef58d19abdc0c233b3fade15eb390 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Editor Andrea O'Reilly Contributor The author of an article within an anthology Adrienne Rich Nancy Chodorow Sara Ruddick Alice Walker Barbara Katz Rothman bell hooks Sharon Hays Patricia Hill-Collins Julia Kristeva Kim Anderson Audre Lorde Ellen Lewin Daphne de Marneffe Ariel Gore Ann Crittenden Judith Warner Publisher Demeter Press Province of Publication Ontario Country of Publication Canada Date of Publication May 1, 2007 ISBN 13 978-1550144826 ISBN 10 1550144820 Topic maternal thinking motherhood mothering maternal theory Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maternal Theory: Essential Readings gender roles gender studies maternal maternal theory maternal thinking motherhood queer parenting Race Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.myrelchernick.com/maternalmetaphors/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.myrelchernick.com/maternalmetaphors/index.html</a> Curatorial Statement Maternal Metaphors II is the second incarnation of an exhibition that is premised upon questioning the institution and representation of motherhood and mothering in the west. The artists included in this exhibition—Camille Billops, Monica Bock and Zofia Burr, Myrel Chernick, Patricia Cué, Cheri Gaulke, Denise Ferris, Judy Gelles, Judy Glantzman, Heather Gray, Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe, Youngbok Hong, Mary Kelly, Ellen McMahon, Margaret Morgan, Gail Rebhan, Aura Rosenberg, Shelly Silver, Barbara T. Smith, Signe Theill, Beth Warshafsky, Sarah Webb, and Marion Wilson—have questioned what it means to be a mother. In their work, they have tried to challenge the hegemonic representation of motherhood as an institution that is primarily white, middle class, young, and heterosexual. They have explored their ambivalence about becoming mothers after having enjoyed successful careers as artists for many years. They have also tried to represent the pre-Oedipal obsession that they have for their children, an obsession that cannot be represented according to psychoanalytic theory. They have explored their relationship with their mothers, a relationship that also changed after they had children. At least one artist, Cheri Gaulke, has looked at what it means to be a mother outside of the hetero-normative paradigm of the nuclear family. And two of the artists, Barbara T. Smith and Camille Billops, have made work about voluntary or involuntary loss of custody because they were not “good enough” mothers. The first incarnation of Maternal Metaphors, which took place at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center in 2004, was comprised of artists that resided and worked in the U.S. For Maternal Metaphors II we have included an international roster of artists in order to include perspectives on motherhood that are not U.S. culture-centric. Patricia Cué (Mexico), Youngbok Hong (Korea), Denise Ferris (Australia), Margaret Morgan (Australia), and Signe Theill (Germany) approach motherhood through the lens of their different cultural experiences. As with the first Maternal Metaphors, we have included work in a variety of mediums, including painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture, and installation. This exhibition also includes a number of artist’s books as well as a web-based piece (Youngbok Hong). Our main criterion for selecting this work was that it be conceptually interesting and aesthetically strong. Jennie Klein January 22, 2007 Gallery Ohio University Art Gallery and Trisolini Gallery Curator Jennie Klein <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a> Artists Camille Billops Monica Bock <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a> Patricia Cué, Denise Ferris Cheri Gaulke Judy Gelles Judy Glantzman Heather Gray Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe Youngbok Hong Mary Kelly Ellen McMahon Margaret Morgan <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/114" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Gail Rebhan</a> Aura Rosenberg Shelly Silver Barbara T. Smith Signe Theill and Doublebind Beth Warshafsky Sarah Webb Marion Wilson Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) October 7 - November 4, 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 Maternal Metaphors II Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Maternal Metaphors I Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.myrelchernick.com/maternalmetaphors/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.myrelchernick.com/maternalmetaphors/index.html</a> Curatorial Statement It is with pleasure and satisfaction that I find myself writing the introduction to this catalogue: pleasure in the realization of a project that has been “in progress” for many years, and satisfaction that I can now move forward with a sense of accomplishment. During the time that I first began collecting the ideas for Maternal Metaphors, then during years of proposing the exhibit to numerous institutions and observing the responses and rejections I received, I learned a great deal about the relationship between maternal ambivalence and both popular culture and the art world. However, as I contemplated putting Maternal Metaphors behind me once and for all, I received the auspicious e-mail from the Rochester Contemporary, with tentative dates for the exhibition. It is truly an appropriate time for me to see this project come to fruition. My twins, who were eleven when I first conceived of the exhibit, are now seventeen and preparing to leave home for college in the fall. My tenure as full-time primary caregiver is almost completed. In another manifestation of my ambivalence, I both celebrate and mourn their departure. I am continually encountering young women who are grappling with the issues raised by the work in this show; it is a cycle that repeats itself, with each generation of new mothers. For these and other multiple reasons, the work remains relevant and timely, as the continuing sense of isolation and frustration felt by these women, particularly in the field of visual art, needs to be addressed and confronted. Before I had children, I could never have anticipated the consequences that motherhood would have for my artistic life. Of course I knew that time and financial constraints would multiply, that my relationship to my studio and the art world would change. But by the time my children were thinking and talking and infusing me with the creativity of childhood as well as exhausting me with their constant needs and demands, I knew that I wanted to address some aspects of this life in my artwork. I had to make art from this place. I hoped to validate my decision to have children, and in conveying some of the difficulties of this choice, to challenge the images of motherhood that I saw in popular culture. My first step was to read everything I could get my hands on that had the word mother in it, which, as an expansion of my ongoing reading about women, tended to comprise works of literary criticism, feminist psychoanalysis, and fiction. As I turn around and look at the shelf behind me while I’m writing this I see titles such as Of Woman Born (Adrienne Rich), The Reproduction of Mothering (Nancy Chodorow), The Spectral Mother (Madelon Sprengnether), The Mother/Daughter Plot (Marianne Hirsh), The Unspeakable Mother, (Deborah Kelly Kloepfer), Mother Reader (Moyra Davey), The Mother Knot (Jane Lazarre), Beloved (Toni Morrison), and many more. I found this reading to be invaluable when it came to formulating my new work. It also made me feel connected to the women who wrote these books. And so my art—having evolved from formal sculpture to multimedia installation—changed again, incorporating my current maternal needs and desires. My children while still young were happy contributors and collaborators, and this enhanced the bond between us. The resulting installations were emotionally and artistically rewarding, but when I began bringing the work into the public realm (as had been my practice in the past), I noticed some definite trends. The more explicitly involved with motherhood my work became, the more trouble I had locating venues for showing it. The reasons for this trouble were of course diverse. I was growing older. The institutions where I had connections changed personnel and ideology; new younger curators didn’t know my work, and with my limited time, caught between family, employment and artwork, I wasn't striving to remain visible. Openings and conferences were always at night or on weekends, and I barely had enough time to make the work, let alone promote myself. But there was more to it than that. I began to surmise that the subject matter was influencing these curatorial decisions. I detected certain patterns of response, certain hostilities. I felt isolated, and needed to connect with other women who were working this way. It seemed obvious to me that these artists existed, although the only work I was intensely familiar with at the time was Post-Partum Document, by Mary Kelly. I then decided to write a proposal for an exhibition. Not only would I be able to meet and create a dialogue with artists who had common concerns, but a group show of provocative work would demonstrate that there could be an interest in aspects of maternity for the art world. The proposal as well as the list of artists developed gradually. Ellen McMahon, whose work I discovered through A.I.R. Gallery’s website, was a major resource. Ellen had written a paper called “Maternity, Autonomy, Ambivalence and Loss,” which paralleled many of my concerns and interests. She introduced me to Andrea Liss, the writer and art historian from Los Angeles who was organizing a panel for the College Art Association in 1999. Andrea put me in touch with Gail Rebhan, who invited me to present a slide show in Toronto at a conference on Mothers and Sons in 1998. There I met Judy Gelles and Marion Wilson. Ellen referred me to Monica Bock the following year, who subsequently spoke on a panel with Sarah Webb at Barnard College. I saw the work of Renée Cox, Judy Glantzman and Aura Rosenberg here in New York, and when I became familiar with Mary Kelly’s lesser known maternal work, Primapara, longed to include that as well. And so the list grew and became coherent, in what has truly been a collaborative effort. My decision to produce a catalogue to accompany the exhibit with limited time at my disposal has made me ever more appreciative of the world of electronic interconnection and digital imaging and printing. Although I was helped and supported by many more friends and colleagues than I have room to mention here, I would like to thank Elizabeth McDade who accepted the proposal; my parents who so generously provided funds for the catalogue; the writers who eagerly embraced my suggestion to contribute their essays at such short notice, and whose work met all my expectations and more; the artists who worked with me, for their commiseration, shared anecdotes, and their beautiful, uncompromising, and provocative work. I would particularly like to acknowledge Ellen McMahon, who has been with me since the beginning; Monica Bock, who presented with me in New York and Toronto; and Sarah Webb, who first submitted the proposal to RoCo, and has been working assiduously and skillfully in multiple capacities to make this show happen. Finally, thanks to Don, who has always encouraged me to follow my dreams, and Sam and Tanya, who, in introducing me to maternal ambivalence, made it all possible. Myrel Chernick Gallery Rochester Contemporary Art Center Location The location of the interview Rochester New York Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a> Jennie Klein Artists Monica Bock <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a> Renée Cox Judy Gelles Judy Glantzman Mary Kelly Ellen McMahon Gail Rebhan Aura Rosenberg Sarah Webb Marion Wilson Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) April 23-May 24, 2004 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maternal Metaphors I https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/4d6f012aa30cc3cf47510a821bcd39ca.jpg d70ce63a1ab04aaa712163b687854db3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Editor Amy Hughes Braden Raina Martens Contributor The author of an article within an anthology Mother Afrodite Margaret Bakke Carolyn Chernoff Yauri Delancour Melani N. Douglass Maribeth Egan Laura Elkins Kristin Rose Gaudio Endsley Fabiola Amy Elayne Finkelstein Mel Harper LaToya Michelle Hobbs <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Irvin</a> Mariko Iwata Mariah Anne Johnson Tsedaye Makonnen China Martens Molly McIntyre Maria McLean Maggie Michael Rebecca Perez Hannah Hessel Ratner Katie Rauth Gail Susan Rebhan Julia Kim Smith Donna Teare Caitlin R. Woolsey <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megan Wynne</a> Publisher <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/336" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Artist Mother Studio</a> City of Publication Washington DC Date of Publication 2018 Topic zine Artist Mother Studio mother artists childcare community pregnancy marginalized mothers breastfeeding support systems Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maternal Journal Artist Mother Studio childcare journal maternal mother artist pregnancy Washington DC zine https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/6732e0f09bdc141fa8b163c8e4fb4623.jpg 40e732b85bb1eb38630eaf8c50ba1ba4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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. Location The location of the interview Berlin Germany About MATERNAL FANTASIES is an evolving and interdisciplinary group of international artists and cultural producers based in Berlin, Germany. We (re)connected in 2018 to share experiences and insights into the most marginalised topic within both the art world and feminist discourse: Motherhood. We join forces to embrace, discuss, elaborate and express contrasting experiences and family stories, memories, fantasies, desires and horror scenarios related to ‘Maternal Fantasies’. Currently we meet every three-weeks to examine through artistic research, collaborative artworks and lived experience the dynamics between artistic creation and motherhood seeking to shape the discourse of motherhood through our artistic working process. We are an organic group that produces works in different constellations between the individual group members. Current group members are: Aino El Solh, Hanne Klaas, Isabell Spengler, Lena Chen, Magdalena Kallenberger, Maicyra Leão, Melanie Schlachter, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Olga Sonja Thorarensen, Sandra Moskova. Organization Website <a href="https://www.maternalfantasies.net/">https://www.maternalfantasies.net/</a> Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.maternalfantasies.net/">https://www.maternalfantasies.net/</a> Medium photography video performance collective creative writing Artist Statement MATERNAL FANTASIES is an evolving and interdisciplinary group of international artists and cultural producers based in Berlin, Germany. We (re)connected in 2018 to share experiences and insights into the most marginalised topic within both the art world and feminist discourse: Motherhood. We join forces to embrace, discuss, elaborate and express contrasting experiences and family stories, memories, fantasies, desires and horror scenarios related to ‘Maternal Fantasies’. Currently we meet every three-weeks to examine through artistic research, collaborative artworks and lived experience the dynamics between artistic creation and motherhood seeking to shape the discourse of motherhood through our artistic working process. We are an organic group that produces works in different constellations between the individual group members. Current group members are: Aino El Solh, Hanne Klaas, Isabell Spengler, Lena Chen, Magdalena Kallenberger, Maicyra Leão, Melanie Schlachter, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Olga Sonja Thorarensen, Sandra Moskova. Topic academic writing ambivalence anger art art and research art history art making artist collective artist mother artist network artist residency artist/mother artistic labor artists with children artists with children binary tensions body capitalism care care labor care work caretaking choreography collaboration collaborative project community discourse contemporary art practice costume creative strategies curatorial practice daily practice daily routine daily tasks domestic objects domestic scene domestic space economy and caregiving empathy ethics everyday activities fair wages relationship feminism feminist art feminist art theory feminist theory feminist theory gesture identity ideological motherhood immigration instinct intuition of motherhood interdependence interdisciplinary intergenerational intersectionality labor maintenance maternal maternal affect maternal ambivilance maternal anxiety maternal body maternal bodies maternal care maternal collaboration maternal defense maternal desire maternal experience maternal fear maternal guilt maternal healthcare maternal identity maternal labor maternal lineage maternal mental health maternal practice maternal protection maternal relationships maternal subjectivity maternal theory maternal thinking maternal time maternal voice maternal work practice-led research race representation representations of motherhood reproductive labor resistance single mother skillshare social practice story telling studio practice subjectivity text theory time women representation Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. M1, Arthur Boskamp Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, April 2019 The photo-text installation "Like so many..." was exhibited at "Colleagues Wanted I - Superheroines and visionary associates for everyday challenges", at alpha nova galerie Berlin in September 2018. upcoming: Soloexhibition, M1 Arthur Boskamp Foundation, Hohenlockstedt, March 2020 catalogue, Maternal Fantasies, to be published March 2020 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource maternal fantasies https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/611c87fbc67064cdd3f372a57559ba6b.jpg 62459f2caf3965aef188946785c5cffd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Lisa Baraitser Publisher Routledge City of Publication London New York Date of Publication December 10, 2008 ISBN 13 978-0415455008 ISBN 10 0415455006 Topic women psychology interpersonal relations time interruptions ethics feminism mothering identity relationship sense of self psychoanalysis social theory transformation maternal 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 Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption alterity ethics feminism identity interruption mothering psychoanalysis psychology Routledge sense of self social theory time transformation https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/2a0c922b95c5f4a1da77ecf62054837b.png 1df3ad07033fd13f863141fd8265c0eb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Rosemary Betterton Publisher Manchester University Press Date of Publication February 28, 2014 ISBN 13 978-0719083488 ISBN 10 0719083486 Topic maternal body human figure pregnant body gender studies religious tradition secular tradition scientific tradition contemporary art practice visual culture maternal time interruptions ageing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maternal Bodies in the Visual Arts ageing contemporary art practice gender studies human figure interruption maternal body maternal time pregnant body religious tradition scientific tradition secular tradition visual culture https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/49ae19b4e7bfd65566ddf20f7cf1f88b.jpg c22ff7115953d4236e9dfa0963a1bc56 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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="marrinlee.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">marrinlee.com</a> Medium interdisciplinary painting soft sculpture installation collage poetry choreography Location The location of the interview San Luis Obispo California Artist Statement "I make art to move through and express the intensity of moods. Energized by acute sensitivity, I write poetry and create sculptural paintings that parallel the Natural World and experiences in Motherhood. Moving slowly, I layer ink, dye, pastel and acrylic, until friction gives way to visual balance. A tangle of abstract shapes ripple across the canvas in a choreography of color. As in life, movement is essential in the work I develop." Topic postpartum depression gender roles/equality climate change/the natural world Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Marrin Lee Martinez https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/61d4f4bca02572e9c01461fb24966766.jpg 9f7b359dc50b75736d93e3ad3daeff60 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.marketas.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.marketas.net</a> Medium drawing painting bookmaking Location The location of the interview London United Kingdom Artist Statement My practice is closely linked to my personal life. There are no boundaries between me and the viewer. Through drawing, painting and bookmaking I am sharing my internal experiences in work that has the intimacy of a personal diary." Currently I am exploring the subject of motherhood, mother-artist and female energy. The body's transformation, experienced as transition - from girl to woman, daughter to mother - is a central them in the work. Topic motherhood diary mother's diary breastfeeding labor mother-artist pregnancy body body's transformation female energy Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2018 (8) – Festival de dessin (drawing festival) La Nouvelle Manufacture, Ardeche, France (https://www.lanouvellemanufacture.org) Publications A catalog or monograph published by the artist M.A.M.A. Issue n.31: Marketa Senkyrik and Robin Silbergleid - mother's diary (for Kaya) - on-line monthly on-line publication featuring art, academic and creative writing with the aim to promote women internationally and generate cultural exchanges and opportunities run by procreate Project https://www.procreateproject.com/mama-issue-n-31-marketa-senkyrik-robin-silbergleid/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Marketa Senkyrik body body’s transformation bookmaking breastfeeding diary drawing female energy labour London mother-artist mother’s diary motherhood painting pregnancy United Kindgom Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.margarettimbrell.com" target="_blank">www.margarettimbrell.com</a> Topic parenthood data tracking calendar everyday life mundane details early parenthood sleep deprivation needlework embroidery data data visualization crying Medium fiber Artist Statement The Redwork Series documents sometimes mundane details of my life as a parent. Combined with crying children, lack of sleep, relationship changes, and other external stressors, early parenthood becomes a sort of flawed madness which I work capture in this series. Each piece incorporates traditional stitching techniques, invented needlework techniques, and data drawn from my daily life as a parent. The materials and embroidery styles directly represent details of my experience in parenthood. This series is made in a style called redwork. Redwork embroidery is quite literally red work; all the floss is red. It is a traditional European style of embroidery generally used for very domestic needlework (hand towels, aprons, tablecloths). It is stitched with red floss on white or natural colored fabric. Historically embroidery was a hobby of the upper classes and royalty. The cost of the silk floss and materials was very high until a color fast red dye developed. This allowed the middle classes to take up embroidery as a hobby. I stitch in redwork because it is recognized as a domestic and middle class style of needlework which reflects my life as a parent. In addition to working the series in redwork, I stitch each piece both front-wards and backwards. Generally the skill of a stitcher is judged by examining the back of their work. This means that both the front and backside of embroidery pieces must be well stitched to be acknowledged as a well made work. This feels very similar to parenthood. Thru social media and mommy bloggers, Martha Stewart culture and playground politics, our culture builds an impossible standard for parenthood much like making work that is as well executed on the back as it is on the front. By stitching the work in both manners, I aim to reveal my flaws as a stitcher and parent. This work is an effort to reveal my true self. For Looks Like You’ve Got Your Hands Full I’ve tracked each time someone has commented “looks like you’ve got your hands full” to me over the course of 2017. It won’t be completed until the year ends. I then stitched each date onto the respective months of my vintage stamped for embroidery tablecloth. I noticed that people repeat this specific phrase to me while I’m walking with my kids, or carrying them at the supermarket. Even at restaurants and the car wash. It’s interesting that the phrase is so consistently the same and seems to come from the same place within each person. It seems like a desire to engage and acknowledge my parenthood and the challenges of parenting young children, yet the conversation rarely progresses beyond this comment. It also seems that it occurs during a very specific period of time in parenthood. I doubt I will hear this comment as frequently when my children are teenagers. In a way this phrase is similar to a popular song that you hear all the time for a few months and then years later it reminds you of that specific Summer. As for 5 Days My One Year Olds Cried documents five specific days where I was learning and growing as a parent. Over the period of five days I tracked each time my then one year old twins cried. The piece is flawed and incomplete. One skein of red floss bled and stained the table cloth evoking a sense of interruption and imperfection. 