1 300 42 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/1a38eee3b1d8dd889e2b34fd1d3e1bb4.pdf 5475198bd74288b4e1635548c1682c5d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) January 30 - March 12, 2016 Curator Amber Berson Juliana Driever Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/143">Dillon de Give</a> Home Affairs Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley) Lise Haller Baggesen LoVid Shane Aslan Selzer Gallery EFA Project Space Curatorial Statement The Let Down Reflex is an exhibition that attempts to recognize the complexities of parenting in the art world, and asks if a better alternative for families can exist. Calling out a slippage in today’s feminist art world, the curators summon a group of artist-parents to contribute to a springboard for re-imagining an art world where “Mom” is not a demeaning characterization, where childcare is factored in for participating artists at art spaces, and where artists aren’t forced to choose between home and work because of a lack of parental leave. The “let down reflex,” a term referencing the involuntary reflex that causes nursing mothers to produce breast milk, takes on a double meaning in this exhibition, referring here to the reflexive tendency of letting down parents, and particularly mothers, within the flawed labor system of the art world. Topic fair wages art world parenthood Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/the-let-down-reflex/" target="_blank">http://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/the-let-down-reflex/</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Letdown Reflex art world breastfeeding childcare fair wages families let down reflex New York nursing mothers parental leave Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Gallery UC Santa Cruz Sesnon Gallery Curator Irene Lusztig Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Lenka Clayton</a> Mary Kelly <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/295" target="_blank">Irene Lusztig</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Jill Miller</a> Mother Art Collective Alejandra Herrera Silva Mierle Laderman Ukeles Natalie Loveless <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a> Mark Cooley Beth Hall Masha Godovannaya <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/27" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Courtney Kessel</a> Ellina Kevorkian Dillon Paul Lindsey Wolkowicz Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) February 5 - March 15, 2014 Curatorial Statement "Nearly forty years after Mary Kelly’s germinal 1976 exhibition of Post-Partum Document, the work of women artists who explicitly engage with images, processes, and experiences of maternity remains marginalized in the art world. Despite a notable resurgence of attention to the maternal in 21st Century art theory and practice, such work is, more often than not, read inside a discourse of indulgence, sentimentality, and identity rather than as representative of larger concerns with ecological systems, ethics, care, or labor. Complicated Labors investigates this problem, bringing together historical and contemporary work addressing maternal labor to ask questions about the status of feminism — and feminist art — today. The exhibition will be accompanied by a one-day symposium on February 5, 2014 at UCSC, with a keynote address by foundational feminist artist Mary Kelly. The symposium will create a space for critical interdisciplinary dialogue around issues of maternity, feminism, art-making, and writing, explicitly putting the 1970s in conversation with the current moment and putting writers in conversation with visual artists. Complicated Labors builds on recent group exhibitions on the topic, including Myrel Chernick’s and Jennie Klein’s 2004 and 2006 Maternal Metaphors and Maternal Metaphors II and Natalie Loveless’s 2010 New Maternalisms. This exhibition addresses recent books such as Andrea Liss’s 2009 Feminist Art and the Maternal, new journals such as Studies in the Maternal, and new collectives such as Broodwork." - From http://people.ucsc.edu/~ilusztig/complicated_labors/about.html# Topic maternity creative practice feminism motherhood Exhibition Website <a href="http://people.ucsc.edu/~ilusztig/complicated_labors/about.html#" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://people.ucsc.edu/~ilusztig/complicated_labors/about.html#</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Complicated Labors: feminism, maternity and creative practice feminism maternal labor maternity https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/be105ab1dae6c57532d77b378ad6954b.jpg 8107421bcc1973a1681e3cd0ae314ea9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Location The location of the interview Barnstaple Devon United Kingdom Topic birth pregnancy research interdisciplinary midwifery women and gender studies social justice early parenthood research institute About Project AfterBirth began an exhibition intended to contribute to an interdisciplinary research initiative led by Project AfterBirth and a team of academics from the fields of obstetrics, mental health, midwifery, media studies, social justice, and women and gender studies, which is aimed at shedding light on modern pregnancy and birth practices and their impact on 21st century early parenthood experiences. Organization Website <a href="https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/</a> Organzation Director <a href="https://milaoshin1.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Mila Oshin</a> Kris Jager Gallery <a href="http://www.whitemoose.co.uk/site/" target="_blank">White Moose</a> Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Mila Oshin</a> <a href="https://drunkwithjoy.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Kris Jager</a> Artists Alison O’Neill Amanda West <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/30" target="_blank">Belinda Kochanowska</a> Carole Evans Chris Anthem Clare Archibald <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/27" target="_blank">Courtney Kessel</a> Csilla Nagy Danielle Hobbs <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/135" target="_blank">Debbie Lee</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/31" target="_blank">Eti Wade</a> Geoffrey Harrison <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/32" target="_blank">Helen Sargeant</a> Hester Berry Ione Rucquoi <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/36" target="_blank">Jana Kasalova</a> Jenny Lewis Josie Beszant Laura James Wray <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/111" target="_blank">Lu Heintz</a> Madison Omahne <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/37" target="_blank">Magda Stawarska Beavan</a> Marilyn Kyle <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/38" target="_blank">Rachel Fallon</a> Rocio Saenz Ruth Gray <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/35" target="_blank">Sasha Waters Freyer</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/11" target="_blank">Sarah Sudhoff</a> Tareg Morris <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/62" target="_blank">Trish Morrissey</a> Event Type Exhibition Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Sat 3 Oct 2015 – Fri 13 Nov 2015 Curatorial Statement The triumph of new motherhood. Stillbirth. Full-time fatherhood. Single parenthood. Miscarriage. Bringing up a child near a warzone. Bilingual speech development. Postnatal depression. Infertility. Adoption. These are just some of the themes dealt with in the 39 works of art showcased as part of Project AfterBirth; the first ever international exhibition on the subject of early parenthood, launching at White Moose gallery, UK, this October. Each of the 39 works in the exhibition – which spans the visual, performance, literary, film and digital arts – were made in the 21st century and represent the personal pregnancy, birth or new parenthood experiences of 30 international contemporary male and female artists. Due to the lingering taboo status of parenthood in the contemporary art world and its perceived inferiority as a subject, most of the works have never been shown publicly before. At times hilarious and at times deeply moving, the exhibition stands to leave a lasting impression on parents, but will also resonate with anyone in terms of their own individual birth and childhood journeys. The exhibition is also a first in demonstrating the profound influence pregnancy, birth and new parenthood experiences can have on the practice of 21st century female and male artists. Exhibition Website <a href="https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Project AfterBirth birth early parenthood England London midwifery pregnancy research research institute social justice United Kingdom women and gender studies Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Title Mommy Event Type Exhibition Exhibition Website http://yaleunion.org/mommy/ Gallery Yale Union Location The location of the interview Portland Oregon Curator Hope Svenson Robert Snowden Curatorial Statement "A group show that considers the mother, with work by Lutz Bacher, Susan Cianciolo, Sonya Hamilton, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Eliot Porter, Aura Rosenberg, Diane Simpson, Barbara T. Smith, Frances Stark, and Rosemarie Trockel. It will also include new site-specific works by Cathy Wilkes and Anicka Yi, and a performance by Karin Schneider. This exhibition assents to the mystery and chaos of motherhood. It is made with ambivalence toward coherent ideas of maternity. It is made in reaction to the circumference of saccharine sentimentality and repressive rage that persists in culturally mediated visions of the mother, a circumference that tightens like a noose around the necks of actual women. This show laments the culturally constructed binary of “family vs. career,” while acknowledging the persistence of that obstacle in the lives of artists. I believe there are more irreducible things at stake. This show is all of the places in between, the making-do, the quotidian, the disobedient, the law-abiding, the carnal, the repulsive, the both-and. I made this show with a desire to capture what is true—and not what resembles the truth—in my experience as a mother." Curatorial Statement From <a href="http://yaleunion.org/mommy/" target="_blank">http://yaleunion.org/mommy/</a> Artists Lutz Bacher Susan Cianciolo Sonya Hamilton Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven Lynn Hershman Leeson Eliot Porter Aura Rosenberg Diane Simpson Barbara T. Smith Frances Stark Rosemarie Trockel Cathy Wilkes Anicka Yi Karin Schneider Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) October 10–December 20, 2015 Topic motherhood mystery chaos family vs. career sentimentality rage Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mommy chaos family vs. career motherhood mystery Oregon Portland rage sentimentality https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4a5daa183dcc3c21fcd52dac95f50c3f.jpg 718e48a6f5c4d42c5a012aa1490a7e9f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Event Type Exhibition Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.com/2014-overview/" target="_blank">http://www.newmaternalisms.com/2014-overview/</a> <a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.ca." target="_blank">newmaternalisms.ca</a> Location The location of the interview Santiago Chile Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/104" target="_blank">Natalie Loveless</a> Soledad Novoa Donoso Curatorial Statement <div>New Maternalisms is a multi-pronged project conceived of by art historian, curator, and conceptual and performance artist <a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/Faculty_and_Staff/Faculty/Natalie_Loveless.aspx" target="_blank">Natalie S. Loveless</a> in 2010.  It consists of three curated exhibitions (New Maternalisms in 2012, held at the <a href="http://www.mercerunion.org/" target="_blank">Mercer Union</a>; New Maternalisms Chile in 2014, co-curated with<a href="http://www.artes.uchile.cl/noticias/40662/soledad-novoa-la-mujer-a-la-que-hay-que-tratar-con-cuidado" target="_blank">Soledad Novoa</a>, and held concurrently at the <a href="http://www.mac.uchile.cl/" target="_blank">Museo de Arte Contemporáneo </a> and the <a href="http://www.mnba.cl/617/w3-channel.html" target="_blank">Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts</a> in Santiago de Chile; and New Maternalisms Redux in 2016, held at the University of Alberta’s <a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/fab_gallery.aspx" target="_blank">FAB Gallery</a>), satellite events surrounding these (most notably the colloquium Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene, co-organized with <a href="http://sheenawilson.ca/" target="_blank">Dr. Sheena Wilson</a>), an individual three-year artistic research project, <a href="http://www.maternalecologies.ca/" target="_blank">Maternal Ecologies</a>, and publications (both catalogues and critical writings).</div> <div> </div> <div>The first New Maternalisms exhibition asked: Forty years after the intervention of feminist art, what is the experience of the daughters of that era who have become mothers? What are the discursive and material differences between early maternal artworks of the 1970s and those being produced in the first two decades of the 21st century? How might a return to the discourses that shaped the birth of feminist art help reshape how to think about the contours of political and activist art in today's cultural climate? Grounded in these questions, this exhibition brought together a group of artist who use performance to bring attention to the embodied, biological, and material enmeshment of early maternal practice in the context of feminist art theory and practice today.</div> <div> </div> <div>This second iteration of New Maternalisms was a co-curation with the Chilean curator Soledad Novoa. It brought together North American and European artist (curated by Loveless) with Chilean artists (curated by Novoa) to stage an international conversation on the status of the maternal in contemporary art. These works reflect the expressed need of many artists to find creative ways to integrate their practices as mothers, artists, curators, writers and teachers. By taking seriously the need to create from local conditions and materials, these practices give visibility and value to motherhood in art and as art.</div> <div> </div> <div>New Maternalisms Redux is the third and last in the New Maternalisms exhibition series (following Toronto 2012 and Santiago 2014). These exhibitions feature performance and project-based artists working with the maternal as a contemporary political and affective force. New Maternalisms Redux features five artists culled from the first two exhibitions, each of whom have been investigating the maternal, iteratively, for years. A three-day colloquium, <a href="http://newmaternalisms.squarespace.com/colloquium" target="_blank">Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene</a>, will be held in conjunction with the exhibition and include a number of prominent voices on feminist art and the maternal today (including Mary Kelly and Dr. Griselda Pollock as keynote participants). This colloquium, open to the public, brings crucial thinking on the anthropocene and anthropogenic climate change together with thinking on the maternal as metaphor, practice, and politics.