1 300 324 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/22cd9c1a5260f92ef5404c2687988472.jpg b987d4c79712235e48bfba1532f1db33 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Name Paula McCloskey Sam Vardy Website The Artist's website <a href="aplaceoftheirown.org" target="_blank">aplaceoftheirown.org</a> Topic maternal subjectivity maternal trauma maternal affect family art activism matrixial social practice research art and research family collaboration Medium writing drawing film photography performance Artist Statement A self-organised practice, a place of their own, is an open experiment, that we resist categorising as either art, research, everyday activism, spatial practice or film-making (and yet which engages with all of these things). Our practice engages the family in an exploration of the production of subjectivity. A place of their own is comprised of us two (Paula McCloskey and Sam Vardy) and our four children. Location The location of the interview Sheffield United Kingdom Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource a place of their own art and research collaboration drawing family art activism family collaboration film maternal affect maternal subjectivity performance art photography research Sheffield social practice United Kingdom writing https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/3f498638b5083ce5a60eb49232e0cb51.jpg 9ff03c786a25df04fc4c02ad9d8ccb9e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://chimo1117.wixsite.com/adama" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://chimo1117.wixsite.com/adama</a> Medium acrylic and pencil on paper Location The location of the interview Wakayama Japan Artist Statement 私は、我が子を通して見た世界、感じた世界を一枚の紙に表現します。 私はテーマを決めたあと、筆で形を作っていく描き方をしています。紙にジェッソを下塗りし、その上に色や線をのせていきます。作品の大きさにもよりますが、だいたい５日ほどで描き上げることが多いです。 その間、母（私）は子どもに寄り添い、乳をやり、生活のほとんどをその時間に費やします。 まさに「母が子に喰われる時を過ごす」のです。それでも母は絵を描こうとします。線一本を捻出するために多くの時間が費やされます。そのため、この9年間のアートワークは小作品やドローイングが多くなっています。 I express the world I see and feel through my child on a piece of paper. After deciding on a theme, I draw by creating shapes with a brush. The paper is primed with gesso, and then the colors and lines are applied on top. Although it depends on the size of the work, I usually complete it in about five days. During this time, the mother (I) sits close to the child, nurses it, and spends most of her time there. It is exactly "a mother spends her time being eaten by her child". My mother still wants to paint. A lot of time is spent to come up with a single line. Therefore, the artworks of these 9 years are mostly small works and drawing. これらの作品群、そこに描かれている人物たちは、母親の深い感情をより多く詰め込み表現されるために、複雑な線と色が使われています。人物像の顔に当たる部分には、いくつもの小さな顔や、点や線、目のようなもの、歯のようなものが散りばめられているように描いています。これは、人の表情について、静止画において、第三者（鑑賞者）が、見る位置によって、または見る角度、感情によって異なる見方ができるように工夫されています。人間の表情は、短時間に多くの表情を示します。怒ったと思えば笑い、笑ったかと思えば悲しみ。いくつもの表情を一枚の紙に描くことは困難です。それならば、それらの感情をすべてそこに並べ、見たいように感じられれば良いと思うのです。 These works, and the figures depicted in them, use complex lines and colors to express more of the mother's deep emotions. The part that corresponds to the face of the human figure is painted with many small faces, dots and lines, things like eyes, and things like teeth. It is devised so that a third party (viewer) can see human facial expressions differently depending on the viewing position, viewing angle, and emotion. Human facial expressions show many expressions in a short time. Laugh when you think you're angry, sad when you think you're laughing. It is difficult to draw many facial expressions on one sheet of paper. Then I think it would be nice if I could put all those emotions in there and feel what I wanted to see. 私はなぜ絵を描くのか、それは我が子を記憶にとどめておきたいというシンプルな思いです。愛するもの、大切に思うものに対し、誰しも記憶に残しておきたいと思うのではないでしょうか。 私の記憶を留めるための方法（絵を描くということ）はとてもシンプルで古典的です。しかし、私にとっては、その方法が一番、身近であり、馴染みがあり、その行動が自分の存在意義を確かめることの手段の一つになっています。 The reason why I paint is a simple desire to remember my child. We all want to keep something in our memory for something we love and cherish. My method of memory retention (painting) is very simple and classic. However, for me, that method is the most familiar and familiar, and the action is one of the means to confirm the significance of my existence. Topic painting and drawing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Adama C. Turay https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/8d34f94a00994fe38fe74b6012272397.jpg 4eb134a6b244b32f3a48efdaf05ecc93 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.adriennebrown-david.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.adriennebrown-david.com</a> Medium oil paint Location The location of the interview Water Valley Mississippi 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 My work focuses almost exclusively on the growth and development of black girls in America. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Adrienne Brown-David https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4f01b518a7df61e84a2f6ad34616f10a.jpg 3ecf3360ce30fc608619f29ebf75baf8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.milkdiaries.weebly.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.milkdiaries.weebly.com</a> Medium writing painting photography collage drawing natural fiber singing dance Location The location of the interview Lithuania Artist Statement I choose to celebrate my art through motherhood, and my motherhood through art. My work will promote inclusion and equanimity and will connect me to my child and my self. Topic motherhood parent-child mutual dependence, learning from the child collaboration of mother and child inclusion in the family mother's aim to sustain herself from art making Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agnieszka Olszewska https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/98f0114e67aabdb28ca4b9f523a70298.jpg bd9101dd693abbc2f969709b5a439c66 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website www.ahreelee.com Medium video new media textiles Location The location of the interview Los Angeles California Artist Statement In the fall of 2018, I kept track of what I was doing all day long in a spreadsheet. Each activity I assigned to one of half a dozen different categories, including child care, housework, art practice, and sleep. I picked one week of that time period and during the course of my artist residency at the Women’s Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles, turned it into Timesheet: November 4–10, 2018, a work comprising seven weavings, one representing each day of that week. I wove it during weekly studio hours, on my floor loom that I moved into the space for the exhibition. By giving these ephemeral activities form through my weaving, I have created an analog data visualization of invisible and undervalued domestic labor and transformed it into an artwork with monetary and cultural value. Topic parenting caretaking quantified self weaving textiles fiber labor domestic labor time data visualization tracking visualization capitalism technology industrialization value repetition 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 Ahree Lee https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/5146d130fbc515aa219bdaf74a47d6ed.jpg ab750594b8ff1320004c71fcec8b83f8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.aimeegilmore.com/portfolio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.aimeegilmore.com/portfolio/</a> Medium breast milk wood found/discarded objects baby clothes fabric neon cement clay plaster sculpture mixed media Location The location of the interview Philadelphia Pennsylvania Artist Statement Aimee Gilmore's latest body of work is a result of her recent discoveries in motherhood. The works are a collection of imagery and objects that reflect the process of archiving a routine (like breastfeeding) through its most essential material and highlights the communication between mother and child through abstraction. It is through this collection that Gilmore begins to viscerally relate the abstract nature of motherhood to the unpredictable nature of breast milk, a material that exposes and emphasizes the necessity of letting go. Gilmore seeks a more thorough and vivid understanding of her own labor as mother by making works from the generative processes of her own body. Topic breastfeeding breast milk binary tensions motherhood bodies as markers of time female body body lactation 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" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Art of Breastfeeding: Modern Narrative of Motherhood</a> Make the Pump Not Suck, MIT Media Lab, April 27 - 29, 2018, MIT University <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 Aimee Gilmore baby clothes binary tensions bodies as markers of time breast milk cement clay fabric female body found object found/discarded objects motherhood mylar neon Pennsylvania Philadelphia plaster sculpture wood https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/e76c63c137bdbbed984911c7a0b5f735.jpg 5742d7ca60eb32c27974bad3ffb4f6f9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.alanatyson.com/">www.alanatyson.com</a> Medium sculpture textiles performance Location The location of the interview Wales United Kingdom Artist Statement Alana Tyson’s work attempts to make sense of the world she inhabits. As an immigrant to the UK and a natural observer, she feels highly responsive to the contradictions of everyday life.   Her uncertain questioning of diverse thematic concepts is a tactic for working through the problems she encounters, incorporating performance, sculpture and installation utilising found, altered and constructed elements.   Tyson is drawn to dualities and incongruities. A commonality between her chosen materials is their link to domesticity. Everyday items, such as suit lining or crochet cotton, become carriers of meaning and reflections upon Tyson’s deep-rooted responses. The material contrasts and tension within Tyson’s work transforms the mundane into the visceral.     Topic feminism crochet breastfeeding motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alana Tyson breastfeeding crochet feminism motherhood performance sculpture textiles United Kingdom Wales https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/41e8a620cd250d3b1b6e2ed288081faf.jpg 98c8a5b1fbafa02096dfb4c89432c39d https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/6e5e41aa6a088830f2130a54fb180576.jpg 6fd3685d7612b1665e139c335f3d4c1c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://albertoaguilar.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://albertoaguilar.org/</a> Medium interdisciplinary Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinios Artist Statement I, I am, I am here. Now I am here. Where are you? I make work where I am. I have allowed for questions. I look for the simplest solution. I have allowed for contradiction. I have allowed for open-endedness. I want my work to clearly communicate. I allow my hand to show to disrupt any illusion. I use language, text, and my voice as pliable forms. I build bridges of communication through various forms. I let the form of the work reflect the actions of its making. I arrange ordinary materials for people to rethink perception. I organize things through value, size or other default methods. I establish a framework to stay focused and reach an end point. I use the materials that are at hand to capture fugitive moments. I look for underlying patterns within existing structures and systems. I measure, demarcate, and play with existing structures and systems. I use repetition and the mirror image as a way to multiply visual potency. I use repetition and the mirror image as a way to multiply visual potency. I construct situations and spaces for people to interact and share a moment. I rearrange ordinary objects for people to see their surroundings in new light. I recognize what is already there allowing it to bring deeper implication to my work. I make, repeat, and persevere allowing meaning to emerge through the act of doing. I allow the path I take to show in the work so that others can enter and exit as I have. When I arrive at the end there is always surprise. Topic fatherhood family portrait parent/child collaboration museums domestic objects Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/384">moves on a human scale</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/391" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Care and Feeding: The Art of Parenthood, Palo Alto Art Center, 2018</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alberto Aguilar Chicago domestic objects family portrait fatherhood furniture Illinois interdisciplinary museums parent/child relationships weddings https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/8ba88ed46c87957995fa09604abfec22.jpg 7402760a904187d3d3929a47bede05e6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=people_details&id=309" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=people_details&id=309</a> Medium performance art installation Location The location of the interview Santiago Chile Artist Statement Alejandra Herrera is a visual artist and performer from Santiago (Chile), currently living in Los Angeles. She has been an active organizer, artist and teacher in the field of performance art for more than a decade and has exhibited her work extensively, both in her native Chile and internationally. She has produced and organized visual arts shows, such as the Annual Showcase of Students of the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile, exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago, "Av-ant Perfo", the first international performance art show in Valparaíso, and "Perfo Puerto", the First Latin American festival of performance art in Chile. Her recent performances question bodily sensuality and materiality, with particular emphasis on gendered power relations. She is mother to three daughters, four-year old twins Evelyn and Trinidad, and two-year old Diamanda. Topic sensuality materiality gendered power relations motherhood maternity domestic life body exploration Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. New Maternalisms Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alejandra Herrera Silva body exploration Chile domestic life installation materiality maternity motherhood Santiago sensuality https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ea14bd38b1dcc6fed3b0bb8a1f37a6aa.jpg 0953060a248c70f74f40914397d4d0e9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information 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 @alenacapone Medium painting sketch installation Location The location of the interview Hersbruck Germany Artist Statement In my work i focus on my daily life as young mother of two small kids. I observe and discover our relation, their growth and try to collect everything in painting. Topic maternity childhood caring growth everyday life nurse observe carry carry play immersion relationship 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 Alena Scharrer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.alexandrakiss.work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.alexandrakiss.work/</a> Medium gouache paper Location The location of the interview Toronto Artist Statement Alexandra Kiss is an artist and architect living in Toronto, Canada. She holds a Masters of Architecture from Yale University, and a Bachelor of Architecture from The Cooper Union in New York. Her work is produced in series, and addresses issues regarding identity formation, and the perception of surface and form. Her drawing is heavily influenced by her training in architecture, paying close attention to the precision of line and drawing narrative. Working freehand or digitally, she uses drawing as a tool for researching, analysing and organizing information Topic mother-daughter relationship primordial 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 Alexandra Kiss https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/92ba84fba7e9100decbf747106c1d1bf.jpg cd027da9a53a4cf3955dc992ed81d987 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.anadiaknox.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.anadiaknox.com</a> Medium performance sculpture installation video photography Location The location of the interview Loris South Carolina Artist Statement My most recent body of work utilizes themes relating to body, identity and time, from the perspective of a mother, partner and individual. I am interested in the ways that nurturing and caring for a child translates as occupational labor, and how this makes common cause with the working class by exploring the laborious nature of parenthood. I approach these ideas through various methods, including casting, construction and performance. While the different series in this body of work investigate separate ideas relating to roles of the postpartum body, a shared use of material can be seen throughout. Construction materials such as wooden pallets, 2x4s and scaffolding reference blue collar workforce, while breast milk storage bags and nursing pads suggest the time-consuming and repetitive notions associated with motherhood. The series in this body of work evolves as my role as a caretaker evolves, and aims to question how modern society values parenthood. Topic breastfeeding nuturing postpartum body sexuality motherhood parenthood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alexandra Knox https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/f5af3076579116c30cb6eb7788ccc1d4.jpg 9f86d29c843444eb669a9c094f68340b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.alicestonecollins.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.alicestonecollins.com</a> Medium gouache paper collage Location The location of the interview Alpharetta Georgia Artist Statement I am interested in the everyday. The mundane. And I look for beauty in these moments. Part of this is my experience with having kids. The repetition. The routine. The thousands of lunches packed and faces wiped. There is a common thread that all mothers have in these experiences, but also a true unique quality to these spaces in our lives. In my current pieces I'm exploring how we navigate the restraints often felt while in the trenches of motherhood and the contrasting energies of stasis and and comfort these borders bring. How does this impact the way we engage with our environment and each other? Topic caregiver mother suburban mundane family homeostasis comfort Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alice Stone-Collins https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/446222d1437b659d3d3090b0b20ee1de.jpg d128c2244d4c0b31c915b2a3f7527ae0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.alisonchen.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.alisonchen.com</a> Medium video photography performance Location The location of the interview Los Angeles California Artist Statement Through video, performance, photography, and text, I explore the complexities and confusions that surround the act of love and the dynamics of vulnerability. What are the areas where our preconceived notions fall short. How do we hold on to beauty amidst fear and failure? My work approaches motherhood from within this framework as I process the ramifications of the transformation into “mother” and the simultaneous shift in her relationship to time and mortality. Ultimately, the work explores the concurrent existence of bliss and fear, birth/life and death, resistance and acquiescence. Topic motherhood loss miscarriage breastfeeding postpartum body Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Color: Coded, New Art Center, Newton, MA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alison Chen https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/3184162d0737140a53e507ad029030d8.jpg 1ab8a940b8c125447c65c554523654a3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.axisweb.org/p/alisononeill/#artwork" target="_blank">http://www.axisweb.org/p/alisononeill/#artwork</a> Medium drawing film & video installation research Location The location of the interview Cambridge United Kingdom Artist Statement My practice based research uses autoethnographic and feminist methodologies to examine maternal subjectivities with a particular focus on the mother as a classed and gendered subject. <div class="more"> I am also interested in the performativity of motherhood and in examining narratives of the good and bad mother and how these narratives are perpetuated in everyday encounters and experiences. </div> Topic motherhood feminist theory the maternal autoethnography subjectivity memory remembering performativity class Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alison O’Neill autoethnography Cambridge class drawing feminist theory film installation memory motherhood performativity remembering subjectivity the maternal United Kingdom video https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/fa3be30a26ae394caaf2a921f8b8e8f2.jpg 3308bba6acf115e3bbf1412a23b3c2d2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, 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 Amanda Schilling Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.amandaschilling.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.amandaschilling.com</a> Topic motherhood domesticity wife mother gender roles loss of self gender Medium photography Artist Statement No longer are we merely bombarded by mass-media images of attractive, smiling, jet-setting celebrity mothers telling us their happiest moments are spent raising their perfect children in their perfect spotless mansions, even as their nannies, housekeepers, dietitians, and chefs do all the real work. Now we are also attached to ever-present devices that continually broadcast similar messages from our own families and friends. How is it that everyone’s life is perfect but not our own? Why are we the only ones living boring lives in dirty houses with bratty children and cellulite? In direct opposition to the false idea of perfection imposed upon women through social and mass-media, I have created the photographic series Wife, Mother, Woman. For the series, I spend several hours at a time with women and their families documenting their interactions as they happen. None of the images in the series are planned or staged. I simply strive to be a forgotten presence, spending enough time with women and their families for them to act as they would if no one was looking. The work shows the reality of siblings fighting, dirty dishes in the sink, trash on the floor, and mothers pushing junk food and electronics at their children just to get a moment’s peace. Through the imaging of dozens of mothers, I emphasize the point that social and mass-media “realities” aren’t real and the personal is truly universal. 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 Amanda Schilling Title A name given to the resource Amanda Schilling domesticity gender roles Houston loss of self mother motherhood Texas USA wife woman https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/e64e1b4dc2d2b09050598e186bc16515.jpg 1008249870cc32655b422a2c92db19f1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://amyfdignam.weebly.