5 Days works to capture that overwhelming emotion of being at a loss as to what to do while navigating unfamiliar terrain. It is a sort of snapshot of sitting at the table, with the nth cup of coffee at hand, hearing a child cry, struggling with uncertainty and the feeling of failing. The Redwork series is a very intimate glimpse of my experience as a parent, which is both highly universal and very specific to me and my life in the past two years. It aims to reflect the manner in which I navigate the world differently in my newish role as Mommy, and how the lens of interpersonal engagement shifted in the environment around me in response to this. Location The location of the interview San Francisco California 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 Margaret Timbrell Title A name given to the resource Margaret Timbrell California crying data data tracking data visualization early parenthood embroidery everyday activities everyday life fiber mundane details needlework San Francisco sleep deprivation https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/415e462a50b21513205d4f8ef8f79650.jpg 7f9806e579d63c5761e959b44d42e0c7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.marciasantore.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.marciasantore.com</a> Medium painting Location The location of the interview New Hampshire Artist Statement I am a contemporary painter living and working in rural New Hampshire, where I live with my husband and two sons. As a child and an adult, I have lived on all three coasts and in between, and traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Now I live in a small New England town. Much of the reason that I live where I live, see what I see, and think about what I think about, is because I am a parent. Being a parent has influenced my work by influencing the choices I have made about where and how to live. These choices, in turn, present different roads for my artwork and for my professional career as an artist than would be the case if I did not have children. Many of my artist colleagues are also artist-mothers whose situations are similar to my own. We are finding ways to work together to create opportunities for ourselves well outside of the usual “art world” venues. Painting is an essential part of who I am, and I have continued to develop my work, exhibit, and sell whenever possible. I began painting in oils in college and continued until my first pregnancy, when I switched to acrylics. This was the first example of the many times that parenthood and art needed to find new ways to coexist in my life! As a parent, I am always doing more than one thing at a time, and as an artist, I see no reason to limit myself to only one style or way of working. Most of my work is not explicitly on the subject of parenthood or reproduction. But it shows up again and again in different ways and in different series. Sometimes it’s visceral—like Lupa, a wolf with two babies. The painting is on loose canvas, nailed to the wall, with slashes from her claws. Sometimes it’s joyous and chaotic—like Strong Nuclear Force, a dancing woman with four legs and a baby under each arm. Some are mysterious—like Inside, Mothers Are Dancing, which hints at the nature of mothers together. Some are more remote—even elegiac, like The Minivan Series. It’s always been important to me as a parent to set an example for my boys of what women really are—separate individuals with their own lives, their own work, their own dreams, their own futures—not just the mothers who take care of them. At the same time, raising my children is all-consuming and wonderful. As my boys grow up, what they need from me grows and changes. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that reflected in my work. Topic motherhood parenting caretaking chaos wildness babies love loss animal nature passion ferocity Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Nourish, Museum of the White Mountains, Plymouth NH, 2020 A Second Look, Kimball-Jenkins Galleries, Concord NH, 2018 Solo exhibition: Pattern in Motion, University of Connecticut–Stamford Art Gallery, 2017 At Large, Gateway Gallery, Great Bay Community College, Portsmouth NH, 2017 MOMMA, Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth State University, Plymouth NH, 2014 (curator)Works of Fiction: Paintings by Marcia Santore, Epsom Public Library, Epsom NH, 2012 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Marcia Santore Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.mandycano.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.mandycano.com</a> Medium interdisciplinary Location The location of the interview Michigan Artist Statement Much of my practice is informed by my life experiences. Following my grandmother’s death, my mother divorced my father, joined the army and took me with her. I was 1 year old. My mother’s sisters quickly followed her path, vacating our Virginia homestead, a place my family had occupied since the mid 1600’s. Childhood was a succession of army bases and new schools. Whenever my mother went on active duty, she shipped me off to various relatives throughout the U.S. I sought locational and generational belonging in old photos and family stories. Such second hand memories became a surrogate home. This disjunctured experience of time undergirds all of my projects. I address our understanding of chronological progression, collective and personal memory, and the atemporality of ritual in a variety of ways - from performances and video, to sculptures, drawings and textile works. A diverse approach enables me to situate my personal history and practice within a larger context. For example, I often use discarded clothing, burlap, wine, tea, breastmilk, ash, human hair and ink. I am not only attracted to the physicality of these materials, but I also love their rich cultural associations. Burlap connotes labor, mourning, and poverty. It also continues to function as shipping sacks for coffee, rice, sugar and other products tainted by the history of global trade. Tea possesses similar associations. A comforting staple for much of the world, the tea trade is wed to the Anglo colonization of India, China’s Opium Wars, and the ultimate collapse of the British Empire. Wine teeters between debauchery and sacred ceremony. Hair is bodily identity, suggesting both desire and repulsion. It is the product of an aberrant beauty market, as well as a material loaded with mythological references. In harnessing the layered meanings of my materials, I access multiple times and cultures, and find a placement and purpose for my own finitude. Process is equally significant. Textile works, for example, are more than objects; rather, they are relics of a ritualistic process during which I open myself to the passing seconds, minutes, and hours. Ser Humilis is a vestige of 6 months spent hand-stitching rags. This massive shroud embodies prolonged touch and contains the histories of each fabric’s former use. I see my projects as a materialization of time, a record of my process and life. Studio production is an external reflection of my want for home. The short moments I occupy earth are couched in a larger human context in which we all are conditioned by matters of gender, race, culture, and a longing for something that exceeds those limitations. The more I labor within the studio, the more I make a place for myself within this world, and reconcile life’s brevity with a sense of belonging. Topic Intergenerational concepts of time/memory familial storytelling progenation within the context of power strugglewoman-centric 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 Mandy Cano Villalobos 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/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/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/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/331aed12c2d6bae79dd68d4f9df43522.jpeg 48f8a1be5773e10ebd8225cf66a4bb36 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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="madelinedonahue.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">madelinedonahue.com</a> Topic mother child relationship intimacy nursing attachment parenting breastfeeding Medium oil on canvas Artist Statement Madeline Donahue’s paintings explore the overwhelming absurdity and intimacy of caring for another person. She focuses on the surreal reality and physicality of the mother and child relationship. In each work, the mother attempts to perform basic aspects of a day as the child clings to hair and body parts, nonchalant, comfortably playing on her body. She uses a bold simplified palette, especially pinks and blues, colors that are cool on the spectrum but conjure warmth and life in and around the 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/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Madeline Donahue Title A name given to the resource Madeline Donahue attachment parenting intimacy mother child relationships nursing 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/c75922dcdc7442c848439e15999415ee.jpg 643c94a9a808e4b2ad45709ebf4b7584 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.whakatanemuseum.org.nz/exhibitions-and-events/mother" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.whakatanemuseum.org.nz/exhibitions-and-events/mother</a> Curator Sarah Hudson Gallery Te Kōputu - Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre Curatorial Statement M/other is an exhibition on contemporary artists from around New Zealand creating work about motherhood, mothering and maternal roles. Artist contributions from: Erena Baker, Leala Faleseuga, Rhonda Halliday, Turumeke Harrington, Claire Harris, Tash Helasdottir-Cole, Zoe Thompson-Moore, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Kararaina Toi, Justine Walker Location The location of the interview Whakatāne New Zealand Artists Erena Baker Leala Faleseuga Rhonda Halliday Turumeke Harrington Claire Harris Tash Helasdottir-Cole Zoe Thompson-Moore Jasmine Togo-Brisby Kararaina Toi Justine Walker Topic motherhood mothering maternal roles artist mother artist/mother, artistic labor artists with children autonomy binary tensions birthday parties bleeding breast milk breast pump care labor body birth contemporary art conceptual art IVF, mental health, miscarriage, maternal, needlework, postpartum, personal, women artists, women representation, domestic families feminism handwork traditions indigenous motherhood infertility intergenerational IVF mental health miscarriage maternal needlework postpartum personal women artists women representation Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) April 20 - August 17, 2019 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sarah Hudson artist mother artist/mother artistic labor artists with children autonomy binary tensions birth birthday parties bleeding body breast milk breast pump care labor conceptual art contemporary art domestic families feminism handwork traditions Indigenous motherhood infertility intergenerational IVF maternal maternal roles mental health miscarriage motherhood mothering needlework New Zealand personal postpartum Whakatāne women artists women representation 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/600e8fc9c961d937100bc4bb86a3c27f.jpg 7fe60c2949d2fd83093d3bfabc884b8a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://lupitatinnen.com/Mourning_Sickness.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://lupitatinnen.com/Mourning_Sickness.html</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview Denton Texas Artist Statement Mourning Sickness deals with my struggle with infertility beginning in September 2005. I never would have imagined that having a baby would be so much work. I was always under the false impression (thanks to my high school sex-ed class and Mexican parents) that if you have sex you will get pregnant unfailingly. For over 6 million American couples, trying to conceive is an excruciating nightmare, an emotional rollercoaster ride, which is beyond stressful. It’s demanding. It takes every ounce of energy, and when it doesn’t happen month after month, year after year, we question our womanhood. When we have to resign ourselves to alternative methods, artificial methods, it’s disheartening and overwhelming. I never thought I would be one of those women. Accepting the fact that I may remain childless has been the most difficult struggle, the biggest challenge I have ever faced. It felt much like grief, so this work is about the empty feeling and numbness that I felt as I was going through the grieving process. Topic infertility loss grief miscarriage powerlessness sadness maternal desire Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lupita Murillo Tinnen grief infertility loss maternal desire miscarriage photography powerlessness sadness https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/91feee3f0639c84ab59ba33290f2e75f.jpg 7b77811b36755297b325453817aa1126 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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="carrascoart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">carrascoart.com</a> Medium oil on canvas Location The location of the interview Colorado Springs Colorado Artist Statement I paint what I know. Sometimes it involves communicating perceptions, relationships, and feelings too difficult for me to put into words. I'm inspired by depth, continuity, love, faith, and multi-generational connections, the most meaningful things we have, and sometimes what we lose. There is a certain forgiveness of myself I must practice each time I paint. Raising a family with six children at home and caring for a mentally ill parent means that painting sessions are reduced to blocks of time lasting an hour or less. Painting in this manner reflects my current life circumstances in hurried brushstrokes and imperfections that reveal my most authentic voice. Topic birth postpartum newborn breastfeeding stretch marks postpartum body black mother Mexican mother breast milk multipara natural birth Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lupita Carrasco https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/44e88d57e7e8f081d1d9c94196f5fdee.png 9ee048aecf8f766579e5d97f130986e3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.luisacallegari.com">www.luisacallegari.com</a> Topic girls raising girls sexism baby fetus dolls pink clichés beauty grotesque gender sexuality contradictions dollhouse Medium painting video collage installation mixed media objects photography Artist Statement I am a South American women artist and mother. I believe that one of the most important art roles is to make people think and reflect about unpleasant subjects and situations that would otherwise be forgotten or passed by. In my artwork I attempt to address those delicate subjects bringing up themes such as clichés and motherhood, contradictions of the feminine universe, constructions of gender and sexuality. I make my artwork with a variety of media that goes all the way from traditional painting and photography to perishable elements and installations. Currently I am privileging the use of pink as the beginning and end of my creative process, subverting the notions of beauty and grotesque. Location The location of the interview Sao Paulo Brazil Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Luisa Callegari Title A name given to the resource Luisa Callegari baby beauty Brazil collage contradictions dollhouse dolls fetus grotesque installation mixed media objects painting photography Sao Paulo sexuality video https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/a16f5b2b980c42b728ed5fabdb89a6e5.jpg 651af13f4b95fc0f56440ee3804c16e4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.lucianarosado.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.lucianarosado.com</a> Topic memory identity failure writing list making Artist Residency in Motherhood artist/mother identity Medium painting drawing Artist Statement In recent creative explorations I am examining my inner emotions not only in relation to a very specific moment of my personal life - becoming an artist-mother- but also establishing a link with the present moment of instability and uncertainty sensed in our contemporary society. What do we keep to ourselves and what do we share with others? I explore the concepts of memory, identity and place through visual expression. Most recently, I have been interested in exploring ideas of life expectations and failure. My work focuses in visually exploring hidden thoughts, feelings and memories and I get my inspiration from the natural element Water, music and the written word. I live and work in Cambridge since 2010. I hold a Degree in Painting-Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon and I have been exhibiting regularly since 2000. Location The location of the interview Cambridge 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 Luciana Rosado artist residency in motherhood Cambridge drawing identity memory mother artist mother artist identity painting United Kingdom 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/ebeb592054897749215e89cff5fcb4a2.jpg 331173bb5b1db900926bb1ec7acb4b3c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.lorisapio.com//herdashvoice" title="http://www.lorisapio.com//herdashvoice" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.lorisapio.com//herdashvoice</a> Topic Her Voice Medium photography Artist Statement While pregnant with her oldest and the prenatal care she was receiving, Lori Sapio thought back to all the women before her who fought with such grace to have their voice heard and counted. From that, "Her Voice" was born. Her tribute to those who allowed us to have our rights and voices heard and counted. Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Lori Sapio Title A name given to the resource Lori Sapio 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/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 https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/3555828777db7d6123b909b710f23977.jpg 9dc0cc7e6b5aac5f07ee55f42869f69e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.lindseybeal.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.lindseybeal.com</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview Providence Rhode Island USA Artist Statement Reproduction(s) is a comprehensive taxonomy of contraceptive methods that uses replication and pattern to create wallpaper panels. Turning contraceptives into wallpaper allows for everyday exposure to each method. With repeated exposure comes familiarity and eventually comfort. With comfort comes use and dialogue—dialogue between partners, between parents and children, between schools and students.   Parturition is a photographic archive and written history of obstetric and gynecological tools: their appearance, development, and how they have or have not changed. Obstetrical and gynecological history is full of contradictions and complications.  Medical history has been fraught with racism and sexism—tools were often forcibly tested on the poor, the enslaved, and sex workers. Conversely, without these improved tools, many women would have had to deliver unwanted pregnancies or died in childbirth.  On the one hand, male doctors interceded into the female realm of midwifery and delivery; on the other hand, doctors saved the lives of women and infants in delivery. When I set out to photograph these items in various medical libraries, I expected to find gruesome tools; instead, I often found early forms of implements still in use today such as forceps and speculums.  Some were created pre-germ theory and used materials such as leather, wood, horn or ivory.  Others more closely resemble and use materials familiar to us today.  By photographing the tools digitally and printing them to replicate twentieth century glass educational slides, I intend to connect historical uses and developments with contemporary tools and practices.  This allows us to examine how women's reproductive health and medicine evolved, yet still remains the same. Topic education labor & delivery objects women’s health women techonology repetition reproduction research obstetrics and gynecology pregnancy photography wallpaper educational slides contraceptives birth control Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. STUMP at Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA Past as Present (solo show) at the Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Progressions (solo show) at Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unveiled at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO</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 Lindsey Beal photography Providence Rhode Island USA 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/059289226a5aa216cae1efd26d133bb8.jpg a7bb9062b217c3f6910d15d33baa2752 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.lexmarie.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.lexmarie.com</a> Medium acrylic acrylic on canvas Artist Statement As a contemporary artist, I create based on visuals concepts of the imagination and real life. Including abstract techniques in my portraits and other pieces, allows room for the audience to connect to each body of work and identify themselves somewhere in the storyline. Uniquely I chose to opt out of outlining as done in my previous works, and focused on using bold color choices. My art represents my story, but I know it’s a story many know well. Topic parenting art motherhood artist/mother artists with children breastfeeding son children everyday everyday life single mother single mothers women artists Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Artist Mother Studio x Project for Empty Space Publications A catalog or monograph published by the artist Maternal Journal #2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lex Marie https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/c4dc30d8a1edbfc6d4afbceed975b811.jpg 21b98b5853344aa58e5a730bfc30d22d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.lesliefandrich.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.lesliefandrich.com/</a> Medium textiles fabric found objects sculpture collage mixed media Artist Statement My feminist, interdisciplinary art practice considers the interplay between subject and object and the liminal nature of our bodies. I create objects and spaces that may allow the viewer to re-experience and recall moments of transformation from childhood. I am interested in the boundaries of our bodies and how we are in relationship to our domestic spaces and to each other. I am interested in the pregnant/nursing/mothering body and how it holds and cares for other bodies and how our bodies change, age and need repair. Topic bodies pregnancy the womb breastfeeding dependance family relationships 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 Leslie Fandrich 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/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/1744e229ed6936a023cbcd0a3e9c3d4c.png 0aa9dd68265a2e6a3e3ec0389b3fdba0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.procreateproject.com/portfolio/left-overs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.procreateproject.com/portfolio/left-overs/</a> Curator Dyana Gravina Curatorial Statement Artists participating in the ProCreate Project Mother Art Prize 2017 competition responded to the theme ‘Left Overs’: What’s left of our sanity, bodies, sexuality, time and identities when mothering? What remains unused or unconsumed? How do left overs feed creativity? Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/302" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mary Martins</a> Aimee Bourne Alex March Anna Hughes Daphne Groves Dawn Yow Elizabeth Schoen <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/307">Jane Glennie</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/305" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jemimah Patterson</a> Jessica Timmis Julie LeFevre Martina Hynan <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/301" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michele Landel</a> Odette Farrell Paulina Kwietniewska <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/38" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Fallon</a> Rajaa Paixao <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/312">Saskia Saunders</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/303" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stiliyana Minkovska</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/48" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tracey Kershaw</a> Gallery <a href="http://www.198.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">198 Contemporary Arts and Learning</a> Location The location of the interview London England United Kingdom Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) November 16 - 29, 2017 Topic mental health maternal time identity maternal body creativity sexuality mothering mother work Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Left Overs creativity England identity London maternal body maternal time mother work motherhood mothering ProCreate Project sexuality 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 Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.leahdevun.com/in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction#14" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.leahdevun.com/in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction#14</a> Medium film photography Location The location of the interview New Jersey Artist Statement I'm an associate professor at Rutgers University, where I teach in the departments of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. My scholarship, artwork, and curatorial practice reflect my interest in queer and trans history, science and technology, archives and collectives, and feminist activism. I'm the author of three books and edited volumes: The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance (Columbia University Press, 2021); "Trans*historicities" (with Zeb Tortorici), a special issue of the journal TSQ (Duke, 2018); and Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time (Columbia, 2009). My essays and reviews have appeared in Wired, Spot, Radical History Review, GLQ, WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly), Osiris, ASAP/Journal, postmedieval, Journal of the History of Sexuality, and a number of books. I've lectured internationally and received grants and residential fellowships from the National Science Foundation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UCLA, the Huntington Library, and the Stanford Humanities Center, among others. Topic breastfeeding birth designed maternity objects breast pumping Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Leah DeVun https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/e2fe07d653047566bbb887083365e87b.jpg 9d854b495ac4b8d5d5da08404628bd73 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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. Location The location of the interview Edinburgh Scotland Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/</a> <a href="http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/artist-residency-in-motherhood/" target="_blank">http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/artist-residency-in-motherhood/</a> Medium collage installation photography text installation Artist Statement My work explores the ever changing roles and identities we take on as artist-mothers and how these multi faceted identities can be both connected and conflicted. Motherhood; a concept both revered and ignored, informs the works I produce through a mixed media approach; collage, photography, text installation and sculpture all come together and allow me to investigate my own multi faceted identity through a process of visual experimentation and written investigations. Topic Artists Residency in Motherhood identity artist 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 Lauren McLaughlin artist residency in motherhood collage Edinburg identity installation photography Scotland sculpture text installation https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/9e1104e61d059a720769b7d52ca2beec.jpg 9e9bda35945a74a8607230e2d0ed11c4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://laurenfrancesevans.com/">http://laurenfrancesevans.com/</a> Medium sculpture collage video installation Location The location of the interview Birmingham Alabama USA Artist Statement As an artist, I am intrigued by the materiality of the flesh and believe it to function as a microcosm that points to various aspects of the immaterial human experience. Years before ever becoming a parent, I was already fascinated by the spiritual and cosmic significance of the human belly button and its relationship to the creative act. As a child I pulled at mine, trying to flip it inside out. Years later, as a graduate student, I poured plaster into it regularly, making castings of its negative space. The belly button is the first mark that life leaves on the body; it is a scar that points to our origins. Many creation myths describe our world as originating from a central point. The Greek term omphalos (navel) can refer to various symbolic centers that are believed to connect the earthly and divine. Just as the human belly button marks our connection to (and inevitable separation from) our mothers, these so-called navels of the world are often associated with myths of cosmic origin, functioning as physical markers of the very sites at which our earth was supposedly born into existence. This symbolism can be found across cultures and religions: ziggurats, temples, holy mountains, the tree of life, and more. I’m excited and inspired by the navel, umbilical cord, and placenta as both site and symbol of the simultaneity that is embedded in the human experience. Questions of origin and existence are constantly shaping how I think about my creative work, and my belief is that the work of the artist, and perhaps especially the mother artist, is primarily ontological. Just as the human belly button marks both a connection to and a separation from our physical origins, the work that I make points to a similar simultaneity of opposites, referencing the body’s attraction and repulsion but also the immaterial void of human longing in us all. Before becoming a mother, I thought of attachment and separation as psychologies experienced by the child. I didn’t realize until experiencing it firsthand that, not unlike the blood circulating through the placenta, these psychologies very much go both ways. I’ve been thinking a lot about this entanglement and have been working it out in a recent body of work. At times I imagine vividly that my daughter and I are still connected by this cord. It’s a tug of war. Often, I tug at the cord, longing for my independence from her, and more often than not, she tugs to bring me closer, unwilling to let me exist apart from her. Topic pregnancy breastfeeding let down reflex placenta umbilical cord belly button knots faith religion christianity attachment extended breastfeeding creative act origins symbolic centers Virgin Mary Christ breastmilk breast milk miscarriage birth and death birth artist mother artist parents art artist network artist/mother artist/parent/academic bedsharing cosleeping body bodies boundaries devine feminine early motherhood early parenthood education embodied motherhood embroidery family and career female body feminist gestation lactation Madonna maternal materiality milk nursing pieta subjectivity teaching ritual Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Wrapped Up, Tied Up, Tangled Up – solo – 2019 – Samford Art Gallery – Samford University – Birmingham, AL ArtFields – 2019 - The ROB – Lake City, SC Art|Mother – Unfinished Business Art Show – 2019 – Los Angeles, CA Are We There Yet? – CIVA Juried Exhibition (forthcoming - June) – 2019 – Johnson Gallery– Bethel University – St. Paul, MN Simultaneous Letdown – solo – 2019 (forthcoming - October) – Gatewood Gallery – University of North Carolina, at Greensboro – Greensboro, NC Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lauren Frances Evans https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/323182115e14ad6719e32ae41d2b4e30.jpg 0f5855b7f6f96e1c96fc432cbd52c06c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://laurayuile.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://laurayuile.com</a> Medium installation sculpture video performance Location The location of the interview London United Kingdom Artist Statement My work is multidisciplinary, installation-based, and performative, exploring notions of the domestic and the urban through the intimate (or public) matters of living together; personal care and household maintenance; wellness and well-being; and the effects of globalization and technological development upon living space. Propelled by narrative, installations probe issues of social discomfort and our cultural obsession with cleanliness; the methods through which society sanitizes women; our desire for quick-fix methods of self-help and self-care; and the increasing invisibility of technological infrastructure in the urban and domestic landscape. I have recently been the societal tendency to position the figure of the Child as representative of “the future” – a reliance on reproductive futurism - and the problems of this representation for those who choose not to reproduce or cannot reproduce. I’m interested in positioning issues of social reproduction alongside those of biological reproduction and exploring the notion of reproductive futurity alongside the neoliberal characteristic of cleanliness as generating a forward-facing pathway. I’m interested in deconstructing notions of “the future” and asking questions about ideas of care in relation to reproductive futurity and the drive for technological “innovation”. Topic reproduction reproductive futurity family care feminism queer non-binary the body domesticity labor home future technology childfree childlessness by choice childlessness by chance Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. nGbK (Berlin); Galerie Kunstbuero (Vienna); Apexart (New York); The Blackwood Gallery (Toronto); Recent Activity (Birmingham); Tate Britain (London); Mauve (Vienna); t-space (Milan) and Collective (Edinburgh). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Yuile Care domesticity family feminism home installation labour non-binary performance. queer reproduction reproductive futurity sculpture technology the body the future video Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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/bc8afbc896900c48f838da3731daf56f.jpg 97ed7c85ebc196109cb2791ecedff757 https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/5ac91965cdb2be5058300bd76ece850b.JPG bf367e1ab6cc23558ea68e4f0437a26f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://lauraendacott.com/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://lauraendacott.com/home.html</a> Medium sculpture installation performance Location The location of the interview Montreal Quebec Canada Artist Statement Laura Endacott is a practicing artist whose research speaks to the contemporary mother and how it is linked to social movements, cultural activism and intellectual histories that challenge, yet enable the category of maternal art histories, as a site for knowledge production today. Her MA SIP degree (Specialized Individual Programs) combined Studio Art Production and Art History, and she is one of a few artist scholars in Canada, that explores and teaches the critical work that deals with the complex representations of the mother image. Her activities include her practice, her teaching, conference presentations and writing.  Her recent work considers the body as an archive. As such she is interested in social life and articulations of agency using performance. She considers her work to be in the tradition of storytelling. Her large-scale sculptures, performances and installations are part of an interdisciplinary practice. Her work has been included in a new anthology entitled Performing Motherhood (2014) and she has exhibited in museums such as The Orillia Museum of Art & History (2014), Le Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec (2009) and The Textile Museum of Canada (2000). Her work has been included in artist-run galleries as well as non-traditional spaces such as the <a href="http://bankonart.net/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://bankonart.net&source=gmail&ust=1558813210697000&usg=AFQjCNGI43acyTgOwD_uxFs0ROjjLp5PEQ">bankonart.net</a> (2010), The Gladstone Hotel (2008) along with online exhibitions such as ArtWiki: Open Data for the Arts (2012). In 2014, the textiles objects she produced and that were used in a series of performances she staged in public space, were collected into the permanent collection of the Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec. It was the first time any craft object linked to contemporary performative work was included in their collection, which represents the largest craft collection in Quebec. Topic motherhood identity biological mothers symbolic mothers domestic space public 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 Laura Endacott biological mothers Canada domestic space identity installtion Montreal motherhood performance public space Quebec sculpture symbolic mothers https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/1cc34dcefc8100f79d581a36bfb35d00.jpg 4e7714fa914d6fb9650b4df0465461bf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.lauraclarke.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.lauraclarke.co.uk</a> Medium print Location The location of the interview Bath United Kingdom Artist Statement I wanted to make work that looked at the ritual of cleansing. In our house the bathtub is part of a nighty ritual before bed, but like every activity in our house it is not a private affair. This image shows how virtually impossible physical space is as a mother of small children. Liminality is created through the use of breastmilk; a cleansing, healing, nourishing potion, but also the very thing that often leads me to feel ‘touched out’. Topic motherhood touched out breastfeeding parental exhaustion breastfeeding aversion bath time ritual breast milk Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Home Sweet Home, Exhibited with the Rented by the Hour collective 2020Maternochronics Maternal Exhaustion in the Time of Pandemic, Virtual Exhibtion 2021 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Clarke https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/d1ce3adc07ffd4a50f526eddfe325ad9.jpg a7589c080b9e8b456f20d2c46b2809fb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.larysabauge.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.larysabauge.com</a> Medium performance art video Location The location of the interview Amsterdam Artist Statement My work challenges the very nature of the concept of belonging, roots, the necessity of being part of something bigger, a family, a tribe, a community, etc. I take this basic instinct as a main poetic driving force, I am on a quest of reestablishing (lost) connections between people. Strongly influenced by the socially engaged and feminist art practices, I usually work directly with the context and collaborate with concrete people in form of interview, collective music making, improvised theatre. Having gathered this material, I create embodied experiences (performance art pieces), often using sound and participative practices in public spaces. In the performance CÁRITAS, me (still childless, choosing then to be childfree) and my childless 70-yearold friend are in a barn with young cows raised for meat only. The piece is a reflection on what is female body if not used for reproduction, how does the maternity of our beings manifest itself. Topic female body identity belonging connection maternity Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Larysa Bauge https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/a5371270875afae8a07304ffaa059b71.jpg 24a096a49fe1877eee95d021db98dc59 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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. Curatorial Statement The Pearl Conard Gallery at Ohio State Mansfield is proud to present Labors: An Exhibition Exploring the Complexities of Motherhood, curated by Kate Shannon, Associate Professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State. The exhibition is made possible through a Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant for Research on Women, Gender, and Gender Equity from the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. Shannon says, “I am a visual artist and a new mother. As I begin to examine this life transition artistically, I am seeking out other artists who address motherhood in their work. Labors is an exhibition that explores the complexities of motherhood while giving other mother-artists a platform to share their joys, anxieties, and traumas.” Topic motherhood joy trauma anxiety Location The location of the interview Pearl Conard Gallery Curator Kate Shannon Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Monday, February 26 – Friday, March 23, 2018 Exhibition Website <a href="https://u.osu.edu/pcagallery/upcoming-exhibition/" target="_blank">https://u.osu.edu/pcagallery/upcoming-exhibition/</a> Gallery Pearl Conard Gallery Artists Erin Holscher Almazan Diana Baumbach Adina Bricklin Erin Elizabeth Allison Ellingson Nicole Foran Zoe Freney Jessica Gardner Megan Hildebrandt Victoria Hoyt <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/1" target="_blank">Sarah Irvin</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/27" target="_blank">Courtney Kessel</a> Minus Plato Clare Qualmann Kaitlynn Redell Sheilah Restack Corrie Thompson Ellen J. 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 Labors anxiety joy labor motherhood Ohio Pearl Conard Gallery The Ohio State University trauma https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/94061856528e19fd534e5fe3c5e1ab54.pdf ebfa7116c13165896874877f0141377f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.chuparosafilms.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.chuparosafilms.com</a> Topic video diary early motherhood Medium video Artist Statement Kristy Guevara-Flanagan’s first feature-length film was an acclaimed documentary covering four years in the lives of four adolescent girls. GOING ON 13 was an official selection of Tribeca, Silverdocs, and many other film festivals worldwide. It received funding from ITVS and was broadcast on public television in 2009. Kristy has also produced and directed several short films, including EL CORRIDO DE CECILIA RIOS, winner of the Golden Gate Award for Best Bay Area Short Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival, a chronicle of the violent death of 15-year-old Cecilia Rios. It was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and subsequently broadcast on the Sundance Channel. Her most recent feature, WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES, traces the evolution and legacy of the comic book hero Wonder Woman as a way to reflect on society’s anxieties about women’s liberation. The film garnered numerous awards, premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in 2012 and was broadcast on PBS's Independent Lens series in 2013. Now an Assistant Professor at UCLA, Kristy holds a MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University. Her recent short, WHAT HAPPENED TO HER premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian Film Festival wherein it received an Honorable Mention for best short. Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Kristy Guevara-Flanagan Title A name given to the resource Kristy Guevara-Flanagan early motherhood motherhood video https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/b4c9002cdbafaf9cf29770e54bf1ba03.jpg 2ded2926e8699fc60c27e07463e7cc54 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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="kristycavaretta.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kristycavaretta.com</a> Medium printmaking woodblock direct object printmaking cyanotype Location The location of the interview Maine Artist Statement Kristy explores the minutia of domestic life through a variety of media. Topic early motherhood, maternal fatigue, domestic waste maternal fatigue domestic waste Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kristy Cavaretta 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/719a8276d61f3d5a6b4cb200ee13f009.jpg bb5a155d3a4ad44118111b4691d53f6f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.kristinskees.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kristinskees.com</a> Medium photography fiber art Location The location of the interview Virginia USA Artist Statement The ongoing Cozy Portrait portrait series combines traditional women’s craft, contemporary DIY culture, portraiture, and a love of the unexpected and absurd. This work morphs and conforms to each person I photograph and the cozy is custom made for each subject. Reminiscent of an ill-fitting handmade sweater, the cozy represents the fine line between comfort and constriction. It is simultaneously a warm cocoon and a claustrophobic straight-jacket. It is this relationship of artist and subject that represents my own journey as a daughter and a mother. For me, these primal relationships are fraught with contradictions. Where protection becomes suppression, and one’s identity is consumed, blurred and defined by that relationship. In addition to the Cozy Portrait series, these themes of motherhood and identity are explored throughout my work, including the photographic series Mother/Artist, Yawning Beagles, Tiny Trophies, and others Topic caretaking mothering cozy craft fiber knitting cocoon protecting daughter constriction identity motherhood Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Cozy Portraits, solo exhibition, New Image Gallery, James Madison University, VA, 2018Mother / Artist, solo exhibition, the Charles H. Taylor Art Center, Hampton, VA, 2018Yawning Beagles, solo show, Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA, 2013Family Matters, PhotoPlace Gallery, (Online Annex), Middlebury, VT,, 2015 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kristin Skees https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/b0fc00b9d713445533d6cff753aef741.jpg 63b281c9333f67b715144260b82d24b1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.kimyibo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kimyibo.com</a> Medium printmaking installation drawing cards Location The location of the interview Geneva Switzerland Seoul Korea Los Angeles California Artist Statement Since 2010 my art has been about processing my experience of giving birth to and raising children—both the emotional aspect of it and the social context in which my stories are situated. To create a space of shared reflection, I created a collective called Institute of Mothering Artists, IOMA. Here is an excerpt from the manifesto of IOMA: “We are writing a new definition of the word “mother” where the work of caring does not assume a body of a woman, hence we want to use “mother” as an action verb. To mother means to care for or to protect someone or something.” (an excerpt from the manifesto for Institute of Mothering Artists, 2018) My thoughts on “mothering” were inspired by the stance of women who were mothering in the margins. In a book “Revolutionary Mothering,” a collection of writings by radical and queer black feminists, the editors Alexis Pauline Gumbs and China Martens, define mothering as an act of caring, nurturing, affirming, and supporting life. For me, mothering is doing the reproductive labor with love and using this very act of caring for others to fight the injustice. It is transforming the society while being transformed by the act of caring. In my personal art making, I try to capture this metamorphosing process that takes place when we take care of one another. The spaces I create through drawing, printmaking and installation become a metaphoric place where the visual elements and logic recreate the dynamics of interpersonal relationships. Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2018 oh motHER, Custom House Leith, Edinburgh, UK 2018 Casual Kitchen Art, Curated by Super Ego, Junkere 11, Bern, Switzerland 2018 À Table, Ressources Urbaines, Genève, Switzerland 2017 Paradoxical, Pneu, Velodrome Jonction, Genève, Switzerland 2012 Reflections (Duo Exhibition), Paul Whitney Larson Gallery, University of Minnesota, MN, USA 2012 Blessings II, Gage Family Art Gallery, Augsburg College, MN, USA 2011 Women: Relationship and Identity, Curated by Sarah Sampedro, Homewood Studios, MN, USA Topic art art world artist collective artist mother care care giving care labor care taking care work caregivers caregiving emotional space feminism feminist feminist art history gender gender equality interdependence maternal ambivalence maternal care maternal subjectivity mother artist mother artists motherhood and art motherhood and social context mothering racialized mothering revolutionary mothering queer parenting representation of motherhood reproductive labor social justice transformation Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KimyiBo 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/681c9b5227f53eab902989641c4a2d45.jpeg 7e0d5a8c269b9772523a792b507f914c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://kiaelena.format.com">https://kiaelena.format.com</a> Topic early parenthood identity accidents adulthood anxiety art making artist mother motherhood baby birth breastfeeding building caregiving domestic object everyday exhaustion daily routine guild feeding the family humor loss of self Medium photography Artist Statement Nothing can prepare you for parenthood is a phrase often shared with a knowing half-smile that belies the over-exhaustion in the wake of superiority (or is it pride?) . Replying with hollow grins, I secretly wanted to smack every single person who uttered that phrase. And yet, they were right. For the record, also totally justified in their self-satisfaction. It turns out that something as ubiquitous and ‘natural’ as growing, giving birth to, and caring for your progeny has a long adjustment period. It’s not just the changing diapers, the schedules, the meal times, the money, the dressing, the undressing, the endless battle for sleep. It’s not just the negotiation of how your time is spent, and how to best care for your family, your home, and your future. A year in, and I still don’t feel like I’ve joined the ranks of those we call “parents” or “mothers.” This series, made from moments stolen during the odd nap or distraction, is a reckoning and a tool. It’s an attempt to connect who I was with who I have become, now that my life is filled with the incessant though profound mundanity of clearing scraps of food from a high chair, finding matching socks, nursing, teaching, exposing, loving–performing the theater of life to an awed audience of one. Location The location of the interview Providence Rhode Island Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Kia Elena Petrovic Davis Title A name given to the resource Kia Elena Petrovic Davis early parenthood identity photography Providence Rhode Island USA https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/dbf510398441a66b00d1f9fb6eeedcdd.jpg fb056ef854b2494907465f684f16d3d8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.kellymarshallfineart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kellymarshallfineart.com</a> Medium performance sculpture Location The location of the interview San Diego California USA Artist Statement As a visual artist, I have long been interested in using abstract images and multimedia applications to investigate gendered and sexualized experiences. I am confronting my profound anger about the treatment of women in both historical and contemporary social contexts through violence, marginalization, discrimination, and bias. That anger is matched by my interest in the aesthetic experience of beauty and exploring forms that inspire that experience. Throughout my art practice, I am gathering fabric and shaping it over my body, to explore a relationship between women’s labor, the domestic space, and my personal experience of it. I am also examining how these roles impact privacy, intimacy, and cultural dictations of motherhood. With the curve of my body on the hard concrete and a tablecloth as my only cover, I contemplate the weight of isolation as in contrast to privacy. These textiles are charged with ontologies that circulate around the history of adornments and their role in a marketplace that thrives because of their investment in images of women as sexual objects, and their dependence on the labor of bodies that have been historically disenfranchised because of their class, race, and gender. Topic domesticity birth injury invisible labor intimacy bodies Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kelly Marshall https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/36394bdcacf33ee3a2bc32e7e51704cc.jpg dda10ce5d1d0c9ba19ac9d9ac680acb9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.katrinwoelger.com Topic song of myself or (m)other mother/daughter performance mother/daughter (m)other Medium performance Artist Statement Felicitas wish and talent to perform was the first reason to present this sequel. "song of myself or (m)other" is about a mother and her daughter. It revolves around being different as a distinction or devaluation, about otherness and holding your own at the start of adulthood and in the working world. It raises questions about the individual’s need for protection in the collective, about equal rights for people with disabilities and about the care expected from the state and one’s family. As a sequel it is intented to show once a year a "status quo", a performative description of the present situation, always in different surroundungs and different formats. Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Katrin Wölger Title A name given to the resource Katrinamuri Wölger video https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/7a6567d913b556fd061f90b15665c316.jpg 599d03065323456b1fa66c00a0535c1a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.instagram.com/katie.gresham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.instagram.com/katie.gresham</a> Medium fiber arts embroidery collage painting drawing Location The location of the interview Washington DC Artist Statement Using my own postpartum and motherhood experiences as inspiration and reference, I make art across mediums to express the suppressed emotions and burdens of mothering and caregiving in contemporary society. The mother figures are slumped, holding themselves up under immense weight, and either faceless or with faces overwhelmed by intense emotion. In my embroidery series, self-portraits are stitched in dusty cream colored thread that is nearly camouflaged against stained, once white kitchen towels that have been jaggedly cut in half. The faces are expressive, sometimes grotesquely so, conveying emotions that are often viewed as inappropriate for a mother in our society to have–rage, exhaustion, regret, ambivalence; faces that I reenacted privately for photo references. In contrast, the mother figures in my collage series are faceless. Their identities have been wiped away as they attempt to tend to the endless daily caregiving tasks while scores of child figures drag, climb, and play on them. This is an expression of American society’s assumption of the mother’s previous identity being erased. The child figures are colored vibrantly and cut from my children’s discarded artwork. They easily eclipse the neutral colored mother figure, cut from used parchment paper, just as a mother’s needs and desires are often overshadowed by those of her children. My work uses personal experience as a point of departure to portray and normalize ambivalence as part of the maternal experience–feeling intense negative emotions as well as unconditional love; enjoying time with one’s children as well as feeling held back or overwhelmed by them. As mainstream media and contemporary culture propagate a myth of the “perfect” or “ideal” mother, my work pushes back by validating the complicated, tense, ambivalent reality of caregiving and asserting the value of a more honest conversation about caregivers’ complex identities. Topic motherhood caregiving labor postpartum maternal body maternal experience ambivalence emotion care work artist mother 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 Katie Gresham https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/6cbd80fc0c573cf5edd9cb5758106ed0.jpg 0927308352b956175344394e46b600bd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.kathrynrodrigues.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kathrynrodrigues.com</a> Medium photography drawing mixed media Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois USA Artist Statement My current work explores ideas of transcendence within a domestic setting and the psychology of motherhood. As a primary caregiver of young children, the majority of my time is spent at home. This can sometimes feel isolating and mundane, but beginning in the late afternoon through the early evening hours our house becomes a repository for light reflections, refractions and shadows. The ghostly patches of light always take on different and fleeting forms and the imagery morphs minute by minute before disappearing abruptly. These ephemeral images appear at a time when everyone is tired, hungry and lacks self-control, providing a transitory respite from the micro-necessities of daily life and the macro-anxieties of the outside world, and facilitating a connection to the curiosities of nature and the creative spirit. The title of the series refers to both the historic, literary meaning of “The Witching Hour” as the time of night, usually between 12-3am, when the spirit world is at its most active as well as the contemporary meaning that parents of young children use to refer to the hours just before bedtime when children are at their most chaotic and intense. By choosing to photograph using medium format film, I create space and time to slowly investigate and compose these images. In some, the texture of a wall or a small chip of paint is the only aspect suggesting an object or sense of place, thereby juxtaposing the ethereal and the ordinary. This ongoing series explores the urge to find and document these fleeting but sublime moments of discovery, mystery, whimsy and hope. Topictranscendence in a domestic setting Topic transcendence in a domestic setting psychology of 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 Kathryn Rodrigues https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/a23a5ea14e03ab6a5c1b6d31af58007e.jpg b57c006d7dfb33f5bad6cae8e9a5b711 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Katherine Rutecki Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.katherinerutecki.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.katherinerutecki.com</a> Topic woman's work divisions of self as artist/mother identity Medium glass cast metal ink paper Artist Statement Katherine Rutecki is a multidisciplinary artist who specializes in cast glass sculpture and in recent years has expanded into performative works. Rutecki’s current work explores defenses and boundaries of self. She holds a BFA in sculpture from the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University, New York and a MFA in glass from Southern Illinois University, Illinois. She has been involved in several international group exhibitions, taking place at such venues as the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Ebeltoft Glass Museum in Denmark; and solo exhibitions in the US, New Zealand, and Europe. Location The location of the interview Aukland New Zealand Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Katherine Rutecki Title A name given to the resource Katherine Rutecki Aukland cast metal glass identity ink mother/artist identity New Zealand paper https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/308d72e2e3a3fbb71d27e9806c920f10.pdf 66a59f1e3ad9472ac899bbd575b5442c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.katharinabosse.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.katharinabosse.com</a> Topic A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother childcare caretaking identity Medium book photography Artist Statement After living in New York for six years, I moved to Germany and became pregnant. Nothing in my career as a photographer and artist had prepared me for this experience. Not only were the physical demands of carrying and caring for the babies challenging, it was also a forced change from everything I had learned so far: individuality, ambition and workaholism. I felt like a teenager again, changing rapidly into a new person, not knowing the outcome. I started to look for articles, and images about this process and found lots of advice, but very few actual descriptions of the unsettling shift in identity I was experiencing. And so, over the course of five years, I brought to life two children and a series of photographs. I felt compelled to undress (or dress up) and create images of motherhood I had not seen before. I gave up control of the shutter release, and got in front of the camera to extract a knowledge only my body could tell. Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Katharina Bosse Title A name given to the resource Katharina Bosse book caretaking childcare identity photography portrait 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/9b18507e7ae88974aae85765db8f8834.jpg 4fe21834f79c7c6638a6e9ca51b9ed70 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://layoftheland.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://layoftheland.net</a> Artist Statement Stroller Flâneur Pushing a baby stroller, I examine the minutiae of my suburban neighborhood searching for patterns and narratives in the genealogies of architectural structures and topographies while simultaneously searching for items of interest for my son. My observations collage both real and imagined systems into metaphors of community. The methodology informing this video is a gendered rift on the practice of the flâneur where the necessity of childcare becomes a platform for textualizing suburban space. Topic Stroller Flâneur walking performance psychogeograph Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Artist Mother Studio x Project for Empty Space Publications A catalog or monograph published by the artist Maternal Journal #2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Katerie Gladdys 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/e0f9315b56fe314160606fe89b11ca86.jpg fef98712732e3ee77f84c040e13ca6b1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://katejoranson.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://katejoranson.com/</a> Medium mixed media Location The location of the interview Pittsburg Pennsylvania Artist Statement My work as an artist, librarian, and parent are all part of an expanded practice where I activate the intersection of art-making and the labor of caregiving, maintenance work, and mindfulness. As a part of my Curiosity Archive project, I document my daughter's questions. We collaborate on re-presenting them in a variety of digital and physical forms, including artists’ books, zines, and ephemeral interventions in the built environment. Topic caregiving curiosity Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Joranson 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/8d46eefe4a3bf741272a4e491cc9d918.jpg 9fb7d587f76ef2a99024535cc68210b8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.kassandrapalmer.com/vesselproject2019" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.kassandrapalmer.com/vesselproject2019</a> Medium oil on panel Artist Statement The Vessel Project consists of a series of small oil paintings that were made in the fall of 2019 during my first pregnancy. As my body began to more and more obviously transform itself around a person I had yet to meet, I came to reconsider the concept of "the vessel" and its role relative to the things that it might hold. Expressions of a radical and common act of caretaking and compromise, these paintings are relational images that point towards the unspeakably dynamic process of making a life and a home. Topic pregnancy Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Painting at Night 2020 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kassandra Palmer https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/79e3602c91a6f1b42bb3df4f73a58c6d.jpg c26b865a69f3dcf015118280cefa2fc2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.kasiecampbell.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kasiecampbell.com</a> Location The location of the interview Edmonton Alberta Canada Artist Statement It almost feels like I have spent the past two years in isolation. I’ve been consistently trying to navigate my artistic practice through intense waves of grief over the loss of my mum, infertility/miscarriage, and a fear of dying. Things have shifted in the last 4 months, with added postpartum anxieties, healing associated with childbirth, obsessive tracking of my baby’s feeds, breastfeeding struggles and COVID 19. With the COVID pandemic, there were increased anxieties surrounding my newborns health. Will my baby be okay? What if my baby gets sick? What about check-ups? Am I feeding my baby enough? what if my milk dries up and I can’t feed my baby? What if I get sick and can't feed my baby? Am I spending adequate time with my oldest child? As a way to ease my anxieties, I started pumping breast milk. I would pump at 5:00 every morning after our first feed. I began writing thoughts or worries along with the date on each bag of breastmilk. I would then photograph the bags of breastmilk as a way to document life postpartum, anxieties about mumhood and life in COVID19. The act of pumping breastmilk and freezing was a ritualistic and meditative way for me to cope and eased anxieties around getting sick and not being able to feed my baby. Postpartum anxieties are exacerbated by the times we are living in. Topic breastfeeding nursing care taking motherhood parenting breastmilk pumping milk newborn newborn care postpartum postpartum anxieties grief mourning Covid-19 pandemic Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Maternochronics Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kasie Campbell https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/1d7cbcc099c9c51002a6c84585372f4a.jpg 54431b2f4372a0d44c772b74e9acd1ed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.kasiaozga.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kasiaozga.com</a> Topic pregnancy motherhood birth breastfeeding Medium works on paper Artist Statement My work begins and ends in the human body. Our remnants (what we cast off and leave behind in the form of waste, trash, memory etc.) ground and connect us to the earth. My work asks where the things in our lives come from and where they go once we’ve used them. By representing and re-animating remains, I explore the potential of materials to ask questions and to evoke larger environmental relationships. I treat the products of our culture as physical remains of our bodies and explore how we generate objects as physical extensions of ourselves. With man-made forms, materials, and processes, I extend, inhibit, and modify elements of the human body. I reuse, up-cycle, and revalue regular, standardized, and mass-produced materials into something one-of-a-kind and special to invert the associations we make with different types of detritus. My raw materials are manufactured products with a particular use history and product life cycle. Whether bastardized industrially produced goods in the white cube or surreal interventions in public spaces, my work explores the limits of functionality and worth. I give a human dimension to physical sites by foregrounding their historical/narrative aspects and input human features into sterile goods by cutting, breaking, gluing, and carving them into forms that evoke the human body. These artworks are at once physical things and conceptual spaces. Through the physical labor and limitations of my own body, I questions which bodies are present and missing in political and cultural discourses. I explore the anatomical potential of the female body as a material metaphor for our actions that ask viewers whether our current situation is fixed or not and how change can emerge. Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Kasia Ozga Title A name given to the resource Kasia Ozga https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/e4041556ff44c6099ff6a04645776175.jpg 57f4010fd281a7a879a36d9f874d79c0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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="kaseyjonesart.com">kaseyjonesart.com</a> Topic motherhood breastfeeding paid leave working mom stay at home parent Medium interdisciplinary Artist Statement My creative pursuits are fueled by my need to connect with people. Through this human interaction, I become more connected to my immediate community and my global community. I use my artistic voice as a means for civic duty. My work instigates dialogue that forces my viewers to confront issues that are typically hard to talk about. I create both large-scale, participatory art projects as well as develop personal work that responds to pertinent social and environmental injustices that impact my life and the lives of others. As an interdisciplinary artist my approach is rooted in the exploration of material. By having an open-ended view of what materials I can use, my art making process is constantly being pushed by the varying limitations each material may have. My exploration of media has lead me to develop bodies of work in painting, photography, sculpture, living sculptures, audio, video, light and textiles. My current work focuses on the injustices I have faced through my experiences of being a woman and a mother in contemporary society. I have created bodies of work that examine topics such as breastfeeding, lack of paid maternity leave, menstruation, and motherhood. Location The location of the interview Athens Ohio USA 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/296">The Art of Breastfeeding: Modern Narratives of Motherhood</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 Kasey Jones Title A name given to the resource Kasey Jones Athens breastfeeding interdisciplinary motherhood Ohio paid leave stay at home parent USA working mom https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/b8f9a27a65130e9bc8f61b971e1824c6.jpg 596f3ff6267445b86d6757bdd7981185 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.karolinalavergne.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.karolinalavergne.com</a> Medium video art photography writing Location The location of the interview Los Angeles California Artist Statement Karolina Lavergne is a video artist and writer based in Los Angeles. She has an MFA in Graduate Fine Art from ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA. Karolina’s work explores the domestic as a sphere that is both a refuge and a trap, and in which desire is inseparable from struggle. She also uses gender as a lens through which to think through the hidden, reproductive labor of caring for oneself and others, house work, and the maternal. As a way of working, she sources her life as material, blurring the line between fiction and autobiography, construction, persona, exaggeration, truth, and lie. Topic parenting caretaking caregiving quantified self weaving fiber textiles labor domestic labor timedata visualization tracking visualization capitalism technology industrialization value repitition Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Pattern : Code, Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, California. 2019We Are Here, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California. 2020 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karolina Lavergne https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/52c9a2f5155755572f0d4d0ddb9393f2.jpg ba9943148066c4eaa654766d94c91984 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.karen-dana.