</div>   Artists Catalina Bauer / Amelia Ibanez Yennyferth Becerra Carolina Hernández <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/160" target="_blank">Alejandra Herrera Silva</a> Loreto Pérez Ángela Ramirez Gabriela Rivera Alejandra Ugarte Ximena Zomosa <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank">Lenka Clayton</a> Leena Kela <a href="Courtney%20Kessel" target="_blank">Courtney Kessel</a> Tanya Lukin-Linklater <a href="Irene%20Lusztig" target="_blank">Irene Lusztig</a> Hélène Matte <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank">Jill Miller</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) June 25th - June 28th, August 27th Topic feminist art motherhood maternity maternal mother/daughter relationship political art activist art Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Maternalisms - Chile Chile feminism feminist art maternal maternity mother/daughter relationship motherhood political art Santiago https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/8f74b9cc5916aeb8936dfaf4d390aecf.jpg 34b0132e13eb6e7905b57af64177262d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Event Type Exhibition Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=226" target="_blank">http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=226</a> <a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.ca." target="_blank">newmaternalisms.ca</a> Location The location of the interview Toronto Ontario Canada Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/104" target="_blank">Natalia Loveless</a> Curatorial Statement <div>New Maternalisms is a multi-pronged project conceived of by art historian, curator, and conceptual and performance artist <a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/Faculty_and_Staff/Faculty/Natalie_Loveless.aspx" target="_blank">Natalie S. Loveless</a> in 2010. It consists of three curated exhibitions (New Maternalisms in 2012, held at the <a href="http://www.mercerunion.org/" target="_blank">Mercer Union</a>; New Maternalisms Chile in 2014, co-curated with<a href="http://www.artes.uchile.cl/noticias/40662/soledad-novoa-la-mujer-a-la-que-hay-que-tratar-con-cuidado" target="_blank">Soledad Novoa</a>, and held concurrently at the <a href="http://www.mac.uchile.cl/" target="_blank">Museo de Arte Contemporáneo </a> and the <a href="http://www.mnba.cl/617/w3-channel.html" target="_blank">Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts</a> in Santiago de Chile; and New Maternalisms Redux in 2016, held at the University of Alberta’s <a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/fab_gallery.aspx" target="_blank">FAB Gallery</a>), satellite events surrounding these (most notably the colloquium Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene, co-organized with <a href="http://sheenawilson.ca/" target="_blank">Dr. Sheena Wilson</a>), an individual three-year artistic research project, <a href="http://www.maternalecologies.ca/" target="_blank">Maternal Ecologies</a>, and publications (both catalogues and critical writings).</div> <div> </div> <div>The first New Maternalisms exhibition asked: Forty years after the intervention of feminist art, what is the experience of the daughters of that era who have become mothers? What are the discursive and material differences between early maternal artworks of the 1970s and those being produced in the first two decades of the 21st century? How might a return to the discourses that shaped the birth of feminist art help reshape how to think about the contours of political and activist art in today's cultural climate? Grounded in these questions, this exhibition brought together a group of artist who use performance to bring attention to the embodied, biological, and material enmeshment of early maternal practice in the context of feminist art theory and practice today.</div> <div> </div> <div>This second iteration of New Maternalisms was a co-curation with the Chilean curator Soledad Novoa. It brought together North American and European artist (curated by Loveless) with Chilean artists (curated by Novoa) to stage an international conversation on the status of the maternal in contemporary art. These works reflect the expressed need of many artists to find creative ways to integrate their practices as mothers, artists, curators, writers and teachers. By taking seriously the need to create from local conditions and materials, these practices give visibility and value to motherhood in art and as art.</div> <div> </div> <div>New Maternalisms Redux is the third and last in the New Maternalisms exhibition series (following Toronto 2012 and Santiago 2014). These exhibitions feature performance and project-based artists working with the maternal as a contemporary political and affective force. New Maternalisms Redux features five artists culled from the first two exhibitions, each of whom have been investigating the maternal, iteratively, for years. A three-day colloquium, <a href="http://newmaternalisms.squarespace.com/colloquium" target="_blank">Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene</a>, will be held in conjunction with the exhibition and include a number of prominent voices on feminist art and the maternal today (including Mary Kelly and Dr. Griselda Pollock as keynote participants). This colloquium, open to the public, brings crucial thinking on the anthropocene and anthropogenic climate change together with thinking on the maternal as metaphor, practice, and politics.</div> Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank">Jill Miller</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/160" target="_blank">Alejandra Herrera Silva</a> Lovisa Johansson Marlene Renaud-B Hélène Matte <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/search?query=lenka+clayton&submit_search=Search" target="_blank">Lenka Clayton</a> Beth Hall and Mark Cooley Masha Godovannaya Gina Miller Dillon Paul & Lindsey Wolkowicz Victoria Singh Alice de Visscher Christine Pountney Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Fri March 23rd - Sun March 25th Topic feminist art maternal motherhood maternity art and activism Gallery <a href="http://www.mercerunion.org/" target="_blank">Mercer Union</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Maternalisms - Toronto feminism feminist art maternal maternity motherhood performance works political art video works https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/0729564cb1c780e71d62b47b688eb884.jpg f52bc598fba9da08e20d995f502675b6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://students.colum.edu/deps/glass-curtain-gallery/exhibitions/division-of-labor/index.php" target="_blank">http://students.colum.edu/deps/glass-curtain-gallery/exhibitions/division-of-labor/index.php</a> Curator Christa Donner Thea Liberty Nichols Gallery <a href="http://students.colum.edu/deps/glass-curtain-gallery/index.php" target="_blank">Glass Curtain Gallery</a> Exhibition Title Division of Labor: Chicago Artist Parents Event Type Exhibition Curatorial Statement Division of Labor addresses the impact of parenthood on an artist's creative practice and career. Featuring a select group of emergent to internationally recognized contemporary artists working across media, a diversity of perspectives and approaches are represented. Division of Labor examines direct links between the aesthetics, materiality and meaning of an artist’s work in relation to parenthood while also revealing unexpected moments at the intersection of art-making and family life. Inventive modes of display, all-ages events and advocacy-based auxiliary programming combine the creative approaches to art-making-while-parenting. Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/33" target="_blank">Alberto Aguilar</a> Candida Alvarez Claire Ashley <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/42" target="_blank">Lise Haller Baggesen</a> Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford Heather Mekkelson John Preus Brittany Southworth-LaFlamme Tony Tasset Ann Toebbe Jim Trainor Selina Trepp Andrew Yang Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) November 20, 2014 – February 14, 2015 Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois Topic creative practice creative careers family life parenting and creative practice parenting and creative careers parenthood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Division of Labor art making Chicago creative careers creative practice creative practice and family life family and career family life Illinois https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/6d709b72f5ecb3baf3f285991b103768.jpg e91acd79ef94b59a64cd515368519445 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://mamsie.wikispaces.com/file/view/Shira+Richter.pdf" target="_blank">https://mamsie.wikispaces.com/file/view/Shira+Richter.pdf</a> Curator Varda Genosar Gallery Hertzliya Artist Residence Gallery Exhibition Title The Mother, Daughter and Holy Spirit Event Type Exhibition Location The location of the interview Herzliya Israel Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/78" target="_blank">Shira Richter</a> Topic motherhood maternal body postpartum body Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 2006 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Mother, Daughter and Holy Spirit Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Shira Richter Herzliya Israel maternal body motherhood photography postpartum body https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/51ed79092f46a2c320dd27533c7bbb83.gif e282a5cc14047e8484721b6359929702 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.lentos.at/html/en/3312.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.lentos.at/html/en/3312.aspx</a> Curator Sabine Fellner Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller Stella Rollig Gallery Lentos Art Museum Curatorial Statement Super mom or childless? It almost looks as if there were no such thing any longer as motherhood pure and simple, as if all that is left is the choice between perfectionism and resignation. Nevertheless, motherhood has many aspects: joy, an intense experience of life, love relationship, learning, exultation, on one hand, and, on the other, frustration, being weighed down by expectations and the fear of being inadequate to the task. Until the 19th century motherhood was never called into question even if in actual reality the rewards often fell woefully short of projected ideals. It was only the advent of career openings for women that created alternatives to motherhood as a fulfilled life. Pregnancy, birth, abortion, life with children, the decision against children, the struggle of children with their mothers – all these themes have their place in art. Nor did we have to wait for 1960s feminist art to produce realistic portrayals of the mother’s role but fi nd renderings of social reality and individual conflicts already as early as the beginning of the 20th century. The exhibition showcases not only shifts in the stereotypes of motherhood from 1900 to today but also the changes in the perspective from which children see their mothers. It calls into question the optimisation logic of today’s life designs and nurtures the hope of change: an ever greater number of women with children opt out of the complex, often stressful regime of everyday life, refusing to accept their life world between career, children and consumption as preordained or God-given. Location The location of the interview Linz, Austria Event Type Exhibition Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 23 October 2015 to 21 February 2016 Topic pregnancy birth abortion life with children motherhood parenting Artists Uli Aigner Ed Alcock Iris Andraschek Robert Angerhofer Siegfried Anzinger Tina Barney Max Beckmann Charlotte Berend-Corinth Werner Berg Renate Bertlmann Margret Bilger Herbert Boeckl Louise Bourgeois Candice Breitz Arthur Brusenbauch Heinrich Campendonk Hans Canon Elinor Carucci Sevda Chkoutova Larry Clark <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank">Lenka Clayton</a> Lovis Corinth Wilhelm Dachauer Carola Dertnig Rineke Dijkstra Otto Dix Nathalie Djurberg Béatrice Dreux Diane Ducruet Miriam Elia Anton Faistauer Lucian Freud Fritz Fröhlich Aldo Giannotti Burt Glinn Lea Grundig Johannes Grützke Ernst Haas Conny Habbel Maria Hahnenkamp Keith Haring Karl Hartung Karl Hauk Carry Hauser Gottfried Helnwein Hannah Höch Axel Johannessen Birgit Jürgenssen Mary Kelly Josef Kern Franz Kimm Gustav Klimt Max Klinger Kiki Kogelnik Oskar Kokoschka Silvia Koller Broncia Koller-Pinell Käthe Kollwitz Julia Krahn Johannes Krejci Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller Alfred Kubin Maria Lassnig Leigh Ledare Erich Lessing Switbert Lobisser Baltasar Lobo Lea Lublin Elena Luksch-Makowsky Karin Mack Christian Macketanz Hans Makart Jeanne Mammen Matthias May Jonathan Meese Georg Merkel Larry Miller Gabi Mitterer Paula Modersohn-Becker Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Ron Mueck Otto Mueller Alice Neel Shirin Neshat Max Oppenheimer Florentina Pakosta Rebecca Paterno Pablo Picasso Margot Pilz Hanna Putz <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/114" target="_blank">Gail Rebhan</a> Paula Rego Rudolf Ribarz Annerose Riedl Frenzi Rigling Franz Ringel Ulrike Rosenbach Judith Samen Hansel Sato Egon Schiele Zineb Sedira Ulrika Segerberg Kiki Smith Annegret Soltau Viktoria Sorochinski Daniel Spoerri Sarah Sudhoff Viktor Tischler Paloma Varga Weisz Borjana Ventzislavova mit Mirsolav Nicic und Mladen Penev Nurith Wagner-Strauss Andy Walde Alfons Warhol Gillian Wearing Helene Winger-Stein Anna Witt Judith Zillich Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource MOTHER OF THE YEAR Between Empowerment and Crisis: Images of Motherhood from 1900 to Today abortion birth life with children motherhood parenting pregnancy https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/31612b8c1e73762529362730330ba190.pdf b176ce9ee192af7514b7e43c7f97a24f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.ollyollyart.com/exhibitions" target="_blank">http://www.ollyollyart.com/exhibitions</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1666488403640036/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/1666488403640036/</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/files/original/0a2db581bf5cedf7a4f167557e29c36d.pdf" target="_blank">EXHIBITION CATALOG</a> Gallery <a href="http://www.ollyollyart.com/" target="_blank">Olly Olly</a> Location The location of the