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://amyfdignam.weebly.com/&source=gmail&ust=1559842557155000&usg=AFQjCNEwH_uX-DziNyIOKQNSd8dl7CtuTA">https://amyfdignam.weebly.com/</a> Medium drawings photography video performance installation Artist Statement Italian born, Amy moved to London in 1998 and graduated from Central Saint Martins College in 2005. Her work is mainly autobiographical but also holds a socio-political dynamic. Making the personal public her work originates from the female body, concepts of everyday life, loss of identity, the importance of memories and the abstraction of longing are central to her practice. Domesticity as a ‘visual language’ where maternal subjectivity is explored via different media such us drawings, photography, video installation and performance.  Topic motherhood maternity domestic women artists feminism feminist mother activism Location The location of the interview London United Kingdom Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Amy Dignam domestic drawings installation London maternity motherhood performance photography UK United Kingdom video women artists https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/576caae6dd762a7f23f71aa0c19bda66.jpg 4c4951f417d0d7c5cab8d2a2ac55d623 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.amyholmesgeorge.com/images/" target="_blank">http://www.amyholmesgeorge.com/images/</a> Medium photography digital imaging Location The location of the interview Dallas Texas Artist Statement Amy Holmes George is a fine art photographer based near Dallas, Texas, where she has held teaching appointments at Baylor University, the University of North Texas and Collin College. As a former tenured professor of photography and digital media from Stephen F. Austin State University, Amy founded the School’s first study abroad program (based in Italy) and was nominated for the University Faculty Achievement Award in Teaching. Amy holds an MFA in photography from Clemson University and a BFA cum laude in photography and graphic design from Miami University. Amy is the Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.texasphoto.org/" target="_blank">Texas Photographic Society</a> and a member of the National Board of Directors of the <a href="http://www.spenational.org/" target="_blank">Society for Photographic Education</a>, serving formerly as Chair, Treasurer and Vendor Liaison on the South Central Regional Board. During 2010, Amy co-founded alt8, an alternative photographic processes group, which meets regularly in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Exhibited widely throughout the U.S. as well as in Italy, England, France and China, Amy's work has been featured in over one hundred exhibitions and is housed in several permanent collections, including The Getty, The Kinsey Institute and the Fratelli Alinari Museum. In 2008, Amy was awarded a Fulbright grant to fund a rephotographic project based on the Fratelli Alinari photo archives in Florence, Italy. Additionally, her work has been published recently in a variety of texts, including the third edition of<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Alternative-Photographic-Processes/dp/1285089316/ref=dp_ob_image_bk" target="_blank">"The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes"</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Printing-Amazing-Processes-Christina-Anderson/dp/0984681612" target="_blank">"Gum Printing and other Amazing Contact Printing Processes"</a>, and the fifth edition of<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Color-Photography-Fifth-Edition/dp/0240813359" target="_blank">"Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels"</a>. Topic pregnancy motherhood domesticity Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Amy Holmes George Dallas domestic motherhood photography pregnancy Texas https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/83afa3d1a9ea7a247e7c897a311afcc0.jpg db2d32bf046dad385d587e7449e5e1bb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.amyreidel.com">www.amyreidel.com</a> Topic caregiving birth trauma babies mothers c-section trauma Medium multi-media watercolor mixed media paper canvas Artist Statement My current body of work on paper and canvas uses volatile watercolor, studio remnants, lint, medical tape, hot glue and more to abstractly illustrate what so many women go through but are not encouraged to discuss; the double-standards placed on our sexuality, the immense mental and physical space that caregiving demands, as well as traumas related to sexual assault, pregnancy and childbirth. Through traditional (paint) and symbolic (staples) mixed media, I portray the sweetness of imaginary babies and mothers, along with the gore of tumors, bleeding and C-section scars. Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Amy Reidel Title A name given to the resource Amy Reidel birth birth trauma bleeding c-section Care care giving mixed media paper pregnancy sexuality trauma watercolor https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4996ea76f895bc842db66bfbf00b4ad9.jpg 608bef1ce965d9e29729ab139126cccf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://alvarezerrecalde.com/" target="_blank">http://alvarezerrecalde.com/</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview Barcelona Spain Artist Statement "Themes inspired by my personal experiences such as vital cycles, birth, motherhood, illness, immigration, ageing and death are found throughout my body of work. I create images that become a document of our love, our fears and our conquests. My artwork is a contemporary social commentary through which I like to challenge the singular story that has been told and reinforced as a way of normalizing roles and attitudes. I cherish plurality and my way of doing so is to contribute images and testimonies that expands perspective and the constricted existing imagery. Within a common experience like expecting a child or the passing away of a parent, we find transcendental truth. Art has the potential of transmitting that emotion to confront our daily numbness with something that is authentically substantial and profound. I believe that there is a manipulative and deliberate lack of information that hinders the understanding of just how empowering and transformative motherhood can be. I cherish plurality and my way of contributing is to share my experiences in order to expand the constrained social imagery. In "Birth of My Daughter", a self-portrait while giving birth, I take off my "cultural" veil. My maternity is not virginal or aseptic. I am the archetype of the primal woman, the woman beast that has nothing prohibited. I show a maternity not seen through the eyes of Eve (the divine punishment "you will give birth with the pain of your body"), but seen through the eyes of Lucy (the earliest hominid found to date). These photographs can help others rethink the idea of the fragile, painful, out of control and overly medicated birth that is considered the norm in many countries. How I relate to nudity and blood is a mirror of my fascination with life. I am accepting of my changing body, amazed with how my children grow, and intrigued by the aging process. The blood and nudity seen within the context of my artwork is linked to authenticity and undiluted sensuality. I create images that become a document of our love, our fears and our conquests." <a href="http://imowblog.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/in-conversation-with-ana-alvarez.html" target="_blank">Interview with Her Blue Print</a> <a href="http://flicmagazine.com/mag/en/2014/07/ana-alvarez-errecalde/" target="_blank">Interview with Flic Magazine</a> Topic motherhood birth postpartum body aging daughter breastfeeding Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ana Álvarez-Errecalde aging Barcelona birth breastfeeding daughter motherhood postpartum body pregnancy Spain Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information 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.AnabellaLenzu.com Medium performance drawing dance video art photography Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement Art is a political act. Dance is discipline and revolt. My body is my country. I react to my environment and use the body as a receptacle and messenger of the multiple realities that we are immersed in. My work reflects my experience as a Latina/European artist living in New York and comes from a deep examination of my motivations as a woman, mother, and immigrant. Performance is a conduit for examining cultural identity through form and content, as well as relationships between people and society. Sharing my point of view of life with others is my duty and my pleasure. I investigate the interior logic of performance and the role of a dancer in our culture today, redefining the parameters of dance and theater. My works live inside and outside of the theatrical traditions and venues, as well as on the screen. My art is about celebration and criticism of socio-political and cultural barriers. It is a ceremony of awareness. I explore rituals to document intimacy and organize layers of character driven drama, and break apart quotidian social gestures. I am creating a living vocabulary of meaningful movement that springs directly from emotions with visceral strength. By using movement, spoken word, sounds, music, photographs, video projections, film, masks and props as tools, I create a dialogue to provoke a cathartic experience in the audience. Topic performance, drawing, dance, video art, photographyCapture histories, testimonials and experiences of mothers that are also choreographers and artists living and working in NYC, in order to create dialogues, appreciation and social support. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anabella Lenzu https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/d3321bcbface4b294509e8552104e752.jpg 251330d3e1afd7717b051549c989e050 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.andiarnovitz.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.andiarnovitz.com</a> Medium print artists books installation painting Artist Statement One of the topics my work explores is the tensions that exist within societies and with the religions in those societies that pressure women into bearing children, and the insensitivities that arise from this pressure. I particularly explore the medical side effects of hormone treatments, issues of biological clocks ticking and limited egg reserves. Of particular interest to me are the ethical and moral issues that accompany sperm and egg donors: especially issues of greed and overuse of sperm and eggs. Topic IVF halachic infertility biblical infertility motherhood mothers of soldiers maternal worry sperm banks egg bank half siblings Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. “The Black List” /The Jerusalem Artist’s House/ 2017“Persistent Realities” /USC/2015Group Exhibit: “Trespassing” The Islamic Museum/Jerusalem/ 2020Group Exhibit: “Relationships” HUC Museum/NYC/2019Group Exhibit: “Intimate Transgressions” Chaing Kai Shek Museum of Tapei/ 2016Group Exhibit: “Spectrum of Sexuality” HUC Musuem/NYC 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 Andi Arnovitz https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/36ffa0f828a2ae20ca57353a9214c552.jpg 4e6241533a766224fbb674b76a636921 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://lopezangela.com/home.html">www.lopezangela.com</a> Medium interdisciplinary video drawing painting sculpture Artist Statement ILThere might be magic. Like death, magic is hopeful and scary. A skull grows crystals and a prosthetic bruises. A small foot kicks and slides across the inside of a belly making a wave in the flesh. Sheep’s horns will often grow back into their skull. The body senses and interprets information beyond what the mind is conscious of. The body operates beyond our will and is affected internally by what happens externally and vice versa. As a result there is a lack of physical control over our own bodies. The most recent artworks are influenced by the idea of creating artifacts and documentation of the body and medical treatments in a time unknown. Like speculative fiction, but grounded in real history and the Anthropocene, the works re-imagine our physical and psychological relationship to the body. Using watercolor paintings, animations and sculptures the work depicts the body in metamorphic and sometimes magical states of growth and decay. They explore the familiar and the unknown of embodiment to reveal primal desires, instincts, and fears. The works appear frozen in a moment of metamorphosis, between states of sensuality, life, health and consciousness. Our bodies and psychology are presented as unknowable, yet inescapable, forces in our lives. Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois USA Topic Anthropocene body growth decay metamorphosis pregnancy desire instinct fear development Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Angela Lopez Title A name given to the resource Angela Lopez Anthropocene body Chicago development drawing Illinois instinct interdisciplinary metamorphosis painting pregnancy psychology sculpture the body video art https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ed335c1e3551023e09d438384bb699d1.jpg c3b5df4175cb2354c13aee44d6495045 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://ux1.eiu.edu/~abcoddington/portfolio/index.html" target="_blank">http://ux1.eiu.edu/~abcoddington/portfolio/index.html</a> Medium fibers basketry mixed media Artist Statement My artwork borrows the technique twining from the traditional craft of basketry to create a sculptural expression of my beliefs and experiences and how they are sensed by the body. I am intrigued by the process of and differences between feeling and knowing; body and mind. Ineffable memories held by the body are more potent, penetrating and enduring than those in the mind. The forms are actuated by this somatic memory in conjunction with and investigation of the dichotomies: strength and fragility, fullness and emptiness, masculine and feminine, fertile and barren, living, aging and dead. Twining is a medium that has both the richness and familiarity of the textile surface as well as the structural integrity and expressive potential of sculpture. The hollow forms are membranes, thin skins separating the outside world from the dark interior. The openings where the two meet create a locus of intensity; the rim, the edge, the lip. These corporeal manifestations of bodily memories resonate familiarity, containment and emotion. My art is my voice, more than my words and in my work, feeling overshadows knowing. Topic fertility barrenness reproduction masculine/feminine Location The location of the interview Champaign Illinois Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ann B. Coddington barrenness basketry Champaign feminine fertility fibers Illinois masculine mixed media twining https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/1aef9ed1a42018070f03f648f01ddf21.jpg d35e03e66328b4eea9a15fa5fa9b9f2e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.annagoldsmithart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.annagoldsmithart.com</a> Medium mixed media Artist Statement Parenting is exhausting. Parenting during a pandemic can feel soul crushing. In this piece we can only see the mother's eyes -- and the endless stream of words flowing through her, like a mantra gone awry. Because like all mothers she is going on (and on). Creating art -- and finding some humor in this time -- has kept me (somewhat) sane. The art I've been working on is based on snippets of conversations I've had with other moms over social media. We are all doing the best we can. We are all going on and on even if we really just want to is just lie down and have some time to ourselves. Or in the words echoed by many friends, "Parents weren't meant to spend this much time with their kids." Bio Anna is an artist, writer and mother living in Portsmouth, NH. She has recently gotten back into art after a 10 year hiatus, which is (not coincidentally) the age of her oldest son. Topic maternal exhaustion Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anna Goldsmith https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/c8985d8733ed1785134802987e034672.jpg 3e87e4559930086e8c61f3f9fd23b54a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://annakell.com/section/396317_DRAWING.html" target="_blank">http://annakell.com/section/396317_DRAWING.html</a> Medium Graphite on paper Location The location of the interview New York City New York Topic breastfeeding motherhood portrait newborn son nursing mother Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anna Kell breastfeeding New York newborn nursing mothers portrait son https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ddc29c2494462ce343e82b33093ce412.jpg 2d2d8498470d5f3d4d92e7f14fcfeb0b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.annalouiserichardson.com/about.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.annalouiserichardson.com/about.html</a> Medium drawing charcoal installation Location The location of the interview Mundijong Australia Artist Statement Anna Louise Richardson is an artist and freelance curator investigating rural Australian identity and associated mythologies. Richardson works primarily in charcoal and graphite on cement fibreboard, using a realistic approach, flattened perspective, cut-out shapes and manipulated scale to amplify the subject matter. Her artistic practice reveals ideas of intergenerational exchange, parenthood and signifiers of identity based on her experiences of life in rural Australia living and working on a multi-generation family farm. The complexities of human relationships with the natural world and the intergenerational qualities of these relationships are driving themes throughout her practice. Richardson's work depicts animals as a recurring motif to examine shared values on the role of animals in culture, commerce and ecology and how these are shaped through different histories, storytelling and imagination. Richardson shares a studio on the farm with her husband Abdul-Rahman Abdullah– a Malay/Australian Muslim artist whose sculptural practice draws on the narrative capacity of animals to explore the intersection of politics, cultural identity and the natural world. Their two daughters, Aziza and Althea are the seventh generation to grow up on the property. Richardson holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Curtin University of Technology, Perth and has been a practicing artist since 2014. Primarily a visual artist, since having her first child she has also contracted as a freelance curator working with Australian art institutions, festivals and organisations. In 2019 Richardson completed Aziza’s Zodiac (2018-19), a 12-panel artwork featuring one animal for every month of a year after the birth of her first daughter. The work, a yearlong project created for an exhibition designed for child audiences reflected Aziza's life, told through the animals around her. This was the start of a new direction for Richardson's practice and serves as a record of her daughter’s personal history on the farm and responds to her own evolving narrative of motherhood in a rural setting. Her most recent work examines what domestic and familiar objects may tell us about our own histories, presents and futures. She has been drawing objects that reflect household hazards such as rat poison, knives and power cords, highlighting the proximity of danger present in everyday life, particularly those that underline parental worry. These works speak directly to our common sense of anxiety about danger, our collective fear of death, and our innate need to protect the ones we love. Topic parenthood rural regional danger anxiety documentation of rural motherhood farming animals Artist Residency in 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 Anna Louise Richardson https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/3a7d5122e78baa44716f5bbebf551b4e.jpg 2736f3f140888a8ec399cf6a11e721cb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.annaogierbloomer.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">annaogierbloomer.com</a> Topic motherhood family breastfeeding Medium photography Artist Statement This work, made during the first two years of my new role as mother,demonstratesthe complexityof doing the most difficult yet most meaningful work I’d ever done. The physical act of motherhood begins at conception and continues to evolve through a child’s life. Here, I turnmy lens on these physical elements: pain on the surface of the skin, illness, emotional outpouring of love and distress, the engorgement of the breast. These things simultaneously bring excruciating physical pain and unparalleled emotional joy. Through images of my own mother, I attach a thread from one generation to the next. I confront the complexity of these seemingly contradictory states of being, and the ways in which women feel the pull of motherhood, their children, and their physical self and appearance in a way unlike anything or anyone else. Location The location of the interview New York USA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Anna Ogier-Bloomer Title A name given to the resource Anna Ogier-Bloomer breastfeeding family lactation motherhood New York pain photography United States https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/01605c083928e83c340640cd809970c8.jpg 51106129deb604c14bcf95d7c3b213ce Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.annashukeylo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.annashukeylo.com</a> Medium painting Location The location of the interview New Jersey Artist Statement When my daughter was born in the middle of the pandemic, I experienced myself moving through time in way I have never experienced before. Endless sleepless nights that pass in a minute, milestones and beautiful changes happen in a blink of an eye, and watching my husband transform into a father overnight as if there was a whole new person in there. Capturing this unexplainable phenomenon that is so common yet so unfamiliar and magical has become the focus of my painting. Light and color, scale have all come to reflect both my experience of the moment and the intimacy. Every painting of the Repose series, often capturing the new father and his little mini-me daughter, becomes a little precious relic that captures the quite withing the chaotic life of a full time working parent. These pieces are both memory sakes and moments of very precious enjoyment of creating, made in the evenings, during naps, on kitchen tables, at the work office, when time seems dealt out in minutes. Topic fatherhood motherhood parenthood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anna Shukeylo https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/681b8d9dc5e4537c51c96b12a935614b.jpg 1250d7ecd1198e7cc20139818c6c4eed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.wantuchart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.wantuchart.com</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/anna.wantuch.performer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.instagram.com/anna.wantuch.performer/</a> Medium choreography performance video photography Artist Statement In her works, she deals with the visibility of motherhood and parental themes. She is the author of a series of video performances MOT/HER KC in which she observed bodily changes during pregnancy. She presented the latter work at the Parallel Festival in Vienna, at the Cracow Art Week KRAKERS festival and many others. This work was shortlisted for the only international competition for caring artists, the Mother Art Prize, and was shown at a group exhibition in London in March 2023. Author of the performance Mothersuckers: A production about reproduction concerning the issue of motherhood, breastfeeding and being a mother artist. Topic motherhood mess exhaustion chaos breastfeeding social expectations Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anna Wańtuch https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/acc56c38f0e33fefd7f46518967a0ecc.png d5bac068676894711c7d5bf773d0e83a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://aprildauscha.com/section/442775-Motherhood.html" target="_blank">http://aprildauscha.com/section/442775-Motherhood.html</a> Medium fiber sculpture performance video Location The location of the interview Greenville South Carolina 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 April Dauscha fiber Greenville South Carolina video https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/a3b7e8625f232a36ef24438b4d85d1f0.png 62bcee88e9ff5531cadc26687948b757 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Service An organization supporting artist parents. Location The location of the interview Vancouver Canada Topic parenting artist feminism caretaking Vancouver collective About Art Mamas is a group of Vancouver-based artist mothers, featuring: Gabriela Aceves-Sepúlveda, Matilda Aslizadeh, Robyn Laba, Natasha McHardy, Maria Anna Parolin, Heather Passmore, Sarah Shamash, prOphecy sun and Damla Tamer. The collective formed in 2016 in response to a practical need for accountability, encouragement, and feedback in the process of making new work, and a desire to articulate a model for feminist, women-centered, sustainable creation processes that integrate life and all of its chaos into a viable and valued way of being and creating. The positive valuation of lived experiences juggling parenting, making a living, and artmaking is positioned against the dominant culture of art production which increasingly mimics a corporate model of production, marketing, PR and specialization. Art Mamas exhibits as a group and meets once a month to critique the work in progress of our members and share experiences in open forum. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Art Mamas https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ff5c0ac1708108d5b3d44b66d460c84e.jpg a321f74aed8de9276e77dba4fa4735d5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.babsiloisch.com,%20instagram.com/babsiactually/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.babsiloisch.com, instagram.com/babsiactually/</a> Medium installation video photography performance public programming sculpture textile drawing research writing conceptual art walking art curation Location The location of the interview Los Angeles California Artist Statement As an artist, conversationalist, mover, and archivist, I use video, sound as well as unconventional and overlooked materials like words, time, relationships and movement as components to create. My work revolves around acknowledging the body as simultaneous site of production, care and labor. While the body of the mother is still only barely tolerated within the contemporary art world, I want to replace this isolation with the idea of sharing community in times of personal struggle. By using "physicality as production" as a methodological principle my work provides glimpses into the maze of enigmas - time precarity, gender roles within the arts, labor relations and the body as a multifaceted vehicle - that I am trying to find a way through and that allows others to share my questions and ask questions with me. Laying bare my experience in the strange, cozy, blurred zone of not being just one, but also not being two the work aims to mirror and encourage an intimate approach to the interdependence of minds and bodies. Embedded in curiosity, open-endedness and exposedness, I very much believe in vulnerability and in art as a means of assemblage and survival in precarious times. Seeing myself and my work as spinning a subtle thread of positive contamination, I want to think of my practice as fostering a constellation in which art is a direct tribute to the spirit of sharing and connection between communities. Topic care labor body work homework gender roles lactation motherhood parenthood community time movement parenting caretaking invisibility production Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Babsi Loisch https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ef180a42c4089851662d984e5e239707.jpg a77ef5f38333cbb2b1db92de66acad86 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index 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 Dr. Michelle Hughes Miller Dr. Tamar Hager Dr. Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich Year of Publication 2017 ISBN 13 978-1-77258-103-4 Contributor The author of an article within an anthology Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich Mandi Veenstra Marlee Keenan Sophie Feintuch Noa Arad Yairi Pamela J. Downe Alexandra Campbell Rela Mazali Kelsey Ioannoni Michelle Hughes Miller Geraldine M. Hendrix-Sloan M. Joan McDermott Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Patricia Vazquez Juan Juvé Freddie Robins Tamar Hager Keira V. Williams Susan Gair Omri Herzog Heather Munro Liat Elkayam Miri Rozmarin Publisher Demeter Press Date of Publication 2017 Topic bad mother motherhood mothers regulation resistance labels bad mother constructions surveillance social image social norms gender norms 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/. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Demeter Press Title A name given to the resource Bad Mother: Regulations, Representations, and Resistance bad mother Demeter Press gender gender norms good mother maternal theory mothering mothers representation resistance social image social norms https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/50c23c9852b1fd0da74f8505f7d0819f.jpg dcf264c650bbc21f6c0121743a76c408 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.palcik.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.palcik.com</a> Medium film Location The location of the interview Dublin Ireland Artist Statement Bara would like other parents to identify with the impact that children can have on their lives or offer would-be parents a unique insight into an experience of first-time parenting. Her work is also a love letter of sorts to her main inspiration, her son, as the work she creates is not only about him but for him. The short film “Matyas” is inspired by a Czech fairy tale “Otesanek” written by Karel Jaromir Erben. The Czech folk tale from the nineteenth century talks about a living, constantly hungry, wooden log which eats its mother and its father and then continues eating other people. The end of this enormous eating is brought about by an old lady working in the fields who cuts through its wooden stomach and all the people jump out alive. “Matyas”, the story of the all-consuming nature of maternal love, talks about a single mother who is not unhappy but very tired. The mother struggles with her constantly hungry baby who, in an addition to the original folk tale, never sleeps. The mother grows desperate as she tries to feed the baby with everything she can find in their home. Her milk is not enough, nor is porridge, fruit or vegetables. She gives him pork and chicken meat but nothing helps. Nothing she can find fills the baby, and he constantly cries and doesn’t sleep. Finally, after over 300 sleepless nights, the mother finds a solution to this constantly growing hunger. She takes a long shower and prepares herself: she shaves her legs and armpits, she washes her hair, she brushes her teeth, all so she can be clean and ready for her baby. She has, once and for all, realised how to fulfil her baby’s insatiable hunger. Topic single mother motherhood child sleep fairytale tired love food hunger reality consume parent life feeding milk maternal nap baby woman Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. “Matyas” was selected for the Dublin Feminist Film Festival 2018, Desert Edge Global Film Festival in India 2018 and Mother Art Prize in London 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 Bara Palcik baby child feeding film hunger maternal milk motherhood nap single mother woman https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/631a72a9754073a805c4c293b6af6341.jpeg 91538a2646b6de5073782f4583997809 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fontana di Trevi, 2016 Description An account of the resource My point of departure is based on my physical awareness. The vanishing necessity to be physically present somewhere to act opens up a large window of questions, which I detect and elaborate in my work. The confrontation of the human body, its functions and its expressions in relation to society interests me the most. There is a displacement going on which I use for a redefinition of my own identity. The female body, which undergoes complex transformations, is still under the public spotlight when it comes to a justification of professional interests. Why should it be intellectually less valuable to talk about pregnancy in a theoretical context when a woman is also pregnant at the same time? This doubt still unmasks the western belief in the dichotomy of mind and body and its gender classification. I am well aware of the risks of subjectivity, yet I think that personal drives can lead to splendid creations and discoveries. For me as an artist, life and art are closely related and they interchange their influences. The division between an in- and an out-side, a private and a public, is constantly going through an osmotic transition. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.barbaraphilipp.com" target="_blank">www.barbaraphilipp.com</a> <a href="http://www.mbassyunlimited.org/008-barbara-philipp/" target="_blank">http://www.mbassyunlimited.org/008-barbara-philipp/</a> Medium performance art video art artists' books drawing painting Location The location of the interview Amsterdam Netherlands Artist Statement My point of departure is based on my physical awareness. The vanishing necessity to be physically present somewhere to act opens up a large window of questions, which I detect and elaborate in my work. The confrontation of the human body, its functions and its expressions in relation to society interests me the most. There is a displacement going on which I use for a redefinition of my own identity. The female body, which undergoes complex transformations, is still under the public spotlight when it comes to a justification of professional interests. Why should it be intellectually less valuable to talk about pregnancy in a theoretical context when a woman is also pregnant at the same time? This doubt still unmasks the western belief in the dichotomy of mind and body and its gender classification. I am well aware of the risks of subjectivity, yet I think that personal drives can lead to splendid creations and discoveries. For me as an artist, life and art are closely related and they interchange their influences. The division between an in- and an out-side, a private and a public, is constantly going through an osmotic transition. Topic body female body identity pregnancy breastfeeding motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Barbara Philipp Amsterdam artists books body breastfeeding drawing female body identity maternal body Netherlands painting performance art video art https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/08888dae86a1e3857957b7dcc16ae95d.jpg 8e96c4ba697c2b9c908bd96c95a927fb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.bathshebaokwenje.com/mother-i#5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.bathshebaokwenje.com/mother-i#5</a> Location The location of the interview Uganda (Nationality)Rwanda (lives) Artist Statement This work is a portrait of a mother. The living room was built to contain her feelings, with the walls programmed to reveal them based on the proximity of the audience. The wallpaper, patterned from another portrait of the mother five months pregnant with her second set of twins, offers an abstracted glimpse of her. The books and the photographs are hers. This work explores her lived experience and her interior life. Beneath the mothering and the obligation and the sacrifice, is she there? Is this her? What is she feeling? Topic parenting motherhood gender dynamics birth control partnership twins Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bathsheba Okwenje https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ac93e27aeec9e4b1b720b6a22a96579d.pdf ec906508e312246ca9ad1b79f4b29d84 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/c887af14d625256afe06b71b5ebe3de8.jpg 437dd955466c9416066f5a2504367291 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.belindakochanowska.com/" target="_blank">http://www.belindakochanowska.com/</a> Medium photo-montage photo-collage Location The location of the interview Brisbane Australia Artist Statement Kochanowska uses an intuitive and self-reflexive process of photo-montage to express her psychological, spiritual and physical experience of pregnancy, motherhood and the natural world. Kochanowska draws from 16th, 17th and 18th century anatomical, botanical and natural history illustration to construct works teaming with fleshy distortions, flora, fauna and fantastical locations. Alternative mythologies are presented that are at once joyous, surreal, organic and deformed, blossoming with life, yet also brimming with a haunting disquiet. Biography Belinda Kochanowska is an artist based in Brisbane, Australia. Her practice frequently explores issues of memory, environment, women’s identity and physicality. She has exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions in Australia, UK and USA, including international publications. Kochanowska has also worked as the Executive Officer for the Queensland Centre for Photography. Her work has been shortlisted for an international art prize and recently chosen for a 3 year International Exhibition touring the UK, Europe and USA: “Project Afterbirth”. Her work is held in “The Birth Rites Collection”, University of Salford (UK) and the collection of the Royal College Of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (UK). Topic women's identity memory environment pregnancy postpartum depression anxiety birth pregnancy and fear Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Belinda Kochanowska anxiety Australia Brisbane fear photo-collage photo-montage postpartum depression pregnancy and fear women's identity https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/b8d64cc83dbdb28853fc0c20f728110a.jpg 804fc477e525d362a9aee471a0e3199c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.bethgoobic.com/#!metamorphose/cghg" target="_blank">http://www.bethgoobic.com/#!metamorphose/cghg</a> Medium ceramics Location The location of the interview Pompton Lakes New Jersey Artist Statement Metamorphose is an ongoing conversation in clay about the journey of becoming a mother and being a mother. It takes place in this study of a common utilitarian household item, the mug. These mug forms are endowed with the presence of both vulnerability and strength. They celebrate the glorified transformation of the pregnant body, but they bring visibility and conversation to the continuing transformation of the body and person after birth. That they are mugs points to the commonness of everyday lived experiences by wo/men in motherhood and motherwork. Each mug is entirely different reflecting the fact that the experience of mothering is unique to each individual person, even though motherwork is quite often mistaken as a universal concept. These kinds of assumptions about the universality of mothering actually makes the personal experiences of each person doing it invisible. Metamorphose is meant to resist that kind of assumption. The mugs are a reflection of the pregnant body, the very beginning of the anatomical journey of the female body as it enters motherhood but the mugs also celebrate and acknowledge the transformation of the female body after pregnancy, post birth, which in our society, is a less celebrated transformation, and a less visible journey. Post birth bodies deserve the patience, celebration and glorification that childbearing bodies receive. Post-birth bodies are spacious, healing and rehabilitating, while still maintaining a new additional life. The mugs acknowledge, give presence, and beautify the body post birth. These mug forms acknowledge the more subtle but continual anatomical journey our bodies endure during motherwork and also a person’s transformative and altering personal journey throughout motherwork. Pertaining to motherwork this conversation in clay is not exclusive to birth mothers, but opens up this conversation to all caregivers that take on motherwork. A man, or a non-biological parent may not physically go through the birthing journey but that person can experience the altering and changing of their own bodies and spirits throughout the journey of motherwork. The common daily motions endured during motherwork, and the effects and marks that motherwork experiences leave on our bodies are also portrayed here in these mugs. With the unknown journey and struggles that each child brings, caregivers are altered in person as they journey with that child through the highs and lows of each experience. This altering of person throughout the lifelong journey of motherhood, so private and personal, joyful and painful, messy and beautiful is celebrated and acknowledged in these basic everyday utilitarian objects. Like motherwork, the mugs are individual, unique and beautifully imperfect. The forms are altered, and asymmetrical, with undulating rims and drippy glazes. I choose to alter the form as a way to represent and interpret how we are altered in person and body in motherwork. The mugs are fired in a salt and soda kiln resulting in much surface variation among the cups. Each of these mugs are a functional sculpture and an experience, inviting the viewer to apply their own experiences in motherhood and motherwork to the conversation. The vulnerable yet commanding forms salute the invisible labor of caregiving and everyday experiences of motherwork, which involves a metamorphosis of person and body. Metamorphose is an artistic attempt to make the invisibility of motherhood and motherwork visible in households and workspaces via an everyday utilitarian object. Topic motherhood becoming a mother transformation postpartum body pregnancy mugs Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Beth Goobic ceramics motherhood mugs New Jersey Popton Lakes postpartum body pregnancy transformation https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/c7abac46fab3562cedf6313a8c65ae43.jpg 28ee8f79ca8547876f54e9dcb873ab86 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.bethgrossman.com/gallery/lifeindiapers/" target="_blank">http://www.bethgrossman.com/gallery/lifeindiapers/</a> <a href="http://www.bethgrossman.com/gallery/ourmothermaryfound/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.bethgrossman.com/gallery/ourmothermaryfound/index.html</a> <a href="http://www.bethgrossman.com/gallery/firstcomelove/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.bethgrossman.com/gallery/firstcomelove/index.htm</a> Medium painting sculpture social practice Location The location of the interview San Francisco California Artist Statement In my artwork I tell stories about what I see, what I learn and what I think. There is no lack of inspiration being a mother. My son shows me the world anew and I constantly notice my own limited adult views. In our American culture, mothers and children are marginalized, even though we represent a large consumer market. Our leadership work as mothers is undervalued and unpaid. In our society artists are treated similarly. We have held onto our visions as children do, insist on speaking our minds and do the work we love. Our work is also undervalued and underpaid in comparison to other commercial markets of similar size and scope. Female art students are often told in art school "if you want to be considered as a serious artist, don't have children." In the traditional model of being an artist, one's life must be consumed by art-making. Raising children is also all consuming. It has changed my life as an artist dramatically. I am more focused, organized, energized, inspired and determined to tell my story of being a professional artist and a "good mom." I chose diapers as my canvas because of their cultural symbolism. We often speak of raising children as being an endless job of changing diaper after diaper. This care-giving role is a natural part of the life cycle. Using diapers as a primary art material serves to honor our parents and caregivers who changed all our diapers. I paint, draw and write quick sketches of my personal experiences and feelings of being a mother. The artistic style is not as labored as my previous work since so many things are happening quickly and this is an immediate way to document them. This project was made possible by grants from the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation and the Peninsula Community Foundation. Topic diapers motherhood American dream gender stereotypes middle-class family maternal work Virgin Mary iconic symbolism Madonna Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Beth Grossman American dream California diapers gender stereotypes iconic symbolism Madonna maternal work middle-class family motherhood painting San Francisco sculpture Virgin Mary https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/86c098d451e9e4b39cd979daffe71781.jpg 9b0c472db045cf7ce16b4311c9c49cfe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="bethwelchart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bethwelchart.com</a> Medium pen ink charcoal vellum Location The location of the interview Baton Rouge Louisiana Artist Statement Memory is neither static nor absolute. The mind recalls memories imperfectly, adding and releasing details, never able to recall the elusive truth of personal history. Childhood memories are bound in this reality of remembered facts and forgotten particulars, true fictions unto themselves. No one teaches women how to be mothers. It is a skill learned through memory and emulation. A woman follows the teachings of the women who raised her, but only her own recollection of the lessons. Her memory is unerringly altered in the retelling of time. The maternal figures who so influenced her own course to motherhood are now only ghosts, hazy, their voices faint. By creating drawings of mothers in charcoal and their offspring in pen and ink I reflect on the blur of motherhood and the divide of the clarity of child rearing. The layers of vellum depict the separation of the past and future generations of women. Like memory, vellum slightly clouds and obscures the mothers. The images of the mothers are rendered in charcoal, which can be fuzzy, messy, and imprecise, like a child’s impression of a parent. On the other hand, the children are drawn in pen and ink, which is tedious and painstaking and permanent – much the way parents view childrearing. Pen and ink requires study – every line deliberated upon and purposefully chosen, much like every decision in parenthood. A child does not notice a new line on a parent’s face, or a new gray hair; a parent notices every scrape and scratch, the precise shape of a new tooth or the tremor of a closed eyelid. These mediums explore simultaneously what it means to be the child of a mother, and the mother of a child. Through this series I explore motherhood and the mutable remembrances of childhood in the context of memory. Topic mother daughter relationships memory memory loss dementia caring for one's mother role reversal of parent and childcaregiving Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Beth Welch https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/f2f579746ba697ab909580cdf9afa2d3.jpg 052a55307adf6b0f56e081465c87f89c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://bexdesign.co/Visiting-Hours-Description-Page" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://bexdesign.co/Visiting-Hours-Description-Page</a> Medium book arts Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois Artist Statement bex ya yolk is a visual artist, multidisciplinary graphic designer, + book maker with a research practice focusing on the maternal complex."V I S I T I N G H O U R S" is a a hand bound book and 2017 exhibition detailing research on the phenomena of humans making humans. Isolating a mortal process and not the product it yields, this work detailed a series of poetic prose written by the artist on their experience in maternity. Topic human gestation abortion maternal body the maternal complex incubation maternal identity in the 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 bex ya yolk https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/5a680cc3a89a0a21729d14bd710dbfad.jpg a654a62e106f0ec0ee902245da20117f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.billieireland.