2 300 434 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/e5f33fbb5c7c4bb3725e0f14478947e3.jpg 304137b45ba549a96b7f09f9f53bebe3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="myacluff.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">myacluff.com</a> Medium ceramics drawing Location The location of the interview Belgrade Montana Artist Statement Motherhood is a multi-faceted experience. Through figurative ceramic sculpture and drawing, I attempt to bring equal attention to both the light and darker aspects of motherhood to show the importance of a well-rounded narrative to this universally recognized role. The ease of sentimentality that arises with the stereotypical ideals of mothers and babies is charming, but does not tell the whole story. And in my work, I aim to tell the whole story. Through depictions of the female form and mother, along with symbols such as the blanket, the pelvis, and the child or infant, I set up both familiar and slightly askew scenarios to challenge generalizations of motherhood. By examining the changes my children bring to my life, my work becomes loosely biographical. Though I also find richness in tapping into the stories and experiences of other mothers I find in literature, artwork, and in personal relationships. I take all those combined experiences to analyze the commonalities that mothers experience but do not always speak to openly. I employ comparisons of hard vs. soft and durable vs. fragile through the use of clay as my primary medium. I intentionally utilize the direct association of the body to the experience of motherhood by including the human figure, and embrace the vulnerabilities, raw emotions, and loosening of boundaries, both physical and emotional, that exponentially change women who take on this mantel. Through covering or wrapping various parts of the body I enhance my conversation concerning boundaries, and the contrasting elements of comfort and suppression. Overall, I elaborate on the taboo that while most mothers love their children more than anything else, they all also grapple with varied human emotions as patience and endurance is tested. Topic motherhood pregnancy female body pelvis reproduction postpartum mental health touch boundaries the body infancy childhood mother/daughter relationship maternity Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2020 WOMENANDCHILDREN, Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture, Bozeman, MT 2019 Dynamic: A Celebration of the Female Experience, (Featured Artist) AVA Community Art Center, Gillette, WY 2017 Fulcrum, 321 NE Davis, Portland OR 2017 Urban Artist Showcase, Parish Gallery, Chehalem Art Center, Newberg OR 2016 Identity, City Club of Portland, Portland OR Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mya Cluff https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/0b40dff0a9911515d0cc7fb1714c6a09.png 4038b628e268d5c6f24fb0970efdc00c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Organization Database Service An organization supporting artist parents. Location The location of the interview Ireland Topic parenting artists residencies precarity caretaking reproductive labor mother father time money children family feminist home creche domestic labor About The Mothership Project is a network of parenting artists in Ireland. The Mothership Project aims to support parenting artists in the development of their practice and to encourage arts organisations to make the art world a more inclusive place for artists with children. The Mothership Project wants to see societal and institutional change for parents in the art world. Being a parent can be challenging at the best of times, but with precarious circumstances and incomes, and uncertain futures parenting artists can be doubly challenged within a society that is lacking many supports for those with children. Organization Website <a href="https://themothershipproject.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://themothershipproject.wordpress.com/</a> <a href="https://themothershipproject.wordpress.com/2019/05/12/satellite-findings-publication-launch-16th-may-2019/">SATTELITE FINDINGS - Publication</a> Organzation Director The Mothership Project is currently managed collectively by four artists : Leah Hillard, Michelle Browne, Seoidín O’Sullivan and Tara Kennedy. They organise and administer the workings of the network. There are many artist parents who have contributed to this project and The Mothership exists through the collective effort and generosity of the many creative minds and caring bodies that have willed it into being. Leah Hillard Michelle Brown Seoidín O’Sullivan Tara Kennedy Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Mothership Project https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/d2416b4409aa9b0892b7301325ccd2e6.jpg 425954069723b1403404859445447984 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Composite Tension Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.oliviadefleuriot.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">oliviadefleuriot.com</a> Topic maternal body domestic labor mother/child intersubjectivity Medium fabric yarn thread foam wire metal ink paper Artist Statement As an artist and mother, I interweave the performative gestures of motherhood in my soft sculptural forms, consisting of fabric, yarn, and thread. My recent work, presented in the four-part installation, "Composite Tension" ("Corpus", "Slew", "Cleave" and "Tensile"), is informed by a personal archive, "Documentation Series: Year Off" (2018), where I took videos of my maternal body in relation to my child. I re-watched the videos each day and wrote my observations in two notebooks. The notebooks recorded my anxieties of being a good mother; separation, and the weaning process. I shredded and incorporated the handwritten pages into the sculpture "Corpus". The pregnant body is a vessel for containment, yet it exudes and spills out. The messiness extends to how the pregnant/maternal body exists as a part of another and is undefinable within patriarchal-capitalistic society. Through the discourse of craftivism, I investigate the tensioned relationship between motherhood and the artworld. The sculptures in "Composite Tension" are more than just undefinable messy bodies—they are messy bodies with the potential to speak about care within an institution. The softness, labour, and time speak to care. As I place them in the gallery space they remain as caring objects; as soft undefinable bodies. They are messy bodies; they are political bodies. Location The location of the interview British Columbia Canada Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Olivia de Fleuriot Perry Title A name given to the resource Olivia de Fleuriot Perry and paper domestic labour fabric foam ink maternal body metal mother/child intersubjectivity thread wire yarn https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/5b6479bc670611dd2068d646b3e545d1.jpg fbbfe17db8c24291692ec96563047710 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.toritinsley.