interview Fairfax Virginia Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/1" target="_blank">Sarah Irvin</a> Curatorial Statement For Domestic Territories, Washington DC area artists were invited to consider how they negotiate the use of household space with their children. The work in the show investigates physical and emotional spaces that are separate, shared or disputed. By representing the constant evolution of personal boundaries in specific parent/child relationships, the exhibit highlights topics that are publicly debated but only privately encountered. The exhibit makes use of the gallery walls, windows, ceiling, and bathroom. Artists explore the language their children use to claim space, lack of boundaries in the home, domestic aesthetics and how the artists themselves influence their children. Milana Braslavsky’s photographs consider the aesthetic of a home shared with children by visually connecting the pattern and texture of children’s toys to the form of nesting cookware. Nikki Brugnoli covers windows in the gallery with imagery and text related to her current home in which her workspace has no door, and her bedroom, a redesigned office space, has a glass door. By blocking view from the outside world, the work creates privacy in the gallery, which Brugnoli aims to maintain in her home. Edgar Endress responds to his son’s use of toys as a way to claim territory, but instead of claiming a space for himself as an individual by blocking others from areas of the gallery, he rethinks his son’s impulse by placing toys on the ceiling. Billy Frieble hijacked electronic children’s toys and reprogrammed them to mimic the movements of his infant son in an interactive sculpture that responds to the movement and body heat of gallery visitors. The artist’s observations of a developing child are translated into a piece that allows the viewer to consider growth, development and the presence of electronics in the early stages of life. Roxana Alger Geffen’s installation piece incorporates a window in the gallery and uses a combination of traditional mediums and household materials to consider how children invade mental space. Erin Raedeke’s still life paintings are constructed scenes using a combination of products and brands that represent both adult life as well as childhood. The paintings represent mark-making associated with childhood, crayon marks, alongside the mark making of adults, cursive handwriting, representing a blend of life’s stages in one visual space. Megan Wynne’s photograph, Home Birth, captures a moment familiar to most living with toddlers. The scale and detail of the photograph confronts the viewer with an intimate setting in the public space of the gallery, foregrounding the blurring distinctions of self and other that take place when raising children. Fabiola Alvarez Yursicin’s piece uses glow in the dark material as a way to consider how children absorb, alter and then reflect a version of the attitudes and habits of their parents. Artists <a href="http://milanabraslavsky.com/home.html" target="_blank">Milana Braslavsky</a> Nikki Brugnoli <a href="http://eendress.com/" target="_blank">Edgar Endress</a> <a href="http://www.billyfriebele.com/" target="_blank">Billy Friebele</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/117" target="_blank">Roxana Alger Geffen</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/45" target="_blank">Erin Raedeke</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/2" target="_blank">Megan Wynne</a> <a href="http://www.fabiola.com.mx/" target="_blank">Fabiola Alvarez Yursicin</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) February 29 - March 31, 2016 Topic domestic space parenthood toys child development mental space boundaries personal space physical boundaries electronics and children influencing children household objects mess stuff domestic objects Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Domestic Territories boundaries child development domestic objects Domestic Territories emotional space Fairfax influencing children mess Olly Olly personal space physical space stuff toys Virginia https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/bcc65dc9fd5c355bb2921ab0bcefac42.jpg 45e031ec3fd765a399550e8dc5485bfb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.facebook.com/artistasmotherasartist/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/artistasmotherasartist/</a> Gallery Lace Market Gallery Location The location of the interview Nottingham United Kingdom Curator Sam Rose Tracey Kershaw Curatorial Statement Artist as Mother as Artist is a co-curated gallery exhibition by Sam Rose and Tracey Kershaw, featuring artworks across the disciplines of video, dance on film, photography, sculpture, drawing, print, and live art and performance documents. Showcasing fourteen local and national artists whose practice is based upon the inseparable relationship between being an artist and mother, all works featured have all been nourished, enabled, influenced and created as a consequence of the artist’s maternal experiences. Additionally, there will be a series of professional development opportunities and public participatory events that will consider how parenthood can enhance creative thinking. These events will encourage debate and conversation, making the maternal a critical component of artistic discourse. Artist as Mother as Artist aims to inspire child and parent collaboration and encourage artistic practice amongst mothers, who may feel a conflict between their artistic engagement and their day-to-day caring activities. Artist as Mother as Artist project is supported by Arts Council England, ncn Lace Market Gallery, My Family Care, Lumen PR, Jazz Hairdressing and Creative Quarter Nottingham. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 22 April to 19 May 2016 Topic parenthood motherhood maternal experience parent/child relationship Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/110" target="_blank">Nicola Canavan</a> Nicola Carter and Seraina Dejaco <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/97" target="_blank">Paula Chambers</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/121" target="_blank">Amy Dignam</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/38" target="_blank">Rachel Fallon</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/127" target="_blank">Dinah Gold</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/128" target="_blank">Jessica Paige Greig</a> Dyana Gravina and Lara Gonzalez from the <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/5">ProCreate Project</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/130" target="_blank">Zoo Indigo</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/48" target="_blank">Tracey Kershaw</a> Sam Rose <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/32" target="_blank">Helen Sargeant</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/31" target="_blank">Eti Wade</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist as Mother as Artist maternal experience motherhood Nottingham parent/child relationship parenthood UK United Kingdom https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/621e8caa73017480498f2dccc0a6e259.png f4ce2de672b3f56c91ee24a3a7a4d87e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Event Type Exhibit Exhibition Website <a href="http://kunsthallezurich.ch/en/playground-project">http://kunsthallezurich.ch/en/playground-project </a> <a href="http://kunsthallezurich.ch/en/publications/playground-project">http://kunsthallezurich.ch/en/publications/playground-project</a> Museum <a href="http://kunsthallezurich.ch/en/information">Kunsthalle Zürich</a> Location The location of the interview Zürich Switzerland Curator Gabriela Burkhalter Curatorial Statement <div class="views-field views-field-body-1 intro-text"> Until the 1980s – and in rare cases until today – playgrounds were places for social experiments, risky projects, and spectacular sculptures. Architects, urban planners, artists, parents, and children were invited to leave their comfort zone and to venture something new. Curated by <a href="http://www.architekturfuerkinder.ch/">Gabriela Burkhalter</a>, The Playground Project will bring many of these exemplary, but nowadays forgotten initiatives, pioneering acts, and adventures back, and install three playgrounds for children to run, hide and climb. May our cities invent new playgrounds! We’re not only showing playgrounds for kids, we also are a playground! Come, climb into our Lozziwurm, tie knots in the rope studio, sit at the large table to draw and built, and take a swing on our long ropes! </div> <div class="views-field views-field-body"> <div class="field-content read-more-content"> <div class="content-toggle"> The playground is a byproduct of the industrialized city of the twentieth century. Even now, it continues to be both an ugly duckling and a coveted space. A focal point for ideas about education and childhood, about urban planning and public space, about architecture and art, about creativity and control, the playground has repeatedly resisted institutional and ideological appropriation and grown in its own sometimes quite anarchic ways. The coexistence of contradictory expectations, moments of temporary progress, and radical developments makes playgrounds so exciting. Still, as hardly anyone sees playgrounds as part of their cultural heritage, much of their history has been forgotten or can barely be understood anymore – even if all of us often have quite precise personal memories of this niche where we met our friends, took pride in new things we dared to do, braved danger without thinking about it, and learned to confront and resolve conflicts. There have been four paradigm shifts in the development of the playground in the course of the last 150 years. First, at the beginning of the twentieth century, social reformers took children off the street and onto the playground. Then, at the beginning of the 1930s, the idea arose that children should play with natural materials rather than playground equipment. In the 1960s, the decade of autonomy and do-it-yourself, parents, children, and neighborhood groups began to take charge of playgrounds themselves. Finally, in the 1980s, with the end of social and political utopias, a crisis in playground design began. With Marjory Allen (Lady Allen of Hurtwood), Joseph Brown, Waldemar Cordeiro, Riccardo Dalisi, Richard Dattner, Aldo van Eyck, M. Paul Friedberg, Michael Grossert, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Alfred Ledermann, Bernhard Luginbühl, Yvan Pestalozzi, Group Ludic, Egon Møller-Nielsen, Palle Nielsen, Isamu Noguchi, Sreejata Roy, Niki de Saint Phalle, Josef Schagerl, Mitsuru (Man) Senda, Carl Theodor Sørensen, Alfred Trachsel et al. Including real and amazing playgrounds for real and amazing kids! Bring your parents! The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive catalog introducing, discussing and illustrating numerous projects: <a href="https://wemakeit.com/projects/the-playground-project">The Playground Project</a>, edited by Gabriela Burkhalter, with contributions by Daniel Baumann, Gabriela Burkhalter, Vincent Romagny, Sreejata Roy, and Xavier de la Salle, German / English, Kunsthalle Zürich / JRP|Ringier 2016. </div> </div> </div> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 20 February to 15 May 2016 Topic playground social experiments sculpture children architecture urban planning Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Playground Project architecture children playground sculpture social experiments Switzerland urban planning Zürich https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/389fe1960958d576cd27cbf3daa6384c.png cc94e407d31a1739b31dde11dfea58bc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Location The location of the interview Manchester United Kingdom Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/131" target="_blank">Helen Knowles</a> Curatorial Statement An exhibition exploring the politics and practice of childbirth through contemporary artwork, uniting artists and childbirth professionals to consider the social, cultural and political implications of the way we give birth. Advances in biomedical technology and the shift towards medical intervention in birth have coincided with a focus on ensuring women have an equal footing with men in the workplace, which, potentially, has reduced their importance as mothers. In this context, how free are women to give birth how they want and where they want? Birth rites was initiated by Helen Knowles, an artist and curator, whose contrasting experiences of hospital caesarean and home birth spurred her to question society’s approach to birth. She has been working alongside Phoebe Mortimer, Head of Public Programmes, to bring Birth Rites to the attention of the general public. Artists Jaygo Bloom Juan delGado Suzanne Holtom Andy Lawrence Ping Qiu Hermione Wiltshire Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 20 September to 30 November 2008 Event Type Exhibit Exhibition Website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://birthrites.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://birthrites.org.uk/</a> Museum Manchester Museum Topic childbirth birth society mothers motherhood equality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Birth Rites birth childbirth contemporary art equality Manchester motherhood mothers society United Kingdom https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/22d139469c1bd399d13e92d16bfec2f6.jpg e6bfa9bd4b4db2182d5b1b640f67a8d7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Event Type Gallery Exhibition Website <a href="https://womanmade.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://womanmade.org/</a> Gallery Woman Made Gallery Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/47" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Rachel Epp Buller</a> Curatorial Statement “Mothers” includes moving works by 37 women addressing the culturally ubiquitous role of motherhood, historically under-represented in visual art. The artists utilize a wide range of media, from photography, video, 3D, and even frosted cakes. The artists’ individual and sometimes intensely personal approaches to the subject of motherhood vary as much as their media. The work speaks to personal experiences (as a mother or as related to a mother), social constructions of motherhood, the balance of home and work, the politicization of mothers, pregnancy, breastfeeding, childbirth, bodily transformation, miscarriage, loss, and fertility/infertility. Artists are using materials traditionally found in domestic settings including clothes pins, canning jars, and yarn. Others use iconic imagery such as the Madonna and child. Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) November 5 to December 23, 2010 Topic motherhood domesticity politicization of mothers pregnancy breastfeeding childbirth bodily transformation miscarriage loss fertility infertility Artists Jjenna Hupp Andrews Kiki Augustin Melissa Ayotte Linda L. Bacon Adrian Baker Shaun Bangert Kristy Battani Jolene Beckman Cat Del Buono Corinna Button <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a> Barbara Diener Sheila A. Donovan Joy Christiansen Erb Niki Grangruth Luba Grenader Kate Hansen Kelly Harrington Katherine Michele Hatchell Judith Hladik-Voss Phyllis Hofman Lea Basile Lazarus Stephanie Lerma Melanie Lowrance Elaine Luther Julie Mader-Meersman Jennifer McNichols Maggie Meiners Freyda Miller Helen Payne Nancy Roberts Jaleesa Rosario Sarah Rust Sampedro Amanda Simons Colette Veasey-Cullors Lisa Venditelli Ellen Wetmore Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mothers bodily transformation breastfeeding childbirth domesticity fertility infertility loss miscarriage motherhood politicization of mothers pregnancy https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/7cd5cfaea25952970aeb0ac0548a95cc.jpg a53bd6d8533d4069616f6fe74a8a9743 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shira.richter1/media_set?set=a.416115354933.191433.588074933&type=3" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/shira.richter1/media_set?set=a.416115354933.191433.588074933&type=3</a> Curator Varda Genosar Orly Roman Gallery Hertzliya Artist Residence Gallery Curatorial Statement Materials: Newspaper delivery bags of Haaretz (“the land”), color clothespins, wood, wire, Huggie diapers, metal chains and hooks, neon lights Size: 1.5 X 5 meters Annual Art Alert Space/Street Artist Residence Gallery Sept 2007-Jan 2008 Curator : Varda Ginosar Most viewers approach the work with their nose… The Inspiration to create Mausoleum for the luxurious think space came at a time I was mother and parent to baby twins, and had a somewhat optimistic membership to the Haaretz newspaper. For those not familiar with the Israeli newspaper scene, haaretz is considered the most left wing and intellectual of Israel’s main newspapers. The word “Haaretz” means “The country=Israel”. My mind and body were preoccupied 46 hours a day by “something else”, so the piled up newspapers eventually found their way to the recycling bin, without their contents being digested by me. The bags in which the paper was delivered got filled with diapers soaked with the internal content of the little- one’s brand new bodies. Anyone who went through this knows that baby poo - these wee baby creations- are the most important thing in the first half year of their lives (and onward…) “Reading” the color, smell, amount, volume, quantity, and quality informs us about the health of these vulnerable and unique little creatures. Till the end of our lives, pee, excrement and blood are checked in order to “Read” our health situation. The everyday work of taking care of these miniature creatures fills the hours of the day, and the yearning for the big thinking world “out there”, gets stuffed, together with these “earthly” materials- in the trash. Sometimes we manage to recycle these yearnings into art. “High politics” are replaced -or more likely overthrown- by the pressing necessity of “low politics”. The shift in priorities doesn’t happen peacefully- at least in my case. A struggle ensues. The thing I missed most at this phase of my life, more then sleep, more then eating or bathing, was THINKING. Oh the luxury of Thinking - Seeing a thought through its natural stages of development. Mothers joke about this “haziness of mind”, the never ending interruptions. It’s good to joke, but those accustomed to a life of the mind felt this to be extremely painful. Yet one more of those transitions which is taken lightly by bystanders oblivious to the particularities. These bags of Haaretz, which signify the “thinking human”, became a sneering reminder. “You want me but you won’t have me” They said from afar. In this work the diapers, which are considered “lowly” are hung up high, “cathedral like- in the sky. The newspaper bags which represent what is considered “high” or “important” get stuffed with diapers. The high and low, important and unimportant are merged and mixed. The land of children and the land of grownups. The world of body and the world of mind, the world of doing and the world of ideas... Hung with colorful clothespins from a network of wires connected to a wooden frame, the work mimics a fancy ballroom chandelier. But there’s no time for ballroom dancing… From afar the work looks like a huge illuminated lowered ceiling, an image which dialogues with the concept “glass ceiling”. The invisible glass ceiling which we hit our heads on trying to get to jobs at the top of the big world. Work hours that you cannot possibly incorporate in a family life, unequal wages, etc. The work is hung from chains - the same chains that chain us- to our loved ones…the clothespins represent the unending repetitive, soldier like- work of laundry, washing, hanging again and again… Concealed In the midst of the chandelier is an interior lightened (enlightened) think space which one must work very to find in such a reality. In order to reach the enlightened space you have to bend down, prayer- like, and bravely go through the barrier of (smelly?) diapers. The neon lights are homage to the coldly lit infant rooms in hospitals, which I name ‘the chicken coop’. Most viewers approach the work with their nose… In short, one makes an effort to find and reach the inner lightened and enlightened private space. The inner “room of one’s own”. The sacredness is reached through allot of effort. Or, put simply “you gotta go through a lot of shit to reach the light” Once inside the illuminated space (the “room of your own”) the head is engulfed and isolated amidst the swaying hanging diapers, so whoever looks at the work from outside - sees a headless body, and visa versa. Meaning – whoever looks from inside the “think space” to the people outside of the chandelier, sees headless people. Why the headlessness? A job which is considered one in which you don’t need to think- or are not required to think -pays less. The invisible universities in which we learn this skill of bringing up our children- the hours spent talking to sisters mothers and girlfriends, reading books and articles, talking to older women – thinking about our options- doesn’t count. This is why the salaries of those who work with infants and children are so low, - it’s considered “headless” work. The work is hung in the public sphere- because I believe in hanging out our dirty laundry (instead of keeping it inside the house- hidden) and dirty laundry helps air and expose all kinds of hidden secrets. Like the economic reality of bringing up children in a state that doesn’t subsidize the first 5 years of childcare, and then doesn’t subsidize the one- to- five hours of childcare after school needed by working parents. That doesn’t allow flexible work hours for both sexes, that thinks subsidizing childcare is just for the benefit of women, and not both partners, that forces both parents to work because a family today cannot cannot survive on one salary. But never mind all this, it’s fun to punch the bags, to get lost in the think space. If you have time you can think about the bigger questions… Location The location of the interview Tel Aviv Israel Artists Shira Richter Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 2007 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Diaper Chandelier- Outstallation: Mausoleum for the Luxurious think Space diapers Israel Tel Aviv https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/f366b7c6dc4a321a765949dd4632f365.jpg abf1f9bc1f7e2bdb48b1d32d9d13d3a0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Title Exhibition Exhibition Website <a href="https://newmaternalisms.squarespace.com/2016-exhibition-overview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://newmaternalisms.squarespace.com/2016-exhibition-overview/</a> Location The location of the interview Edmonton Alberta Canada Curatorial Statement New Maternalisms Redux is the third and last in the New Maternalisms exhibition series (following Toronto 2012 and Santiago 2014). It features five artists drawn from the first two exhibitions: Lenka Clayton, Jess Dobkin, Alejandra Herrera, Courtney Kessel, & Jill Miller. The work of these artists represents a spectrum of experience; it includes queer and straight identified mothers, single and partnered mothers, mothers of differently abled children, mothers of twins and singletons, and a represents range of race/class/economic privilege. This range of positionalities inflects the performance and project-based work presented here -- work that investigates the maternal iteratively, as a political and affective force. Considered individually and together, these works engage with one another and the public, drawing the community into important conversations around what it means to mother, as a non-reductive, thinking-feeling and political practice, today. A three-day colloquium, <a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.com/colloquium-overview/">Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene</a>, is being held in conjunction with the exhibition, with participants drawn from the most prominent voices on feminist art and the maternal today. The keynote presentation is being delivered by internationally recognized feminist theorist and art historian, Dr. Griselda Pollock. This colloquium, open to the public, brings crucial thinking on the anthropocene and anthropogenic climate change together with thinking on the maternal as metaphor, practice, and politics. Accompanying the exhibition there will be a film screening at Edmonton’s <a href="http://www.metrocinema.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theater</a> (3:30 pm on May 13th). The screening features two shorts, <a href="http://sheenawilson.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sheena Wilson’s</a> PetroMama and <a href="http://ginamiller.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gina Miller’s</a> Family Tissues, and a full-length screening of <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/295" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Irene Lusztig’s </a>award-winning <a href="http://motherhoodarchives.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Motherhood Archives</a>. Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lenka Clayton</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/377">Jess Dobkin</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/160" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandra Herrera Silva</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/27" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Courtney Kessel</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jill Miller</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) May 12 — June 4, 2016 Topic motherhood maternity maternal partnered mothers single mothers political art Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Maternalisms: Redux California Edmonton maternal maternity motherhood partnered mothers political art single mothers https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/41359d6020ba7ba9c7678d748b8a9b90.jpg 4a7bfa4f6a70f2314ae67083f4409299 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.wellesley.edu/event/node/81611" target="_blank">http://www.wellesley.edu/event/node/81611</a> Gallery Jewett Art Center Art Sculpture Court Location The location of the interview Wellesley Norfolk County Massachusetts Curator Anna Ogier-Bloomer Curatorial Statement Guests are invited to celebrate the opening of the exhibition An Intimate Portrait of Motherhood with a reception on Tuesday, March 1 at 4:00 PM. Both the reception and the exhibition are free and open to the public. This exhibition forces the viewer to confront the sensual, intimate nature of breastfeeding and the physical mother-child relationship. Through photography and video, these two artists use the lens to examine and cope with the physical, emotional and mental complexities of the mother’s body. Katie Doyle’s work gives the audience a vantage point so close they feel as if they’re seeing from inside her, while her son suckles and consumes milk or entangles his soft limbs in hers. Ogier-Bloomer’s photographs utilize a frank, unapologetic voice shared between image-maker and subject: whether she appears in the image with her daughter, her mother, or from behind the camera. Both artists examine this unique maternal communication based in touch—a language without words, rooted in biology and the senses. Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Anna Ogier-Bloomer holds an MFA in Photography & Related Media from Parsons School of Design, where she was awarded the Photography Department Prize in 2011. Shereceived her BFA from The School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she was the recipient of the Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography and a Dean's Travel Grant. Ogier-Bloomer has exhibited at galleries and museums nationally, including the Bridge Art Fair in Miami/Basel, The Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and at the Attleboro Arts Museum in Massachusetts.  