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.karen-dana.com</a> Medium oil paintings Location The location of the interview Chicago Artist Statement My work depicts the multiple roles that women hands are supposed to inhabit. When I think of the women of my life, I want to visit that experience by approaching painting in various ways as an interpretation of their reality through their working hands. So, when I think of my grandmother knitting I will apply paint in a way yarn interlaces itself, positioning my hands almost like when holding needles. Or when thinking of my aunt on our closest years together I remember her baking so I will treat painting as dough. Using painting as a way to understand feminism better and the way my own personal history has develop over the years. The gratification of seeing my own experience mirrored trough the research. Each attempt gives me something specific and tangible. Painting deepened my knowledge of a legacy that intersected with my aim to understand social identities as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter, as a sister, as an artist, as a friend, as a lover, as women. When I had moved, and moved again I have to leave things unfinished, try to find comfort in the little things I own. Having a family gives me a sense of belonging. I am rooted to these people. I am their mother, their wife and companion, their lover, they need me. Then I dream about moving away yet to another place, an unknown one, far from here… they move with me, if they stay, am I still myself? The roles I play are not me but sometimes they become my identity. Topic mother immigrant parents 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 Karen Dana https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/7d7a1d6e2aefa1308e586369eb60ee09.jpg 44e8cf0416503da293da7facaab597a6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.karendmillerstudio.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.karendmillerstudio.com</a> Medium textile art Location The location of the interview Ottawa Ontario Canada Artist Statement I’ve always been drawn to fibre as a medium, at first because it is so forgiving, and later for its almost perfect versatility. It provides me with a host of materials to work with, from the thinnest of threads to the heaviest of felts, and allows me to explore dimensionality, texture, and light. And it has a long tradition to it, particularly the hooking technique that I prefer, that reaches back across generations of women whose work was seen as functional rather than aesthetic. How appropriate that I use this technique today to consider the devalued labour of women and mothers. Its slow rhythm is in opposition to much of the pace of the motherhood journey. Yet each loop of yarn brings me closer to elevating and recognizing the experiences that we as mothers have long been told society is not comfortable hearing. Topic motherhood textile art identity child-rearing Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Maternochronics Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karen D. Miller Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://karathorndike.gallery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://karathorndike.gallery</a> Medium sculpture photography Location The location of the interview Scotland Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kara Thorndike https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/b2515a610c6a207e954c3c16a06b7da0.jpeg 111335ba90a12cdd434d311a17fcd9bb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.junejewell.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.junejewell.com</a> Topic mother & child portraits mother & child portraits Medium acrylic gouache Artist Statement June Jewell is a fine & graphic artist residing in Purcellville. She is currently a stay-at-home-mama to her two & a half year old son, Calvin & newborn, Daisy & loves every minute of it. June is sometimes able to work on her paintings at night when the little tater tots are off dreaming of stomping in puddles & eating cheese or whatever it is babies dream about. June loves painting quirky animals & nature subjects, abstract works, & recently took up painting human portraits. To June, painting is cathartic & mandatory. Location The location of the interview Purcellville Virginia 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 June Jewell Title A name given to the resource June Jewell acrylic guache mother & child portraits 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/d9a5cbea904d2b33ef70b66f3f388e96.JPG 4fa0ecbb8c043761b50a6b11f3bde7b8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.julialandois.com">www.julialandois.com</a> Topic motherhood feminism language religion divine feminine abortion mother body text based Medium performance video works on paper Artist Statement My work uses pop cultural tropes and dark humor to address thorny subjects like gender roles, religion, sexuality, and borders. Explorations of language, from documentary narratives to sacred texts to remixed song lyrics, run throughout my work in performance, video, installation, and print. I play with the disjunctions that occur in language translation and use the conventions of onscreen and printed text to engage charged content. Code-switching and voice-switching then complicate the relationships between Spanish and English, masculine and feminine, victim and victimizer, abject and exalted. My projects cross a variety of media to examine the relationship between the intimate and the public, double meanings, mistranslations, and the ironic and unintended experiences of the written, sung, and spoken word. I have a number of works that address motherhood. The print series M*dres takes inspiration from use of the words mother/mom/madre in slang phrases from American English and Mexican Spanish. Serious Work is a performance that satirically contrasts the banalities of parental life with the performance artist persona, using a smartphone as mediator. The video works Don’t Explain and Star-Crossed II recontextualize popular music to look at motherhood, mothers’ bodies, and abortion through the lens of patriarchal religious traditions and the divine feminine. Julia Barbosa Landois is a performance, installation, and video artist who lives in Houston, TX with her partner and two children. Her work has been featured in galleries, museums and performance festivals in the USA, Latin America, and Europe. Awards include grants from Artpace and the Artist Foundation of San Antonio, and residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute (USA), Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (Norway), and Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Germany). Barbosa Landois holds a BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio and MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. She currently teaches at the University of Houston. Location The location of the interview Houston Texas 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 Julia Barbosa Landois Title A name given to the resource Julia Barbosa Landois abortion divine feminine feminism language mother body motherhood Religion text based https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/4e6a17c6cf7df5554155617e72ea95a3.png 8669b3498c064e133b5f73ec33df3176 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.juliabarbee.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">juliabarbee.com</a> Topic motherhood pregnancy breastfeeding motherhood as art practice play postpartum family collaboration breastfeeding advocacy food early motherhood social media moms group kids and nature naptime haiku Medium photography performance social media Location The location of the interview Oregon 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 Julia barbee Title A name given to the resource Julia Barbee breastfeeding motherhood performance photography pregnancy social media https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/85b67e83eaa0eadb0ca1088a3da25d7a.jpg e9fe2ce1c50761e9523026d2ffb77890 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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. Location The location of the interview Youngstown Ohio USA Artist Statement Joy Christiansen Erb is a contemporary photographer and artist whose creative research explores themes such as memory, identity, and storytelling.  Her most recent body of work explores the subjects of motherhood and family. This body of work is an autobiographical journey examining the lives of her family and her domestic space. The images included in the series document both the struggles and triumphs of everyday life. Her photography has gained recognition through regional and national exhibitions and lectures as well as a 2015 Ohio Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. Recent and upcoming solo exhibition venues include the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Center for the Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia, Peoria Arts Guild and the Galveston Arts Center. Recent group exhibitions include Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, OR, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. Her artwork has also been highlighted in a variety of publications including two notable textbooks. A portfolio of her most recent work is housed at the Museum of Contemporary Photography as a part of the Midwest Photographers Project in Chicago, IL. She currently resides in Youngstown, Ohio, where she is an Associate Professor of Photography at Youngstown State University. She received her B.F.A. from Miami University, Oxford, OH and her M.F.A. from Texas Woman’s University. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.joychristiansen.com/index.html">http://www.joychristiansen.com/index.html</a> Medium photography Topic mothering memory identity storytelling domestic space autobiography everyday life medical care Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Joy Christiansen Erb autobiography domestic space everyday life identity medical care memory mothering Ohio photography storytelling USA Youngstown 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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.joettamaue.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.joettamaue.com</a> Medium drawing photography textile Location The location of the interview Boston Massachusetts Artist Statement Joetta Maue’s collection of photographs, drawings, and embroideries transform the mess and literal decay of our everyday lives into a meditation on and celebration of the domestic landscape, parenting & motherhood revealing beauty in the most basic evidence of how we move through our days. Topic The domestic landscape motherhood detritus marriage Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Joetta Maue https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/634b29788af7315c80012d3c61f8db24.jpg ddefe3fead31cd96c8b97da33d482835 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.joettamaue.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.joettamaue.com</a> Topic childrearing mess of parenthood repetition mess repetition of parenthood Medium textiles drawing photography Artist Statement As an artist I have utilized my daily life as muse; my work inevitably reflects this. After spending years on a body of work, I felt as if I had nowhere left to go. I found myself alone in my studio, in a new city, with a young child, a changing relationship with my parents as they age and I mature, and a vastly different partner as he met a new stage in his life. I turned my eyes away from those relationships that had so long inspired me, toward the objects that surrounded me. The objects were real, solid, reliable, and less malleable, less fleeting, tangible markers of this moment in time. The pile of trucks my son left on the floor was less ephemeral then the fact that he was changing at an “unfathomable speed.” The dirty blanket on the couch was reliably there while my partner was often on his own journey. The beauty of the sunlight on the plants, that I never seemed to have time to water, made me remember why I had plants in the first place. The objects became what located me in this state of transition. I began looking at the objects I could pick up, touch and feel for grounding and using them as my subject. I began to explore the psychological landscape of the domestic space through various media. Zooming in, slowing down, creating labor in the small seemingly insignificant moments is an attempt to bring awareness and attention to the glimpses, touches, and objects that create our daily experience. Through my labor intensive drawing and the witness of my camera I invite the viewer to slow down, look around and notice their own landscape… a landscape of their domestic world, their emotional state, and their mind. My graphite drawings allow me to focus on the importance of these small objects or moments, amplifying their texture, tones and detail, abstracting their meaning and role while simultaneously elevating them. Through this work I am able to replicate my beloved process of the darkroom via my technique of drawing with projection & enlargement, mirroring the process of silver halide printing and the use of a grain focuser, the tool which brings a negative to clarity, and using technique to develop the tonal variations important to the image. The photographs capture the document of this moment in time, in the home, my life and my psychological experience. The photographs with their rich saturated colors make the subject vibrant and seductive while the drawings remain in black and white concentrating on the quiet completive experience being investigated via the work The images vary from small to large scale and play with ideas of hierarchy through this variation in size and the installation. The work varies from being formally framed and hung while others would remain in a place of process, i.e. hung low/ high on the wall, with and without frame, leaning on the floor, in suspension. This formal exploration is meant to allude to the hierarchies that exist in our mind about our domestic space and both its value and importance as well as its dismissal and ignorance of. My intention is to create a conceptual presentation of an intimate subject. My goal is for the mediums to work together as one in formal groupings and visual relationships. Bringing living, breathing things together with the objects that surround me all of which I touch and care for to feel more alive and present in this moment. Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Joetta Maue Title A name given to the resource Joetta Maue caretaking childrearing drawing mess photography repetition textiles 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/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/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/7f10c972c13dc067ff2f568641652333.jpg e1add9827fa5cca5bf6ba6d10923a6a1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://jessievanderlaan.com/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://jessievanderlaan.com/home.html</a> Medium drawing fiber art printmaking sculpture Location The location of the interview Knoxville Tennessee Artist Statement My current work views the world through the lens of a parent, simultaneously embracing joy, frustration, hope and fear. My work has always engaged in the liminal states of consciousness, through examinations of precipices, seams, folds, and crevices. In this new work, figurative elements of hands: my own and my children’s, become further lenses for exhuberence or despair. In some cases the hands obscure, and in others highlight. Both experiences are true, useful, and not mutually exclusive. I often feel that my arms are my most precious resource. They allow me to hold hands across parking lots, to carry bags, to prepare meals, to wash dishes, to gesture when I am intensely speaking, to draw, to write, and they are often full. Topic parenting motherhood fear hope post-partum post-partum depression post-partum anxiety environment landscape 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 Jessie Van der Laan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://jessicawitte.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://jessicawitte.com/</a> Medium transmedia Location The location of the interview St. Louis Missouri Topic parenting family caretaking labor domestic memorials NICU cancer covid-19 change growth personal relationships illness vanity self-reflection isolation temporary ephemeral deliate powder chalk UV-burn burned wallpaper systemic racism systemic oppression patterns children housework organization Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. It Hits Home: Parenting Amid A Pandemic Kranzberg Gallery, St Louis Missouri Jessica Witte:At(Tending) Contemporary Gallery, STLCC-FV Ferguson, MO, Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Witte 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/7f8c1b8bd876ab5a9d606310fd524456.jpg 282df56a025acddfad41d6eb54413fea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.jessicamuellerart.com">www.jessicamuellerart.com</a> Topic domesticity labor weight care intersectionality Medium interdisciplinary embroidery video printmaking painting performance sculpture Artist Statement Jessica Mueller is an artist, writer, and educator who explores domesticity, labor and translation. She examines motherhood through ideas of care, service, weight and absurdity. Mueller engages multiple modes of making including embroidery, video, printmaking, painting, performance, and sculpture. She is interested in relationships to process, multiples, connectivity and site. Mueller is a Chicago-based teaching artist that has been partnering with Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) and Chicago Public Schools since 2004. Formerly a Program Manager at CAPE, she developed and supported partnerships for over forty artists, art teachers, and academic teachers, while working with principles and district officials. She holds a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She exhibits locally and nationally, and her work is part of the permanent collections at SAIC’s Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Columbia College’s Center for Book and Paper Arts, and the Library of Congress. Mueller is a member of the Chicago ACT Collective and Mother Art: Revisited. Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Jessica Mueller Title A name given to the resource Jessica Mueller and sculpture Care domesticity embroidery intersectionality labor painting performance printmaking video weight https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/b01a902c65e984d66d7dd9830297d8d1.jpg ca43c5a87b9e336edc930a8d11a69f6e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.jessicamongeon.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.jessicamongeon.com/</a> Medium acrylic gouche silkscreen acrylic gouache, silkscreen on watercolor paper Location The location of the interview Ozark Arkansas Artist Statement My work examines the relationship between humans and nature by juxtaposing landscape elements and human biology. By acknowledging our embodiment of nature, perhaps we can care for the ecosystems that sustain us as much as we care for our own bodies. My series, "Origins"are imaginary landscapes with placenta imagery, lichen, and mushrooms. The backgrounds contain silkscreened or painted abstracted placentas inspired by my own placenta print that I made after my son’s birth. The placenta symbolizes new life and connection because it is how the mother nourishes her child while in the womb. "Upon the Earth" combines a rocky landscape with moss between the cracks, various types of lichen, and silkscreened placenta prints. The title upon the earth speaks to the first steps of a baby; there are footprints from my child hidden in the background. It also refers to the saying "earthside" which refers to a baby being born. Topic placenta prints birth footprint child son Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Mongeon https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/1751d4f8b0fe628ce85dc0f1a5b9caa3.png 7d4712efaf2563aa0dcdbabb11218b0c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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="thejessicastudy.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thejessicastudy.com</a> Medium multidisciplinary Location The location of the interview Berlin Germany Artist Statement Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor (b. 1984, Florida) is an artist, filmmaker and community organizer. Taylor's work manifests through performance, text, dialogue and community building for Black People and People of Color. Her work centers on themes of ritual, visibility and identity mythology. She is chiefly concerned with ways to dismantle oppressive institutions and the creation of racial equity in art and theater. She strives to address race politics as a performer, maker and artist. Topic matriarchal lineages blackness diaspora critical race studies critical race theory marginalization academic writing activism story-telling equity discourse archive community racial politics oppression trauma statistics dialogue discussion text performance film identity ritual visibility resistance BPOC diversity inclusion contemporary art radical artist/mother artistic labor intergenerational gender roles heteronormativity interdisciplinary multidisciplinary communal ancestry postcolonial Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Mother Art Prize Exhibition (2019) Procreate Project London, UK WITNESS ( 2018) Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin, Ireland Muttererde Screening ( 2018) Rogaland Kunstsenter Stavanger, Norway Muttererde Screening ( 2018) Berlin Feminist Film Festival Berlin, Germany Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Lauren Elizabeth Taylor 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/3708f927086537d57c5ddc457efc8489.jpeg efbe9a08de1a5c4d779dd58583af1578 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.JessicaBinghamArt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JessicaBinghamArt.com</a> Topic Childhood nostalgia of herself and now her growing daughter, as well as the house(s) she grew up in and the one where she raises her daughter.Her work also deals with loss, specifically that of a close childhood friend and their relationship, while also reflecting on the deep love and newness of motherhood in her current life. motherhood loss Medium painting installation assemblage Artist Statement Tangled thoughts of childhood and early adulthood are the core of my work. I am interested in the process of reflecting and recreating personal childhood memories through pairing happier moments with times that reveal the harsh reality of the human condition. After the passing of my closest childhood friend, due to drug addiction, memories from my youth resurfaced. Since his death, I have been dissecting our friendship, mulling over the years as it developed from innocent childhood play to complex and confused interactions of our early adulthood, a time he never left. Vivid memories of playing outside, building forts, and exploring the cemetery across from our homes are interwoven with late night bar sounds, long summer days, and tiresome arguments. As I wrestle with this new reality, my work has become an attempt to preserve those memories. The smell of grass, our blue playhouse, Barbie and G.I. Joe. Loose tie-dye shirts, tombstones across the street, memories that still, and will, play on repeat. Awkward knees and bright eyes, forts for us alone. Desires to be older, longing to be children, pain took you forever, and I took her home. Location The location of the interview Peoria Illinios 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 Jessica Bingham Title A name given to the resource Jessica Bingham 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/6a5b3c63539bb6a4426ef547e21903ce.jpg 2fe7a6ab781d8b9f9c3a5254552f4d02 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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="jesstaylorartist.