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">toritinsley.com</a> Topic motherhood breastfeeding caregiving hugs Medium painting Artist Statement My paintings and sculptures explore the all-consuming love in caring for another. Hugging bodies, dark humor, and the use of exaggerated facial features allow for the expression of the layered emotions experienced in such close proximity; feelings including joy, fear, anxiety, and adoration. These works not only serve as enduring monuments to the fleeting moments between two reliant beings, but they also highlight how painting can expose the essence of such intimacy. Location The location of the interview Atlanta Georgia Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Tori Tinsley Title A name given to the resource Tori Tinsley https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/f6e15350939b51a4e600dd5e2509b437.jpg 0b28e77c005d9cd30379d4a4d6e0cdb1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://gaiafugazza.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://gaiafugazza.com/</a> Medium painting performance Location The location of the interview London United Kingdom Artist Statement I consider myself as part of a deviated group of animals that has, for some unknown reasons, forgotten how to symbiotically relate to their environment. The objects and performances that I produce refer to episodes and images that in my daily life are example of this paradox. I consider my point of observation and personal history -a urban, white western woman and mother- but I attempt to stretch these occurrences into archetypal patterns distancing from a discourse on identity. I attempt to distance my self from an anthropocentric understanding of all relations. Plants, animals, natural elements often appear in my works portrayed as having sentience, equal to people and sharing emotions. Experimentation on techniques and craft plays and important role in my practice: materials compete, carry special metaphorical meanings and mingle with the figurative part of the work. This makes for characters suspended in symbolic actions deprived of time and historical context. The idea of presence vs. distraction is also addressed in my performances. I choreograph unexpected situations that engage the public as collaborators of experiments or rituals, all aiming at stimulating a deeper sense of self-awareness and communal presence within an animist landscape. Topic education caretaking contraception IVF witchcraft acquisition of language activism anthropocene artist mother biology birth control birth botanical capitalism care care labor Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2019 Mother Art Prize, Mimosa House, London 2018 Super Nature in Two Parts, Lisson Gallery, London, curated by Daria Khan 2018 Last Dance: Re-Imagined Futures / Mimosa Pudica, Lighthouse, Brighton 2017 Star Messanger, LUX, London; curated by PS/Y 2016 Invites: Gaia Fugazza /Present and Distracted, Zabludowicz Collection, London; curated by Paul Luckraft 2016 Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge; curated by Ami Barak 2015 The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London; curated by Daniel Hermann and Poppy Bowers 2015 No Foods Land, Biennale Mediterranea 17, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano; curated by Andrea Bruciati 2015 Studio Voltaire Open 2015, Studio Voltaire, London; selected by Cory Arcangel & Hanne Mugaas 2014 MA FA Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art, London 2014 Frosted and Defrosted, 44 Albion, London; curated by Taylor Le Melle Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gaia Fugazza https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4c91a6b059c79f2c4e269fb0fe626714.png acbd78ac926a511bbfea295ad57e525e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.susanmerrick.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.susanmerrick.co.uk</a> Medium live art installations film photography Location The location of the interview London United Kingdom Topic invisible private labour feminism domestic violence domestic abuse women women artists time restraints production private sphere language power communication artist residency support friendship aerobics semaphore sign language activism community voices politics autonomy empowerment gender social relations power relations artist voice Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. A Series of Events Two, Princes Hall, Aldershot A Series of Events One, Platform 1 Gallery, Wandsworth, London Inside Out 2018 Leyden Gallery DAW Public Takeover 2018, Bank, London Kunstal 45 Summer Exhibition 2017, Den Helder, The Netherlands DAW Public Takeover 2017, Outside Tate Modern, London DAW Midsummer Madness, Leyden Gallery (June) DAW Performance Takeover, Leyden Gallery (April) MotherHouse 2016 FiLiArt Exhibition, Iklectik, 2014 Artist Statement Susan Merrick is a multi-disciplinary Artist. She is interested in conversations, language and communication, in questioning whose voices are heard, and in the access and spaces that can challenge or facilitate this. With a background in BSL/English Interpreting and Sociology she makes work, projects and collaborations exploring these themes, utilising a context-based mix of social engagement, live art, public installations, film making, collections and documentation. With relation to the maternal, she is researching through practice language and social support/attitudes and the power this has on maternal mental states, bodily autonomy and status. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Susan Merrick https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/1751d4f8b0fe628ce85dc0f1a5b9caa3.png 7d4712efaf2563aa0dcdbabb11218b0c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="thejessicastudy.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thejessicastudy.com</a> Medium multidisciplinary Location The location of the interview Berlin Germany Artist Statement Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor (b. 1984, Florida) is an artist, filmmaker and community organizer. Taylor's work manifests through performance, text, dialogue and community building for Black People and People of Color. Her work centers on themes of ritual, visibility and identity mythology. She is chiefly concerned with ways to dismantle oppressive institutions and the creation of racial equity in art and theater. She strives to address race politics as a performer, maker and artist. Topic matriarchal lineages blackness diaspora critical race studies critical race theory marginalization academic writing activism story-telling equity discourse archive community racial politics oppression trauma statistics dialogue discussion text performance film identity ritual visibility resistance BPOC diversity inclusion contemporary art radical artist/mother artistic labor intergenerational gender roles heteronormativity interdisciplinary multidisciplinary communal ancestry postcolonial Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Mother Art Prize Exhibition ​(2019) Procreate Project London, UK WITNESS (​ 2018) Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin, Ireland Muttererde Screening (​ 2018) Rogaland Kunstsenter Stavanger, Norway Muttererde Screening (​ 2018) Berlin Feminist Film Festival Berlin, Germany Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/b0fc00b9d713445533d6cff753aef741.jpg 63b281c9333f67b715144260b82d24b1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.kimyibo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kimyibo.com</a> Medium printmaking installation drawing cards Location The location of the interview Geneva Switzerland Seoul Korea Los Angeles California Artist Statement Since 2010 my art has been about processing my experience of giving birth to and raising children—both the emotional aspect of it and the social context in which my stories are situated. To create a space of shared reflection, I created a collective called Institute of Mothering Artists, IOMA. Here is