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<a href="kristycavaretta.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kristycavaretta.com</a>
Topic
early motherhood
maternal fatigue
domestic waste
Medium
printmaking
woodblock
direct object printmaking
cyanotype
Artist Statement
Kristy explores the minutia of domestic life through a variety of media.
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Kristy Cavaretta
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Kristy Cavaretta
cyanotype
domestic waste
early motherhood
maternal fatigue
printmaking
woodblock
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https://www.artistparentindex.com/files/original/baad1356d81af7594b7792549a618e14.jpg
c5dff891d56b58565b22ab98d496a4f9
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<a href="https://www.jacquelinebelljohnson.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.jacquelinebelljohnson.com/</a>
Topic
fertility/infertility
motherhood
children portraiture
child wonderment
mother and child art collaboration
Medium
installation
sculpture
photography
mixed media
printmaking
writing
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.
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Jacqueline Bell Johnson
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Jacqueline Bell Johnson
child wonderment
children portraiture
fertility/infertility
installation
mixed media
mother and child art collaboration
motherhood
photography
printmaking
sculpture
writing
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dbff5bcdbceeb17a4fee632593c185a7
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<a href="https://jessievanderlaan.com/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://jessievanderlaan.com/home.html</a>
Medium
drawing
fiber art
printmaking
sculpture
Location
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Knoxville
Tennesee
USA
Artist Statement
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both experiences are true, useful, and not mutually exclusive. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Precarious balance has always been at the crux of my work, and never has it seemed more true to my lived experience than as an artist and mother.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The imagery included with the arms and hands continues to reflect the landscape, as I am habitually drawn to rock formations and fields of flowers. I connect this imagery to the world we inhabit, are desperate to protect, and which holds the history of generations. Through this work, I hope to examine and share the experience of motherhood, in all that is devastating, and all that is jubilant. </span></p>
Topic
parenting
motherhood
fear
hope
post-partum
post-partum depression
post-partum anxiety
environment
landscape
feminism
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Jessie Van der Laan
drawing
fiber art
printmaking
sculpture
-
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750161a042c848f1e3bfce8f93940eb8
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<a href="http://www.brittneydenham.net/">http://www.brittneydenham.net/</a>
Topic
motherhood
mothering
birthing
home
Medium
fiber
printmaking
photography
Artist Statement
In 2018 while attending my grandmother’s funeral I found out I was pregnant. The timing of these two events felt cosmically connected. A person’s departure means another’s arrival. To say the phrase “full circle” was used emphatically is an understatement.
The Arrival examines the life altering complexities that come with motherhood. Complexities such as: the passing of traditions, constructing home, navigating all-nighters, growth charts, feeding schedules, all while trying to reconcile an identity crisis of being a mother and artist. Departing from who I was without a child, and arriving to who I am now as mother.
In this body of work, I use photography and printmaking techniques that make multiples or used processes that can be replicated. I also worked with cyanotypes, one of the first photographic processes used to produce copies, or blueprints. This process helps me to reference the beginning of my son’s life, but also a human coming from someone else, a copy of the original. Full circle.
Location
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Sheridan
Wyoming
USA
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Brittney Denham
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Brittney Denham
birth
birthing
fiber
home
motherhood
mothering
photography
printmaking
USA
Wyoming
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96e8dd7c8f4edc2f450209ddd3eca4ff
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<a href="sarahdolanart.com">sarahdolanart.com</a>
Topic
nursing
sleep
naptime
breastfeeding
body
maternal body
c-section
Medium
fibers
printmaking
recycled materials
Artist Statement
In the second year following the birth of my daughter I began an artist residency in motherhood. For one year I made work during my daughter’s naptime. I created many bodies of work during my residency, using a variety of materials and processes. My works explore multiple aspects of motherhood including birth, the postpartum body, breastfeeding, and objects used for caretaking and play.
The Tender Objects series consists of small, pink, soft sculptures. These works are assembled from cut up pieces of a raincoat, which is meant to shield the body, but rendered useless to protect the body once severed. These pieces contemplate the defenselessness and many unknowns of the insides of our bodies.
Through the Motherbody series, I use materials from clothing that no longer fits my postpartum body. Each soft sculpture imagines some part of me, not unlike my daughters many stuffed animals, as a created comfort item. Filled with stuffing from a pregnancy pillow, they imitate plush objects that would soothe a child while simultaneously examining the immense changes and vulnerability of the body during and after pregnancy.
In the Motherbody Drawings series I draw the motherbody pieces, turning them into something diverging from the comfort item the mother body is perceived to be in our culture. While the drawings are still perceived as soft, they transform the physicality of the sculptures to sensuous and blossoming unknowns. These drawings examine the dichotomy of the mother figure, finding the tender with the intimate, and not separating the two.