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jesstaylorartist.com</a> Medium sculpture new media Location The location of the interview Adelaide Australia Artist Statement I am an early career artist whose practice explores my fascination with fictional horror through primarily digital methods of making. Within the broader realm of horror, I have a particular interest in monsters, voyeurism, and depictions of female brutality, sadism, and masochism. Using my own image and body exclusively, my work presents versions of womanhood that transgress the bounds of what we are taught is acceptable, uncanny spectres of female experience that society is keen to repress. Here, monstrosity is configured as a source of damnation and agency, reflecting womanhood as complex and contradictory. My own experience as a mother has been one of profound contradiction, of exhilarating highs and profound lows, of love and fury, comfort and trauma. I struggle to reconcile the fact that the greatest time in my life is also the one when it was the darkest, and that my body birthed a miracle but feels like a ruin. I am not as I was, but not quite sure what I am now; I’ve yet to turn into anything resembling the gargantuan mother archetype we’re fed, and too much of the old Jess remains for me to consider myself someone new. I have been transformed, reborn, reconfigured using the old parts. Some days those new parts feel like they were made of steel, making me infinitely stronger than I was, and other days that steel bites into my flesh, broken limbs fused back together suddenly failing to bear my weight. Motherhood is a monstrous condition; it is incredible and disturbing, beautiful and completely fucked up. Like monstrosity, it is transformative, and for the woman-monster, this transformation is a source of both agency and damnation, strength and weakness. My work since my son is in part an attempt to reconcile the contradiction inherent in my own experience of motherhood, and to bridge the divide between what I am and what we are told a mother should be. Experiencing pregnancy for the second time has greatly influenced my work, causing me to reflect much more closely on the process of bearing a child. There is the strange bodily awareness and attempts to reconcile this cavernous space that exists within me, and evocations of my own paranoias as I imagine this space as a place of both hope and doom. I like to think there is also some absurdity when one looks at a ridiculous, bulbous woman, or my lady-giants, but there is also the tenderness of the nets that keep the babies close to her body, or the way a stomach is opened up to sate the curiosity of the smaller figures who peer inside. There is the sorrow of the figure on the bridge as she surveys the fallen before her (a mediation on periods in history where the practice of fallen-mothers ending their lives and the lives of their offspring was not only a grim expectation, but an act of redemption), and my attempt to see a ruin as a place of beauty and life. Topic abjection ambivalence anger anxiety artist mother attachment autonomy bad mother birth birth trauma body transformation boundaries childbirth contemporary contemporary art practice contradictions domestic family ties female experience female sexuality feminine femininity feminism feminist feminist art feminist art theory fertility grotesque growth guilt identity loneliness longing loss loss of identity maternal ambivalence maternal anxiety maternal body maternal desire maternal experience maternal fear maternal guilt mother mother artist motherhood postpartum body pregnancy pregnant body psychoanalysis representation science fiction self portrait technology trauma voyeurism womb 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 Jess Taylor abjection ambivalence anger anxiety artist mother attachment Australia autonomy bad mother birth birth trauma body transformation boundaries childbirth contemporary art contemporary art practice contradictions domestic family ties female experience female sexuality feminine femininity feminism feminist feminist art feminist art theory feminist theory fertility grotesque growth guilt identity loneliness longing loss loss of identity maternal maternal ambivalence maternal anxiety maternal bodies maternal body maternal desire maternal experience maternal fear maternal guilt mother mother artist motherhood new media postpartum body pregnancy pregnant body psychoanalysis representation science fiction sculpture self portrait technology trauma voyeurism womb women https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/84f898cada100b0b504611758a8e9699.jpg b088f2f7c3451ee3be2de02de14fd7c1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.jesslevey.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jesslevey.com</a> Medium video photography Location The location of the interview New York Artist Statement My two most recent video projects are directly related to motherhood, and I am currently working on a new video piece for which I am interviewing mothers about their experiences during the pandemic: Bathtime: A sound and video piece reflecting on the overwhelming day to day life as a mother and teacher in NYC in 2020. In March, when we began our lockdown in NYC I was constantly struggling to both find solitude and to warm my chilled bones. It was still winter, and I was persistently cold and exhausted. My mother in law was staying with us and our daughter was sleeping in our bedroom with my husband and I, while her grandmother used her room. Our small apartment became even tighter. Our neighborhood of Jackson Heights, Queens quickly became the epicenter of the epicenter. We couldn’t go outside except for the quick grocery store run on the deserted streets with storefront after storefront shuttered with grey metal gates. I began taking scalding hot baths at night to both be alone and to be immersed in quiet. Yet, it was never truly quiet since the sound of the drain was obnoxiously aggressive. The only way to experience complete silence was to tightly grasp the drain with my feet. Like most parents during quarantine, my small attempts for any semblance of solitude and quiet were futile. I craved for these moments, yet even when I could find them, it was impossible to quiet the sounds of the many stresses within my own mind. The image and gesture of my attempt to quiet the drain sparked the inspiration for this piece. The layering of various sounds becomes heightened throughout the piece in much the same way that our anxieties increasingly heighten throughout our days in quarantine during this pandemic. Mama’s ABCs: Mama’s ABCs explores the often complicated and dramatic emotions that come with motherhood. In this multi-media collage various female voices express words from both sides of the parenting spectrum as a child’s puzzle is put into place. The inspiration for this work came to me while laying in bed with a fever while the repetitive, grating sounds from a broken alphabet puzzle served as the background to my already unpleasant mental and physical state. This piece utilizes my photo/video collage process for which aspects of a photograph are removed and then replaced with video projection. For the sound collage, I invited various mothers to sit in silence and record themselves as they spontaneously recalled words that came to mind when they thought about their child. Topic child rearing motherhood emotional toll of mothering Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jess Levey https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/6bb2e1291d6d97f55b95215dc55ca471.jpeg e64733c4c2f74f7168d91059c7fc1266 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.jessdobkin.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jessdobkin.com</a> Medium performance social practice Location The location of the interview Toronto Canada Artist Statement I’ve been a working artist, curator, community activist and teacher for more than 25 years, creating and producing intimate solo performances, large-scale public happenings, socially engaged interventions and performance art workshops and lectures. My practice extends across black boxes and white cubes, art fairs and subway stations, international festivals, and single bathroom stalls. I’ve operated an artist-run newsstand in a vacant subway station kiosk, a soup kitchen for artists, a breast milk tasting bar, and a performance festival hub for kids. I’m forever inspired by the rebel queers, renegade witches, and other dyke moms I run with, and bound to many brilliant artists, activists, spell-casters and healers. For many years I made performances that drew from my own experiences of trauma and transformation, intimacy and motherhood. More recently, I’ve experienced a shift in my practice, where my attention has turned to wider theoretical questions about the nature of performance itself to ask questions about when, where, how we perform - in theatres and galleries, on social media, and in our everyday lives. Topic abjection activism adulthood aging archive art art and research artist mother art making artist parent artist/mother artistic labor artists with children autobiography binary tensions bioethics biology birth birth and death birth trauma bleeding body body exploration body transformation breast milk breast pump breastfeeding breastmilk care censorship childhood creative practice creative strategies cultural reproducers culture curating curation curator curatorial practice documentation domestic labor domestic life domestic space domesticity early motherhood early parenthood empathy ethics exhaustion family family accessible event family portrait feminism feminist feminist art feminist art theory gender gender roles gender stereotypes human body humor identity interdisciplinary intimacy invisible labor lactation love materiality maternal maternal body maternal bodies maternal care maternal desire maternal experience memory menstruation mess milk mother mother artist identity mother as artist mother body mother/artist identity mother/child relationship motherhood and political context motherhood motherhood and art motherhood and art practice motherhood and creative practice motherhood and social context motherhood and studio practice motherhood as art practice mothering mothers nursing nursing mothers objectification parent parent artists parent/child relationship parenthood parenting parents patriarchy performativity personal experience play subjectivity power public breastfeeding public space pumping queer queer identity queer parenting representation representations of motherhood research and art resistance ritual rituals sexuality single mothers single mother social justice social practice stories storytelling theory time transformation trauma vagina visual culture woman women women and gender studies women artists women representation women's health women's identity Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar 2006, 2012, 2016 Imagined Family Portraits 2007 - ongoing Free Childcare Provided 2013 Fee for Service 2006 Being Green 2009 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jess Dobkin abjection activism adulthood ageing archive art art and research art making artist mother artist parent artist-parents artist/mother artistic labor artists with children autobiography binary tensions bioethics biology birth birth and death birth trauma bleeding body body exploration body transformation breast milk breast pump breastfeeding breastmilk Care censorship childhood creative practice creative strategies cultural reproducers culture curating curation curator curatorial practice documentation domestic labor domestic life domestic space domesticity early motherhood early parenthood empathy ethics exhaustion family family accessible event family portrait feminism feminist feminist art feminist art theory gender gender roles gender stereotypes human body humor identity interdisciplinary intimacy invisible labor lactation love materiality maternal maternal bodies maternal body maternal care maternal desire maternal experience memory menstruation mess milk mother mother artist mother artist identity mother artists mother as artist mother body mother/artist identity mother/child relationship motherhood motherhood and art motherhood and art practice motherhood and creative practice motherhood and political context motherhood and social context motherhood and studio practice motherhood as art practice mothering mothers nursing nursing mothers objectification parent parent artists parent/child relationship parenthood parenting parents patriarchy performativity personal experience play power public breastfeeding public space pumping queer queer identity queer parenting representation representations of motherhood research and art resistance ritual rituals sexuality single mother single mothers social justice social practice Stories storytelling subjectivity theory time transformation trauma vagina visual culture woman women women and gender studies women artists women representation women’s health women’s identity https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/2e54eebb7219c81fac9bac674b77c1aa.jpg d23662b94aad4b4a430644e2b53f317c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.jenningssheffield.com/tethered.html" target="_blank">http://www.jenningssheffield.com/tethered.html</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview Woodway Texas Artist Statement Tethered is based on images I photographed over a 4 month period of time, documenting my life every 30 minutes, as I perform my daily roles of artist, mother, teacher, wife and daughter. This body of work investigates the tethering-effect we experience everyday, by portraying what a specific period of time looks like during different days of the week. Using a mathematical formula, each image illustrates what a two hour period of time looks like as I balance various roles throughout the week. As unique as each two-hour interval is, certain consistencies also run through our scheduled days. The look and feel of a two hour period in the morning versus a two hour period in the afternoon conveys a very different set of characters, circumstances, interactions, responsibilities, and roles. In comparison to today, past generations whether by choice or not were very segregated -- work and family life rarely converged. However with technology, today our lives have become more confused, intermingled, and merged -- thus creating the tethering-effect. Pulling from thousands of images, I chose 4 to 6 images from the same time of day, but on different days of the week (e.g. 2:00pm-4:00pm). Once selected, I digitally slice the chosen images into vertical strips of information. I then reintegrate all the vertical slices to create a single, compressed image of time. Each print illustrates a two hour period. Tethered consists of nine large format prints (43" x 28" x 4 1/2") that document my waking hours of 6 am to midnight. Once compressed, and as in real life, all the the different events and interactions inevitably merge into a singular life experience. Due to the mathematical equation used to create the work, the images appear to shift and change depending on the distance and the angle from which they being are being viewed. Because of the illusion produced, the work has been mistaken for lenticular prints, however, they are flat prints. Topic motherhood documentation daily life daily routine mother/artist identity Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jennings Sheffield daily life daily routine documentation mother/artist identity photography Texas Woodway https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/aeb7c64577150b210dc3ef1cbca7d629.jpg 807a4e93e7cbf3ff3089898368c59ffe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.jenniferlugris.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jenniferlugris.com</a> Medium painting Artist Statement I grew up in a house where asado was eaten with kimchi and where dinner conversations seamlessly shifted from English to Spanish to Korean and sometimes even Galego. My Korean, Uruguayan, Spanish, and Portuguese backgrounds lead to multi-cultural, idiosyncratic, ill-fitting puzzle pieces that make up who I am. Likewise, my multi-panel paintings are intensely fractured, creating conflict upon close inspection of the juxtaposed illusionistic and abstracted, flattened and textured forms. I disrupt the continuity from one piece to the next, as well as, push and pull on figure and ground to play with how front-to-back are perceived. Growing up, I received many quizzical looks as individuals attempted to understand and piece together my varied, ethnic background. I wish to recreate that same experience in my paintings by provoking the audience to question and work to find connections that pull the piece together. Comparable to the oddly placed blocks in the paintings, which are linked through composition and color palette, I too, am linked by a unified body made up of mixed traditions and ancestries. Topic motherhood family marriage child breastfeeding identity BIPOC immigration multiculturalism biracial family history ancestors California Uruguay South Korea North Korea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Lurgis https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/50b10f0d2dc04f0bced54df390275b7f.jpg 34dcd90c34aba2773d03ed5a5c34b435 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.jenniferlong.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jenniferlong.ca</a> Medium photography lens based Location The location of the interview Toronto Canada Artist Statement My practice is propelled by an interest in the varied experiences of girls and women, and the limited ways in which they are represented within image making. Through a Feminist lens, I work with constructed narratives that are inspired by the quiet moments in girls and women’s lives where seemingly nothing (and everything) occurs. I am especially interested in the complex emotions that underlie these mundane points in time. Themes of vulnerability, transformation, and discovery are explored in my image making through the use of touch, gesture, and the gaze as I observe conscious and unconscious modes of communication. Over the past decade, my art practice has focused on the early stages of motherhood and pregnancy as I navigated this new terrain in my personal life. My current series, ‘Caesura’, developed out of my observations of the struggle my daughters grapple with as they find a balance between their dependence on me and their growing independence. This series re-constructs and intertwines various remembrances, making visual the experience of seeing myself reflected in my daughters’ gestures and actions. At the forefront of this project is the need to make space for my ever-changing outlook of being a mother and an artist. Topic memory pregnancy domesticity girlhood childhood motherhood mothering body image feminism vulnerability image feminism vulnerability transformation parenting touch intergenerational family play daily life domestic labour invisible labour caretaking mundane Artist Residency in Motherhood gesture maternal body mother/daughter relationship Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Long https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/ba83f9fdbceaa47ddabd3a26cfa80eb1.jpg 78352232af2263926b18c86923007d1f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://jengeorgescu.com/portfolio-item/mother-series/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://jengeorgescu.com/portfolio-item/mother-series/</a> Medium photography Artist Statement In 2015, I became a mother. I was prepared for the grueling labor, and sleepless nights, but the loss of my sense of self can as a surprise. I had no time to think and I began to feel like a shell of a person. My early days of motherhood were alienating and awful as well as sentimental and dear. I began to see myself as defined only by a relationship. I felt that my son was an appendage of myself; the embodiment of self and other. It was hard to accept that he was a growing, changing person while I was to remain forever split. When he is near my thoughts are entangled around him and when I am away I cannot seem to be the person I was before. A child is how we remain on Earth; they are our legacies. As I see my son grow I feel my time begin to speed up; I feel my decay. When we think about birth we must realize our death. Motherhood is precious and raw; wonderful and dark. Topic Ongoing conceptual series relating to my experience of Motherhood motherhood artist parent artists with children conceptual art contemporary art practice displacement family life family domestic life family heritage feminist art loss of identity loss of self, Madonna Madonna Maternal Theory Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Georgescu https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/cb1bf4d8a012d9e2eb4ff8fdc053273c.jpg 6b50f796b33d0d5a6448c931bbdf18a6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.jennifercombe.com/">jennifercombe.com</a> Topic mothering teaching making Medium oil printmaking photography Artist Statement Jennifer Combe is an artist and Associate Professor of Art at The University of Montana where she teaches art education and foundations. In 2016 she was awarded the Montana Art Educator of the Year. Within the National Art Education Association she served as the Community Arts Caucus president and founded a digital PK-12 curriculum portfolio with The Caucus on Social Theory in Art Education. Her visual work has been exhibited locally and nationally, and is featured in the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education’s 2016 edition. Location The location of the interview Missoula Montana 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 Jennifer Combe Title A name given to the resource Jennifer Combe Montana oil photography printmaking USA 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/15a9c7db7614a2d46f91672791fdb434.jpg eadda1587cb3412d1ba470e1604f9693 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.jennidachase.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jennidachase.com</a> Medium video Location The location of the interview Greensboro North Carolina Artist Statement The Fawn (2017) https://vimeo.com/203659240/4061badf8a Statement: The Fawn is a collaborative, intergenerational storytelling project for the 21st century. This social media born, expanded cinema work unites art and life through the reinvention and the magical realism of a child’s imagination, who is constantly stuck at her parent’s work, and she moves to another level with Snapchat. The Fawn is a no budget work that utilizes free mobile applications to explore character and contemporary issues in ecology through the whimsical perspective of childhood. The Fawn gets separated from her parents while searching for clean water. She encounters deforestation which drives her further into the forest where she meets all manner of creatures before discovering the heart of the forest where there is clean water. The film uses common technology and free mobile applications to weave a fantastical hero’s journey as she traverses modern ecological crises. "The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men. He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children." --Buckminster Fuller Topic intergenerational storytelling collaborating with kids play family 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 Jennida Chase https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/9b65c920c054a0bd2d30bf7997f03c4f.jpg f18474b0c51aed5b0162fed66f41cb76 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.jensandersartworks.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.jensandersartworks.com</a> Medium painting Location The location of the interview Los Angeles California Artist Statement After birthing my two daughters, I found myself on the other side of a monumental chasm that I had not known I would need to cross. From this vantage point, I began to paint self portraits. You see, I needed to re-introduce myself to my body and my face, in order to locate my identity, which I had lost somewhere on the other side of the chasm. I started painting myself, but in the process, I realized I’m not just me anymore; I multiplied. Or I disappeared. Probably both. My figurative oil and acrylic paintings are stories of particular moments. They carry color like a sunset next to a trash bin; ordinary situations, domestic arrangements, that leave room for something else. A split, a two-ness. We have a cute little dog that jumps at our faces. And we have an aquarium. Our snail ruthlessly ate the beautiful little orange fish in our aquarium. The snail itself is orange, and so delicate, and so helpful, cleaning up the tank. The duality of a creature never fails to appear, so that’s something to count on. But it’s so horrifying and dangerous and so very much like motherhood. Topic childbearing as an older woman identity changes around parenthood psychological impact of motherhood bearing witness of children Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jen Sanders https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/9c747b10dce77a3708dc4bf1fd616e33.jpg d3a9a8568528a3bd419a22245e48fd31 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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="Theartofhintz.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Theartofhintz.com</a> Medium painting oil gouche Location The location of the interview Delaware Artist Statement I am a painter working primarily with oils and gouache creating abstractions with saturated colors, geometric patterns, and natural forms. Art making, particularly painting, has long been an integral part of my identity. I've chosen to hold space and time in my life for painting repeatedly because it functions as a vehicle for introspection, meditation, and exploration. Making patterns by repeating simple shapes requires patience, commitment, and faith in many small gestures to build the whole. I use recurring motifs inspired by personal experience, Judeo-Christian religious spaces, and mother nature herself. Often my pieces will start from direct observation like a moonrise, a meadow in late fall, or the wind moving grasses. As the paintings grow, I intuitively add layers of abstraction and symbolism such as the flower of life, the star of David, and phases of the moon. My painting has explored the intersection between my desire for the familiarity and community of organized religion and being drawn to a more solitary spiritual practice rooted in nature. Currently my work is turning to explore themes of motherhood, breastfeeding, and creating life. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jen Hintz Eggers https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/77184724981930c08a93b08e38540187.jpg 718e5ef9a6d5df2d6ca2c41a9af7ee58 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Jendel16 on Instagram Medium pen on paper Location The location of the interview Massachusetts Topic pregnancy birth growing up emotion miscarriage Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jen Delgado https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/b1fcf54c4ad73917ede20d9c3ef34956.JPG 5361ef1c6c6b426ed40804b2e3f7331b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.jemimahpatterson.com/index.asp">http://www.jemimahpatterson.com/index.asp</a> Medium oil on glass oil on mirror Location The location of the interview London England United Kingdom Artist Statement 'First Step' is an ambitious 9-part painting depicting a Victorian high chair painted on to antique drawers from the Victoria & Albert Museum. It brings forward the question of potential and what the future holds; how precious what we have is and how we can guide that. My more recent works since having children have developed and taken on a more playful aspect. Superimposed over the viewer’s reflection, these motifs, all intensely nostalgic, evoke childhood effectively thrusting one into his or her own past while keeping the immediate present as viewed through the mirror. Topic play growth nostalgia playground Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jemimah Patterson England growth London nostalgia oil oil on glass oil on mirror oil paint play playground 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 Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website instagram: jasminemoseley.art Medium acrylic paint Location The location of the interview Nashville Tennessee Artist Statement I love illustrating women and children in my works. They symbolize beauty, grace, and innocence in the present while foreshadowing growth, change, and hope for the future. Topic Black children Black mothers grooming protection growth innocence Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jasmine Moseley https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/880c19e8c4cd69e761e587668e35e6e7.jpg 44daa583b48e76f7b76b7b8e6b5de982 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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. Medium film sculpture textile photography installation Location The location of the interview Ascot Berkshire United Kingdom Artist Statement <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_24734">My work comes from a position of ambivalence – more specifically through ambivalent motherhood. My father died when I was a child and my mother before I had my own children. The chain from parent to child to becoming a parent oneself was broken. My work is around the space between these broken links.</div> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_24734"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_24734">In psychoanalysis the container/contained notion, as introduced by Wilfred Bion, holds a neutral position, without judgement, that can be used as an approach to thinking about motherhood. It provides numerous ways of probing the question: 'who is the container and who is the contained?'. How does the relationship between mother and child stand at any one moment? How does one see oneself - as a mother or as a child? What is the basis of the container at that moment? What is the emotion of the contained? The container can be actual, practical, or explicit. It can be metaphoric, emotional or implicit. Container/contained is a recurring theme in my work as I explore the fluctuating emotions of ambivalence.</div> Topic maternal ambivalence maternal relationships container / contained depression 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/299">Left Overs</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 Jane Glennie depression film installation maternal ambivalence photography sculpture textile 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/7d09d02d973a4caa726cff9740cd4693.jpg 819e344fd64214783d5c3ae6e4e92604 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.jamiegdiamond.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jamiegdiamond.com</a> Medium photography performance Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement Jamie Diamond (b. 1983) is a performance artist, photographer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work mostly focuses on the human figure, deconstructing images throughout an array of concepts such as motherhood, authenticity and memory. She uses personal narratives as a departure point to compose photographs that challenge the boundaries between reality and fiction. 365 Days: 1938/2017 In 2015, while visiting Berlin, I stumbled upon a discarded vernacular German family photo album. As I turned each page, I saw the life of a child unfold, 27 days old, 47 days old, 80 days old, ending at 365 days. I then looked at the date and it occurred to me that this was at the dawn of the Second World War. This body of work is a collaboration between me and my son and two strangers, a mother and a child and explores the interplay between shared global history and maternal identity. I have carefully re-enacted each picture with my son since his birth, set within the same time frame outlined in the album, from 27 days old to a year. My recreations are over-layed with the original source material from 1938, collapsing space, time and memory into one photograph. The pixels merge with the grain, in the way I merge with this stranger, our developmental milestones and fears become one. By collapsing the historical photograph with my staged re-enactment I create a new narrative in which our shared identity at a time of uncertainty become united. Mother Love: In this project I collaborated with an outsider art making community called the Reborners, a group of self-taught female artists who hand-make, collect and interact with hyper-realistic dolls. Working with the community allowed me to explore the grey area between reality and artifice where relationships are constructed with inanimate objects, between human and doll, artist and artwork, uncanny and real. After spending a year investigating and recording their practice, I chose to become a Reborner to gain a better understanding of the community. Nine Months of Reborning documents my introduction to the community and the making of my first nine dolls, as well as the working nursery I established in my studio and on eBay, called the Bitten Apple Nursery. Before putting the finished dolls up for adoption on eBay, I took a portrait of each one. The final photograph is the remnant of this exchange. For the subsequent Amy Project, I invited celebrated Artists from the community to individually interpret and idealize the same doll. I then photograph each doll mimicking vernacular school portraits. Each of the dolls are unique to their maker’s hand, but share an uncanny similarity through their common origin. For the final act in the Reborn collaboration, I have identified and appropriated different canonical images of the Christ Child, and invited Reborn artists to create individual portrait babies. Depictions vary drastically from artist to artist, all ultimately presenting their personal, ideal representation of a singular figure. The photographs engage with the tradition of portraiture, evoking classical sculptural busts that are at once familiar and strange. I Promise to Be a Good Mother: In this series, I assume the role of subject and photographer and put on the mask of motherhood, dressing up in my mother’s clothes and interacting with Annabelle, a reborn doll. The project was inspired by and named after a diary I kept as a girl that documented the relationship with my own mother, written as a kind of rule sheet for later life. I started staging specific memories from my childhood, acting out recalled events and behaviors. Eventually the performance evolved into an exploration of the complexities surrounding the paradox of the mother/child relationship, investigating both its vernacular and art historical depictions, while mimicking and ignoring the traditional visual signifiers of motherhood. I’m interested in the fantasy of motherhood, the social structure of the relationship between mother and child, and the performance of inherited social and gender roles. Working in a variety of locations, both interiors and landscapes, I play out these scenarios with Annabelle for the camera, isolating specific idyllic and contradictory moments. Topic motherhood family photographic veracity performance family history memory identity role play reborn doll surrogate pregnancy fiction album archive reenactment Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Surrogate: A Love Ideal, Milan Osservatorio, Fondazione Prada, Italy Curated by Melissa Harris, 2019 Nine Months of Reborning, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2019 I Promise to be a Good Mother, AJL Art, Berlin, Germany, 20123 65 Days: 1938/2017, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany, 2021 A New Society, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canad Family Affairs, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2021 Walk in My Shoes, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, United States, 2015 Please Touch: Body Boundaries, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, United States Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jamie Diamond https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/0c91b0d1ba240e75c8b520e2a8ab4a12.jpg 4f4ff1249cbcb03fe5f7516e3e992d4c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.jacquelinebelljohnson.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.jacquelinebelljohnson.com/</a> Medium installation sculpture photography mixed media printmaking writing Location The location of the interview San Bernandino Artist Statement I spent almost 2 decades of my life with a chronic illness that was presumed to make pregnancy impossible. My work at that time explored the concepts of a body shriveled, of war between thought and failure, and anger at the system I was locked into. When I had children, at first, the art I made were these fleeting seconds of beauty in between the demands of infants. Now that my children are at an age (3 and 5) where they can participate with me on artistic adventures and pursue their own. We do projects together at times, collaborating in art making. I also take their portraits, fascinated at how such young little people can have fully developed personalities of their own. I watch them play and want to capture that magical disposition. My work et al is inherently feminist; addressing my past, and larger considerations of gendered labor, including the caregiving labor expected of women both inside and outside the home. Topic fertility/infertility motherhood children portraiture child wonderment mother and child art collaboration Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jacqueline Bell Johnson 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/96ffaa3831a580c9934b274e1b92c6ab.jpg 0e0f10606a2d00e879dc25a8dee17c0a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.allmimsywere.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.allmimsywere.wordpress.com</a> Medium photography hand drawing screenprinting Location The location of the interview Milan Artist Statement “Pasto libero” (free meal) is a project and visual diary aimed to raise questions about the way in which artists-parents have to reinvent themselves when having a family and encoutering health difficulties. The residency has a practice-research approach and the work will be carried on in the fringes of time left in an extremely demanding family situation, with the resources at hand. The contribution is the story of a very tortuous path and the way in which art can contribute to the wellbeing of a family. By choosing to pursue the residency I would like to emphasize the fact that motherhood is a life long journey an the important thing is how to concentrate on the small patches of beauty even in extreme situations. Topic motherhood care love nutrition health Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Irina Suteu https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/9d8badcfb945937da4bfa7d85bab97aa.jpg 81c753ed6f75642ff44d1b8ed154ca5a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://ireneperez.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://ireneperez.net</a> Topic motherhood learning education feminism ecology body care labor autonomy mother daughter mothering conversation sexuality teaching birth empowerment politics economics racism migration fanzines music death language comic books feminist science fiction Medium textile based works works on paper sound Artist Statement I use textile materials and techniques, and most recently also sound, to explore experiences, as well as to make artworks that aim to become the vehicle to create new ones. My most recent project, New Universe: Discovering Other Possibilities, was born from my interest to explore the learning processes that occur between a mother and her child. What and how we learn, when do we learn, where do we learn, and from whom do we learn are some of the ideas that I have been investigating through and for this project. New Universe presents a group of works that take as their starting point moments and experiences within the family and in particular through the child-mother relationship. From these experiences, my creations explore ideas related to discovery, invention and the unknown. Thus, there are pieces born from daily activities such as playing, time spent with family and care labor, as well as those born from conversations with other parents and research. In its entirety the project included and exhibition, a workshop and several activities during a three month period at the Textile Museum and Documentation Centre in Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain. This project is still growing. From Between My Legs, 2019, Textile based art piece. STATEMENT: From Between My Legs is a work born from the experience and exploration of motherhood through the interactions of the bodies of mother and daughter. Thus, this work, framed in relation to the natural world, refers to the acquired independence of the daughter's body, to the consciously feminist mothering practice and to the sexual pleasure of the body of the mother, events all of them that have the literal or metaphorically starting point in the place between the legs of the mother. From between my legs a new combative and vindicating being is born that has made me rethink my limits and the limits of what surrounds me. From between my legs is born the strength to understand the world beyond binary conceptions. From between my legs an invigorating pleasure is born and it makes me feel powerful. Seeds For Resistance, 2017- ongoing, multidisciplinary (actions, works on paper, textile works) STATEMENT: Multidisciplinary project that stems from the conversations I have been having with my daughter. They are conversations about favorite colors, our bodies, super-(s)heros, comic books, feminism(s), illness, politics, sexuality, clothing, economics, racism, migration, fanzines, ecology, music, death, language and many other things. In progress. Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Irene Pérez Title A name given to the resource Irene Pérez care labor ecology feminism learning teaching textile the body https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/3ecf5eaf8db17919797b320d55c1c1ca.jpg f5c12083b3c29db48b7ceee9953f4c7a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://komsomolfilms.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://komsomolfilms.com/</a> Topic childbirth pregnancy labor care labor maternal anxiety feminism Medium film video Artist Statement IRENE LUSZTIG is a filmmaker, visual artist, archival researcher, and amateur seamstress. Her film and video work mines old images and technologies for new meanings in order to reframe, recuperate, and reanimate forgotten and neglected histories. Often beginning with rigorous research in archives, her work brings historical materials into conversation with the present day, inviting viewers to explore historical spaces as a way to contemplate larger questions of politics, ideology, and the production of personal, collective, and national memories. Much of her work is centered on public feminism, language, and histories of women and women’s bodies, including her debut feature Reconstruction (2001), the feature length archival film essay The Motherhood Archives (2013), the ongoing web-based Worry Box Project (2011), and her newest performative documentary feature Yours in Sisterhood (2018). Location The location of the interview Santa Cruz California 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/4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complicated Labors</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Marternalisms - Chile</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 Irene Lusztig Title A name given to the resource Irene Lusztig California care labor childbirth feminism film labor maternal anxiety pregnancy Santa Cruz video 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/46f3b28fb6005892eca17a67d071ad43.png e50a463d379dd001ecd6a8bc33b10a36 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.projectbeta.be/?portfolio=it-wasnt-a-dream" target="_blank">http://www.projectbeta.be/?portfolio=it-wasnt-a-dream</a> Topic daily life children living with children documenting Artist Residency in Motherhood Medium photography Artist Statement How are memories built in one’s mind? Which images of my daily life will stick? The series ‘It wasn’t a dream’ is a cinematic family study made in my own family, combined with shots of families in the township of Kliptown, South Africa. I didn’t only explore how things are now, but also how they could have been, a journey of longing and nostalgia. In this way I find beauty in everyday life. I’m touched by the way people are trying to make the best of their situation, without disregarding their dreams. The families in South Africa were strangers to me, though I managed to build up ties with them, even if they didn’t always speak a common language. What we always did have in common was motherhood, the basis on which the confidence was built. By focussing on intimate scenes of my own family life I invite you in. Nothing is set up, a lot of details the environment offers are used, but ‘It wasn’t a dream’ is not a documentary. Likewise, the pictures from Kliptown are fragments of daily life there and only partly reveal its reality. This way I create a trailer to reflect a certain atmosphere, the viewer is left the liberty to imagine the fascinating story behind it. Location The location of the interview Belgium Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Inge Driesen Title A name given to the resource Inge Driesen https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/fae9e90e935f1e6bfbc1f321dcc95260.jpg 5facc95c0db6ce0ffb7fe32c6aa4270a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Editor Michi Jigarjian Qiana Mestrich Publisher Secretary Press City of Publication New York State of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Date of Publication January 1, 2015 ISBN 13 978-0988321441 ISBN 10 0988321440 Topic maternal thinking motherhood mother artists art and mothering visual culture art Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 We Do Both: Art and Motherhood art making artist mothers artist parents mother artists motherhood motherhood and art practice mothering mothers New York visual culture 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/e9f5867148ce18a201a1ac27a918d8ea.png bc2edabb046ce4376412c15db9f4975d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Editor Susan Bright Contributor The author of an article within an anthology Stephanie Chapman Simon Watney Nick Johnstone Publisher Art/Books Publishing The Photographers' Gallery The Foundling Museum Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago Country of Publication United Kingdom Date of Publication October 2013 ISBN 13 978-1-908970-10-7 Topic exhibition exhibition catalogue photography photography and motherhood domesticity body motherhood City of Publication London Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Truths: Photography and Motherhood body domesticity exhibition exhibition catalogue motherhood photography photography and motherhood https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/e5428525a95c5eebdbeae5df1f6bdd87.jpg 402453c9152d79054ad7105fcf1dea0b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/home-truths-3" target="_blank">http://susanbright.net/filter/exhibitions/Home-Truths-1</a> Gallery Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood, and Identity - <a href="http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/">The Photographers’ Gallery</a>, London (October 2013 - January 2014) Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood, and Loss - <a href="http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/">The Foundling Museum</a>, London (October 2013 - January 2014) Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood - <a href="http://www.mocp.org/" target="_blank">The Museum of Contemporary Photography</a>, Chicago (MoCP) (April 2014 - July 2014) Home Truths: Photography andMotherhood - <a href="http://www.belfastexposed.org/" target="_blank">Belfast Exposed</a>, Northern Ireland (October - December 2014) Location The location of the interview London, England, United Kingdom Chicago, Illinois, United States Belfast, Ireland, United Kingdom Topic motherhood photography Artists Janine Antoni Elina Brotherus Elinor Carucci Ana Casas Broda Fred Hüning Leigh Ledare Katie Murray Hanna Putz Annu Palakunnathu Matthew Tierney Gearon Miyako Ishuichi Ann Fessler Curator Susan Bright Curatorial Statement Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood aims to challenge long-held stereotypes and sentimental views of motherhood by addressing issues such as gender roles, domesticity, the body and the identity of individuals within the family unit. Like photography itself, the expectations and demands of motherhood are in flux; both subject and medium grapple for new meanings. My hope is that the work featured in these exhibitions and book will open up debates about the continued representation and place of the mother figure, while raising questions about the identity and display of photography at this pivotal moment in which we find ourselves – at a crossroads between the singular photographic object and the sprawling nature of the networked image. Related Resource <a href="http://www.artbookspublishing.co.uk/home-truths/" target="_blank">Home Truths Book</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 Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood Belfast Chicago identity London motherhood photography 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/5e51a83532d22c22afbf645cdadc2d59.jpg 6b5181675e71227854887735e284c9e5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.hollydgray.com/one-day-project" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hollydgray.com</a> Topic Parenting a disabled child complex caregiving collaborating with families of disabled children diability mothering collaboration medical care medical waste consumer packaging Medium photography Artist Statement Becoming a mother is an undoubtedly life-altering experience. As the mother of a child, born with multiple disabilities, my experience of becoming a parent was drastically different from that of the norm. With a shift that was existentially consuming, I was thrust into a new identity as a female and artist. Carol Hanisch wrote “the personal is political.” My work fully embodies this notion by offering a political perspective on disability that is solely based on my personal experiences. By walking the fine line of empowering my daughter with strength and independence while appeasing the political, insurance and medical models; the themes of my work can present themselves as questioning and demure while the objects themselves hold power. By situating my art practice in the context of maternalism, I’m not making work about motherhood, but out of it. By offering visuals of detritus, consumption, politics, identity, domesticity and healthcare; I’m offer a chance to discern emotion, rethink assumptions and to consider what constitutes a life worth living. Location The location of the interview Arlington Texas 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 Holly D. Gray Title A name given