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.billieireland.co.uk</a> Medium mixed media Location The location of the interview United Kingdom Artist Statement This recent body of work charts my experience of pregnancy and motherhood. As a recent mother to twin boys and a daughter I document this alien state, with all its mystery and ambivalence, both physical and emotional. I explore the meanings of two very different experiences of pregnancy, birth and nurturing. Pregnancy and birth stirred up the loss of my own mother, loss of myself and the stark reality of my own mortality. Topic birth breastfeeding breastfeeding multiples twins and motherhood Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. The hormone, the hermit, and the hairy moon Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Billie Ireland https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/d57d60d19f6a2b539c3f4b3d6958a79b.jpg fb7462d29e4a3bb414c5839c10cf2c22 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.Brettegabel.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Www.Brettegabel.com</a> Medium textile, quilting, sculpture, installation quilting sculpture installation Location The location of the interview Toronto Canada Artist Statement My artistic practice is an ongoing examination of the subtle emotional space between feelings of comfort and discomfort. Since having a child in 2015 my work has explored my anxieties as a mother. The work considers domestic space, distress calls and repetition. Topic domesticity, motherhood, postpartum anxiety motherhood postpartum anxiety Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brette Gabel Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.brittneydenham.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.brittneydenham.net/</a> 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. Topic motherhood mothering birthing home Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brittney Denham https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/6511c89b83e7ac25d695c2b71d2fb5a4.jpg 8775408dc9c5059dcfeca1e2bb0bc56c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, 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.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/csd/artcenter/exhibitions/past.asp">https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/csd/artcenter/exhibitions/past.asp</a> Gallery Palo Alto Art Center Location The location of the interview Palo Alto California Curator Selene Foster Andrea Antonaccio Curatorial Statement This exhibition explores the unique questions artists face, from both internal and external forces, when they become parents. It is our challenge to the once pervasive conception that artists cannot be dedicated to their creative work while raising a family. Any type of generalization in reference to parenthood is problematic. The emotions, circumstances, challenges, and benefits involved are far too complex. What we can speak to, and what we hope this exhibition highlights, is the mosaic of issues and opportunities that arise for artists when they become parents, and the intimate, poignant, and illuminating work which results. Artists often feel as if they are what they create. When what is created is a child, however, a paradoxical and staggering loss of self can result. Less time in the studio, less time alone, the pressures of domesticity—all of these can contribute to a dramatic re-consideration of what it means to be creative. Using humor and often including his children in his work, Alberto Aguilar has gracefully found ways to blend his home life with his art practice. Children have a marvelous ability to touch everything, and parents have an innate capacity to receive their children into their lives completely. For artists Lenka Clayton and Rebecca Silberman, documenting this process of integration is their vehicle for expression. There are subtle ways the art world remains difficult for artists who have children. Very few residencies allow artists to bring their partners and children along, and those that do are highly competitive. These artists are often overlooked for opportunities because it is assumed they will not have the time. And the reduction in creative output that often accompanies having children can be interpreted as a failure to thrive by peers. But artists are not the only ones who face challenges when it comes to navigating a professional life while maintaining a healthy sense of self. Realizing the right balance, and finding strength within it, is a universal endeavor. Whether we are parents or not, we can all find inspiration in the union of personal and professional, intimate and formal, that these works of art represent. Artists Pilar Aguero-Esparza Tara Donovan <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jill Miller</a> Lezley Saar Tabitha Soren <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/33" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alberto Aguilar</a> Jeremiah Jenkins Hilary Pecis Manjari Sharma Irina Rozovsky Josephine Taylor <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lenka Clayton</a> Rania Matar Claudette Schreuders <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/391" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rebecca Silberman</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) September 15—December 30, 2018 Topic parenthood domesticity life balance child-rearing collaboration family life loss of self parent artists Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Care and Feeding: The Art of Parenthood https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/b66339a64167fb1b2f3942d22e03919c.jpg 4ea3b7c9c57abfc3fac824b22aa60d50 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://carolinekelley.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://carolinekelley.com</a> Topic Artist Residency in Motherhood autobiography motherhood home building making nature language Medium conceptual art photography drawing installation video book art research writing Artist Statement Working across disciplines, I conduct research-based projects that take assorted forms, including installations, drawings, writing- and photography-based series. My academic work has been concerned with women's life-writing, literary theory and postcolonial literature. Since 2009, I've focused on projects that investigate the nature-culture dichotomy as well as stories of tourism, travel and exploration. I started an Artist Residency in Motherhood (ARiM) in October 2016, to document my experience of motherhood and explore the research process in this new (for me) context. Location The location of the interview Paris France Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Caroline Kelley Title A name given to the resource Caroline Kelley artist residency in motherhood autobiography book art building conceptual art drawing France home installation language making motherhood nature Paris photography research video writing https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/7f4578ac366b966c7d3fc13598521ba5.jpg 68fb6b761dac914ba641a7e87c49cf63 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://carriescanga.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://carriescanga.com/</a> Topic postpartum maternal subjectivity embodied parenting attachment sleep love caregiving postpartum Medium installation printmaking Artist Statement Carrie Scanga is a multi-disciplinary artist whose installations and works on paper reflect on personal mythologies, examine nostalgias for place and identity, and engage theories from ecology, architecture and design. Scanga attended Bryn Mawr College as an undergraduate and earned an MFA in Printmaking from University of Washington. She has held solo exhibitions in Berlin, Kansas City, Houston, St. Louis, and Philadelphia among other locales. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in commercial galleries, artist-run spaces, and museums, including the Portland Museum of Art, the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, PLUG Projects, Islip Art Museum, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Fellowship awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Sculpture Space, Blue Mountain Center, and Fundación Valparaíso have supported the development of her work. Currently based in Maine, she is an Associate Professor at Bowdoin College where she also directs the Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project visiting artist program. Location The location of the interview Portland Maine 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 Carrie Scanga Title A name given to the resource Carrie Scanga attachment care taking caregivers caregiving installation installation art love Maine Portland postpartum maternal subjectivity sleep USA https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/8b345b73d0a9a24063c6f8052e6e2500.jpg 1ddf24c8d45f8774984173d09b7ce507 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="casaundrabeard.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">casaundrabeard.com</a> Medium ironing board iron Location The location of the interview Rogersville Missouri Artist Statement My work represents my frustrations about domestic life, by communicating the raw, unfiltered side of how my anxiety and motherhood sometimes coincide. By addressing the harsh stigmas society has towards both anxiety and motherhood, I hope to normalize the reality rather than continue the cycle of these idealized notions of what motherhood is supposed to be. My work may appear selfish at times, but I think that is ok, and should become the societal norm. It is a part of the job description as a parent that your needs become second to your child’s, but your needs must not be forgotten. The work that I am creating allows me to release my frustrations about domestic life, and motherhood is a part of that. Recognizing my faults as a person, as a mother, and learning from them can only make me better at my job. I visually express the exhaustion I feel from the seemingly constant and endless amount of housework with Good Moms Need Help II. I used a domestic object, an ironing board, I then bent and twisted until it became useless. Useless in the sense of being an ironing board. It appears sad, tired, it is trying desperately to perform its duties but can’t. I should be able to discuss my feelings and frustrations without ridicule but that is not often the case. I am often met with, “you’ll miss these days,” resulting in my feelings being again disregarded, and as if I can feel nothing but happiness about motherhood or I am viewed as ungrateful. Will I miss this time in my children’s lives? Absolutely. Is it also valid that some days the housework and messes they create are exhausting and make me go crazy to the point I complain, absolutely. Topic motherhood parenting anxiety anxiety attack family home domestic domesticity feminism housework overwhelmed chores stress laundry housework frustrations childcare chores care giver homemaker working 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 Casaundra Beard https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/110da501e67e0699becc301ebbeb923e.jpg b74ff0d2bae3285df36f974a317c5211 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.cassiearnoldart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.cassiearnoldart.com</a> Medium fiber installation Location The location of the interview Denton Texas Artist Statement My current body of work explores the unspoken and taboo topics connected to miscarriage, pregnancy and the transformative female form. By using traditional fiber techniques, stereotypically associated with women, I hope to create more consistent and honest conversations through approachable art. Topic female identity miscarriage communication Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cassie Arnold https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/e1b9fc80a465d3aec160b43eb8a7c514.jpg 6682b43bd09a388d2244e7bd7c027c6c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.catherinelecomte.com">www.catherinelecomte.com</a> Medium photography mixed media Location The location of the interview Burlington Massachusetts Artist Statement Collateral Damage explores an overlooked aspect of the fallout of the Dobbs decision: diminishing access to medical care for women who spontaneously miscarry. One in four pregnancies (or approximately 1 million a year in the U.S.) end in a miscarriage. Complications require the same medical interventions as abortions. Women have entered a new landscape of risk as doctors and pharmacists increasingly delay or deny miscarriage care for fear of running afoul of abortion bans. Topic “Collateral Damage” explores an overlooked aspect of the fallout of the Dobbs decision: diminishing access to medical care for women who spontaneously miscarry. One in four pregnancies (or approximately 1 million a year in the U.S.) end in a miscarriage. Complications require the same medical interventions as abortions. Women have entered a new landscape of risk as doctors and pharmacists increasingly delay or deny miscarriage care for fear of running afoul of abortion bans. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Catherine LeComte https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ab62565c444ab80d43b97f28c5e20468.jpg 02d75f27bc8d25b80bd5daa08fe4d787 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.catherinemellinger.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.catherinemellinger.com</a> <a href="http://www.post-part.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.post-part.com</a> Medium mixed media inter-arts installation Location The location of the interview Waterloo Kitchener Canada Artist Statement Mellinger's work takes inspiration from both historical collage movements and contemporary feminist perspectives. With a practice that began rooted in the ideas and themes behind female artists of the Dada period, namely Hannah Hoch, she continues to find empowerment in the works of Joan Jonas, Francesca Woodman, Ana Mendieta and Cindy Sherman. Mellinger’s recent work centres on her experience as a mother living with mental illness. Her new series of works survey 30 years of having a name for what she experiences - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Though she is herself a mid-career artist by the standards of overall practice, Mellinger is a new emerging artists within the disability/Mad Arts community. She examines notions of “performative mothering” and dips her toes into the anthropological history of clowning. She is honoured to count choreographer Jennifer Dallas and photographer Melanie Gordon as collaborators. Mellinger is also lead artists of the inter-arts project Post-Part, currently preparing for it's third exhibition in Kitchener, Ontario. Inspired by the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Post-Part re-imagines the experience of Postpartum Mood Disorders as an immersive arts installation using illustration, collage, RGB filter technology and audio compositions created by using testimonies from birthing parents. Her previous work includes an artistic exchange with contemporary writer Marianne Apostolides, which resulted in a suite of images that was published in Apostolides’ book Deep Salt Water (published by book*hug 2017). The works have received many accolades within the literary and arts communities, including recently being reviewed in Feminist Studies Volume 46.1 within the essay “Abortion as a Feminist Pedagogy of Grief in Marianne Apostolides’s Deep Salt Water” by Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst. Topic perinatal mental health Postpartum Mood Disorders (OCD) abortion Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Catherine Mellinger https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ff5eadfd5eaeb1a80345ed224edf2c99.jpg c6bcc6fa7fa88579a0adaba2a31cf1b9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.catherinereinhart.com/#/topography-of-dwelling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.catherinereinhart.com/#/topography-of-dwelling/</a> Medium fiber art video sculpture drawing found textiles socially engaged art Location The location of the interview Iowa Artist Statement Topography of Dwelling seeks to make visible the invisible labor of caregiving through intentional record keeping and the collection of domestic detritus. This body of work includes drawings, rubbings, sculpture, fiber works, and video. Tending to one’s home and family takes copious amounts of time dealt out across tedious and repetitive efforts. This work, often done by women, is incalculable and undervalued. Tasks such as laundry, braiding, and lawncare serve as fodder for works exploring the themes of tending, labor, and time. The use of hair is central. The ritual of braiding is a powerful act of care enacted daily on a disinterested beneficiary, my daughter. Using recorded data from these sessions and topographic maps from the Midwest, I make drawings that map both my home and natural landscapes. For Maternal Studies |Material Studies, I collect hair from my children and ancestors in glassine envelopes. Stratums of dyed fiber and rubbings taken from discarded textiles reference sedimentary layers and the state of my laundry pile. Taking an anthropologist’s gaze, I attempt to illustrate my experience as a home[maker]. This is a gaze which includes objects and artworks, similar to exhibitions found in a natural history museum. This body of work is a study in the accretion of the domestic life and a catalogue of its labors. As an artist/mother, my role is that of archivist and field hand. My aim is to show the value of such labors and the futility inherent in pursuing them. Topic care economy artist/mother studio breastfeeding Topography of Dwelling socially engaged art drawing hair braiding acts of care fiber 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 Catherine Reinhart https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/68dd8ae3a7e099a6da49ddab82f868c9.jpg 77d6529cec9185c1ea603dbd44cb3c7a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.celiarocha.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.celiarocha.com</a> Medium drawing photogrpahy installation social practice Location The location of the interview Santa Ana California Artist Statement I am a Portuguese interdisciplinary artist living and working in Southern California. My lived experience and my interest in activism are the driving forces in my creative process. I use my artwork as a tool for activism, drawing on social issues that have affected me on a personal level, such as my experience of motherhood, the politics of childbirth or sexual violence. My artwork explores universal issues of gender and collective identity, culture, memory and loss, while it is imbued with the feeling of saudade, a typically Portuguese trait roughly translated as a nostalgic longing or yearning of someone or something of the past. I have used a wide range of media - including painting, installation, social practice, video and sound - but drawing and photography remain at the core of my practice. Influenced by Vija Celmins's drawings, Andrea Bowers use of text and activism and Suzanne Lacy’s commitment to social justice, my work examines inequality and is borne out of a desire to call attention to the often invisible and overlooked issues that affect primarily women. @celiarochastudio Topic parenting caretaking pregnancy labor childbirth motherhood maternal c-section cesarean section natural birth home birth feminism breastfeeding baby clothes babies children maternal mortality Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2021 Maternochronics | Virtual exhibition | maternochronics.com 2018 Maternal Matters | Bolsky Gallery | Otis College of Art and Design | Los Angeles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Célia Rocha https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/15fab02d948e5b02a43afa758e143010.png 03438a384e3687599a0dc885214a5f5a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="chingchingcheng.com" target="_blank">chingchingcheng.com</a> Topic Apron sculpture series apron home identity Medium aprons epoxy resin Artist Statement “Build” is a series of works that explore cultural identities in contemporary motherhood. The works are a portrait of myself as artist, wife and mother living in the United States. In history, human beings built shelters physically for their families, and even in some cultures today. We are always adapting, changing and shaping our environment by physically constructing a home, or building a home virtually. At the same time, our identities are slowly modified and morphed into a unique distinctive perspective. Dublin Core The Dublin 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 ching ching cheng Title A name given to the resource Ching Ching Cheng apron epoxy home identity motherhood resin sculpture https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4fb08c8082c1287c2148008db4da2c26.jpg 4f45bcbe1c73e2f416ab21fc4a167552 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://chloe-irla.