The Nursing Pad series explores the enormous amounts of time and labor that are given to feeding an infant. Through the repetitive, labored motion of the embroidery process, I recall the repetition of the breastfeeding process and the sucking motion of the infant. Each piece is labored over. Some carry smaller amounts of embroidery, a recollection of the earliest days when my milk was meager and some are saturated with embroidery, a reconstruction of the soaking of the very same pads with my own milk.
Location
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Alexandria
Virginia
USA
Exhibitions
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<a href="https://artistparentindex.com/items/show/436" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Of Printbearing Age, 2019</a><br /><br /><a href="https://artistparentindex.com/items/show/523" target="_blank" rel="noopener">motHER/child, June-Aug 2020</a>
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Sarah Dolan
Title
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Sarah Dolan
body
breastfeeding
fiber
nap
naptime
nursing
printmaking
recycled material
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282df56a025acddfad41d6eb54413fea
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<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.
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
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Jessica Mueller
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Jessica Mueller
and sculpture
Care
domesticity
embroidery
intersectionality
labor
painting
performance
printmaking
video
weight
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Website
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<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
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Missoula
Montana
USA
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Jennifer Combe
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Jennifer Combe
Montana
oil
photography
printmaking
USA
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2884ab83c44e633e6abb1fb189510313
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Website
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<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
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
Location
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Vancouver
Canada
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Heather Passmore
culture
environmental issues
fertility
painting
pen drawings
printmaking
social justice
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Website
The Artist's website
http://www.christadonner.com
Topic
community
motherhood
collaboration
childcare
Medium
drawing
painting
printmaking
installation
social practice
Artist Statement
Artmaking is my microscope and my scalpel: the tool I use to investigate the human organism through sensation and imagination. My recent studio practice looks to early feminist sci-fi while drawing from the matriarchal colony structures of social insects and the internal ecosystems of the microbiome to propose speculative models for human communities of the future, and to reimagine the architecture of our own bodies. Such inquiry must incorporate the experiences of others if it is to evolve. Embedded in my artistic practice is an exchange between individuals and communities that extends from the fictional to lived experiences and experiments. In 2012 I initiated the creative platform <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cultural ReProducers</a>, which incorporates artist interviews and skillsharing, small-press zines, collaborative events, institutional interventions, and an active online forum to explore the intersection of parenthood and creative practice. My speculative work in the studio is amplified by the community of creative thinkers and cultural workers raising children who I collaborate with and advocate for. This community will continue to evolve as its participants grow and change.
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/388">Mother Load</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
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Christa Donner
Chicago
childcare
collaboration
community
drawing
Illinois
installation
motherhood
painting
printmaking
social practice
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4aaa5fa665dd9bcb983d881f5e286b05
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<a href="http://www.emmafinucane.com/" target="_blank">http://www.emmafinucane.com/</a>
Medium
screenprint
photography
video art
performance art
printmaking
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Bray
County Wicklow
Ireland
Artist Statement
I develop artwork through dialogue, process based, participatory and collaborative practice. I investigate the way we connect and communicate with others and ultimately how it contributes to the quality of our lives. I am looking at the role of the artist in society and questioning how “useful” the role of art can be when entering into different areas. My work has frequently combined education, research and artistic practice. My visual research consists of screen print, digital images and photography, slides and video experiments. I have been using video in both documentary and performance based formats, combining live action with static projections, improvisation and language. <br /><br />I am currently Artist in Residence in UCD College of Health Sciences where I am the principle investigator on a research team with a midwifery lecturer Dr. Maria Healy (UCD) and midwife, Teresa McCreery based at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street. Together we are working on the research initiative: An interpretive phenomenological study: Illuminating childbirth experiences of women attending a midwife-led service via visual art works. Insights from this research will highlight women’s lived experiences of childbirth vis visual artworks and academic publications. The final artworks will be included in the UCD Health Sciences Library in book format as an educational tool alongside academic books.
Topic
childbirth
motherhood
maternal
education
parenting
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Emma Finucane
Bray
childbirth
County Wicklow
education
installation
Ireland
maternal
motherhood
parenting
performance art
photography
printmaking
screenprint
video art
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872724fec44356adf0bea0f68899b278
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<a href="http://balance.ddtr.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://balance.ddtr.net/</a>
<a href="https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&isbn=9781409426134&lang=cy-GB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">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><span>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 - </span><em>Reconciling Art and Mothering, Mothering Mennonite, </em><span>and </span><em>Have Milk, Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding - </em><span>and essays in </span><em>n.paradoxa, Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, Studies in the Maternal,</em><span> 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. </span></div>
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Topic
maternal body
shifting identities
care work
breastfeeding
parent-child collaboration
maternal collaboration
familial heritage
handwork traditions
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
Publications
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/463">The Maternal in Creative Work Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art, Contributor</a>
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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
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ed2db97f6f80ceb9408c22d8e03d1c11
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<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
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
Location
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Manchseter
United Kingdom
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Magda Stawarska-Beavan
audio
audio technology
audio waves
data visualization
identity
language
language development
Manchester
parental obsession
printmaking
screenprint
silkscreen
speech development
United Kingdom