She has received grants from Chashama in New York, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and CSArts Cincinnati. Anna has been an adjunct Assistant Professor at the City University of New York. She currently lives in New York City and travels often for her work. - See more at: <a href="http://www.wellesley.edu/event/node/81611#sthash.V6lNZjEu.dpuf" target="_blank">http://www.wellesley.edu/event/node/81611#sthash.V6lNZjEu.dpuf</a> Artists Katie Doyle <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/163" target="_blank">Anna Ogier-Bloomer</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) February 29 – April 1, 2016 Topic breastfeeding mother/child relationship mother's body maternal motherhood maternal body touch Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An Intimate Portrait of Motherhood breastfeeding breastmilk Massachusetts maternal body mother mother's body mother/daughter relationship motherhood photography photography and motherhood touch Wellesley https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ed86bc1f2852680ac810e0a690ac1367.jpeg 9d0e5aa59387acd883c5b73284942cf2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Artists Morgan Levy <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/163" target="_blank">Anna Ogier-Bloomer</a> Exhibition Website <a href="http://calendar.artcat.com/exhibits/8176" target="_blank">http://calendar.artcat.com/exhibits/8176</a> Gallery chashama uws Gallery Location The location of the interview Columbus Avenue Upper West Side New York Curator Ad Nauseum Lyceum Curatorial Statement Ad Nauseam Lyceum is pleased to present Domestic Skin, an exhibition of photographs by Morgan Levy and Anna Ogier-Bloomer, two New York based artists whose portrayal of family is central to their work. Ad Nauseam Lyceum’s first exhibition devoted solely to photography, Domestic Skin addresses the tension between destiny and growth, presented through the lens of two distinct female photographers. Morgan Levy’s portrayal of pre-adolescent girls in paper costumes and placed against a backdrop of her landscape photographs serve as a metaphor for the psychological complexities her subjects face. Anna Ogier-Bloomer’s documentation of her middle class family in Ohio captured over a five-year period illustrates the stark reality and familiarity of loved ones in transition. Together these artists present a story of growing up female, stepping out of what’s comfortable, and whether by idealistic choice or bare necessity, putting on a new persona. Ad Nauseam Lyceum is an artist run organization committed to showcasing multi-disciplinary work by emerging artists in New York . The group aims to give young artists an opportunity to collaborate, present work, and have a creative dialogue outside the traditional art market. Founded in 2006 by Ryan Frank, Deena Selenow, and Rory Sheridan, the group has hosted previous events at Emphemeroptera Art Space, chashama, EXPLOSIVO! and Studio 717, and has collectively shown the work of over 50 visual and performing artists. Dedicated to blurring the lines between various artistic genres, Ad Nauseam Lyceum is a platform for a new generation of artists working in performance, visual art, and new media. chashama is a non-profit New York City arts organization with a nine-year history of supporting artists of all genres and experience levels by offering them access to space and major support resources. chashama provides opportunities for artists by transforming vacant real estate into multi-arts complexes and animating them with innovative and challenging art. Through low and no-cost admissions, chashama provides more opportunities for audiences as well as artists. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) October 17 - November 2, 2008 Topic growth psychological complexity family domestic gender family photography persona Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Domestic Skin Columbus Avenue domestic family growth New York psychological complexity Upper West Side Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Title Maternal Metaphors I Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.myrelchernick.com/maternalmetaphors/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.myrelchernick.com/maternalmetaphors/index.html</a> Curatorial Statement It is with pleasure and satisfaction that I find myself writing the introduction to this catalogue: pleasure in the realization of a project that has been “in progress” for many years, and satisfaction that I can now move forward with a sense of accomplishment. During the time that I first began collecting the ideas for Maternal Metaphors, then during years of proposing the exhibit to numerous institutions and observing the responses and rejections I received, I learned a great deal about the relationship between maternal ambivalence and both popular culture and the art world. However, as I contemplated putting Maternal Metaphors behind me once and for all, I received the auspicious e-mail from the Rochester Contemporary, with tentative dates for the exhibition. It is truly an appropriate time for me to see this project come to fruition. My twins, who were eleven when I first conceived of the exhibit, are now seventeen and preparing to leave home for college in the fall. My tenure as full-time primary caregiver is almost completed. In another manifestation of my ambivalence, I both celebrate and mourn their departure. I am continually encountering young women who are grappling with the issues raised by the work in this show; it is a cycle that repeats itself, with each generation of new mothers. For these and other multiple reasons, the work remains relevant and timely, as the continuing sense of isolation and frustration felt by these women, particularly in the field of visual art, needs to be addressed and confronted. Before I had children, I could never have anticipated the consequences that motherhood would have for my artistic life. Of course I knew that time and financial constraints would multiply, that my relationship to my studio and the art world would change. But by the time my children were thinking and talking and infusing me with the creativity of childhood as well as exhausting me with their constant needs and demands, I knew that I wanted to address some aspects of this life in my artwork. I had to make art from this place. I hoped to validate my decision to have children, and in conveying some of the difficulties of this choice, to challenge the images of motherhood that I saw in popular culture. My first step was to read everything I could get my hands on that had the word mother in it, which, as an expansion of my ongoing reading about women, tended to comprise works of literary criticism, feminist psychoanalysis, and fiction. As I turn around and look at the shelf behind me while I’m writing this I see titles such as Of Woman Born (Adrienne Rich), The Reproduction of Mothering (Nancy Chodorow), The Spectral Mother (Madelon Sprengnether), The Mother/Daughter Plot (Marianne Hirsh), The Unspeakable Mother, (Deborah Kelly Kloepfer), Mother Reader (Moyra Davey), The Mother Knot (Jane Lazarre), Beloved (Toni Morrison), and many more. I found this reading to be invaluable when it came to formulating my new work. It also made me feel connected to the women who wrote these books. And so my art—having evolved from formal sculpture to multimedia installation—changed again, incorporating my current maternal needs and desires. My children while still young were happy contributors and collaborators, and this enhanced the bond between us. The resulting installations were emotionally and artistically rewarding, but when I began bringing the work into the public realm (as had been my practice in the past), I noticed some definite trends. The more explicitly involved with motherhood my work became, the more trouble I had locating venues for showing it. The reasons for this trouble were of course diverse. I was growing older. The institutions where I had connections changed personnel and ideology; new younger curators didn’t know my work, and with my limited time, caught between family, employment and artwork, I wasn't striving to remain visible. Openings and conferences were always at night or on weekends, and I barely had enough time to make the work, let alone promote myself. But there was more to it than that. I began to surmise that the subject matter was influencing these curatorial decisions. I detected certain patterns of response, certain hostilities. I felt isolated, and needed to connect with other women who were working this way. It seemed obvious to me that these artists existed, although the only work I was intensely familiar with at the time was Post-Partum Document, by Mary Kelly. I then decided to write a proposal for an exhibition. Not only would I be able to meet and create a dialogue with artists who had common concerns, but a group show of provocative work would demonstrate that there could be an interest in aspects of maternity for the art world. The proposal as well as the list of artists developed gradually. Ellen McMahon, whose work I discovered through A.I.R. Gallery’s website, was a major resource. Ellen had written a paper called “Maternity, Autonomy, Ambivalence and Loss,” which paralleled many of my concerns and interests. She introduced me to Andrea Liss, the writer and art historian from Los Angeles who was organizing a panel for the College Art Association in 1999. Andrea put me in touch with Gail Rebhan, who invited me to present a slide show in Toronto at a conference on Mothers and Sons in 1998. There I met Judy Gelles and Marion Wilson. Ellen referred me to Monica Bock the following year, who subsequently spoke on a panel with Sarah Webb at Barnard College. I saw the work of Renée Cox, Judy Glantzman and Aura Rosenberg here in New York, and when I became familiar with Mary Kelly’s lesser known maternal work, Primapara, longed to include that as well. And so the list grew and became coherent, in what has truly been a collaborative effort. My decision to produce a catalogue to accompany the exhibit with limited time at my disposal has made me ever more appreciative of the world of electronic interconnection and digital imaging and printing. Although I was helped and supported by many more friends and colleagues than I have room to mention here, I would like to thank Elizabeth McDade who accepted the proposal; my parents who so generously provided funds for the catalogue; the writers who eagerly embraced my suggestion to contribute their essays at such short notice, and whose work met all my expectations and more; the artists who worked with me, for their commiseration, shared anecdotes, and their beautiful, uncompromising, and provocative work. I would particularly like to acknowledge Ellen McMahon, who has been with me since the beginning; Monica Bock, who presented with me in New York and Toronto; and Sarah Webb, who first submitted the proposal to RoCo, and has been working assiduously and skillfully in multiple capacities to make this show happen. Finally, thanks to Don, who has always encouraged me to follow my dreams, and Sam and Tanya, who, in introducing me to maternal ambivalence, made it all possible. Myrel Chernick Gallery Rochester Contemporary Art Center Location The location of the interview Rochester New York Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a> Jennie Klein Artists Monica Bock <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a> Renée Cox Judy Gelles Judy Glantzman Mary Kelly Ellen McMahon Gail Rebhan Aura Rosenberg Sarah Webb Marion Wilson Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) April 23-May 24, 2004 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maternal Metaphors I Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.myrelchernick.com/maternalmetaphors/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.myrelchernick.com/maternalmetaphors/index.html</a> Curatorial Statement Maternal Metaphors II is the second incarnation of an exhibition that is premised upon questioning the institution and representation of motherhood and mothering in the west. The artists included in this exhibition—Camille Billops, Monica Bock and Zofia Burr, Myrel Chernick, Patricia Cué, Cheri Gaulke, Denise Ferris, Judy Gelles, Judy Glantzman, Heather Gray, Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe, Youngbok Hong, Mary Kelly, Ellen McMahon, Margaret Morgan, Gail Rebhan, Aura Rosenberg, Shelly Silver, Barbara T. Smith, Signe Theill, Beth Warshafsky, Sarah Webb, and Marion Wilson—have questioned what it means to be a mother. In their work, they have tried to challenge the hegemonic representation of motherhood as an institution that is primarily white, middle class, young, and heterosexual. They have explored their ambivalence about becoming mothers after having enjoyed successful careers as artists for many years. They have also tried to represent the pre-Oedipal obsession that they have for their children, an obsession that cannot be represented according to psychoanalytic theory. They have explored their relationship with their mothers, a relationship that also changed after they had children. At least one artist, Cheri Gaulke, has looked at what it means to be a mother outside of the hetero-normative paradigm of the nuclear family. And two of the artists, Barbara T. Smith and Camille Billops, have made work about voluntary or involuntary loss of custody because they were not “good enough” mothers. The first incarnation of Maternal Metaphors, which took place at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center in 2004, was comprised of artists that resided and worked in the U.S. For Maternal Metaphors II we have included an international roster of artists in order to include perspectives on motherhood that are not U.S. culture-centric. Patricia Cué (Mexico), Youngbok Hong (Korea), Denise Ferris (Australia), Margaret Morgan (Australia), and Signe Theill (Germany) approach motherhood through the lens of their different cultural experiences. As with the first Maternal Metaphors, we have included work in a variety of mediums, including painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture, and installation. This exhibition also includes a number of artist’s books as well as a web-based piece (Youngbok Hong). Our main criterion for selecting this work was that it be conceptually interesting and aesthetically strong. Jennie Klein January 22, 2007 Gallery Ohio University Art Gallery and Trisolini Gallery Curator Jennie Klein <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a> Artists Camille Billops Monica Bock <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a> Patricia Cué, Denise Ferris Cheri Gaulke Judy Gelles Judy Glantzman Heather Gray Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe Youngbok Hong Mary Kelly Ellen McMahon Margaret Morgan <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/114" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Gail Rebhan</a> Aura Rosenberg Shelly Silver Barbara T. Smith Signe Theill and Doublebind Beth Warshafsky Sarah Webb Marion Wilson Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) October 7 - November 4, 2006 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maternal Metaphors II https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/e5428525a95c5eebdbeae5df1f6bdd87.jpg 402453c9152d79054ad7105fcf1dea0b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/home-truths-3" target="_blank">http://susanbright.net/filter/exhibitions/Home-Truths-1</a> Gallery Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood, and Identity - <a href="http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/">The Photographers’ Gallery</a>, London (October 2013 - January 2014) Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood, and Loss - <a href="http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/">The Foundling Museum</a>, London (October 2013 - January 2014) Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood - <a href="http://www.mocp.org/" target="_blank">The Museum of Contemporary Photography</a>, Chicago (MoCP) (April 2014 - July 2014) Home Truths: Photography andMotherhood - <a href="http://www.belfastexposed.org/" target="_blank">Belfast Exposed</a>, Northern Ireland (October - December 2014) Location The location of the interview London, England, United Kingdom Chicago, Illinois, United States Belfast, Ireland, United Kingdom Topic motherhood photography Artists Janine Antoni Elina Brotherus Elinor Carucci Ana Casas Broda Fred Hüning Leigh Ledare Katie Murray Hanna Putz Annu Palakunnathu Matthew Tierney Gearon Miyako Ishuichi Ann Fessler Curator Susan Bright Curatorial Statement Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood aims to challenge long-held stereotypes and sentimental views of motherhood by addressing issues such as gender roles, domesticity, the body and the identity of individuals within the family unit. Like photography itself, the expectations and demands of motherhood are in flux; both subject and medium grapple for new meanings. My hope is that the work featured in these exhibitions and book will open up debates about the continued representation and place of the mother figure, while raising questions about the identity and display of photography at this pivotal moment in which we find ourselves – at a crossroads between the singular photographic object and the sprawling nature of the networked image. Related Resource <a href="http://www.artbookspublishing.co.uk/home-truths/" target="_blank">Home Truths Book</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood Belfast Chicago identity London motherhood photography Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.lylarye.com/1.IMAGES/Information/Bibliography/2003Motherlode_Eichhorn.