an excerpt from the manifesto of IOMA: “We are writing a new definition of the word “mother” where the work of caring does not assume a body of a woman, hence we want to use “mother” as an action verb. To mother means to care for or to protect someone or something.” (an excerpt from the manifesto for Institute of Mothering Artists, 2018) My thoughts on “mothering” were inspired by the stance of women who were mothering in the margins. In a book “Revolutionary Mothering,” a collection of writings by radical and queer black feminists, the editors Alexis Pauline Gumbs and China Martens, define mothering as an act of caring, nurturing, affirming, and supporting life. For me, mothering is doing the reproductive labor with love and using this very act of caring for others to fight the injustice. It is transforming the society while being transformed by the act of caring. In my personal art making, I try to capture this metamorphosing process that takes place when we take care of one another. The spaces I create through drawing, printmaking and installation become a metaphoric place where the visual elements and logic recreate the dynamics of interpersonal relationships. Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2018 oh motHER, Custom House Leith, Edinburgh, UK 2018 Casual Kitchen Art, Curated by Super Ego, Junkere 11, Bern, Switzerland 2018 À Table, Ressources Urbaines, Genève, Switzerland 2017 Paradoxical, Pneu, Velodrome Jonction, Genève, Switzerland 2012 Reflections (Duo Exhibition), Paul Whitney Larson Gallery, University of Minnesota, MN, USA 2012 Blessings II, Gage Family Art Gallery, Augsburg College, MN, USA 2011 Women: Relationship and Identity, Curated by Sarah Sampedro, Homewood Studios, MN, USA Topic art art world artist collective artist mother care care giving care labor care taking care work caregivers caregiving emotional space feminism feminist feminist art history gender gender equality interdependence maternal ambivalence maternal care maternal subjectivity mother artist mother artists motherhood and art motherhood and social context mothering racialized mothering revolutionary mothering queer parenting representation of motherhood reproductive labor social justice transformation Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource KimyiBo https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/7785ce5bd5e93128eb7146692fa97c57.jpg 0fd0c2374371d89c369e5a357ac2cd4b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.danielledravenstadt.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.danielledravenstadt.com/</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview Alexandria Virginia Artist Statement In Tend, Dravenstadt transforms simple gestures of care into radical expressions of acceptance. She generates an aesthetic built in the tender engagement with materials of caretakers to make care visible, mentionable, and to provoke a consideration of the transformative potential of practicing care in daily life. Topic caretaking labor Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Tend, Torpedo Factory Art Center, 2019 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Danielle Dravenstadt https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/8570fa25d23e183681a3890079b1f356.jpg 6a042cf446c1f4b0b92654d169573202 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.corinnebotz.com/milk-factory2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.corinnebotz.com/milk-factory2</a> Medium photography video Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement Seeing and acknowledging what we see has an ethical dimension. I use photography to make things visible and to reveal experience or spaces that we might not otherwise have access to. A sustained focus on space, gender, and the body is central to my work with photography. Lactation rooms are everyday spaces that embody deeply felt subjective experiences of motherhood. Symbolically and materially, expressed milk is a substitute for the mother’s physical presence and emotional intimacy when separated from her child. Photographs in my series “Milk Factory,” offer insight into women’s personal experiences, the maternal body’s status in the workplace, and ideological contradictions inherent in modern parenthood and government policies. The photographs are named for the diverse professions of the pumping women. The solitary pumping rooms take on collective power through the accumulation of photographs. Topic caretaking labor artist mother art making attachment separation breastmilk breast pump body care giving care labor care work caregiving conceptual art early motherhood emotional space empathy environment everyday life familial heritage female experience feminism feminist art loss life balance lactation intimacy maternal body maternal experience maternal desire milk mother's body pumping space subjectivity solitary government policy workplace photography and motherhood physical space work/life balance workspace wage Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/417" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Baxter ST Camera Club of New York</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Corinne Botz https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/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 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/1d7cbcc099c9c51002a6c84585372f4a.jpg 54431b2f4372a0d44c772b74e9acd1ed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.kasiaozga.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kasiaozga.com</a> Topic pregnancy motherhood birth breastfeeding Medium works on paper Artist Statement My work begins and ends in the human body. Our remnants (what we cast off and leave behind in the form of waste, trash, memory etc.) ground and connect us to the earth. My work asks where the things in our lives come from and where they go once we’ve used them. By representing and re-animating remains, I explore the potential of materials to ask questions and to evoke larger environmental relationships. <br /><br />I treat the products of our culture as physical remains of our bodies and explore how we generate objects as physical extensions of ourselves. With man-made forms, materials, and processes, I extend, inhibit, and modify elements of the human body. I reuse, up-cycle, and revalue regular, standardized, and mass-produced materials into something one-of-a-kind and special to invert the associations we make with different types of detritus. My raw materials are manufactured products with a particular use history and product life cycle. Whether bastardized industrially produced goods in the white cube or surreal interventions in public spaces, my work explores the limits of functionality and worth.<br /><br />I give a human dimension to physical sites by foregrounding their historical/narrative aspects and input human features into sterile goods by cutting, breaking, gluing, and carving them into forms that evoke the human body. These artworks are at once physical things and conceptual spaces. Through the physical labor and limitations of my own body, I questions which bodies are present and missing in political and cultural discourses. I explore the anatomical potential of the female body as a material metaphor for our actions that ask viewers whether our current situation is fixed or not and how change can emerge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kasia Ozga Title A name given to the resource Kasia Ozga https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/a00678cb4648bd9c258d7b16bb5c5eda.jpg 038dd4b061d629136ee781648dd485a9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.melissamurraynyc.