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://chloe-irla.com/</a> Medium painting fiber textile mixed media installation Location The location of the interview Baltimore Maryland Artist Statement I maintain an interdisciplinary studio practice grounded in both traditional and alternative approaches to painting and drawing. My recent work investigates the data visualization of increments over specific time periods. I collect information within an established time constraint and then analyze the data set. Based on the conceptual direction of the project, I incorporate the use of textiles and digital media to visualize the research. The Year One series is based on one year’s worth of data collected about my daughter’s first year of life. From January 18, 2015 to January 18, 2016, I tracked the times of each nursing session, pumping session, nightly sleep and morning wake-up, daytime nap, diaper, bath, bottle, and solid food acceptance. My initial goal was to create wool blankets based on the graph-like data visualizations, but as a new parent, I simply do not have the time to dedicate to hand-felting and sewing large-scale quilts at this point in my practice. I decided to utilize digital media to create the compositions, so my process began with hand-dyeing samples of wool, scanning the samples and adjusting them into digital files, and then arranging the “tiles” into blanket-like digital compositions. Year One allows me to compare data about my daughter’s growth and development, and also visualizes the absolute time commitment that goes into being a primary caregiver. Every hour of the day with an infant is busy, and with this project, each hour is also accounted for. I can compare my daughter’s first month of life to the last month of her first year, which shows a drastic difference in feeding and sleeping routines. The overall appearance of the compositions is similar to my initial goal of creating handmade wool blankets, but the process is much better suited to my busy, primary caregiving lifestyle. Topic daughter life motherhood parenthood data tracking visualization repetitive tasks Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chloe Irla data daughter fiber installation life mixed media motherhood painting parenthood repetitive tasks textile tracking visualization https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/bdd73b8ecb21b042fd595435f96af06d.jpg 3d8da3f4ffbee1f67d45f98302d94b8a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information 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 @chloemarsden.nz Medium I am a practice based visual artist. I work across mediums; drawing, painting, collage and photography- to find the perfect translation for each project. drawingpaintingcollagephotography Artist Statement My journey to become a mother started many years before I gave birth to my son. Years of fertility problems gave me a lot of time to reflect upon the implications both physically and emotionally, of becoming a mother. However, nothing would prepare me for the confusing mix of emotions I felt when my son finally arrived. I constantly felt split, in two minds about everything. The strong urge to protect accompanied by fear of the tremendous responsibility. I was confused by the power and powerlessness of my new role. I was no longer just my-self any more. I experienced deep love but also craved physical space. Memories of my own childhood, a severe lack of sleep and unrealistic expectations distorted my sense of reality. My current work focuses on my own identity transformation of becoming a mother and the often conflicting, all-consuming feelings experienced in motherhood. These contradictory emotions are described as maternal ambivalence. I believe a mother needs to know herself, to own up to the diverse, conflicting, overwhelming feelings brought up by motherhood. Whether she stays at home, goes out to work, is partnered or single. A mother who can face her own inner turmoil can in turn make sense of her child. If a mother can be herself with a child, and honestly express joy, anger, love, contentment - a full range of emotions - that will help the child to know themselves. By fully recognizing this early experience mothers -to- be could be made more aware they are entering a confusing and disorienting time. They could be better emotionally equipped to ride the experience of maternal ambivalence. Topic Past work has explored female reproduction and her personal experience of infertility, miscarriages and IVF treatment. My current work is a response to my identity transformation of becoming a mother, infertility, miscarriages, IVF, identity transformation, mother IVF miscarriage infertility identity 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 Chloё Marsden https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/bef5137bb140a72dec22265a5d220a26.pdf 5341d6ceaaae5ae8174d8a51b1c58fe1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rainy Day Treasures Pamphlet Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://a-small-lab.com/projects/child-scale-city" target="_blank">http://a-small-lab.com/projects/child-scale-city</a> Location The location of the interview Tokoyo Japan Artist Statement "......These safe and slow pathways are perfect for tiny feet and their larger commute-weary companions. Dense greens and colourful scented collages reside at the height and scale of little eyes and noses. Irrepressible hands thrive on the mixture of gravel, sand, grass, rocks, sticks and fallen fruit that compose Tokyo carpets. In summer developing ears drink in crickets, cicadas and neighbourhood rustlings...." A small study on the child's perception of the street. This document traces the everyday treasures of a rainy day walk to the local sento in suburban Tokyo. It is part of a broader and slightly wonky research and practice agenda on the hand made, everyday creativity, play, and usable environments. Topic walking city children in cities research creativity play everyday treasures suburban life environment Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chris Berthelsen children in cities city environment everyday treasures Japan play suburban life Tokoyo walking https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/3284b76f39094cf05d6df90b34335116.jpg 02591ddf1f1b982fecbce38f0753d826 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website http://www.christadonner.com Topic community motherhood collaboration childcare Medium drawing painting printmaking installation social practice Artist Statement Artmaking is my microscope and my scalpel: the tool I use to investigate the human organism through sensation and imagination. My recent studio practice looks to early feminist sci-fi while drawing from the matriarchal colony structures of social insects and the internal ecosystems of the microbiome to propose speculative models for human communities of the future, and to reimagine the architecture of our own bodies. Such inquiry must incorporate the experiences of others if it is to evolve. Embedded in my artistic practice is an exchange between individuals and communities that extends from the fictional to lived experiences and experiments. In 2012 I initiated the creative platform <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cultural ReProducers</a>, which incorporates artist interviews and skillsharing, small-press zines, collaborative events, institutional interventions, and an active online forum to explore the intersection of parenthood and creative practice. My speculative work in the studio is amplified by the community of creative thinkers and cultural workers raising children who I collaborate with and advocate for. This community will continue to evolve as its participants grow and change. Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/388">Mother Load</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Christa Donner Chicago childcare collaboration community drawing Illinois installation motherhood painting printmaking social practice https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/80512a74b050e2dd37f9ce637405eebb.jpg 659a112a4406fcfd3bbd1cc8f8be3777 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.christiancruzperformance.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.christiancruzperformance.com</a> Medium performance art installation painting poetry sculpture Location The location of the interview Dallas Texas Artist Statement My work takes the form of performance, installation, video, and photo. Through the poetic exploration of the mundane, I dignify invisible labor. Invisible Labor includes the emotional, spiritual, and domestic labor that it takes for human reproduction. Invisible labor is undervalued within a capitalist society. I create environments and objects that reexamine what is valuable within our society today, heal the imagination, and ritualize this radical process into a future reality. Topic sex after children birthing (labor) breastmilk postpartum body positivity Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Christian Cruz https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/c80a8362b47504bf3a4d2e704ec1eb40.jpg 4291fc802e35828c384150f7de40b854 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="christianaupdegraff.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">christianaupdegraff.com</a> Medium sculpture metalsmithing silicone polyester resin cement graphite enamel sterling silver cotton wool silk human hair Location The location of the interview Los Angeles Artist Statement It may be a result of being a vessel of comfort, or perhaps better stated; a servant of comfort, I am particularly interested in the objects of human comfort in conjunction with imagery of emptiness and decay. I am also intrigued by the interior and exterior views, and careful placement of work in a gallery setting which allows the viewer to gain access to the inside of a piece, but never fully experience or access it. These themes have been prevalent in other work, work which preceded my role of mother, but I could not fully see all of the parallels between old and new work until becoming a mother. It has made me more human. It has made me warmer. It has certainly made me more intuitive. Topic dichotomy of artist/mother, comfort comfort loss corporeal deterioration time uncertainty fear stagnation Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Christiana E. Updegraff Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="idbohemia.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">idbohemia.com</a> <a href="http://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/christina-ignacio-deines?general_filter=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.artworkarchive.com/profile/christina-ignacio-deines?general_filter=2</a> Medium site specific installation sculpture and assemblage, painting painting photography drawing music and sound experience design Location The location of the interview Edmonton Alberta Canada Artist Statement Why do we connect? What are the foundations on which connection is built? How do we nurture deep connection? I have been exploring the phenomena and ecology of connection and belonging for more than a decade. My work examines our needs and motivations, the formative effect of culture and life history on identity, and the powerful influence that objects, experiences, and environment have on our well-being and relationships. In practice, I weave connection into the artistic process by bridging ideas and disciplines— applying 2D visual principles in 3D space, for example, and applying fine art, decorative and craft techniques. Scratch-built components may be combined with current, mass-produced materials, particularly in the installations, to ground a work in the present even when its inspiration is found in the past. In my body of work, I have looked at the ways connection and belonging are expressed in romantic relationships relative to a single identity (1), and in national identity relative to the life cycle of a species (2). I have recast creative partners as a sacred ideal (3), and recreated sites of profound physical and spiritual union (4). I have challenged sexual and political power dynamics among social groups (5), and depicted temptation and sisterhood in sapphic narrative poetry (6), I have crossed cultures to create a fresh aesthetic language for modern marital relationships, fusing French and Inuit fairy and folk tales with arch-rib barns and Gothic churches (7), and the decorative arts of nomadic peoples from Mongolia to the Mojave (8). I have related the emotional experience of love to physical and visual sensations (9). I have translated the process of rehabilitation into a journey of connections between individuals, systems and the broader community (10). I have presented shelter and security as the basis for healthy intimate and parental relationships (11). Recently, I remodelled a mass-produced dollhouse into a one-of-a-kind heirloom, to describe how legacy and maternal identity connects generations of family (12). While rooted in an ongoing practice of communicating connection and belonging in art by building immersive, experiential installations, my recent work is a deeply engaging progression into more visceral and nuanced emotional territory, and more daring and experimental explorations of materials, scale and collaboration. My work often seeks to translate our darker human struggles into objects and environments of protection, joy, and beauty. Recent shifts in our cultural and political climate, coupled with research and conversations I’ve had with healthcare professionals, mental health professionals, academics, and my own peer group of women, mothers and families, has convinced me that motherhood and maternal identity are important artistic subjects worth exploring, and that my approach is unique and substantive. In an increasingly divided and isolating culture, it is not simply relevant to lay bare the struggle of connection and belonging. It is in fact vital. 1 An Open Love Letter: There is no Japanese word for Identity, 2005; 2 Salmon Run - Comox, 2007; 3 The Writer and His Muse, 2006; 4 Some Like It Hot Pink, 2009 and Love Without Borders, 2011; 5 Queens (After John Singer Sargent), 2009; 6 Forbidden Feast (After Christina Rossetti), 2015; 7 Beauty & The Beast, 2010; 8 East x Southwest, 2014; 9 Sea of Light, 2011; 10 Explore The Map of Courage - Sculpture Series, 2016; 11 Light The Way Home, 2017; 12 Riven’s Dream Lodge, 2018 Topic sexuality maternal mental health postpartum depression and recovery trauma PTSD birth desire sexual power dynamics identity motherhood parenting intimacy family legacy Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Christina Ignacio-Deines https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/cf40e97729f4a3d60b161d1c796f0661.jpg 2065d7749c4557bdc886aab0706a813f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="christineAholtz.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">christineAholtz.com</a> Medium fibers performance Location The location of the interview St. Louis Missouri United States Artist Statement My artwork is a visual diary about my obsessive thoughts and humorous take on habit, identity and time. Juggling three part-time jobs in addition to being an artist, spouse and mother feels like I live six different lives simultaneously. I constantly try to make sense of the nonsensical through installations, sculptures and performances. As a pathway to self-inquiry, I meticulously craft ridiculous objects and performances to visually embody the absurdities of my daily experiences. The processes are both a struggle and cathartic — just like parenting. Topic parenting caretaking habits repetition mundane performance process Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Maternochronics: Maternal Exhaustion in the Time of Pandemic, online exhibition 2020 2020 “It Hits Home,” (two person show with Jessica Witte) The Gallery at The Kranzberg, St. Louis, 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 Christine A. Holtz https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/169f7ee7348e6ce28b90791ed5614ba5.jpg baab6a8f24d69ba202cc28edc81d4fc8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="clairegreenshaw.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clairegreenshaw.com</a> Medium drawing sculpture Location The location of the interview Toronto Artist Statement Working from a feminist perspective and employing images and materials from daily life, Claire Greenshaw engages with the tensions that arise from the ambiguity of representation. She channels this into humorous and idiosyncratic poetic gestures that provoke questions around perception, the complexities of history and systems that create and enforce the values we live by. Topic parenting motherhood labor time humor art history breastfeeding gender Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Mother Tongue, Clint Roenisch Gallery, 2017 https://clintroenisch.com/archive/2017-2/mother-tongue/ The Artist’s Studio is Her Bedroom, Contemporary Art Gallery, 2020. https://www.contemporaryartgallery.ca/exhibitions/the-artists-studio-is-her-bedroom/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Claire Greenshaw https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/a41cc580284d85a711dfbc83d3099d36.jpg b164c39d88008b6f3cc41a34f7b06f6c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://methodinthemaking.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://methodinthemaking.wordpress.com/</a> <a href="https://methodinthemaking.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/gravidus-i/" target="_blank">Gravidus I</a> <a href="http://clairehickey.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://clairehickey.blogspot.com/</a> Medium sculpture social practice Artist Statement The final presentation of my MA consists of a body of work entitled GRAVIDUS. The name GRAVIDUS is the Latin word for pregnant but can also mean heavy, burdened or teeming. This is appropriate for this work as it represents the physical aspects of my own pregnancy both internally and externally and also some of the emotional feelings that were present throughout. As a whole, the work uses the mould-making process as a basis for creating sculptural pieces and indirectly references my changing bodily state in pregnancy. GRAVIDUS I is comprised of a series of nine plaster blocks of variable size with different interior forms. For the MA show, it was arranged systematically over two reclaimed wooden structures. The materials used for the work’s display reference the supporting mechanism used within industry and workshop production to add strength to a final sculpture or building material. The openness of the display allows for different visual effects as the viewer moves around the piece and links to the visible internal spaces of the pieces themselves and theoretical notions of the boundaries of the pregnant body. Topic pregnancy maternal body changing body Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Claire Hickey pregnancy pregnant body sculpture social practice https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/b4aaadf50d390cd17611208b7fe20cac.jpg e90af45aebb562cef1f103316fddf286 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://claraalden.se" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://claraalden.se</a> Medium video audio text sculpture drawing installation Location The location of the interview Gothenberg Sweeden Artist Statement Artist StatementClara Aldén (1988) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. During the last few years, her practice has revolved mainly around topics of domesticity and the maternal. Within Aldéns artistic practice, motherhood is considered a practice and not a state of being. Likewise, this practice is not considered to be limited by biological bounds. This view is inspired by Donna Haraway’s thoughts on kin-making, and even if the interest for the maternal grew out of Aldéns own experiences of motherhood, her practice stretches away from direct biological connotations and explores the practice of maternity in the expanded notion. The notion of care, regarding interruption as a positive force, and trying to work in a relational and non-autonomous manner are important maternal aspects within her work. Collaboration is another important aspect, and within her latest projects, her children have been her most important collaborators. Topic maintenance art maternal art reproduction/production Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clara Aldén https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/024be41d0b9ebb59a929d1001480e3fc.jpg 506ade275c892df8648eaf04bc00fb24 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="clarapistner.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clarapistner.com</a> Medium video super 8 drawing painting Location The location of the interview Berlin Artist Statement Since my pregnancy in 2020 i started to very much concentrate my artistic work on my state of being and becoming. I begun a quite extensive research on artists and writers who did works about pregnancy, motherhood, birth, care work. Shocked by the invisibility of these subjects in the art context and at the same time convinced by their importance, also from a political and feminist point of few i got more and more obsessed. Finding bit by bit and above all finding very touching and strong pieces i got totally dedicated. I made an artist book containing all the art works, poems and text fragments i found combining my own works i did during my pregnancy, reflecting all the parallels, kinships and the very wide range of feelings and life realities and their expressions. In the first few months after the birth of my daughter in February 2021, I reduced my artistic practice mainly to drawing. However, it became a constant with which I reflected extensively and profoundly on this unique and intense stage of my life. The few hours, rather minutes, of daily drawing became my very personal time of concentration on myself. Feelings, perceptions, needs, situations of everyday life - I just start drawing, quickly, while the child is still sleeping; see what's going on inside me - make me aware, show me what's on my mind. In terms of content and practice, the boundaries between diary and drawing, diary and art merge - which is why I basically call my practice of diary writing a part of my artistic practice and my artistic work my diary. Different forms of diary have become infinitely valuable and fundamental for me and an incredibly satisfying, insightful practice that delighted, amused, surprised, amazed and confirmed me. Since i always worked a lot with video, I also made several videos that describe the everyday life with my child. The simultaneity of being a mother, a caretaker and an artist who is striving to continue working and needing to process questions of identity, feelings of (inter-)dependency, tasks, responsibilities, ambivalent feelings, different roles, strong and also gradual changes of the self, and many more. Topic pregnancy breastfeeding identity carework Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clara Pistner https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/0d2e76b6b6e25caf40d9d9c2011954ec.jpg 05ca07a8e79b715aaff2d1896e3d277a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, 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 Claudia Phares Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.claudiaphares.