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Person
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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.
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Susan Merrick
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="http://www.jessdobkin.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jessdobkin.com</a></p>
Medium
performance
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
Toronto
Canada
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I’ve been a working artist, curator, community activist and teacher for more than 25 years, creating and producing intimate solo performances, large-scale public happenings, socially engaged interventions and performance art workshops and lectures. My practice extends across black boxes and white cubes, art fairs and subway stations, international festivals, and single bathroom stalls. I’ve operated an artist-run newsstand in a vacant subway station kiosk, a soup kitchen for artists, a breast milk tasting bar, and a performance festival hub for kids. I’m forever inspired by the rebel queers, renegade witches, and other dyke moms I run with, and bound to many brilliant artists, activists, spell-casters and healers. <span class="s1">For many years I made performances that drew from my own experiences of trauma and transformation, intimacy and motherhood. More recently, I’ve experienced a shift in my practice, where my attention has turned to wider theoretical questions about the nature of performance itself to </span>ask questions about when, where, how we perform - in theatres and galleries, on social media, and in our everyday lives.</p>
Topic
abjection
activism
adulthood
aging
archive
art
art and research
artist mother
art making
artist parent
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autobiography
binary tensions
bioethics
biology
birth
birth and death
birth trauma
bleeding
body
body exploration
body transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastmilk
care
censorship
childhood
creative practice
creative strategies
cultural reproducers
culture
curating
curation
curator
curatorial practice
documentation
domestic labor
domestic life
domestic space
domesticity
early motherhood
early parenthood
empathy
ethics
exhaustion
family
family accessible event
family portrait
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
gender
gender roles
gender stereotypes
human body
humor
identity
interdisciplinary
intimacy
invisible labor
lactation
love
materiality
maternal
maternal body
maternal bodies
maternal care
maternal desire
maternal experience
memory
menstruation
mess
milk
mother
mother artist identity
mother as artist
mother body
mother/artist identity
mother/child relationship
motherhood and political context
motherhood
motherhood and art
motherhood and art practice
motherhood and creative practice
motherhood and social context
motherhood and studio practice
motherhood as art practice
mothering
mothers
nursing
nursing mothers
objectification
parent
parent artists
parent/child relationship
parenthood
parenting
parents
patriarchy
performativity
personal experience
play
subjectivity
power
public breastfeeding
public space
pumping
queer
queer identity
queer parenting
representation
representations of motherhood
research and art
resistance
ritual
rituals
sexuality
single mothers
single mother
social justice
social practice
stories
storytelling
theory
time
transformation
trauma
vagina
visual culture
woman
women
women and gender studies
women artists
women representation
women's health
women's identity
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar 2006, 2012, 2016
Imagined Family Portraits 2007 - ongoing
Free Childcare Provided 2013
Fee for Service 2006
Being Green 2009
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Title
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Jess Dobkin
abjection
activism
adulthood
ageing
archive
art
art and research
art making
artist mother
artist parent
artist-parents
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autobiography
binary tensions
bioethics
biology
birth
birth and death
birth trauma
bleeding
body
body exploration
body transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastmilk
Care
censorship
childhood
creative practice
creative strategies
cultural reproducers
culture
curating
curation
curator
curatorial practice
documentation
domestic labor
domestic life
domestic space
domesticity
early motherhood
early parenthood
empathy
ethics
exhaustion
family
family accessible event
family portrait
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
gender
gender roles
gender stereotypes
human body
humor
identity
interdisciplinary
intimacy
invisible labor
lactation
love
materiality
maternal
maternal bodies
maternal body
maternal care
maternal desire
maternal experience
memory
menstruation
mess
milk
mother
mother artist
mother artist identity
mother artists
mother as artist
mother body
mother/artist identity
mother/child relationship
motherhood
motherhood and art
motherhood and art practice
motherhood and creative practice
motherhood and political context
motherhood and social context
motherhood and studio practice
motherhood as art practice
mothering
mothers
nursing
nursing mothers
objectification
parent
parent artists
parent/child relationship
parenthood
parenting
parents
patriarchy
performativity
personal experience
play
power
public breastfeeding
public space
pumping
queer
queer identity
queer parenting
representation
representations of motherhood
research and art
resistance
ritual
rituals
sexuality
single mother
single mothers
social justice
social practice
Stories
storytelling
subjectivity
theory
time
transformation
trauma
vagina
visual culture
woman
women
women and gender studies
women artists
women representation
women’s health
women’s identity
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Website
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<p class="p1"><a href="http://www.lindseybeal.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.lindseybeal.com</a></p>
Medium
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Providence
Rhode Island
USA
Artist Statement
<p class="p1"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><i>Reproduction(s)</i></strong></span> 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.</p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"> </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><i>Parturition</i></strong></span> is a photographic archive and written history of obstetric and gynecological tools: their appearance, development, and how they have or have not changed.</p>
<p class="p4">Obstetrical and gynecological history is full of contradictions and complications.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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.</p>
<p class="p5"></p>
<p class="p4">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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some were created pre-germ theory and used materials such as leather, wood, horn or ivory.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Others more closely resemble and use materials familiar to us today. </p>
<p class="p5"></p>
<p class="p3">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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This allows us to examine how women's reproductive health and medicine evolved, yet still remains the same.</p>