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.melissamurraynyc.com</a> Medium watercolor acrylic ink on paper Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement In my new series, Mother Tongue, I am exploring the emotions associated with Motherhood. Pulling imagery from personal domestic spaces I am creating a multidimensional metaphor reflecting on the moments one has when mothering another human being. This series is a space in which I explore feelings of loss, weight, clumsiness and a joy that can only come from selflessness. Each painting in the series represents a consecutive moment in a timeline from conception to present day. They are about making new spaces where there is no room, facing death while creating life, losing yourself through transformation, they are about fear and the unknown. Mother Tongue is the journey of giving yourself entirely to another person. Topic mother mothering motherhood motherhood experience mother and child Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2019 Collage, Site:Brooklyn, NYC
 2019 Every Woman Biennial, NYC
 2018 Dynamic Intimacy, Kean University’s Howe Gallery, Union, NJ 2016 The Weight We Hold, Curated by Melissa Murray, Causey Contemporary, NYC 2016 Spring/Break Art Fair, NYC 2015 Echoes, A.I.R. Gallery, DUMBO, Brooklyn
 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melissa Murray https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/85ca2144d7c2477891273a1f95beb09e.jpg eccbfef859457c83941333b469543b90 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Topic motherhood birth blood womb yoni breastfeeding children grandmothers sex symbolism myth feminism Medium acrylic ink collage watercolor mixed media fiber wheatpaste Artist Statement Tiana Traffas is currently creating a series titled Arcana Ma. Arcana meaning secrets or mysteries, Ma as in mother or motherhood: mysteries of motherhood. This ever unfolding body of work explores the taboos and experiences of motherhood through archetype, personal experience, mythology and symbolism from the ancient goddess cultures to modern-day mamas. It also includes work that views the other phases of womanhood, maiden to crone, and the life-death-rebirth cycle through the len of motherhood. Arcana Ma only exists because of her daughter's birth. The artist's initiation into motherhood cracked her wide open into a psychedelic and potent transformation, leaving her reborn on an emotional and spiritual level. The act of birth and the continuous trip of motherhood is the inspiration for this series. Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. WHY MOM Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Tiana Traffas Title A name given to the resource Tiana Traffas https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/f93015db87a8df50d450b856d06ce060.jpg cc38c2dec012949430b1f881abf240a9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Name Laura Larson Website The Artist's website lauralarson.net Topic hidden mother photography, adoption, transracial families Medium Photography, Writing Artist Statement The assumption of objectivity that continues to haunt photography—the desire to trust our eyes—is a central concern of my work. Mining the intersection between documentary and poetic practices, my subjects range from dollhouses to dirty hotel rooms to the paranormal. My work poses questions about the medium and its terms of representation: its materials, histories, and social meanings. While I identify as a photographer, my work encompasses film, video, digital media, and writing. I see my photographs as a product of my skepticism and desire to believe in the medium of photography. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Laura Larson https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/9b18507e7ae88974aae85765db8f8834.jpg 4fe21834f79c7c6638a6e9ca51b9ed70 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://layoftheland.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://layoftheland.net</a> Artist Statement Stroller Flâneur Pushing a baby stroller, I examine the minutiae of my suburban neighborhood searching for patterns and narratives in the genealogies of architectural structures and topographies while simultaneously searching for items of interest for my son. My observations collage both real and imagined systems into metaphors of community. The methodology informing this video is a gendered rift on the practice of the flâneur where the necessity of childcare becomes a platform for textualizing suburban space. Topic Stroller Flâneur walking performance psychogeograph Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Artist Mother Studio x Project for Empty Space Publications A catalog or monograph published by the artist Maternal Journal #2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Katerie Gladdys https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/059289226a5aa216cae1efd26d133bb8.jpg a7bb9062b217c3f6910d15d33baa2752 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.lexmarie.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.lexmarie.com</a> Medium acrylic acrylic on canvas Artist Statement As a contemporary artist, I create based on visuals concepts of the imagination and real life. Including abstract techniques in my portraits and other pieces, allows room for the audience to connect to each body of work and identify themselves somewhere in the storyline. Uniquely I chose to opt out of outlining as done in my previous works, and focused on using bold color choices. My art represents my story, but I know it’s a story many know well. Topic parenting art motherhood artist/mother artists with children breastfeeding son children everyday everyday life single mother single mothers women artists Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Artist Mother Studio x Project for Empty Space Publications A catalog or monograph published by the artist Maternal Journal #2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lex Marie Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.noelash.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.noelash.com</a> Medium oil painting watercolor woodworking Artist Statement For two months my daughter refused to bathe. What was once a non-issue now haunted us both, and we each had our coping mechanisms: she begging and wailing and writhing, I waiting her out, struggling to keep her little skull from dashing on the porcelain. My sanity always felt in peril, and I stared deep into the foggy glow of the tiled walls. I could never predict the transition from weeping into giggling, the point when her little person couldn’t pour all her focus onto fighting me. Distracted by the pleasure of warm water, she somehow forgot to keep crying, and I’d breathe to help my brain cool down. Topic motherhood childrearing childbirth Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. WHY MOM Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Noël Ash Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.brittneydenham.