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.claudiaphares.com</a> Topic motherhood matricentric feminism auto-ethnography isolation artist parent mother-artist creative strategies single mother feministe art invisible labour multiethnicity powerlessness loss of control oss of sense of self trauma femininity reproductive issues domestic space public space Medium Multidisciplinary Artist Statement Autobiographical events play a major role in the artwork of Claudia Phares; especially those that have challenged her sense of control. Such an event is having become a mother. Informed with mother-centred feminism, Claudia seeks to depict strategies to sustain the roles and responsibilities required as an artist/mother. Location The location of the interview Melbourne 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/. Title A name given to the resource Claudia Phares https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/8570fa25d23e183681a3890079b1f356.jpg 6a042cf446c1f4b0b92654d169573202 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.corinnebotz.com/milk-factory2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.corinnebotz.com/milk-factory2</a> Medium photography video Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement Seeing and acknowledging what we see has an ethical dimension. I use photography to make things visible and to reveal experience or spaces that we might not otherwise have access to. A sustained focus on space, gender, and the body is central to my work with photography. Lactation rooms are everyday spaces that embody deeply felt subjective experiences of motherhood. Symbolically and materially, expressed milk is a substitute for the mother’s physical presence and emotional intimacy when separated from her child. Photographs in my series “Milk Factory,” offer insight into women’s personal experiences, the maternal body’s status in the workplace, and ideological contradictions inherent in modern parenthood and government policies. The photographs are named for the diverse professions of the pumping women. The solitary pumping rooms take on collective power through the accumulation of photographs. Topic caretaking labor artist mother art making attachment separation breastmilk breast pump body care giving care labor care work caregiving conceptual art early motherhood emotional space empathy environment everyday life familial heritage female experience feminism feminist art loss life balance lactation intimacy maternal body maternal experience maternal desire milk mother's body pumping space subjectivity solitary government policy workplace photography and motherhood physical space work/life balance workspace wage 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/417" target="_blank" rel="noopener">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 Corinne Botz https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/83331032ae0a109224057eaed41a61d0.jpg 1e6c534c726cbeb6ecc29cf666978afa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://courtneyjohnson.net/afterlife.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://courtneyjohnson.net/afterlife.html</a> Medium pigment print from cliche-verre cliche-verre pigment print Artist Statement In 2014, I was pregnant with my first child and working on Afterlife, the second part, of Cycle of Cities, a nine part series chronicling the rise and fall of cities through a universal myth cycle. I was working in cliché-verre, an obscure historic photographic process first practiced shortly after the invention of photography in the 1800s. French for glass negative, cliché-verre is a photo-painting hybrid process. The work begins as a painting on glass in negative and is then enlarged and printed photographically. I 're-invented again' cliché-verre in the late 1990s while living in an all-girls dormitory. With limited off campus access, my opportunities to take images with a camera were somewhat uninspiring, so I made my own negatives by painting on glass. I used available materials—nail polish, paint, Vaseline, white-out, wax pencil, &c. In hindsight, this is an exceptionally feminine approach to photography. Whereas a man might go 'hunting' for the perfect materials at an art supply store, or 'hunting' for a photograph with a camera, I worked with available materials, including beauty supplies. I have continued using nail polish as my primary medium for cliché-verre, along with ink and white-out, for the past two decades. Since pregnancy prevented me from working with chemicals, including nail polish, I had to change materials for this series. After testing inks and dyes, I used natural food coloring made from turmeric, beets, and spinach to depict dead stars at the far reaches of space. Dead stars are very womblike, both coincidentally and intentionally. Cycle of Cities is a uniquely feminine project, as much about motherhood as about the galaxy. Cycles—life, moon, menstrual—as well as mythology, storytelling, and interpreting cities and new technologies' impacts are all feminine, maternal approaches to photography and the world. Experiencing pregnancy and the birth of my daughter while depicting a lifecycle can only be done by a woman. By integrating content, form, and experience this work expresses the feminine without making the feminine the subject. Topic pregnancy menstrual cycle birth daughter lifecycle Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Courtney Johnson birth daughter lifecycles menstruation pregnancy https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/b8ef86770d42346767f6fb4569bc46e7.jpg 476102094e0f24d890710f6d7e149606 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://courtneykessel.com/home.html" target="_blank">http://courtneykessel.com/home.html</a> Medium performance art sculpture installation video art sound Location The location of the interview Ohio Artist Statement My current work and research is focused on the possibility of what a feminist form may consist of beyond current feminist content, imagery, and histories. Through sculpture, performance, video, and sound, I perform a visibility that, in normative patriarchal society, is preferred to remain invisible. The question of feminist form transcends the product and is inclusive of my practice and methodology. In doing this, a slippage occurs where the separation of studio activity and domestic responsibility is blurred. In the performance In Balance With, my six-year-old daughter, Chloe, and I sit at opposite ends of an empty sixteen-foot seesaw. During the thirty-minute performance, I add items that represent our lives such as toys, her books and sketchbook, my research books, food, laundry, tools, and pots and pans to her side of the seesaw. Constantly checking in with her well being, I continue until both sides have reached equilibrium. While hovering in a balanced state, I am continually counteracting her every move. Here we remain until she is ready to come down. In communication the entire time, the words we share are available to the audience but are not for the audience. This piece is the confluence of many of my ideas. It relays and relies upon the non-privileged, unspoken language of the maternal, the process as opposed to the product, and the repositioned domestic dialog. When the performance ends, what remains is a laden seesaw complete with identifiable objects representing one’s life: a sculpture that tells a tale. The non-hierarchical triad of feminism, language, and maternity forms the unique basis for my work. The French feminist Luce Irigaray describes woman “as waste, or excess, what is left of a mirror invested by the (masculine) ‘subject’ to reflect himself, to copy himself”1. I use language as a medium in my work to represent the gap in both “meaning” and “intention,” as well as the notion of “excess” as Irigaray connotes. How does the methodology I will use be sympathetic to feminist form? How will my decisions be based on this? Feminist form is non-hierarchical. It has options and choices; it is excess and multiplicitous, not singular. It will not be categorized, but create it’s own category. It is a process that is not based on product. It accumulates and is messy, but is not interested in making messes. It is an invitation, not a statement. Topic motherhood daughter feminism language domestic life Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/4" target="_blank">Complicated Labors</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/274" target="_blank">Labors</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank">New Maternalisms - Chile</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/161" target="_blank">New Maternalisms - Redux</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Courtney Kessel daughter domestic life feminism language motherhood Ohio performance art sculpture sound video art https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ab8925e97257b8b886b6d4428a3d964c.jpg 0ea3c67cf4ced16b947534b542bfec06 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="crystalannbrown.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crystalannbrown.com</a> Medium multidisciplinarly interdisciplinary Location The location of the interview Buckhannon West Virginia Artist Statement Crystal Ann Brown is an interdisciplinary artist/mother/academic currently working in Buckhannon, West Virginia. For the past 9 years, her work has focused on holistically blending art and life. This blending of her studio practice with her daily life also touches on its inherent challenges. In her words, “my love/hate relationship with my kitchen might manifest in my drawings and paintings that celebrate work and the labor of love with a hint of fury and frustration shown in the economy of line found in blind contour drawings.” Her practice strives to reveal the underappreciated aspects of mothering and everyday life through the use of textiles, sculpture, time-based media, social practice and drawing. Topic labor caretaking mothering play domestic labor naptime cooking cleaning chores laundry postpartum body house home nursing breast milk family Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2019 Why Mom, Commonweath Galley, Madison, WI2019 Re : Birth, Edinburgh Palette, St. Margaret’s House, Edinburgh, Scotland2018 Home Makers, Romano Gallery, Charleston, WV2015 Interior Spaces (solo exhibition) Sleeth Gallery, Buckhannon, WV2013 Shared Space (solo exhibition), The Hown’s Den, Kansas City, KS2012 The Sea: Between Speech and Language (solo exhibition), Siegfried Gallery, Athens, OH Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Crystal Ann Brown https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/6085fdda13af7dc04fbe513a0bbf33f9.jpg 4c8de06dc3806a36752e38d90a85c2f8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.pillarsofhome.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.pillarsofhome.com</a> Medium photography installation Artist Statement ‘Pillars of home’ are 30 minutes long, balancing sculptures by Csilla Klenyánszki The floor-to-ceiling constructions relay on their own inner stability while being framed only by the floor and the ceiling. The in situ installations are being made during my son’s naps, when our home becomes a studio for no more than a half an hour. The colorful hand-built pillars vary in size and complexity, depending on their territory. As the objects are being piled up, they become a coherent entity, but their delicate arrangement and balancing structure makes them vulnerable as they can be destroyed at any moment. Not only the existence of the images is in danger if the installation collapses, but the noise of the fallen objects might awaken the sleeping baby, which ends the studio session. Topic artist residency in motherhood naptime infants and sleep motherhood Publications A catalog or monograph published by the artist <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/357">Pillars of Home</a> Location The location of the interview Amsterdam Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Csilla Klenyanszki artist residence in motherhood infants and sleep installation motherhood naptime photography https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/23a0de376a02e3e4e9be87696f0fc382.jpg b7e7abfe1349e66181c78f04684a81bf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://cynthiaeisenberg.wixsite.com/misitio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://cynthiaeisenberg.wixsite.com/misitio</a> Medium painting Location The location of the interview Buenos Aires Artist Statement My children were young and for several years I didn't touch a paintbrush. There was no room for that. Rather than oil painting, you had to buy trainers. I was always a bit out of the circuit, out of the stereotype of the "artist". A bit of Argentina always sends you to the periphery. But being on the outside enriches you. The museum is wonderful as inspiration, but also the supermarket, the underground or your niece's quinceañera with all the drunken uncles. I had run out of images. I was suffering from a kind of amnesia. One day I got my hands on the black and white photos of my grandmother's house. Like a necklace of several generations of lustrous smiles strung together. There were so many stories I had heard that the photos refused to tell. Eva Perón and Ceferino. The Spanish Civil War. The long-distance marriages. The foetus in a jar. The whole secret and feminine universe hidden by the plastic smiles of the photos. This is how I returned to painting. In "Almas bellas" I set out to retrace my family history, putting together an album from old family photos re-signified. A selection of told and untold stories that come to light through painting. Topic family, inheritance. lineage, ancestors, motherhood inheritance lineage ancestors 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 Cynthia Eisenberg https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/7785ce5bd5e93128eb7146692fa97c57.jpg 0fd0c2374371d89c369e5a357ac2cd4b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.danielledravenstadt.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.danielledravenstadt.com/</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview Alexandria Virginia Artist Statement In Tend, Dravenstadt transforms simple gestures of care into radical expressions of acceptance. She generates an aesthetic built in the tender engagement with materials of caretakers to make care visible, mentionable, and to provoke a consideration of the transformative potential of practicing care in daily life. Topic caretaking labor Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Tend, Torpedo Factory Art Center, 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 Danielle Dravenstadt https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/7222f21c1444a2856ca4813f57f8f539.jpg 3e56b69c5d0c99207de52c0d51b9b1a6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.daniellehatch.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.daniellehatch.com</a> Medium installation photography Location The location of the interview Bentonville Arkansas Artist Statement Working across disciplines of performance, installation, and sculpture, Danielle Hatch uses the materials of home-making and home-building to explore what lies underneath the surface of domesticity. Her work investigates feminine identity as something we build through narrative. In giving form to intergenerational knowledge, the interior lives of mothers, and intimate friendships between women, she seeks to make visible the underlying structures that have historically kept women from expressing themselves authentically, and turns to the feminine lived experience as a site of potential empowerment. Topic motherhood the female body as a source of nourishment Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Danielle Hatch https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/3ad4b2ef701fc942b0b33de9bed29a28.jpg 0b42d64c9ada4b7ba59837b5e2ff1e5c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.xscollective.com.au/" target="_blank">http://www.xscollective.com.au/</a> Medium sculpture Location The location of the interview Mildura Victoria Australia Artist Statement Danielle Hobbs explores ideologies, contradictions and complexities of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ motherhood with her labour intensive, fastidiously crafted wardrobe of clothes for her children, offering a poetic response to the artist’s first-hand experience of Postnatal Depression. Hobbs’ meticulously constructed garments are enriched with talismans, amulets and charms, and laced with traces of strangely familiar, slightly subverted fairytales and myths. Their construction incorporates the psychological agency of biological materials such as collected hair, eyelashes and nails from family members as well as materials collected from native and introduced animals such as echidnas, galahs, the fox and the European rabbit. Fight or Flight takes its name from the psychological reaction that occurs in response to a harmful or threatening situation. It is a reversible caplet; one side is stitched with a bib shaped collection of porcelain human teeth replicas, the other has a generous covering of feathers from an important Australian cultural icon and (ironically) flightless bird, the Emu. The article of clothing made for the artist’s daughter can be worn baring teeth or displaying feathers depending on the chosen response to a situation. The work embodies the dual purposes of watching over the child in the mother’s absence and shielding the child from the ‘bad’ mother’s presence. These protective garments make manifest Hobbs’ hopeful coping mechanisms that enabled her to navigate and overcome her darkest moments of Postnatal Depression. Topic good mother bad mother clothing fairytale postnatal deppression costume cultural icon talisman amulet charm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Danielle Hobbs amulet Australia bad mother charm costume cultural icon good mother Mildura motherhood mothering postpartum depression Victoria wardrobe https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/84ffa1018531cd92bfa4ac2dc58042f2.jpg be8bf50219c846c364b036bd56388e62 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.daniellekhoury.com" target="_blank">www.daniellekhoury.com</a> Topic motherhood childhood identity Medium Photography Artist Statement Becoming Mother (2013 – present) This is me, becoming mother. During this time there is no quiet, no stillness, and no control. There are only moments of falsehood, moments when I think I have it all together or all figured out. These moments are often followed by chaos and provide a nice slap in the face back to reality. The reality that I have become a mother to three young children and in the process left my previous identity behind. There are moments of joy and laughter, but more often there are times of yelling, crying, and being pulled in three different directions. I find stability and refuge while photographing my chaotic life. I look for times of peace and sanity, which often times go by too fast to remember. These images represent the small amount of peace that I have as a mother and are a way to hold on to that peace for longer than life allows. These are the in between moments that came before and more than likely ended in chaos. - Danielle René Khoury Dublin Core The Dublin 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 Danielle Khoury Title A name given to the resource Danielle René Khoury https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/f5d1bf5a15d5d3ca3e864d19499ac03b.jpg 43ce4793979fb3136049eead8116247a https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/212d1270372f9001ab68928f2ca7e349.jpg d309803587a997c973465c914df3d5f5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://danilarumold.com/gestationpaintings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://danilarumold.com/gestationpaintings/</a>  <a href="http://danilarumold.com/#/abstractnarratives/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://danilarumold.com/%23/abstractnarratives/&source=gmail&ust=1558475421198000&usg=AFQjCNFLJoC7uNy6CiP5m-9eRloxpt7mNw" rel="noopener">http://danilarumold.com/#/abstractnarratives/</a> Medium painting drawing mixed media Location The location of the interview Albuquerque New Mexico USA Artist Statement Gestation: As the name suggests it was inspired by my pregnancies. Responding to my experience of motherhood, my work is involved with the repetitive nature of parenting and how that can been reflected in art and the practice of mindfulness. Other concerns within the work are family, the process of birthing and its counterpart, loss. Although these issues have been personal concerns, they are ones which have been shared by woman throughout history. Danila Rumold’s current series dissolves things seemingly in opposition. Deconstructing conventional notions of painting in her work, Rumold crosses over from painting into large-scale collage and installation. Employing household tools, such as stove-top burners and washing machines in the materials’ preparation, she blurs the commonly separated roles of care-taking and art-making. Sleeping, cooking and eating on top of paper results in spontaneous mark-making, which Rumold explores as formal abstractions while referencing the body. Using semi-translucent Mulberry paper stained with earthy colors made from regional plant and food dyes, Danila brings the components together with readymade art materials. Inviting everyday experiences and chance to catalyze the work, Rumold integrates the unconscious and conscious; art and life. Topic gestation pregnancy repetition loss mindfulness family dynamics Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Danila Rumold California family dynamics family life gestation mindfulness motherhood pregnancy repetition San Francisco https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/1659dda3c838a633ddf582e40e657192.jpg df22fe531672a3165d9f2f368498bee6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.debbieleeart.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.debbieleeart.co.uk</a> Medium painting drawing prints Location The location of the interview Leicester United Kingdom Artist Statement My style developed by working over the discarded paintings of children, combining the random marks of a child with the handwriting of an adult. Art processes from other cultures have also influenced my work, in particular Indian Patua and glass painting. My Irish grandmother passed down her gift for storytelling through art to create personal narratives. Most important to me are my two children who are a constant source of inspiration. Topic children parent storytelling Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Debbie Lee children drawing Leicester painting parent prints storytelling United Kingdom https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ce50ac648ccf19d89b99eebe8c35d1d2.jpg 4f5e6120ef48fbf876721308b97c4fd5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.deirdrecolganjones.