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.lylarye.com/1.IMAGES/Information/Bibliography/2003Motherlode_Eichhorn.pdf</a> Gallery Women's Art Resource Centre (WARC) Location The location of the interview Toronto Ontario Canada Curator Gretchen Sankey Virginia M. Eichhorn Artists Nicole Collins Janeita Eyre Rae Johnston Lyla Rye Pearl van Geest Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) September 6 - October 4, 2003 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource MOTHERLODE https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/d181e83a9fec50d4b1919b83a293f633.jpg 5e0f509c843b462fca7f60eedfd69f7e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.sedimentarts.org/exhbitions/#/maternity-leave-paranatural-pregnancies-1/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.sedimentarts.org/exhbitions/#/maternity-leave-paranatural-pregnancies-1/</a> Gallery SEDIMENT Location The location of the interview Richmond Virginia United States Curatorial Statement Maternity Leave: Para-Natural Pregnancies is a collection of six suits that invoke notions of “anti-fertility” and preternatural birth. Exploring various birthing phenomena through myth-making, the outfits work to disintegrate the stigmas, regulations, and narratives surrounding the relationship between having a uterus and giving birth. With wearable suits as our medium, we give power to the performative identity. We deconstruct conventional outfit making materials to imagine a fashion that can shift our reality of what giving birth means. Our labor is interested in appropriating “women’s work”, emphasizing its gendering and selling ready-to-wear accessories to subvert the unpaid status of domestic and reproductive labor. The collection examines how pregnancy and birth distorts and redefines what is human and thus what is “femininity”. The aim is to shift the stigmas in the positive by investigating phenomena such as sci-fi human-alien hybrid birth, fetus mutation, Hippocrates’ treatises on infertile woman, female hominid ancestors, ancient birth control, and witchcraft. Ultimately, our suits embody characters that evoke the prehuman, the human, and the para-human - considering metaphorical fertility as something fluid and something to weaponize. Come see Maternity Leave with cash in hand to buy the ready-to-wear accessories with your contributions going to the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project (<a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FRRFP.net%2F&h=ATP3zIcgQws7dMMGKD1jVYRNgfjvXICZJ-MkTYCna45Q9nx1pihw4wfBSeSSEutZsJoPF4wEgvSRO-yhevQ6b3-a6NqtwrAYoWkRP6cYyaGVja0W0Ky-vEHYWQMGTx1w4djdQV5nADo&enc=AZNHwsnCw3e2FumMf0ngInE4jlI6BHsAQjDdyfSZzrg4Kz_emV47ajZbve5feNvYdQQ&s=1">RRFP.net</a>) to fund abortions for those that otherwise would not be able to afford them! Artists Kristen Sanders Devin Harclerode Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) March 3rd - 26th, 2017 Topic reproduction anti-fertility preternatural birth birth "womens' work" femininity stigmas identity Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maternity Leave: Para-Natural Pregnancies https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/fe072dff387d5e4d432492a42c1a516c.jpeg f3b54364e219c8f12a877dd1ec0bac3c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.motherinthemother.co.uk/exhibition" target="_blank">https://www.motherinthemother.co.uk/exhibition</a> Curator Melissa Hardwick Ruth Sidgwick Carolyn Hassan Gallery <a href="http://freespaceproject.org/exhibitions/" target="_blank">Free Space Gallery</a> <a href="https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/fresh-arts/fresh-arts-exhibitions" target="_blank">Fresh Arts</a> <a href="http://kwmc.org.uk/projects/category/exhibitions/" target="_blank">Knowle West Media Centre</a> Curatorial Statement A mixed media, exploration of maternal lineage. Shows work created over a three year participatory arts project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pippa Robinson Title A name given to the resource Mother in the Mother exhibition maternal lineage motherhood https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/cc69a33a1c063cbf3818964b15d68106.jpg 1c5034a49fc52d0c9dc25731730bae73 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website www.dianakrilova.com Curator Diana Krilova Gallery 5th Base Gallery, London E1 5LJ Curatorial Statement Exhibition of drawings in ink made daily by mother submerged into the world of her children. Motherhood is a state of being that passes by just as childhood does, it is often taken for granted and goes by unnoticed. There are moments of magic and times of frustration in this world of wander and learning by both sides that of mother and her children. This body of work is a tiny part of an ongoing long term journey to discover how surrounding environment is shaping us. Location The location of the interview London Artists Diana Krilova Topic motherhood environments children self and other Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Visual Diary of a Mother Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Diana Krilova children environments London mother and child https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4790f609da5fcfa4e1754c4051f92d34.jpg f49f68f87805dac0a5b293e2d004f6d8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://fazakasgallery.com/portfolio/she-i-la-group-exhibition/" target="_blank">http://fazakasgallery.com/portfolio/she-i-la-group-exhibition/</a> Curator LaTiesha Fazakas Gallery Fazakas Gallery Curatorial Statement An all-female group exhibition to coincide with International Women’s Day 2017, featuring work by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous multidisciplinary contemporary artists. This group of Vancouver-based artist mothers will be presenting a unique collective and heterogeneous artist talk on motherhood and art practice and the intersections between reproductive and artistic labour. The panel discussion, in the form of an informal dialogue, will elaborate a utopian model for a feminist, women-centred, sustainable creation process that integrates life and all of its chaos into a viable and valued way of being and creating without being marginalized by and excluded from the male-dominated art system. Location The location of the interview Fazakas Gallery, 688 E Hastings St, Vancouver, Canada Artists Gabriela Aceves-Sepulveda Matilda Aslizadeh Jeneen Frei Njootli Robyn Laba Natasha McHardy Yvonne Muinde Joyce Ozier Heather Passmore Maria Anna Parolin Rosa Quintana-Lillo Sarah Shamash prOphecy sun Damla Tamer Charlene Vickers Carollyne Yardley Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) March 8, 2017 Topic motherhood Indigenous artists pregnancy reproduction motherhood and art practice artistic labor Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SHEILA: Women, Art, and Production Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Heather Passmore artistic labor Indigenous motherhood motherhood motherhood and art practice pregnancy reproduction https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/eb698806c6a1cb520282a2c0ce582823.jpg 0ed90458b384f9363f9e508d9a23730f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://criticalmediartstudio.com/index.php/2017/10/opening-of-quality-time-an-exhibition-by-the-artmamas-at-the-artbutus-gallery-in-the-coast-capital-library-kpu-kwantlen-polytechnic-october-2-27-2017/" target="_blank">http://criticalmediartstudio.com/index.php/2017/10/opening-of-quality-time-an-exhibition-by-the-artmamas-at-the-artbutus-gallery-in-the-coast-capital-library-kpu-kwantlen-polytechnic-october-2-27-2017/</a> Curator Art/Mamas Gallery The Artbutus Gallery in the Coast Capital Library , KPU | Kwantlen Polytechnic University Curatorial Statement This exhibition brings together individual works from A.M. (art/mamas), a group of Vancouver-based artist mothers, whose discussions have centred on motherhood and art practice and the intersections between reproductive and artistic labour. A.M. aims to elaborate a model for a feminist, women-centred, sustainable creation process that integrates life and all of its chaos into a viable and valued way of being and creating without being marginalized by and excluded from the male-dominated art system. Location The location of the interview The Artbutus Gallery in the Coast Capital Library , KPU | Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC, Canada Artists Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda Damla Tamer Sarah Shamash Maria Anna Parolin Heather Passmore Natasha McHardy prOphecy sun Robyn Laba Matilda Aslizadeh Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) October 2 - October 27, 2017 Topic artistic labor feminism motherhood and art practice Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Quality Time Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Heather Passmore artistic labor Canada feminism mother artist mother as artist reproductive labor sustainable practice https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/a5371270875afae8a07304ffaa059b71.jpg 24a096a49fe1877eee95d021db98dc59 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Curatorial Statement The Pearl Conard Gallery at Ohio State Mansfield is proud to present Labors: An Exhibition Exploring the Complexities of Motherhood, curated by Kate Shannon, Associate Professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State. The exhibition is made possible through a Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant for Research on Women, Gender, and Gender Equity from the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. Shannon says, “I am a visual artist and a new mother. As I begin to examine this life transition artistically, I am seeking out other artists who address motherhood in their work. Labors is an exhibition that explores the complexities of motherhood while giving other mother-artists a platform to share their joys, anxieties, and traumas.” Topic motherhood joy trauma anxiety Location The location of the interview Pearl Conard Gallery Curator Kate Shannon Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Monday, February 26 – Friday, March 23, 2018 Exhibition Website <a href="https://u.osu.edu/pcagallery/upcoming-exhibition/" target="_blank">https://u.osu.edu/pcagallery/upcoming-exhibition/</a> Gallery Pearl Conard Gallery Artists Erin Holscher Almazan Diana Baumbach Adina Bricklin Erin Elizabeth Allison Ellingson Nicole Foran Zoe Freney Jessica Gardner Megan Hildebrandt Victoria Hoyt <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/1" target="_blank">Sarah Irvin</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/27" target="_blank">Courtney Kessel</a> Minus Plato Clare Qualmann Kaitlynn Redell Sheilah Restack Corrie Thompson Ellen J. Wetmore Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Labors anxiety joy labor motherhood Ohio Pearl Conard Gallery The Ohio State University trauma https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/87b714cb32d42c3fccf10b0058bdbf74.jpeg a2bf1fc394cd9d3822880c1fcd14eab4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://onca.org.uk/whats-on/next/selkie-weaving-wild-feminine/" target="_blank">https://onca.org.uk/whats-on/next/selkie-weaving-wild-feminine/</a> Curator Alice Clayton Gallery O N C A Curatorial Statement Imogen Di Sapia reflects on the folklore of The Selkie through craft. This body of textile work is an exploration of motherhood and perinatal mental health through weaving, using the symbols and themes within the story to communicate the experience. The exhibition also considers ethical textiles and the use of materials and methods that consider animal welfare and the environment. Location The location of the interview Brighton United Kingdom Artists Imogen Di Sapia Lily Waugh Gladys Paulus Joanna Hruby Caroline Bond Topic motherhood mental health perinatal mental health postpartum mental health weaving textile Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Selkie; Weaving & The Wild Feminine A Textile Exhibition by Imogen Di Sapia Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Imogen Di Sapia Brighton mental health perinatal mental health postpartum mental health postpartum health textile United Kingdom weaving https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/e11a50043df02a6258a1e5f2e225791f.pdf e255f7bd963b7e28da63f0beecf440aa https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/22bd0064c357d62b2f7e45d3cd75d0e7.png 03fb0ebf17424796d0cf52853cb60136 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Title Of Women Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.rockawayartistsalliance.org/" target="_blank">https://www.rockawayartistsalliance.org/</a> Gallery Studio 7 Gallery, Fort Tilden Location The location of the interview Rockaway New York Curatorial Statement In celebration of Women’s History Month, Rockaway Artist Alliance honors women and women artists of our generation. Madison Ohmane Artist Statement: Artificial Human Milk The disconnect between mother and infant. The mother’s milk is removed from the breasts with a machine, it is transported, it is cooled for preservation, it is stored and readily available for consumption at a later date, it is consumed by the infant every 3 hours in her presence or not. The direct relationship between mother and infant is removed. The process becomes mechanical. The milk becomes a product. The mother’s milk becomes artificial. When the mother/infant relationship is diminished, what is the end result? What happens when the infant is removed from the mother’s womb and placed in an artificial environment? What happens when the substance made specifically for the infant is replaced with something artificial? When does science take a step back and let nature resume its course? Or not? This work, Artificial Human Milk utilizes familiar plastic milk jugs and infant bottle nipples to represent food as commodity. The objects are placed at eye height to confront the viewer’s relationship with their own children; with their own mother. Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/51" target="_blank">Madison Ohmane</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) March 10 - April 8, 2018 Topic food systems breast milk breast feeding breast pump pumping bottle milk jug Related Resource <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/51" target="_blank">http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/51</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Of Women bottle breast milk breast pump breastfeeding food systems labor milk jug New York pumping Rockaway https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/627f38aa621b2ba2eeb28f54797dac5c.jpg 64e7f28a1fe1b2ba09c1e9d4be957b25 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://mfgallery.net/BFart/BFart.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://mfgallery.net/BFart/BFart.html</a> Gallery MF Gallery Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Curator Leigh Pennebaker Martina Secondo Russo Curatorial Statement In honor of International Women's Month, MF Gallery is hosting an art show that explores the joys, challenges, and body-politics of breastfeeding and motherhood in the 21st century. Part of the proceeds will benefit La Leche League. Co-Curated by Leigh Pennebaker, (founder of @breastfeedingart feed on instagram) and Martina Secondo Russo, (owner of MF Gallery) this show will feature artwork in a variety of media from two dozen international artists, including Nicoz Balboa, Christa David, Jess Dobkin, Debbies Drummond, Marina Font, Geertje Geertsma, Aimee Gilmore, Jenna Gribbon, Samantha Hahn, Sigal Arad Inbar, Kasey Jones, Raeleen Kao, Lucy Knisley, Rachel Marcotte, Tara McPherson, Anna Melo, Jenny Middleton, April Rose, Martina Secondo Russo, Debra Sheldon, SWOON, Lexx Valdez, Anna Wiggins, Megan Wynne and more. Today, many female artists are moving beyond the ancient Madonna archetype and creating fresh and exciting work using their firsthand experience with breastfeeding to explore what it means to be women, mothers, and feminists. These artists are making work that celebrates the naturalness and normalcy of breastfeeding and pushes back at a culture that penalizes and censors women’s bodies at every turn. Breastfeeding can be one of the most beautiful and fulfilling journeys in life, but women who wish to nurse their babies often face an uphill battle in a culture that doesn’t provide adequate postpartum support, and in which women are constantly judged and criticized no matter what they do. Even street harassment takes specific form, as strangers admonish mothers to ‘cover up’ while breastfeeding in public spaces. Artists are harnessing such experiences and using them as fuel to create while deepening the discourse around mothers, babies, and our mammal bodies. A portion of the proceeds from artwork sales will be donated to La Leche League of Brooklyn, the local chapter of La Leche League International, whose mission is to help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education, and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother. Artists Nicoz Balboa Christa David Jess Dobkin Debbies Drummond Marina Font Geertje Geertsma <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/298" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aimee Gilmore</a> Jenna Gribbon Samantha Hahn Sigal Arad Inbar <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/367">Kasey Jones</a> Raeleen Kao Lucy Knisley Rachel Marcotte Tara McPherson Anna Melo Jenny Middleton April Rose Martina Secondo Russo Debra Sheldon SWOON Lexx Valdez Anna Wiggins <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megan Wynne</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) March 10 - April 22, 2018 Topic breastfeeding motherhood babies breastfeededing advocacy public breastfeeding Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Art of Breastfeeding: Modern Narratives of Motherhood breastfeeding breastfeeding advocacy mothers public breastfeeding public space https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/1744e229ed6936a023cbcd0a3e9c3d4c.png 0aa9dd68265a2e6a3e3ec0389b3fdba0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.procreateproject.com/portfolio/left-overs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.procreateproject.com/portfolio/left-overs/</a> Curator Dyana Gravina Curatorial Statement Artists participating in the ProCreate Project Mother Art Prize 2017 competition responded to the theme ‘Left Overs’: What’s left of our sanity, bodies, sexuality, time and identities when mothering? What remains unused or unconsumed? How do left overs feed creativity? Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/302" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mary Martins</a> Aimee Bourne Alex March Anna Hughes Daphne Groves Dawn Yow Elizabeth Schoen <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/307">Jane Glennie</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/305" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jemimah Patterson</a> Jessica Timmis Julie LeFevre Martina Hynan <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/301" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michele Landel</a> Odette Farrell Paulina Kwietniewska <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/38" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Fallon</a> Rajaa Paixao <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/312">Saskia Saunders</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/303" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stiliyana Minkovska</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/48" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tracey Kershaw</a> Gallery <a href="http://www.198.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">198 Contemporary Arts and Learning</a> Location The location of the interview London England United Kingdom Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) November 16 - 29, 2017 Topic mental health maternal time identity maternal body creativity sexuality mothering mother work Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Left Overs creativity England identity London maternal body maternal time mother work motherhood mothering ProCreate Project sexuality United Kingdom https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/33e48990f2629d814e5eea03012e41a7.jpg a5b3da59769c6920f366e662f1f027e9 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/3e9d6890b298bb14905a1f22cbff966b.jpg fa45b16a0b038272b9e3d7e86ca78335 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4794f4ae6f1fcf8d22c0a6afc50f4f35.jpg 8adf4b40cc2d0764d05cd8aa16ffb492 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://whitewatergallery.com/roman-charity/">http://whitewatergallery.com/roman-charity/</a> Curator Serena Kataoka – Executive Director Gallery <a href="http://whitewatergallery.com/">White Water Gallery</a> Curatorial Statement This exhibition explores an under-examined motive for discomfort with breastfeeding: that it is a powerful display of human interdependence. I also intend the project to raise questions about the politics of milk, women’s breasts and the use of public space. Location The location of the interview North Bay Ontario Canada Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/105">Heather Passmore</a> Topic breastfeeding interdependence public space breasts milk Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) August 28 – September 30, 2018 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Roman Charity Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Heather Passmore breastfeeding breastmilk Canada interdependence milk mothers Ontario public space https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/b74d38d1e1d4ef8029b9bc1e74e0d4c9.jpg 2b57eef36ea925e0edcf0bfe2c4f64f3 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4cc6e73aabba44faa753f02965e00cba.jpg 87e745c3df940f0ec569c5d21bed515a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://bienaldouro.com/artists/heather.passmore/9">http://bienaldouro.com/artists/heather.passmore/9</a> Curator Nuno Canelas Gallery <a href="http://www.bienaldouro.com/">http://www.bienaldouro.com/</a> Curatorial Statement "Milk Portrait #3" is from a series in progress of women who have covered their faces instead of their breasts in protest to admonishment that they should cover up while nursing in public. Common explanations for discomfort with breastfeeding include milk itself as an abject body fluid, or an inability to view breasts outside the scope of sexual gratification. Yet I see this discomfort strongly tied to the cultural diminishment of human interdependency and intimacy - both of which are severed and obscured by the nursing veil. Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/105">Heather Passmore</a> Museum Duoro Museum Location The location of the interview Rua do Marquês de Pombal, 5050-282 Peso da Régua, Portugal Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) August 10 - October 21, 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 9th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro 2018 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Heather Passmore bienneal breast milk breastfeeding Duoro Museum Portugal public space women https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/c75922dcdc7442c848439e15999415ee.jpg 643c94a9a808e4b2ad45709ebf4b7584 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.whakatanemuseum.org.nz/exhibitions-and-events/mother" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.whakatanemuseum.org.nz/exhibitions-and-events/mother</a> Curator Sarah Hudson Gallery Te Kōputu - Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre Curatorial Statement M/other is an exhibition on contemporary artists from around New Zealand creating work about motherhood, mothering and maternal roles. Artist contributions from: Erena Baker, Leala Faleseuga, Rhonda Halliday, Turumeke Harrington, Claire Harris, Tash Helasdottir-Cole, Zoe Thompson-Moore, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Kararaina Toi, Justine Walker Location The location of the interview Whakatāne New Zealand Artists Erena Baker Leala Faleseuga Rhonda Halliday Turumeke Harrington Claire Harris Tash Helasdottir-Cole Zoe Thompson-Moore Jasmine Togo-Brisby Kararaina Toi Justine Walker Topic motherhood mothering maternal roles artist mother artist/mother, artistic labor artists with children autonomy binary tensions birthday parties bleeding breast milk breast pump care labor body birth contemporary art conceptual art IVF, mental health, miscarriage, maternal, needlework, postpartum, personal, women artists, women representation, domestic families feminism handwork traditions indigenous motherhood infertility intergenerational IVF mental health miscarriage maternal needlework postpartum personal women artists women representation Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) April 20 - August 17, 2019 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource M/other Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sarah Hudson artist mother artist/mother artistic labor artists with children autonomy binary tensions birth birthday parties bleeding body breast milk breast pump care labor conceptual art contemporary art domestic families feminism handwork traditions Indigenous motherhood infertility intergenerational IVF maternal maternal roles mental health miscarriage motherhood mothering needlework New Zealand personal postpartum Whakatāne women artists women representation https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ebe31be06a0247e8220400e32b3dca10.png d4a5fdc82f045b1300bbb08e441029fe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://candelabooks.com/gallery/exhibition/pine-tree-ballads/#1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://candelabooks.com/gallery/exhibition/pine-tree-ballads/#1</a> Gallery Candela Gallery Location The location of the interview Richmond Virginia USA Curator Gordon Stettinius of Candela Books Curatorial Statement In the early 1900s, artist <a href="https://candelabooks.cmail20.com/t/y-l-kkjkduy-ttuyktttf-t/">Paul Thulin</a>‘s great-grandfather settled on an island off the coast of Maine because it resembled his homeland of Sweden. Over a century later, his family returns to the same area, Gray’s Point, each summer. Throughout his life, Thulin’s great-grandfather shared exquisitely detailed accounts of early settlers at the New England apple orchard; Such characters include a one-legged ship cook, a widowed schoolteacher, and an ingenious Native American blacksmith. The tales were an intricate mix of facts and lore that fueled the imagination and, on occasion, had the power to transform daily floorboard creaks and shadows into enduring ancestral spirits. Pine Tree Ballads is a poetic memoir, featuring the artist’s daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother as a single protean character (or multiple characters?) vibrating in time, navigating the mysteries and menace of a shared ancestral forest. This deeply personal photographic sequence is part visual narrative of family myths and part origin story. Pine Tree Ballads is fueled by both truth and imagination, which, in many instances are the fundamental ingredients of our personal history. The “docu-literary” structure of this monograph celebrates and fully exploits the duplicitous nature of photography/text to be simultaneously interpreted as both fact and fiction. At the surface, this project explores the emotive, contextual, and material constructs of history, culture, personal identity, memory, and folklore. Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/373">Paul Thulin</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) February 28 – April 20, 2019 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pine Tree Ballads daughter family myths father folklore Maine memory personal histories personal identity photography poetry https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/345c7f8cca90c1127618367718ed4b47.jpg f19b218783bccd0d7c9ae8593c852b08 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Gallery Hand Workshop Art Center 1708 Gallery Virginia Beach Center for the Arts Location The location of the interview Virginia Curator Jan Riley Paula Owen Curatorial Statement "This exhibition is the result of our observation that, gradually, over the last ten years, a virtually taboo image in contemporary art has become quite familiar. Whether this phenomenon is the result of an exploration of identity politics, a fin-de-siècle anxiety, or the “ticking” of the biological clock, the use of baby imagery has become widespread in contemporary artwork." - excerpt from the show catalog Artists Elizabeth Berdann Janet Biggs Deborah Brod Willie Cole James Croak Tom Czarnopys Taylor Dabney Karen Finley Judy Fox J.L. Gaustad Jeanne Jaffe Julie Jones Yoshiko Kanai Mary Kelly Nina Levy Michael Lucero C.V. Mansoor Amy Podmore Rona Pondick Yvonne Puffer Arnulf Rainer Lilian Tyrrell Marion Wilson Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Hand Workshop Art Center September 14 – November 17, 1996 1708 Gallery September 14 – October 5, 1996 Virginia Beach Center for the Arts January 19 – March 2, 1997 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource B.A.B.Y. https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/2c50e8ba746bf2849f65d2a3ea9b2239.JPG f693bd4584c0f380353e2cb3f3fb0033 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://gallery400.uic.edu/our-events/upcoming-events/opening-reception-alberto-aguilar/">https://gallery400.uic.edu/our-events/upcoming-events/opening-reception-alberto-aguilar/</a> Gallery Gallery 400 Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois USA Curator Lorelei Stewart Curatorial Statement Alberto Aguilar’s first large scale survey explores how the Chicago-born and based artist’s various life roles and surroundings have shaped a searching, inquisitive practice that is grounded in, and produces, a radical everyday. Aguilar’s creative work often incorporates whatever materials he has at hand and has extended into collaborations and exchanges with others, including his own family. Navigating measurement and limits, of his own body or in his ready materials—whether it’s the structure of a sheet of mini legal paper or the territory of an area rug, to name a few examples—his work bridges media, from painting and sculpture to video, installation, performance, and sound as well as the use of social media and teaching as art forms. Though his hand, direction, or intervention is typically straightforward, seemingly simple, his work has an enticing self-effacement that sparks curiosity and identification. Moreover, Aguilar’s systems-based processes build into their own monumentality, hinting at the broader implications of the deeply democratic ethos at the heart of his work. Beyond the works in the gallery space, the exhibition expands to include interventions into Gallery 400’s home building, extended projects off-site, and digital forays that may or may not be announced as part of the exhibition Artists Featuring: Isabella Aguilar, Joaquin Aguilar, Madeleine Aguilar, Paolo Aguilar, Sergio Manuel Aguilar, Sonia Aguilar, Dana Bassett, Alex Bradley Cohen, Pete Fagundo, Chiara Galimberti, Kirsten Leenaars, Nazafarin Lotfi, Jorge Lucero, John Preus, Josh Rios, Alexia Rodriguez, Edra Soto, Southwest Signs, Clintel Steed, Hui-min Tsen, Rafael E. Vera, Danny Volk, Sean Ward, Jim Woodfill, and more <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/33">Alberto Aguilar</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) April 26-June 15, 2019 Topic collaboration walking everyday life passage of time performance play democratic routine routine repetition fatherhood sound conversatinos monument domestic sale signs legacy commemoration Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource moves on a human scale https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/54c660412b652d268c5af64316a5df17.png 248f4b189b267a0432c3d1e4ef4b9942 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Curator Michelle Hartney Curatorial Statement MOTHER LOAD is an interdisciplinary show featuring female identifying visual artists, musicians, dancers, writers, and performers making work about fertility, miscarriage, pregnancy, birth, postpartum depression and PTSD, postpartum sexuality, and motherhood. Artists Seeley Cardone <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/100">Christa Donnor</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/298">Aimee Gilmore</a> Katrina Majkut Michelle Hartney <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/42">Lise Haller Baggesen</a> Lea Tschilds Angela James She Speaks In Tongues Becky Levi Mary Sue Reese Michi Jigarjian <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/237">Qiana Mestrich</a> Christen Clifford Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mother-load-tickets-61180257798" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mother-load-tickets-61180257798</a> Gallery Collaboraction Theatre Company Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois USA Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) May 25, 2019 Topic fertility miscarriage pregnancy birth postpartum depression PTSD postpartum sexuality motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mother Load https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/6879e5262cb9e377c7e3d58fdff4ff99.jpg 4aba0e661f5c73f7e77b4ce49e157512 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.masseyklein.com/the-end-the-beginning">https://www.masseyklein.com/the-end-the-beginning</a> Gallery Massey Klein Gallery Location The location of the interview New York USA Curator Ryan Massey Curatorial Statement Massey Klein is pleased to present The End & The Beginning, a two-person exhibition exploring themes of life and death through works on paper by Alice Gibney and Sarah Irvin.   Alice Gibney’s illustrations in The End & The Beginning are humorous explorations of humanoid and animal figures.  Her characters twist, rise, dance, and praise; their movement captured through frames as if they are sequences in a stop-motion film.  The charcoal, color pencil, and ink on paper drawings range in scale from 1:1 ratio of human proportions to small, intimate sketches. Gibney’s works were created in response to a sudden and unexpected loss of a loved one.  Her figurative drawings began to blur and erode as the artist’s emotional life and identity spread itself across the paper in a performative gesture of mourning and reflection.  Celtic myths, slapstick humor, and Samuel Beckett became the beacons of light that shifted the artist’s perspective and made room for grief to evolve into a new tale. And so these characters were born to tell a new story: one wrought with paradoxes and clumsiness. They belong to a world that is not ours, but has the flavor of somewhere familiar. A tent, a child’s playtime sculpture, synthetic wigs, and exaggerated clothing cover their frames and become their bodies. Gibney is a Canadian artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.  This is her second exhibition with the Gallery. Sarah Irvin’s graphite drawings on paper record the experience of new life and motherhood.  At various times while breastfeeding, the artist created drawings that codified her daughter's action of eating. Loops go up with a suck and round down with a swallow, transcribing the unreadable language of a baby at the breast.  Also while breastfeeding, Irvin used a digital program to track the start time, breast side, and duration of each feeding.  From this immense amount of data, the artist created an interactive sculpture resembling a card catalogue that allows the viewer to not only review different sessions, but physically acknowledge the significant amount time and energy needed for an often unacknowledged task.     In the artist’s rocking chair series, the act of caring for a baby is codified as a form of mark-making. Pieces of graphite hung from the underside of Irvin’s glider rocking chair and created marks on a piece of paper attached to the stationary base. The series began when her daughter was born and was completed the day she turned one. Anyone who used the rocking chair during the first year of the child’s life participated in the creation of the works.  In addition to the original works on paper, the Gallery will release a limited print edition of the first and last breastfeeding and rocking chair sessions as well as a small edition of breastfeeding record logs for the collector to “complete” on their own. Irvin is an American artist who lives and works in Richmond, Virginia.  This is her first exhibition with the Gallery.  Artists Alice Gibney Sarah Irvin Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) January 11 - February 17, 2019 Topic breastfeeding rocking chairs infant care parenting data visualization Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The End & The Beginning breastfeeding data visualization infant care New York rocking chair USA https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/999134d5825f1039f60fb6fc638c0abd.png d63176deebd5f6956827970db1de22c3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Location The location of the interview United Kingdom About The M Word includes ‘The M Wall’ a collection of works dedicated to the subject of perinatal mental health and its interconnection with Art. The works included in the collection will not only be a visual depiction of the artists’ struggles, ways of coping and coming to terms with their personal maternal experiences, they will also raise the question of how art can support, reinforce and promote good mental health. The aim of this collection is to tour across the country in a variety of exhibition venues, conferences and seminars, with the intention of raising awareness of and opening up a conversation around the subjects and issues depicted within the works. It will form the basis for a growing collection and going forward, artists are able to apply to submit works into this collection by sending an email to desperateartwivesproject@gmail.com. The M wall artists are Helen Sargeant, Rachel Fallon, Caroline Kelley, Lauren Mclaughlin, Laura Fooks, Katy Howe, Amy Dignam, Debbie Lee, and Tracey Kershaw. Organization Website <a href="https://themword-daw.weebly.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://themword-daw.weebly.com/</a> Organzation Director Amy Dignam Exhibition Website <a href="https://themword-daw.weebly.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://themword-daw.weebly.com/</a> Gallery One Paved Court Gallery Curatorial Statement The M Word includes ‘The M Wall’ a collection of works dedicated to the subject of perinatal mental health and its interconnection with Art. The works included in the collection will not only be a visual depiction of the artists’ struggles, ways of coping and coming to terms with their personal maternal experiences, they will also raise the question of how art can support, reinforce and promote good mental health. The aim of this collection is to tour across the country in a variety of exhibition venues, conferences and seminars, with the intention of raising awareness of and opening up a conversation around the subjects and issues depicted within the works. It will form the basis for a growing collection and going forward, artists are able to apply to submit works into this collection by sending an email to desperateartwivesproject@gmail.com. The M wall artists are Helen Sargeant, Rachel Fallon, Caroline Kelley, Lauren Mclaughlin, Laura Fooks, Katy Howe, Amy Dignam, Debbie Lee, and Tracey Kershaw. Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/97" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paula Chambers</a> Katy Howe Leni Dothan <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/48" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tracey Kershaw</a> Sophia Marinkov Jones Leanne Pearce <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megan Wynne</a> Dawn Yow Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) May 2 - May 12, 2019 Curator <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amy Dignam</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The M Word https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4b32a4115b15440ec312046212055c9c.jpg 8ca13fa078e21763d4a310d71a0d7973 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.baxterst.org/exhibitions-3/bodies-of-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.baxterst.org/exhibitions-3/bodies-of-work/</a> Gallery Baxter ST Camera Club of New York Location The location of the interview New York New York Curator <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/416" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Corinne Botz</a> Curatorial Statement Bodies of Work, a group show curated by Corinne Botz, considers maternal experiences, with works by contemporary artists Marina Berio, Patty Chang, Lenka Clayton, Jamie Diamond, Nona Faustine, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, and Cao Yu. The artworks are stylistically diverse and incorporate a range of approaches, exploring inter-related themes including the body, time, politics, love, attachment, and separation. Normative and coherent ideals of motherhood are challenged, and the maternal is considered as a vital political force. There has been a surge of artworks, books, and articles about motherhood over the past few years. To paraphrase a recent Paris Review article by Lauren Elkin, motherhood is finally being taken seriously in wider arts and a canon of motherhood is beginning to take shape. The subject of motherhood is urgent in the current political climate where there is a need to guarantee women control over their bodies. Women have begun to speak more candidly about health issues and biological processes that have in the past been cloaked in secrecy. Recent news articles have revealed bias against pregnant women and mothers in the workplace, and in spring 2018 the United States stunned the world when it declined to back a seemingly uncontroversial resolution to support breastfeeding in underdeveloped countries. For much of art history the subject of mothers were represented by men. Earlier generations of female artists often chose a career over motherhood or steered clear of explicitly addressing motherhood in their work because it was dismissed. In this exhibition, maternal experiences, both overtly and obliquely, are transmitted into works that challenge preconceptions about being a mother and artist, while acknowledging the continued lack of resources and obstacles. The artists in Bodies of Work contribute something new to representations of motherhood, and offer an opportunity to delve deeper into the multiplicities that shape us. Artists Marina Berio Patty Chang <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lenka Clayton</a> Jamie Diamond Nona Faustine Alison Elizabeth Taylor Cao Yu Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) April 16 – April 27, 2019 Topic artist mother art making artists with children attachment separation artist/mother blood breast milk breast pump breastmilk body care giving care labor care work caretaking caregiving conceptual art early motherhood emotional space empathy environment everyday life familial heritage female body female experience feminism feminist art loss love life balance lactation intimacy maternal body maternal experience maternal desire milk menstruation motherhood and creative practice mother's body mortality mixed-race children performativity pumping space subjectivity photography and motherhood physical space still life women artists work/life balance workspace masculinity Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bodies of Work