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.brittneydenham.net/</a> Medium fiber printmaking photography Artist Statement In 2018 while attending my grandmother’s funeral I found out I was pregnant. The timing of these two events felt cosmically connected. A person’s departure means another’s arrival. To say the phrase “full circle” was used emphatically is an understatement. Topic motherhood mothering birthing home Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brittney Denham https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/7f10c972c13dc067ff2f568641652333.jpg e1add9827fa5cca5bf6ba6d10923a6a1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://jessievanderlaan.com/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://jessievanderlaan.com/home.html</a> Medium drawing fiber art printmaking sculpture Location The location of the interview Knoxville Tennessee Artist Statement My current work views the world through the lens of a parent, simultaneously embracing joy, frustration, hope and fear. My work has always engaged in the liminal states of consciousness, through examinations of precipices, seams, folds, and crevices. In this new work, figurative elements of hands: my own and my children’s, become further lenses for exhuberence or despair. In some cases the hands obscure, and in others highlight. Both experiences are true, useful, and not mutually exclusive. I often feel that my arms are my most precious resource. They allow me to hold hands across parking lots, to carry bags, to prepare meals, to wash dishes, to gesture when I am intensely speaking, to draw, to write, and they are often full. Topic parenting motherhood fear hope post-partum post-partum depression post-partum anxiety environment landscape feminism Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jessie Van der Laan https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/5a680cc3a89a0a21729d14bd710dbfad.jpg a654a62e106f0ec0ee902245da20117f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.billieireland.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.billieireland.co.uk</a> Medium mixed media Location The location of the interview United Kingdom Artist Statement This recent body of work charts my experience of pregnancy and motherhood. As a recent mother to twin boys and a daughter I document this alien state, with all its mystery and ambivalence, both physical and emotional. I explore the meanings of two very different experiences of pregnancy, birth and nurturing. Pregnancy and birth stirred up the loss of my own mother, loss of myself and the stark reality of my own mortality. Topic birth breastfeeding breastfeeding multiples twins and motherhood Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. The hormone, the hermit, and the hairy moon Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Billie Ireland https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/d3321bcbface4b294509e8552104e752.jpg 251330d3e1afd7717b051549c989e050 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.andiarnovitz.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.andiarnovitz.com</a> Medium print artists books installation painting Artist Statement One of the topics my work explores is the tensions that exist within societies and with the religions in those societies that pressure women into bearing children, and the insensitivities that arise from this pressure. I particularly explore the medical side effects of hormone treatments, issues of biological clocks ticking and limited egg reserves. Of particular interest to me are the ethical and moral issues that accompany sperm and egg donors: especially issues of greed and overuse of sperm and eggs. Topic IVF halachic infertility biblical infertility motherhood mothers of soldiers maternal worry sperm banks egg bank half siblings Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. “The Black List” /The Jerusalem Artist’s House/ 2017“Persistent Realities” /USC/2015Group Exhibit: “Trespassing” The Islamic Museum/Jerusalem/ 2020Group Exhibit: “Relationships” HUC Museum/NYC/2019Group Exhibit: “Intimate Transgressions” Chaing Kai Shek Museum of Tapei/ 2016Group Exhibit: “Spectrum of Sexuality” HUC Musuem/NYC 2012 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Andi Arnovitz https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ff5eadfd5eaeb1a80345ed224edf2c99.jpg c6bcc6fa7fa88579a0adaba2a31cf1b9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.catherinereinhart.com/#/topography-of-dwelling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.catherinereinhart.com/#/topography-of-dwelling/</a> Medium fiber art video sculpture drawing found textiles socially engaged art Location The location of the interview Iowa Artist Statement Topography of Dwelling seeks to make visible the invisible labor of caregiving through intentional record keeping and the collection of domestic detritus. This body of work includes drawings, rubbings, sculpture, fiber works, and video. Tending to one’s home and family takes copious amounts of time dealt out across tedious and repetitive efforts. This work, often done by women, is incalculable and undervalued. Tasks such as laundry, braiding, and lawncare serve as fodder for works exploring the themes of tending, labor, and time. The use of hair is central. The ritual of braiding is a powerful act of care enacted daily on a disinterested beneficiary, my daughter. Using recorded data from these sessions and topographic maps from the Midwest, I make drawings that map both my home and natural landscapes. For Maternal Studies |Material Studies, I collect hair from my children and ancestors in glassine envelopes. Stratums of dyed fiber and rubbings taken from discarded textiles reference sedimentary layers and the state of my laundry pile. Taking an anthropologist’s gaze, I attempt to illustrate my experience as a home[maker]. This is a gaze which includes objects and artworks, similar to exhibitions found in a natural history museum. This body of work is a study in the accretion of the domestic life and a catalogue of its labors. As an artist/mother, my role is that of archivist and field hand. My aim is to show the value of such labors and the futility inherent in pursuing them. Topic care economy artist/mother studio breastfeeding Topography of Dwelling socially engaged art drawing hair braiding acts of care fiber art Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Catherine Reinhart https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ba83f9fdbceaa47ddabd3a26cfa80eb1.jpg 78352232af2263926b18c86923007d1f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://jengeorgescu.com/portfolio-item/mother-series/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://jengeorgescu.com/portfolio-item/mother-series/</a> Medium photography Artist Statement In 2015, I became a mother. I was prepared for the grueling labor, and sleepless nights, but the loss of my sense of self can as a surprise. I had no time to think and I began to feel like a shell of a person. My early days of motherhood were alienating and awful as well as sentimental and dear. I began to see myself as defined only by a relationship. I felt that my son was an appendage of myself; the embodiment of self and other. It was hard to accept that he was a growing, changing person while I was to remain forever split. When he is near my thoughts are entangled around him and when I am away I cannot seem to be the person I was before. A child is how we remain on Earth; they are our legacies. As I see my son grow I feel my time begin to speed up; I feel my decay. When we think about birth we must realize our death. Motherhood is precious and raw; wonderful and dark. Topic Ongoing conceptual series relating to my experience of Motherhood motherhood artist parent artists with children conceptual art contemporary art practice displacement family life family domestic life