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.deirdrecolganjones.com</a> Medium sculpture installation found and discarded materials Location The location of the interview Chicago Artist Statement Neglected Space forms a structure for my work. Part of my practice is collecting ordinarily discarded objects, and their accumulation makes them primary building material. Having trained as an architect and as an artist, my installations and objects are grounded within existing architectural theory and vocabulary, yet seek to challenge the boundaries of formal practice. Most pieces are determined by their site and are supported by traditional architecture and materials. Together they produce a kind of absurd space. Through my work I seek to question the usual order and dominance inherent in our ordinary built environment. Topic found snack debris tentative structures Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Deirdre Colgan Jones https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/bf77c66d3c69ac098c4ead7c50dc8a79.jpg cb33ee60b72bc91c20334ddcdf5b5bc6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.delphahudsonartist.co.ukk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.delphahudsonartist.co.ukk</a> Medium painting film sculpture performance installation Location The location of the interview Cornwall United States Artist Statement I paint chaotic and dystopian domestic scenes. In surreal and crowded spaces women and children gesture as if from a medieval illuminated manuscript, or an Old Master like Bosch or Michelangelo. I choreograph powerful female protagonists and situate them in new imaginary realms to challenge domestic legacies that make women and mothers invisible. Richly textured compositions use the fluidity of dripped bitumen with oil colour to create dynamic networks or patterns of ambiguous realism. The painting process is textual and performative, bodily creating figures that are excessive yet relatable. Small, cherubic, troublesome children embroil us in a palimpsest of narratives that question historical hierarchies and power structures. My practice aims to excavate lived experience and initiate new conversations about value. Art is a space to open up cultural and social signification and ask for change. Topic caring mothering Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Distanced Domestic exhibition by co.curation, 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 Delpha Hudson https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ce725e7bb0df6467c9f4f4a2d6afd041.jpg 471f00739788f44a7007e66aaad35bce Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://denisef.squarespace.com/casein-prints/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://denisef.squarespace.com/casein-prints/</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview Canberra Australia Artist Statement Denise Ferris is an artist living in a small town of rural Australia and lecturing in Photography at the School of Art, the Australian National University in Canberra. Currently the site-specific photographic representation of the non-epic sublime landscape is of central interest, making photographs that question sustainability, human and environmental change, aesthetics and place. Over the last decade photographs have been made during winters in Perisher Valley, NSW and in winter 2011 also in Norway. Some of these photographs have been exhibited in award and group shows. The large exhibition weather report (2006), was an example of a continuing fascination with direct photographic capture- the 'street photograph' in a non-urban situation. weather report was made over winter in Switzerland during a residency at Halenstein near Chur. Beginning with Given Grace in 1998, subsequent exhibitions centred on maternal issues, from both personal experience and as an examination of broader social politics. For example Home Decorum (2003) and The Madonna Myth (2002) advocate questioning society’s acceptance of the status quo in the work of care, where an inordinate contribution is routinely expected by society from care givers who are women. While another series Vestment (2004) suggests the perpetuity of the maternal connection, representing its enduring and binding relationship. As a formal and conceptual strategy alluding to the complexities inherent in mothering, these works contain a combination of the nurturing protein of milk, casein with a poisonous chemical, dichromate. They are printed in sunlight using this nineteenth century recipe for a photographic emulsion. Interested in visual representations of the maternal, a number of conference papers demonstrate research on the power of photography in this representation. (See a full list of Conference Papers on this site.) The paper Regarding the Familiar, the Maternal Gaze and the Child Image in Fine Art Photography investigates representations by photographer-mothers of their own children. It examines the implications when photographs construct our image of childhood, and analyses the attendant anxieties on the proliferation of the public child photograph and maternal photography in fine art that picture maternal relationships. The Line of Pleasure, the Genealogy of Maternal Photography, traced a maternal photographic lineage, harbouring both amateur and professional intentions, from the nineteenth century to her own more recent photographic representations of childhood. Denise’s photographs are in Australian public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, The Canberra Museum and Gallery and the National Library of Australia, as well as international collections including the District Six Museum, Cape Town and Nara City, Japan. Topic mother's milk maternal ambivalence care work caretaking lactation Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Denise Ferris https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/6d7417262bb95944a536c9f0af34d0bf.jpg e790bfa18f91cde575220c268093852c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://denisewhitebreadfanning.com/homeland-security.html" target="_blank">http://denisewhitebreadfanning.com/homeland-security.html</a> Medium sculpture performance art installation Location The location of the interview Michigan Artist Statement Created from the perspective of mother, Homeland Security is an ongoing body of work comprised of (often futile or absurd) survival and escape gear made by a mother to protect her family and loved ones from a threatening array of inevitable tragedies or disasters, from simple domestic accidents to acts of terrorism and environmental catastrophes. Fusing the artist's converging interest in survival preparedness and mundane domestic survival, this body of work continues to manifest as a response to the ever present fears of the mother/caregiver, who, influenced by media and the societal commodification of fear, desires to protect that which she most fears losing. Using language culled from Survival Preparedness Handbooks which often doubles as domestic survival mantras, the work explores the line between utmost gravity and the absurd, between our real and daily dangers, and the sense of humor necessary for our survival. All of the work in this series speaks to human fears of loss and mortality, as well as the ego attached to the implied ability to prevent such mortal guarantees. Topic motherhood protection survival disasters accidents survival planning handbook survival preparedness fear maternal fear mortality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Denise Whitebread Fanning accidents installation lifeboat maternal fear Michigan mortality motherhood performance art sculpture survival survival gear survival handbook survival preparedness https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/70a6864aad8eac1a1538d81ac0dd71a5.jpg 1c66cd9b4d4bbc0337a763777964ddc0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.diabassett.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.diabassett.com</a> Medium fiber found objects performance painting Location The location of the interview San Diego California Artist Statement I use distorted and erratic renditions of drawing and fiber techniques such as crocheting, weaving, and wrapping to build sculptural installations varying in size. My process begins when I encounter fabrics that are sourced from family and friends. The tactile experience of touching the fabrics can lead to an intimate, thoughtful meditation when I ponder the history of a garment. Who wore or used this? Where were they going or what were they doing when they used it? I may cut the fabric into long continuous thread, draw onto it, or sew it into a wearable sculpture. Dense forms and linear elements take shape as I let the qualities of the materials guide me. The improvisational aspect of my practice allows unpredictability to prosper. Topic parenting caretaking breastfeeding dyad relationship microbiomes touch nurturing napping sleep babyhood toddlerhood pregnancy postpartum anxiety hapiness physiology nature biology Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dia Bassett https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/2643c3a631eca11a784e334517992647.jpeg 8bc60cfaab971b3604bffad635e6d9f0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://implausibot.com/" target="_blank">http://implausibot.com/</a> Artist Statement Dillon de Give is an artist and educator acting in a spirit of humane experimentalism. He stages subtle alterations to everyday performances that aim to distribute art in public experience. He is a co-founder of the <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwalkexchange.org&t=ZWY1MzU2ZTUwYjMzM2UwNTBhYzAxMGEzZTgyMDhlYzNjMzY4ZjE4NCxUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D" target="_blank">Walk Exchange</a>, a cooperative walking group. He organizes the annual <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fcoyotewalks.wordpress.com&t=ZTJmN2MzY2RhMjA3MjFiODliNGQzZDk5ZmMwNjA5YjljYjA3Nzk5ZCxUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D" target="_blank">Coyote Itinerancy</a>, a retreat that traces a footpath between New York City and the wild. He holds a BS in Radio/Television/Film from Northwestern University and an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University. He lives, works and helps to raise a child in Brooklyn NY. For more information you can see a <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.dropboxusercontent.com%2Fu%2F19628738%2FdeGive_cv.pdf&t=NjE2YTE4NTRkYTI2MTA2ODU4ZTg2ZDEwMTg1NjkzNWM3YzliOGRhZixUbU4zdWpESg%3D%3D">CV here</a>, write an email to implausibot (at) yahoo (dot) com or call the project phone at (917)-300-9521. Medium installation performance Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Topic parenthood adulthood father/son relationship bedtime routine Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/3" target="_blank">The Letdown Reflex</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dillon de Give adulthood bedtime routine father/son relationship installation parenthood performance https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/8482c0cc38cbdfafe968701b1a35d129.png 0aff7ad78f2a519dba310f09c021b4a0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.dinahgold.com" target="_blank">http://www.dinahgold.com</a> Medium video art Location The location of the interview London United Kingdom Artist Statement I explore ways of watching, being watched and watching back, to realise ideas of speech, description and paradox through the medium of moving image. My work stems from an interest in, and long family history relating to, surveillance and voyeurism. I use my own family as a vehicle to explore critical concerns around human behaviors. I am using the work to make sense of my family and make sense of myself, I used different edits like an artist would work in paint, to create different textures which are like different levels of experience. Relating to a group of people who are close may involve different kinds of distance and closeness. The video helps me to explore and represent this, which is more complex than just being voyeuristic. Topic family surveillance voyeurism observation Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dinah Gold family London observation surveillance UK United Kingdom video art voyeurism Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.elainelutherart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.elainelutherart.com</a> Medium assemblage sculpture Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois USA Artist Statement Motherhood, art, death. It’s all tied up for me. My brother Joe died during “the time of death.” That’s what we call it. In fifteen months, eight beloved people—family, friends, an infant—died. For a while, my husband and I would say, “It can’t get any worse.” Then it would get worse, so we stopped saying that. In 2005, my baby daughter died. Before I had kids, I had lots of time, but nothing to say. Now, with three kids, I have no time, but I have something to say, and I’m not afraid. There’s tremendous power in tremendous loss. I see the little bits and pieces left behind at the playground—a barrette, a pencil, a scrap of ribbon. Who left it? Did they notice it was gone? I see the mystery of a little piece of a broken toy, how it becomes unrecognizable. What is it? What was its purpose? Ordinary things like a bread tab inspire a new design in my jewelry. These are the things that make up my daily life as a mom— bread tabs and lost barrettes and parts of broken toys. I find meaning, and solace, and remembrance in the ordinary things that are left behin Topic housework juggling/balance infant death Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elaine Luther https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/50aac815c3b348e9750c3b4694c010f3.jpg 57cb966ad2c41755a5fed80fd2596656 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://elisa-ortega-montilla.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://elisa-ortega-montilla.com</a> Medium installation sculpture Location The location of the interview Santa Barbara California Artist Statement Growing up in the 1980s in Spain, ten years after my country transitioned from dictatorship to democracy, has marked the way I relate to materials in my art practice. I grew up hearing stories from my grandmother about the Spanish Civil War while she mended hand-me-downs for me from my cousins. What was a result of economic austerity from the Franco years later became an ethical choice for me. My work explores three fundamental parts of who I am: my experience of being a woman and my feminist values; my feelings of acculturation from living in the US while maintaining my Spanish identity; and my opposition to consumerism and commitment to environmental sustainability. My practice uses installations, wood sculptures, and reclaimed and overlooked textiles, addressing themes of memory, transformation, adaptation, and identity through materials that have been discarded, deconstructed, and reconstructed. I mix the found and the made, the new and the old; tradition and experimentation, the mass-produced and the handmade; my Spanish values and my American experience, the present and the past. I’m drawn to the expressive and experiential nature of abstraction because it provides me with a universal language that transcends regions, structures, and categories. Non-binary anthropomorphic volumes, bodily suggestions, sensual movements, and feminine shapes are oblique references to the human condition and a soft invocation of the female body. Topic gender women's rights sexuality objectification of the female body immigration adoption Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elisa Ortega Montilla Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://elizabethmcfalls.com/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://elizabethmcfalls.com/home.html</a> Topic contradictions everyday life humor life balance life with children storytelling women artists artist residence in motherhood artist mother contemporary art Medium mixed media collage printmaking drawing Artist Statement Elizabeth McFalls (Libby) is a Professor of Art and the Department of Art’s Art Foundation Coordinator at Columbus State University. She received her MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art (MI) and earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design (OH). Libby’s love of storytelling began in childhood. Having been raised in East Tennessee, she attended the National Storytelling Festival on numerous occasions. She recalls summers spent developing a love and appreciation for oral storytelling; she and her sisters were fortunate enough to spend a great deal of time with extended family that spread five living generations. While her work does not make direct reference to her family history, she creates nonlinear visual narratives that examine issues of loss and family. Her work explores moments that blur the line between fact and fiction, life and death, humor and sorrow, moments that demonstrate the contradiction and complexity of life. At the moment she is busy, in the studio, completing a one-year Artist Residency in Motherhood (ARIM). Her recent body of work began when she embarked on a one-year Artist Residency in Motherhood (ARIM). During the ARIM she honestly responded to her life, time limitations, successes, and failures in an intuitive nature. The hybrid prints and collages reflect her love of storytelling through the creation of nonlinear visual narratives that examine issues of loss and family. Her work explores moments that blur the line between fact and fiction, life and death, humor and sorrow, moments that demonstrate the contradiction and complexity of life. Location The location of the interview Georgia 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 Libby McFalls Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth (Libby) McFalls https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/577038ebc29aed5d54cb228bce9bb238.png a3f0fedc8e2f959c4989028305dabb12 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://elizabethclaffey.com/" target="_blank">http://elizabethclaffey.com/</a> Medium photography installation Location The location of the interview Bloomington Indiana Artist Statement Elizabeth M. Claffey is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is an honors graduate of Earlham College and has an MFA in photography from Texas Woman's University, where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies. She received a 2012-13 William J. Fulbright Fellowship, which she used to support her documentary and creative research in Eastern Europe. Elizabeth's work focuses on the way personal and familial narratives are shaped by interactions with both domestic and institutional structures and spaces. Her work has been recognized by PDN Magazine, Project Basho Gallery, Abecedarian Gallery, The Eddie Adams Workshop, and various other galleries and publications including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Dallas Morning News, and The Kinsey Institute. <div> </div> Topic personal familial narratives domesticity maternity isolation aging illness Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth Claffey aging Bloomington domestic familial narratives illness Indiana installation isolation maternity personal photography https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/82fc724100c54b9bdf8f9906c946accb.jpg 8238202d1d9b36f9faef2c75cb9c5b62 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.elizabethhansen.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.elizabethhansen.com</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview Switzerland Artist Statement How does pregnancy affect the perception of female identity? "Welcome/Welcome Back" (1996/2011/2021) comprises 32 self-portraits, two series shown as 16 image pairs taken 15 years apart: as a young woman in the first series, and as a middle-aged pregnant mom in the latter. The original series, "Welcome" (1996), explored the line between subject and object in the construction and assertion of female identity. Fifteen years later, as a 40-something pregnant mom, I was curious to see what impact time, the implication of motherhood, and other circumstances had on this sense of identity. By imitating the original photographs as closely as possible, the goal was to record not only physical changes, but especially the more nuanced and elusive psychological evolution. From a broader cultural perspective, I wanted to force a conversation about the female body’s particular capacity for radical changes in perception. Topic pregnancy pregnant body gender sexuality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth Hansen https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/c5640052daa5d505aaf01ef734de8512.jpg de26b9ab53820c77074f765fc93af9b8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6401" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6401</a> <a href="http://www.elizabeth-mackenzie.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.elizabeth-mackenzie.com&source=gmail&ust=1558724776144000&usg=AFQjCNFq3V1oVNx9mtQqbABDVatELWjR-Q" rel="noopener">http://www.elizabeth-mackenzie.com</a> <a href="https://vimeo.com/221027778" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Up and Down She Goes">https://vimeo.com/221027778</a> <a href="https://vimeo.com/221026288" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Me First">https://vimeo.com/221026288</a> Medium drawing installation Location The location of the interview Vancouver British Columbia Canada Artist Statement <div class="entry-content"> I’ve always been interested in exploring the tension between the role of the (female) artist and the demands of the everyday. My identity as an artist mother has informed my work for many years. Even before I had a child of my own I considered how it might be possible to combine these roles within my 1984 installation, <a title="Taking Care (1984)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6423">Taking Care</a>. Four years later, in 1988, I gave birth to my first child. When she was eight months old I installed <a title="Baby Food (1989)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=4739">Baby Food</a> in Mothers of Invention, a group exhibition about mothers and daughters curated by Jo-Anna Isaak. This piece describes my anxiety about my ability to nourish my daughter, as I struggled with both breast-feeding and art making. The installation <a title="With Child (1991)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6481">With Child</a>, produced in 1991 for The Embodied Viewer, a group show curated by Vera Lemecha for the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, portrays some of the conflicts of over-identification and self‑immolation that were raised for me within the dyads of pregnancy and maternity. I was fearful that my child had become, even before birth, an autonomous creature I would never be able to encompass and keep safe. This combination of images on a long wall produced an impossible representation that had become increasingly normalized: we were able to see a pregnant body as well as what is inside the body. Although I was thrilled to become a mother, I was horrified by the loss of boundaries I experienced. Both my body and my psychic space were invaded. In 1991 I also began graduate studies at the University of Saskatchewan. I wanted to review my 10-year practice as an artist as well as continue to investigate representations of pregnancy. The thesis I developed, Spacemen and Invisible Women, examined popular representations of pregnancy that obliterated the pregnant woman, and represented the fetus (or embryo) as a tiny self‑sufficient space traveler, floating in a black void. My 1993 graduating exhibition, <a title="Invisible/Stranger/Mine (1993)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6491">Invisible/Stranger/Mine</a>, examined maternal erasure and the cult of fetal personhood within a number of related works. The installation <a title="Radiant Monster (1996-98)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=1190">Radiant Monster</a>, completed in 1996, was shown in a number of different contexts. Once again, this work represented the ambivalent feelings I experienced in response to real and imagined pregnancies and children. I wanted to express a continuum between the desire and the anxiety that the contemplation and experience of maternity evokes. Not surprisingly, reproductive technologies that offer new choices to infertile women, and increase the opportunity for interventions during pregnancy and birth, extend and exaggerate our relationship to our reproductive capacities. <div> From 1997 to 1999 I co-wrote a series of bimonthly columns with Martha Townsend for the Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) newsletter (here’s a <a href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/files/2014/11/FPP-Artist-Mothers-March-1998.pdf">sample column</a> from March 1998). I produced a number of videos about maternity during this period, including Up and Down She Goes (1998) and Me First (1999). In 2000 Martha and I co-produced a conference for artist-mothers, <a title="First Person Plural Symposium (2000)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=246">First Person Plural</a> for MAWA at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Winnipeg. I co-curated an program of videos for the conference, <a href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/files/2014/11/LfT.pdf">Looking for Trouble: Tapes by Unruly Mothers </a>with Laurel Swenson, that was also shown at Video Out (Vancouver) in 2000. I also produced a video document, <a href="https://vimeo.com/221017621#t=40s">Delivery: Artist Mothers on Tape</a>, in which 30 conference participants speak candidly about their mothering and art-making practices. Essays where I consider my identity as an artist mother have been included in <a href="http://demeterpress.org/books/mothering-canada-interdisciplinary-voices/">Mothering Canada: Interdisciplinary Voices</a> (2010) and <a href="http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409426134">Reconciling Art and Mothering</a> (2012). A collection of resources (articles, books, websites) specifically about artist-mothers can be found <a title="Artist-Mother Resources" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6513">here</a>. Here’s a <a href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?p=6499">post</a> about a presentation I developed for a conference in 2015 (Embody/In My Body), as well as a video of the presentation itself (“Exquisite Tension”) available <a href="https://vimeo.com/125696100">here.