to the resource Holly D. Gray Arlington collaborating with families of disabled children complex caregiving consumer packaging disability medical care medical waste mothering Parenting a disabled child photography Texas USA 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/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/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/3c847ff230d07c6782fae2867c4ce70a.jpg 6b9f0baa7c3d9a9ab5ff378b206fc35e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://lowresgradstudios.ecuad.ca/hyip/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://lowresgradstudios.ecuad.ca/hyip/</a> Medium video mixed media mixed media on paper and other surfaces assemblage installation Artist Statement In my practice I am focused on investigating the impact of technology on human development. Specifically, my inquiry occurs within my own home and the context of my children’s ongoing obsession with smartphones and other related media. In the research that fuels my art practice I have launched a vigorous examination of my role as a parent whose responsibility it is to both mediate and moderate my family’s use of screen based technologies. In this relentless pursuit I have made many attempts to set up boundaries for my children’s use of their devices, which has inspired me to explore these concepts through the lens of my performing other motherly tasks such as doing laundry, vacuuming and cooking. It is through the use of some of the machines and objects that I use to perform these tasks that has afforded me the agency to create work in a more enjoyable and perhaps playful manner. My art practice also allows me the chance to be in my studio (an oasis) to escape if only temporarily from the frustration of the constant household and emotional labour that I must perform. It is the irony that as a parent I have introduced my children to technology and its accompanying objects and now because of this I have to restrict my children’s use of it. Because I suffer from guilt associated with this fact I have made it a part of my parental practice (which in turn enters into my art practice) my job to play more with my kids, this includes making blanket forts, playing tag and all kinds of board games to name a few things. It has also inspired me to investigate Nicholson’s theory of loose parts and to make sure my kids’ have more opportunities to play with all kinds of things ‘off-line’. As modalities in my practice I have employed video, installation as well as two dimensional mixed media art making in an attempt to try and understand my kids’ love of technology. Topic the impact of technology on human development my role as a parent /mediator/ moderator of my children's use of screen based technology parent-child connection environments where parent and child interact emotional labor technology Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Yip 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/968977a7bd9c3a3fd2b9bca380967aac.jpg 004e965403d54ed0eea609b82ae50cd8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://sewingstories.com/">https://sewingstories.com/</a> Medium fiber Location The location of the interview Westchester County New York Artist Statement Being a parent, especially in today's frightening world, is not easy. Balancing that difficult task with art making is even harder. My art speaks to the challenges and joys of being both a mother and an artist. Topic mother guilt raising kids in a frightening world joys and parenthood guilt parenting mother 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 Heather G. Stoltz fiber guilt joys and parenthood mother motherhood and creative practice New York parenting Westchester County https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/2a2321562915f6c037c9f97ab02196c3.jpg 236c602dffd50dbe8521d4cd2d180d90 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.hannahcooke.de">www.hannahcooke.de</a> Topic Ada vs. Abramovic and Ada vs. Emin Medium video Artist Statement Central questions of my work concern the concepts of institutional and hierarchical critique, the infiltration of systems, as well as the questioning of standards, regulations and role concepts. My work is often based on thorough research. The outcome finds it's form in all kind of media, as photography, video, performative and installation elements. In a humorous manner I question well established power structures and reveal the characteristics of the art world. Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Hannah Cooke Title A name given to the resource Hannah Cooke 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/390dc5a37a66a1013927de2dcccded31.jpg 3a45455dabe5f608c9a79e0ec1d61010 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.gracecross.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.gracecross.net</a> Location The location of the interview Cape Town South Africa Artist Statement Grace Cross (b. Harare, Zimbabwe 1988) is a material painter who draws symbols about motherhood, home, belief structures, and land; making shipting recipe's rooted in feminism, history, performative archaeology and African cosmology, to reflect her experiences of cultural transmission. Her painting practice, since the birth of her daughter, focuses on female storytelling, spirituality, and mining symbols of motherhood in her lush and colourfilled canvases. Her paintings seek to represent a cosmological world, where paint weaves images together to work as spells or incantations. The painded symbols thread ideas together, daming and mending, compositionally sewing the symbolic into the real, tethering the objects to one another. She traces a history of laboring women, their bloodline, their red thread of fate, through her paintings - placenta red, metnrual red, nipple-suked-raw red. This is the tie that binds - an umbilical cord - the maternal line. The thread is fine buth strong; it will not come undone; even as it unspools, running from the distant past to the present, from one canvas to another. Cross lives and works as a mother and painter in Cape Town Topic motherhood parenting breastfeeding gender-based violence play caretaking symbolism fertility nutrition latch food storytelling matriessence babies pregnancy archaeology feminism psychic trauma womb birth awakening child's play language aquisition poetry burdens reproduction patterns textiles women's work domesticity labor performative painting spirituality bloodline Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Mother is a Drum, 2019, Smith Studio, Cape Town Atlas is a Woman, 2020, The Vault, Zeitz Silo Hotel, Cape Town Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Cross 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/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/f6e15350939b51a4e600dd5e2509b437.jpg 0b28e77c005d9cd30379d4a4d6e0cdb1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://gaiafugazza.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://gaiafugazza.com/</a> Medium painting performance Location The location of the interview London United Kingdom Artist Statement I consider myself as part of a deviated group of animals that has, for some unknown reasons, forgotten how to symbiotically relate to their environment. The objects and performances that I produce refer to episodes and images that in my daily life are example of this paradox. I consider my point of observation and personal history -a urban, white western woman and mother- but I attempt to stretch these occurrences into archetypal patterns distancing from a discourse on identity. I attempt to distance my self from an anthropocentric understanding of all relations. Plants, animals, natural elements often appear in my works portrayed as having sentience, equal to people and sharing emotions. Experimentation on techniques and craft plays and important role in my practice: materials compete, carry special metaphorical meanings and mingle with the figurative part of the work. This makes for characters suspended in symbolic actions deprived of time and historical context. The idea of presence vs. distraction is also addressed in my performances. I choreograph unexpected situations that engage the public as collaborators of experiments or rituals, all aiming at stimulating a deeper sense of self-awareness and communal presence within an animist landscape. Topic education caretaking contraception IVF witchcraft acquisition of language activism anthropocene artist mother biology birth control birth botanical capitalism care care labor Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2019 Mother Art Prize, Mimosa House, London 2018 Super Nature in Two Parts, Lisson Gallery, London, curated by Daria Khan 2018 Last Dance: Re-Imagined Futures / Mimosa Pudica, Lighthouse, Brighton 2017 Star Messanger, LUX, London; curated by PS/Y 2016 Invites: Gaia Fugazza /Present and Distracted, Zabludowicz Collection, London; curated by Paul Luckraft 2016 Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge; curated by Ami Barak 2015 The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London; curated by Daniel Hermann and Poppy Bowers 2015 No Foods Land, Biennale Mediterranea 17, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano; curated by Andrea Bruciati 2015 Studio Voltaire Open 2015, Studio Voltaire, London; selected by Cory Arcangel & Hanne Mugaas 2014 MA FA Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art, London 2014 Frosted and Defrosted, 44 Albion, London; curated by Taylor Le Melle Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gaia Fugazza https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/aefa2561f5e731c4426708665ef68bb3.JPG 748ed448f12d9efd185e294b855a0d09 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.flaviatesta.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.flaviatesta.com&source=gmail&ust=1558475421194000&usg=AFQjCNFuBwCrjZVuYmcbIBtpDUd8A_JtsA" rel="noopener">www.flaviatesta.com</a> Topic motherhood art Medium ink pen photography Artist Statement Raw, Outsider art, about real life in motherhood and beyond. Location The location of the interview Halifax Nova Scotia Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Flavia Nasrin Testa Title A name given to the resource Flavia Nasrin Testa Halifax ink Nova Scotia outsider art outsider artist pen photography https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/1693b1f271af2e2a633ab4d9110cbbb6.jpeg 913939f13cc15879269f52f417d024d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Andrea Liss Publisher University of Minnesota Press City of Publication Minneapolis State of Publication Minnesota Country of Publication United States Date of Publication January 12, 2009 ISBN 13 978-0816646234 ISBN 10 0816646236 Topic feminism art and mothering maternal thinking 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 Feminist Art and the Maternal feminism feminist art feminist art theory maternal mother artist mother as artist mother/artist identity motherhood motherhood and art 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 Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/haikusforpeacetime/about/?ref=page_internal" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pg/haikusforpeacetime/about/?ref=page_internal</a> Topic parenting childhood superstition parental paranoia Medium poetry book arts Artist Statement Haikus for Peace Time is a home-made book produced by Faye Lim and Ng Xi Jie / Salty Thunder. The book is intended to be a poetic amulet and blessing for a baby born in the week of three aviation disasters. Featuring cats, diapers, Robin Williams and boob popsicles, the haikus and the illustrations pack months of whimsy, doubt, eager parenting and hope into a few pages stitched together on Xi Jie’s grandmother’s sewing machine. Faye wrote the twelve haikus in one sitting while watching over her baby as he slept. It is worth noting that the more people who read the book, the more blessings for them and the baby. Location The location of the interview Singapore Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Faye Title A name given to the resource Faye Lim book arts bookmaking childhood paranoia parenting poetry https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/15e4b0315beb0af79d10db9d12dd6330.jpg 62e4d1658389a12a1f5bd8bfc59f9456 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.fatemaabizar.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.fatemaabizar.com</a> Medium painting monoprinting free motion embroidery Location The location of the interview Tuscon Arizona Artist Statement “A trip to hell a trip to heaven and the death of the self for a new self.” These words by the artist Susan Miller are the most poignant I read on motherhood in my early postpartum days. Surely, there was joy at the arrival of this new being, but an inexplicable fear that sank in just as deep as the euphoria. If you asked me I could not sum up this fear. I suddenly felt afraid of everything. Though I had performed the feat of labor and birth, I felt unqualified for the role of a mother. Fragments of my pre-birth self still exist, but it was healing to begin thinking of the baby's birth as my own rebirth. Instead of desperately trying to reclaim my old self, or contend with how she would exist alongside this newfound mother identity, I mourned her passing, and began looking to this new self with curiosity and excitement. “Amma/Mama 1440” is an ongoing body of work where I hope to account for every minute of a twenty-four hour period in the forms of painting, monoprinting and machine drawing. In these pieces I explore the differences in the culture I was brought up in, versus the narratives around childbirth, childrearing and motherhood in the West. The pieces are also an attempt to be present. I found the antidote to fear in mindfulness. In the more challenging moments, I am able to pause through the simple act of taking note of the exact time. It brings peace to know that time flows. Topic embroidery monoprint motherhood painting Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fatima Abizar 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/2adb4c065566684651e4e8d4f34349e7.jpg 8026721e6a75ce95711485ab37c9a7b9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.whatfandoes.com">www.whatfandoes.com</a> Topic birth labour post-partum data visualization Medium Soundscape and hand knitted blanket Artist Statement “Labour” is a hand knitted data visualisation that tells the story of my daughter’s birth. Each square represents one of the 15 hours between my waters breaking and my daughter being born. Different colours, patterns and textures indicate where I was, what emotions I went through, the intensity of the contractions and other sensations, the support I received, and what hormone likely dominated the situation. The blanket is accompanied by a 5mn audio soundscape. The act of knitting evokes waiting, expectation and hours of hard work. Thus, it becomes an accurate reflection of pre-birth and labour. During the few days preceding and following her birth, all I wanted was to crawl into bed and hide from the outside world. It is likely that my body was craving melatonin, a hormone released in dark, calm and safe situations. Melatonin boosts the production of the birth hormone, oxytocin, which in turns helps to release endorphins, our bodies’ natural pain relief. The blanket represents the place of safety I was craving during that time. 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 Fan Sissoko birth data visualization labor labour Post-partum. sound scape https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/ee4a215c329819441b6ba70502d2d1c4.png 1027a64a0a350aab17a691bb4ae7b1cb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Scott Coltrane: Fatherhood, Housework, and Gender Equity Publisher Oxford University Press Date of Publication December 11, 1997 ISBN 13 978-0195119091 ISBN 10 0195119096 Topic fatherhood housework gender equity gender studies marriage family sociology shared parenting family structures restrictive gender roles fathers as caretakers primary caregivers ideological motherhood working parents economics and caregiving Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Family Man caregiving economy and caregiving family fatherhood fathers as caregivers gender equality gender equity gender roles ideological motherhood motherhood sociology https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/185e5b2f119350327de8da32e77396f9.jpg f05ffb0ec7d316671cf308f6f0d6c6b4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.mariavelascostudio.com">www.mariavelascostudio.com</a> Medium installation art participatory art social practice collaboration Location The location of the interview Greenland Artist Statement My work exists at the intersection of art and social practice, where dialogue, process, and participation lead to new insights. I create site-specific installations, urban interventions, and participatory projects to investigate spaces, architecture; history; and, foremost, the human interactions intersecting them. My artistic practice is an opportunity to connect with a community, examine cultural conditions, and question assumptions about what we take for granted. Specifically, I deal with issues of displacement, migration, gender identity, vulnerability, and the structures of authority that govern our lives. To challenge the idea of ‘single authorship,’ I create open-ended works that invite viewers to become participants and even co-creators of the artistic experience. Ultimately, I see my practice as both social sculpture and an architecture of intimacy, conflating the private and the public, the inner and outer world; the work always in progress, seeking the necessary complicity with viewers. My creative interests have been amplified by becoming a mother. However it has been challenging to figure professional logistics, since parenting is rendered invisible - in the arts, in academia and the culture at large. "Intertwined Worlds" is a sketchbook collaboration with my ten-year-old son, Alex, who loves to draw and is a young artist. Through this exploration, I find a poignant unfolding of our worlds, a sort of peeking in each other's minds. Topic multiple authorship single mother artist-parent-academic intimacy Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource F. María Velasco https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/2f60962d5a9635b48c8ca6cdad6ec58d.jpg 390d87fde0b0b0d0e8554d66763aedcf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 USA Topic motherhood and art practice curation family accessible events exhibitions screenings About <a href="http://extendedpractice.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Extended Practice</a> (EP) is an artist-led curatorial project focusing on creating family accessible events, exhibitions and screenings that support and make visible the work and needs of artists who are also mothers.   Sara Holwerda & Angela Lopez Initiators, Curators and Organizers of Extended Practice Organization Website <a href="https://extendedpractice.com/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extendedpractice.com </a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/298978550569088/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EP facebook group</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ExtendedPractice/?ref=your_pages" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EP facebook page</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/extended_practice/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EP Instagram</a> Organzation Director Sara Holwerda <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/324">Angela Lopez</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 Extended Practice Chicago curation exhibitions family accessible events Illinois motherhood and art practice screenings USA 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/fb1cb8733f591b97106655b6aa2bf781.jpg 75c046eee600ee0eab87218dc1f726a6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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://estherswhite.net" target="_blank">http://estherswhite.net</a> Topic mothering time mother/artist identity Artist Residency in Motherhood Medium conceptual art printmaking textiles Location The location of the interview Northampton Massachusetts Artist Statement Unbound Artist Statement: Since becoming a parent, the boundaries of my studio practice and my personal life have become permeable. To continue making work, I have to be flexible. I have to practice dropping one thing in order to quickly transition to something utterly different. Most of all, I must surrender to circumstance. Initially, my adoption of textiles was a pragmatic choice: I needed to move my practice home. I quickly found that the historical and material concerns of textile art support the central questions of my work. I use printmaking and craft methods to explore themes of memory, time, and my dual identity as an Artist-Mother/Mother-Artist. Starting with blank yardage, I print and dye fabric that I cut and sew into vivid and densely patterned quilts, wall hangings, and installations. I experiment with the limits of representation, making work that incorporates found objects, drawing, and abstraction. I am interested in pushing the expressive capacity of pattern by exploring how repetition and irregularity create space for emotional interpretations of color, texture, and form. My inspiration comes from the rhythms of childcare, labor, and family life. I borrow imagery from the familiar and everyday, teasing out the powerful associations and feelings they hold. By printing, flattening, cutting, reshaping, and recombining I remake my inner world with dye, ink, and thread. Exercises for the Childbearing Years Statement: “Exercises for the Childbearing Years,” is a hybrid of printmaking and textile art that I have used to explore chronic pain as a feminine problem, my dual identity as an artist/mother, and the divide between craft and art. In my studio practice, the materials, technique, and content are intertwined, providing tension and direction to build my work around. I dye and print textiles for improvisational quilts and wall hangings. I layer experimental print and dye techniques one on top of another to create richly textured, complex surfaces. I sometimes combine printed fabric with family textiles and clothing to make collaged art quilts that reference the body, domesticity, and memory. I often start with an abstract idea or emotional state. I print and dye then cut, piece, and re-cut my materials until I find a combination that elicits the emotional state or idea I am interested in exploring. I do not have a sense of the finished design before I begin, but instead know what techniques I want to use or the constraints I will apply. I am most interested in techniques that borrow from multiple disciplines, dancing on the edge of printmaking/surface design, silkscreen/monotype, quilting/embroidery, artistic voice/chance, etc. The title for this project comes from an old book I bought while I was pregnant. The book is filled with illustrations of women doing stretches and exercises, with ergonomic suggestions for housework and childcare. I found it a little bit helpful, mostly irrelevant. It didn’t do much to alleviate the chronic pelvic pain that started in my second trimester or the “new mother’s tendonitis” I developed when my son was five months old and almost 20lbs. The biggest impact the book has had was to help articulate the new chapter I find myself in, the “Childbearing Years.” As a culture, we focus on pregnancy as a time of change, but it is only the beginning. Since becoming a parent, the boundaries of my studio practice and life have become evermore fluid. To continue making work, I have to be flexible. I have to practice dropping one thing in order to quickly transition to something utterly different, and most of all I must surrender to circumstance. Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Esthe rS White Title A name given to the resource Esther S White https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/e926dc119d303075413a6e82e6a93914.png ac99cab7c393f9035cf3fa887911dcfd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Fiona Joy Green Gary Lee Pelletier Publisher Demeter Press City of Publication Bedford Country of Publication Canada ISBN 13 978-1-926452-16-6 Province of Publication Ontario Topic motherhood men mothering gender queer parenting pregnancy fatherhood queer identity transgender breastfeeding masculinity childbirth Date of Publication 2015 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Essential Breakthroughs: Conversations about Men, Mothers, and Mothering breastfeeding childbirth Demeter Press fathers gender gender norms masculinity men motherhood mothering mothers queer identity queer parenting transgender 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