family heritage feminist art loss of identity loss of self, Madonna Madonna Maternal Theory Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jennifer Georgescu https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/110da501e67e0699becc301ebbeb923e.jpg b74ff0d2bae3285df36f974a317c5211 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.cassiearnoldart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.cassiearnoldart.com</a> Medium fiber installation Location The location of the interview Denton Texas Artist Statement My current body of work explores the unspoken and taboo topics connected to miscarriage, pregnancy and the transformative female form. By using traditional fiber techniques, stereotypically associated with women, I hope to create more consistent and honest conversations through approachable art. Topic female identity miscarriage communication Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cassie Arnold https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ab8925e97257b8b886b6d4428a3d964c.jpg 0ea3c67cf4ced16b947534b542bfec06 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="crystalannbrown.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crystalannbrown.com</a> Medium multidisciplinarly interdisciplinary Location The location of the interview Buckhannon West Virginia Artist Statement Crystal Ann Brown is an interdisciplinary artist/mother/academic currently working in Buckhannon, West Virginia. For the past 9 years, her work has focused on holistically blending art and life. This blending of her studio practice with her daily life also touches on its inherent challenges. In her words, “my love/hate relationship with my kitchen might manifest in my drawings and paintings that celebrate work and the labor of love with a hint of fury and frustration shown in the economy of line found in blind contour drawings.” Her practice strives to reveal the underappreciated aspects of mothering and everyday life through the use of textiles, sculpture, time-based media, social practice and drawing. Topic labor caretaking mothering play domestic labor naptime cooking cleaning chores laundry postpartum body house home nursing breast milk family Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2019 Why Mom, Commonweath Galley, Madison, WI2019 Re : Birth, Edinburgh Palette, St. Margaret’s House, Edinburgh, Scotland2018 Home Makers, Romano Gallery, Charleston, WV2015 Interior Spaces (solo exhibition) Sleeth Gallery, Buckhannon, WV2013 Shared Space (solo exhibition), The Hown’s Den, Kansas City, KS2012 The Sea: Between Speech and Language (solo exhibition), Siegfried Gallery, Athens, OH Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Crystal Ann Brown https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/9a8a04e6c1472cf5f1219b4b303c9d2f.jpg ebdad4b3164e2eaed7b2281a99493412 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.stefaniekoseff.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.stefaniekoseff.com/</a> Medium video installation Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement “I AM HERE YOU ARE SAFE” is an interactive video installation, an ongoing diary of motherhood, exploring the emotional and societal contradictions of becoming and finding one's place as a mother. Using footage of my own children and archival footage, each “video box” traces a theme and explores that theme through fragments of images, incomplete thoughts, constant interruptions: simulations of life with small children. Topic motherhood pregnancy birth baby monitors sleep labor and delivery food allergies illness hospital children and safety Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Unfinished Business Art Show May 2019 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stefanie Koseff https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/77184724981930c08a93b08e38540187.jpg 718e5ef9a6d5df2d6ca2c41a9af7ee58 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website Jendel16 on Instagram Medium pen on paper Location The location of the interview Massachusetts Topic pregnancy birth growing up emotion miscarriage Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jen Delgado https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/52c9a2f5155755572f0d4d0ddb9393f2.jpg ba9943148066c4eaa654766d94c91984 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.karen-dana.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.karen-dana.com</a> Medium oil paintings Location The location of the interview Chicago Artist Statement My work depicts the multiple roles that women hands are supposed to inhabit. When I think of the women of my life, I want to visit that experience by approaching painting in various ways as an interpretation of their reality through their working hands. So, when I think of my grandmother knitting I will apply paint in a way yarn interlaces itself, positioning my hands almost like when holding needles. Or when thinking of my aunt on our closest years together I remember her baking so I will treat painting as dough. Using painting as a way to understand feminism better and the way my own personal history has develop over the years. The gratification of seeing my own experience mirrored trough the research. Each attempt gives me something specific and tangible. Painting deepened my knowledge of a legacy that intersected with my aim to understand social identities as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter, as a sister, as an artist, as a friend, as a lover, as women. When I had moved, and moved again I have to leave things unfinished, try to find comfort in the little things I own. Having a family gives me a sense of belonging. I am rooted to these people. I am their mother, their wife and companion, their lover, they need me. Then I dream about moving away yet to another place, an unknown one, far from here… they move with me, if they stay, am I still myself? The roles I play are not me but sometimes they become my identity. Topic mother immigrant parents domestic space Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karen Dana https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/169f7ee7348e6ce28b90791ed5614ba5.jpg baab6a8f24d69ba202cc28edc81d4fc8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="clairegreenshaw.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clairegreenshaw.com</a> Medium drawing sculpture Location The location of the interview Toronto Artist Statement Working from a feminist perspective and employing images and materials from daily life, Claire Greenshaw engages with the tensions that arise from the ambiguity of representation. She channels this into humorous and idiosyncratic poetic gestures that provoke questions around perception, the complexities of history and systems that create and enforce the values we live by. Topic parenting motherhood labor time humor art history breastfeeding gender Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Mother Tongue, Clint Roenisch Gallery, 2017<br /><br />https://clintroenisch.com/archive/2017-2/mother-tongue/<br />The Artist’s Studio is Her Bedroom, Contemporary Art Gallery, 2020.<br /><br />https://www.contemporaryartgallery.ca/exhibitions/the-artists-studio-is-her-bedroom/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Claire Greenshaw Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.troycolby.