</a> Although I haven’t made work specifically about maternity for some time, my current projects continue to be deeply affected by these investigations and what I discovered about inter-subjectivity within my role as an artist mother. <div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="comments-area"> </div> Topic motherhood artist/mother identity breastfeeding food pregnancy ambivalence desire anxiety Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth MacKenzie ambivalence baby food breastfeeding British Columbia Canada feeding food motherhood motherhood and art practice pregnancy Vancouver Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.elizabethpress.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.elizabethpress.net</a> Medium HD video Location The location of the interview Troy New York Artist Statement Pandemic Letter #1 May 28, 2020 This video was created at what we considered to be the beginning of the pandemic as we were trying to figure out how to cope with our new existence under lockdown and how to communicate this new reality to our child. My partner and collaborator Angela Beallor helped record the video, shooting on a DSLR with a macro lens. Our kid turned three right before I wrote this. Now, they are four. So far, we have survived this pandemic with little personal loss but not without the stresses that come along with constantly being on for work, for our family, and for our community. We continue to struggle as a queer family in a predominately heteronormative parent community and we continue to work, as a white family, for racial justice in our town. Elizabeth Press (EP/They/Them) is a media-maker and educator based in Troy, NY. Press is interested in socially engaged practices and experimental documentary which sometimes crosses over with topics of caregiving. Press is a lecturer in the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute teaching classes in digital filmmaking and studio production. Press has also taught classes at New York University, The New School and several after-school and community media centers. Press cut their teeth in journalism as a producer for the independent TV/Radio program, Democracy Now!. As a videographer, producer and editor, Press worked with BRIC Arts Media, The International Institute for Sustainable Development covering the UN climate negotiations, StreetFilms, GritTV with Laura Flanders and PBS. Press’ work has been screened in international festivals across Europe and featured here in the New York Times, Democracy Now!, Rooftop Films, Exit Art, and EMPAC. EP is on the board for the Sanctuary for Independent Media and helped bottom-line the launch of the low power FM station and the daily local news show, The Hudson Mohawk Magazine in 2017 that still runs today. Press is a Fulbright Scholar, has an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a BA in Anthropology from Ithaca College. Topic parenting caretaking covid-19 Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Femeeting 2020, 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 Elizabeth Press (EP) https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/20b2269e1feaaa4095eb9e8f2d9df002.png 18e05f3e5c8115fa1a82a8130e4ad390 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.ellinakevorkian.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.ellinakevorkian.com</a> <a href="http://www.ellinakevorkian.com/#!raising-children/c20q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.ellinakevorkian.com/#!raising-children/c20q</a> Medium painting photography video performance Artist Statement Ellina Kevorkian is an interdisciplinary artist who creates hybridized relationships between painting, photography, video, and performance. Using tropes, humor, and the visual languages of art and popular culture, Kevorkian suggests other possibilities in the ways women are represented. Kevorkian has shown in Los Angeles and beyond; among the many, Western Project, a showing of selected videos at MOCA, Los Angeles, and inclusion in the Southern California Council of the National Museum of Women in the Arts sponsored retrospective Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006. As a commissioned artist for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions she presented Recollecting Performance, an exhibition of 1970s and e.1980s garments worn by Southern Californian performance artists for Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983, as part of The Getty funded initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980. Kevorkian’s year-long, site-specific installation for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, violetagainstwomen.tumblr.com, can be viewed online. An AVK Arts Foundation grant supported her recent artist-in-residency at The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. The resultant piece Some Dreams Contain Dead Time was performed on the Royce Hall Stage. Her work has been written about in The LA Times, The LA Weekly, ArtForum, ArtPulse and Artnet. She received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University and graduated from the inaugural year at the Institute of Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University. She's a recent participant in Portland Emerging Arts Leaders (PEAL) which is affiliated with the Emerging Leaders Network, a program of Americans for the Arts. She is currently is an Artistic Director for Residency Programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Topic feminism children motherhood Location The location of the interview Minneapolis Minnesota USA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ellina Kevorkian children contemporary art feminism humor motherhood painting performance photography video women representation https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/1dbedbf0407736ed66873ea4215701c1.jpg d574e7a19f9cdac587e8bc5dae58d844 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.emiliajavanica.com" target="_blank">www.emiliajavanica.com</a> <a href="http://parentskins.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">http://parentskins.tumblr.com/</a> Topic loss of self identity everyday activities household tasks Medium performance photography participatory Artist Statement I write plays, perform characters, design puppets and costumes, and direct live performance and video productions. Through my work I aim to amplify the complex and often contrasting emotions that permeate everyday human life, taking inspiration from my own experiences. I approach the human struggle from a standpoint of humor and empathy, and intend to blur social and personal boundaries through my work. Recent themes have included body image, international relationships, parenting, and the search for meaning (and meaninglessness) in life. I see my audience as collaborators, and often incorporate participatory elements into my performances. For example, my audience participants have worn ugly teeth while playing limbo under a giant mouth to disco music, photographed themselves washing the dishes and pumping breastmilk in full body suits, drawn sketches of me in a naked old man costume in front of others, thrown fish at a couple having (pretend) sex on a boat, and been showered in endless amounts of tomato juice. The productions I direct have featured 7-person bands, flying contraptions, red blob puppets, life-size rocket ships, fake blood, little devils, and dismembered body parts. My work is darkly humorous and celebrates the ridiculous side of life. Location The location of the interview Ann Arbor Michigan USA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Emilia Javanica Title A name given to the resource Emilia Javanica domestic life domestic space everyday activities household tasks identity loss of identity https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/85c88af5d78fe4334d67e101195acfac.jpg 2706464d9b5974c5051f0a6d29be0033 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://emiliawhite.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://emiliawhite.com/</a> Medium performance video animation Location The location of the interview Ann Arbor Michigan Artist Statement Mother Skins is an interactive photo performance series about motherhood, self-identity and postpartum depression. Wearing colorful full-body suits with neutral faces sewn into them, participants photographed themselves doing various domestic tasks in relation to their roles as mothers. The photographs reveal moments of tenderness and mundanity while playfully addressing the alienation that many mothers feel after having a child. The images included in this selection were taken by Emilia White. Topic parenting motherhood caretaking postpartum depression humor identity performance photography costume mask bodymask alienation solo parenting loneliness mundanity toys messy house laundry domestic chores vacuuming young children breastfeeding Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Something Growing Inside, TrustArt Gallery, Ann Arbor MI, May 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 Emilia White https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/1933856aa66fb3147d0c32c8977ab005.jpg f7b6f4abcfcf0e48c16e06378e1ac9ad Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, 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 Emily Rose Larsen Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.emilyroselarsen.com">www.emilyroselarsen.com</a> Topic pregnancy post baby identity Medium photography Artist Statement Impatiently Coping is a visualization of my ongoing experience in postpartum re-identification and search for personal value and fulfillment outside of my new role. Women are used to existing in an Orwellian world where we are taught that eyes are always upon us, whether they are judging, comparing, preying or lusting. This feels even more true now as I try to cope with an unfamiliar body, loss of autonomy, loss of any recognizable identity while all the time knowing that I will be judged most harshly as "Mother". Impatiently coping is designed to put the viewer at unease while enticing them to continue looking. Each image uses classic still life subjects and imagery in a way designed to make them unfamiliar and unsettling. The images do not strive to be pretty or perfect or romantic as is often the case in floral still life, but instead are loud, difficult and demanding to be seen in all their absurdity.  Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York USA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Artist Title A name given to the resource Emily Rose Larsen https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/a4a5577001bbc0328c86e604a3654f5c.jpg 3e9e3d373c6d27949332706ec3a115ad Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.emilyzarse.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.emilyzarse.com/</a> Medium fiber natural dyes found objects Location The location of the interview Bloomington Indiana USA Artist Statement Cloth has a memory like the body. I create fabric installation that explore the precarity of the postpartum body. Residue of physical and emotional trauma are captured on the surface of the floating maternal forms. Color from foraged plants and “saddened” with iron and calcium, records the depletion of energy and essential nutrients used to grow new life. Emily Zarse is an installation artist working with the language of natural dyes and fiber processes to explore the maternal body and matrescence. She received a degree in Costume and Textile History from Cornell University and is currently a MFA candidate at Indiana University. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Emily Zarse https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/be79acacfdc4bce9f622f840d00e07ce.png 4aaa5fa665dd9bcb983d881f5e286b05 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.emmafinucane.com/" target="_blank">http://www.emmafinucane.com/</a> Medium screenprint photography video art performance art printmaking installation Location The location of the interview Bray County Wicklow Ireland Artist Statement I develop artwork through dialogue, process based, participatory and collaborative practice. I investigate the way we connect and communicate with others and ultimately how it contributes to the quality of our lives. I am looking at the role of the artist in society and questioning how “useful” the role of art can be when entering into different areas. My work has frequently combined education, research and artistic practice. My visual research consists of screen print, digital images and photography, slides and video experiments. I have been using video in both documentary and performance based formats, combining live action with static projections, improvisation and language. I am currently Artist in Residence in UCD College of Health Sciences where I am the principle investigator on a research team with a midwifery lecturer Dr. Maria Healy (UCD) and midwife, Teresa McCreery based at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street. Together we are working on the research initiative: An interpretive phenomenological study: Illuminating childbirth experiences of women attending a midwife-led service via visual art works. Insights from this research will highlight women’s lived experiences of childbirth vis visual artworks and academic publications. The final artworks will be included in the UCD Health Sciences Library in book format as an educational tool alongside academic books. Topic childbirth motherhood maternal education parenting Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Emma Finucane Bray childbirth County Wicklow education installation Ireland maternal motherhood parenting performance art photography printmaking screenprint video art https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/aaa6e4f9ea9644093ba008649670f053.jpg 5c6969fb7afd8d9986dc170fae57b9d9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.erinraedeke.com/" target="_blank">http://www.erinraedeke.com/</a> Medium painting Topic still life domestic space mess children's toys memory writing domestic objects laundry birthday parties crayons children's food animal crackers oreos peeps candy Location The location of the interview Washington DC Artist Statement I am interested in the unwanted and dismissed. Objects are both stumbled upon and purposefully chosen. Thoughts, memories and past experiences are scavenged through in an effort to find meaning and uncover connections. My paintings document this search. The set-up allows me to object to preconceived ideas and assumptions; challenge an image or impression that is forced upon an object or relationship. Everything has meaning. Seemingly random objects we encounter, no matter how unceremoniously, hold a flood of associations and truths buried in the sub conscience. The only way to tease them out is through sensitive observation and suspension of prejudice. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Erin Raedeke animal crackers birthday parties cake candy corn children's food crayons domestic life domestic objects laundry memory oreos painting party favors peeps still life toys https://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://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ff2f419ea5a6f842e5109e47fd1d99e2.jpg e9f366ee7cca645afad4d19a170e0a2d https://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://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://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://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://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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://artistparentindex.com/files/original/244feb6e84db2f5f39bdb7ca9e2b9225.jpg 98ec535e131fb2cdda8c19a466a64f8c https://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information 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://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 https://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://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 https://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://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://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://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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://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://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://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://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://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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://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 https://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://artistparentindex.com/files/original/bc8afbc896900c48f838da3731daf56f.jpg 97ed7c85ebc196109cb2791ecedff757 https://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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, 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://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 https://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://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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://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.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://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 https://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://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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://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 https://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://artistparentindex.com/files/original/cb2fe0139093e1d77edd0a7b22711e45.jpeg d683fec4742d325959658d102a71fa00 https://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://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://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://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://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 https://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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://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 https://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://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://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://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://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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://artistparentindex.com/files/original/accbbb35cdd952b8f36894b64958f599.jpg 178a9fe4c388a01cf88a4586c9eb6dc8 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/65c32696d032bd3edaf1ab0a26d59107.pdf 530169cce6592bdb12a9867f68e63abb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://pollypenrose.com/" target="_blank">http://pollypenrose.com/</a> Medium photography Topic self portrait female body femininity women social norms objectification pregnancy Artist Statement Polly Penrose studied Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts in London. She went on to work in Fashion Styling and after that worked for the photographer Tim Walker as his Studio Manager. She has always taken photographs, but started to take the practice seriously when she entered and won a competition held by the London Photographic Association in 2008. She held her first solo show, ‘A Body of Work’, at the Downstairs at Mother Gallery, London, in May 2014. She was part of a group show, Dear Sylvia, at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, March 2015 and the Hellerau Photography Award, in February 2016. She was shortlisted for the D&AD Photography Next Photographer Award in April 2015. Her work has featured on Dazed Digital, The British Journal of Photography, The Huffington Post, and many other influential blogs. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Polly Penrose female body femininity objectification photography self portrait social norms women https://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://artistparentindex.com/files/original/325b469ce503f49b61b4bffcefa97498.jpg 3280aca14321035e21c63571ad6549bc https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/d178c44552ee06ba8e5845e05cf88cc8.jpg 1f7fa106954ca80d0e5eeda9cde4778c https://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://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://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://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://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://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://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://artistparentindex.com/files/original/15aad49e420ccd4485a575b44d3513e5.jpg 4875a6dfe078764cdd1ef67404c61393 https://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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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