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
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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>
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Lindsey Beal
photography
Providence
Rhode Island
USA
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Website
The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="jesstaylorartist.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jesstaylorartist.com</a></p>
Medium
sculpture
new media
Location
The location of the interview
Adelaide
Australia
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">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.</p>
<p class="p2"></p>
<p class="p3">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.</p>
<p class="p4"></p>
<p class="p3">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.</p>
<p class="p3">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.</p>
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
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Title
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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
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Resource Library
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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
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Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption
alterity
ethics
feminism
identity
interruption
mothering
psychoanalysis
psychology
Routledge
sense of self
social theory
time
transformation
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Website
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<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.michellehartney.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.michellehartney.com/</a></span>
<div><a href="https://www.michellehartney.com/mothers-right" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.michellehartney.com/mothers-right</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/moms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.michellehartney.com/moms</a>
<a href="https://www.michellehartney.com/kimberly-said-no" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.michellehartney.com/kimberly-said-no</a>
<a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/birthwords" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.michellehartney.com/birthwords</a>
<a href="https://www.michellehartney.com/correcting-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.michellehartney.com/correcting-history</a>
<a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/anarcha-lucy-betsey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.michellehartney.com/anarcha-lucy-betsey</a>
Medium
mixed media
performance art
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
Illinois
United States
Artist Statement
<p>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.</p>
<p>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" rel="noopener">I</a><a href="http://improvingbirth.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mproving Birth's</a> nationwide Labor Day rallies. Most recently, Hartney joined <a href="http://www.everymothercounts.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">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" rel="noopener">Click here</a> for more information about joining her team.</p>
Topic
maternity
feminism
mother/daughter relationship
pregnancy
newborn
healthcare
mothers
women
women's health
maternal healthcare
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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
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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
<span>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.</span>
Topic
birth
homebirth
childbirth
pregnancy
women
motherhood
social media
censorship
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Helen Knowles
birth
censorship
childbirth
homebirth
installation
Manchester
mixed media
motherhood
pregnancy
screen print
social media
United Kingdom
women
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://pollypenrose.com/" target="_blank">http://pollypenrose.com/</a></span>
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.
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Polly Penrose
female body
femininity
objectification
photography
self portrait
social norms
women
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Person
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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.<br /><br />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.”<br /><br />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
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Home Affairs
caregivers
child care
feminism
gender stereotypes
women
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Artist Parent Organization Database
Service
An organization supporting artist parents.
Topic
motherhood
women
mothering
online resource
About
In our contemporary ceramic community many women have gracefully tackled the lively experiment that is being both artist and mother. Mothering is a complex subject that touches many aspects of an artist’s life and practice. These dual roles simultaneously impact each other both practically and conceptually. As many women have discovered, to experience maternity is to epitomize the vessel. This along with clay’s often-recognized metaphoric relationship to the stages of life itself, provides artists who utilize clay in their work a unique perspective on the art/motherhood lively experiment.<br /><br />Over the past year(s), Kate Fisher has been surveying, interviewing and documenting a cross section of ceramic artists who are also mothers. Examining how children, or the circumstances of their lives as they include them, changed and impacted the work these artists choose to make and/or how they make it. <br /><br />The goal of <a href="http://www.bothartistandmother.com" target="_blank">www.bothartistandmother.com</a> is to present an ongoing digital record of interviews and stories from women ceramicists. The hope is that this project will provide insight and encouragement to talented female artists, which in turn impacts the field’s future. Initially the site includes profiles of 11 artist/mothers.This is important, because it encourages talented female artists, which in turn impacts the field’s future. Initially, the site includes profiles of 11 artist/mothers. The hope is to repeat the interview process with additional artist/mothers in the future. Site visitors are able to listen to or download interviews with the artists, read transcriptions of the dialogues and view links to related events, information, and exhibits. The site’s flexible format will accommodate an ever-expanding narrative and exchange of stories, questions, and advice designed to help artists communicate.
Organization Website
<a href="http://www.bothartistandmother.com" target="_blank">www.bothartistandmother.com</a>
Organzation Director
Kate Fisher
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Title
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Both Artist and Mother
motherhood
mothering
online resource
women