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.troycolby.com</a> Medium photography Artist Statement Troy was born in rural Kansas in 1975 and currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas. His work and research explores the delicate balance of family, fatherhood and the outcome of the family photo album. Motivated by intellectual and psychological inquiry of these intimate topics, Troy photographs his own family as a means of understanding the emotional qualities that come along with fatherhood. It has become his means of understanding while creating an honest interpretation of the idealized family album. He received his BFA from the Academy of Art University in 2015 and his MFA in 2019. His work has been seen in Black and White Magazine, Lenscratch, Feature Shoot, Plates to Pixels, The Photo Review, Fraction Magazine, Der Greif and FotoRoom. Topic fatherhood parenting childhood family documentary Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Troy Colby https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/415e462a50b21513205d4f8ef8f79650.jpg 7f9806e579d63c5761e959b44d42e0c7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.marciasantore.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.marciasantore.com</a> Medium painting Location The location of the interview New Hampshire Artist Statement I am a contemporary painter living and working in rural New Hampshire, where I live with my husband and two sons. As a child and an adult, I have lived on all three coasts and in between, and traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Now I live in a small New England town. Much of the reason that I live where I live, see what I see, and think about what I think about, is because I am a parent. Being a parent has influenced my work by influencing the choices I have made about where and how to live. These choices, in turn, present different roads for my artwork and for my professional career as an artist than would be the case if I did not have children. Many of my artist colleagues are also artist-mothers whose situations are similar to my own. We are finding ways to work together to create opportunities for ourselves well outside of the usual “art world” venues. <br /><br /><br />Painting is an essential part of who I am, and I have continued to develop my work, exhibit, and sell whenever possible. I began painting in oils in college and continued until my first pregnancy, when I switched to acrylics. This was the first example of the many times that parenthood and art needed to find new ways to coexist in my life! <br /><br /><br />As a parent, I am always doing more than one thing at a time, and as an artist, I see no reason to limit myself to only one style or way of working. Most of my work is not explicitly on the subject of parenthood or reproduction. But it shows up again and again in different ways and in different series. Sometimes it’s visceral—like Lupa, a wolf with two babies. The painting is on loose canvas, nailed to the wall, with slashes from her claws. Sometimes it’s joyous and chaotic—like Strong Nuclear Force, a dancing woman with four legs and a baby under each arm. Some are mysterious—like Inside, Mothers Are Dancing, which hints at the nature of mothers together. Some are more remote—even elegiac, like The Minivan Series. <br /><br /><br />It’s always been important to me as a parent to set an example for my boys of what women really are—separate individuals with their own lives, their own work, their own dreams, their own futures—not just the mothers who take care of them. At the same time, raising my children is all-consuming and wonderful. As my boys grow up, what they need from me grows and changes. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that reflected in my work. Topic motherhood parenting caretaking chaos wildness babies love loss animal nature passion ferocity Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Nourish, Museum of the White Mountains, Plymouth NH, 2020 A Second Look, Kimball-Jenkins Galleries, Concord NH, 2018 Solo exhibition: Pattern in Motion, University of Connecticut–Stamford Art Gallery, 2017 At Large, Gateway Gallery, Great Bay Community College, Portsmouth NH, 2017 MOMMA, Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth State University, Plymouth NH, 2014 (curator)Works of Fiction: Paintings by Marcia Santore, Epsom Public Library, Epsom NH, 2012 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Marcia Santore https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/49ae19b4e7bfd65566ddf20f7cf1f88b.jpg c22ff7115953d4236e9dfa0963a1bc56 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="marrinlee.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">marrinlee.com</a> Medium interdisciplinary painting soft sculpture installation collage poetry choreography Location The location of the interview San Luis Obispo California Artist Statement "I make art to move through and express the intensity of moods. Energized by acute sensitivity, I write poetry and create sculptural paintings that parallel the Natural World and experiences in Motherhood.<br /><br />Moving slowly, I layer ink, dye, pastel and acrylic, until friction gives way to visual balance. A tangle of abstract shapes ripple across the canvas in a choreography of color. As in life, movement is essential in the work I develop." Topic postpartum depression gender roles/equality climate change/the natural world Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Marrin Lee Martinez https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/3c847ff230d07c6782fae2867c4ce70a.jpg 6b9f0baa7c3d9a9ab5ff378b206fc35e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://lowresgradstudios.ecuad.ca/hyip/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://lowresgradstudios.ecuad.ca/hyip/</a> Medium video mixed media mixed media on paper and other surfaces assemblage installation Artist Statement In my practice I am focused on investigating the impact of technology on human development. Specifically, my inquiry occurs within my own home and the context of my children’s ongoing obsession with smartphones and other related media. In the research that fuels my art practice I have launched a vigorous examination of my role as a parent whose responsibility it is to both mediate and moderate my family’s use of screen based technologies. In this relentless pursuit I have made many attempts to set up boundaries for my children’s use of their devices, which has inspired me to explore these concepts through the lens of my performing other motherly tasks such as doing laundry, vacuuming and cooking. It is through the use of some of the machines and objects that I use to perform these tasks that has afforded me the agency to create work in a more enjoyable and perhaps playful manner. My art practice also allows me the chance to be in my studio (an oasis) to escape if only temporarily from the frustration of the constant household and emotional labour that I must perform. It is the irony that as a parent I have introduced my children to technology and its accompanying objects and now because of this I have to restrict my children’s use of it. Because I suffer from guilt associated with this fact I have made it a part of my parental practice (which in turn enters into my art practice) my job to play more with my kids, this includes making blanket forts, playing tag and all kinds of board games to name a few things. It has also inspired me to investigate Nicholson’s theory of loose parts and to make sure my kids’ have more opportunities to play with all kinds of things ‘off-line’. As modalities in my practice I have employed video, installation as well as two dimensional mixed media art making in an attempt to try and understand my kids’ love of technology. Topic the impact of technology on human development my role as a parent /mediator/ moderator of my children's use of screen based technology parent-child connection environments where parent and child interact emotional labor technology Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Heather Yip https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/f5af3076579116c30cb6eb7788ccc1d4.jpg 9f86d29c843444eb669a9c094f68340b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.alicestonecollins.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.alicestonecollins.com</a> Medium gouache paper collage Location The location of the interview Alpharetta Georgia Artist Statement I am interested in the everyday. The mundane. And I look for beauty in these moments. Part of this is my experience with having kids. The repetition. The routine. The thousands of lunches packed and faces wiped. There is a common thread that all mothers have in these experiences, but also a true unique quality to these spaces in our lives. In my current pieces I'm exploring how we navigate the restraints often felt while in the trenches of motherhood and the contrasting energies of stasis and and comfort these borders bring. How does this impact the way we engage with our environment and each other? Topic caregiver mother suburban mundane family homeostasis comfort Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alice Stone-Collins Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.alexandrakiss.work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.alexandrakiss.work/</a> Medium gouache paper Location The location of the interview Toronto Artist Statement Alexandra Kiss is an artist and architect living in Toronto, Canada. She holds a Masters of Architecture from Yale University, and a Bachelor of Architecture from The Cooper Union in New York. Her work is produced in series, and addresses issues regarding identity formation, and the perception of surface and form. Her drawing is heavily influenced by her training in architecture, paying close attention to the precision of line and drawing narrative. Working freehand or digitally, she uses drawing as a tool for researching, analysing and organizing information Topic mother-daughter relationship primordial relationship Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alexandra Kiss https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/91e835008ec2c94e3d453220f9b0e080.jpg 2e4243340f7cf442525a7b272ea0c771 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.meganjacobs.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.meganjacobs.com</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview New Mexico Artist Statement Hidden Mothers references the early usages of photography when exposure times were long. Mothers who wanted a photograph of their child would commonly be hidden under a piece of fabric in order for them to hold their child, thus ensuring a sharp image. The practice to omit mothers in these late 19th century images, which are often referred to as hidden mother images, says something about the value of mothers during these times. Within the series, formally similar images are created as a metaphor for the unrecognized physical and emotional work that mothers do to support and nurture their children in contemporary times. Each mother is wrapped in a floral bed linen that both elicits traditional notions of femininity and domestic spaces and recalls the memories that have been imprinted upon each mother. There is a tension between hiding and revealing: the mothers’ identities are obscured yet the vibrant sheets accentuate their presence in my series. However, the traditional hidden mother images eradicated nearly all indications of the mother's presence. The images, in other instances, expose specific aspects of the mothers’ identities. The interplay between hiding and revealing explores the complexities of motherhood and functions to illustrate the mutability of identity and in some cases an erasure of self. Topic motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Megan Jacobs https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ff5c0ac1708108d5b3d44b66d460c84e.jpg a321f74aed8de9276e77dba4fa4735d5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.babsiloisch.com,%20instagram.com/babsiactually/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.babsiloisch.com, instagram.com/babsiactually/</a> Medium installation video photography performance public programming sculpture textile drawing research writing conceptual art walking art curation Location The location of the interview Los Angeles California Artist Statement As an artist, conversationalist, mover, and archivist, I use video, sound as well as<br />unconventional and overlooked materials like words, time, relationships and movement as<br />components to create. My work revolves around acknowledging the body as simultaneous site<br />of production, care and labor.<br /><br /><br />While the body of the mother is still only barely tolerated within the contemporary art world, I<br />want to replace this isolation with the idea of sharing community in times of personal struggle.<br />By using "physicality as production" as a methodological principle my work provides glimpses<br />into the maze of enigmas - time precarity, gender roles within the arts, labor relations and the<br />body as a multifaceted vehicle - that I am trying to find a way through and that allows others to<br />share my questions and ask questions with me.<br /><br />Laying bare my experience in the strange, cozy, blurred zone of not being just one, but also not<br />being two the work aims to mirror and encourage an intimate approach to the interdependence<br />of minds and bodies. Embedded in curiosity, open-endedness and exposedness, I very much<br />believe in vulnerability and in art as a means of assemblage and survival in precarious times.<br />Seeing myself and my work as spinning a subtle thread of positive contamination, I want to think<br />of my practice as fostering a constellation in which art is a direct tribute to the spirit of sharing<br />and connection between communities. Topic care labor body work homework gender roles lactation motherhood parenthood community time movement parenting caretaking invisibility production Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Babsi Loisch https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/98f0114e67aabdb28ca4b9f523a70298.jpg bd9101dd693abbc2f969709b5a439c66 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website www.ahreelee.com Medium video new media textiles Location The location of the interview Los Angeles California Artist Statement In the fall of 2018, I kept track of what I was doing all day long in a spreadsheet. Each activity I assigned to one of half a dozen different categories, including child care, housework, art practice, and sleep. I picked one week of that time period and during the course of my artist residency at the Women’s Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles, turned it into Timesheet: November 4–10, 2018, a work comprising seven weavings, one representing each day of that week. I wove it during weekly studio hours, on my floor loom that I moved into the space for the exhibition. By giving these ephemeral activities form through my weaving, I have created an analog data visualization of invisible and undervalued domestic labor and transformed it into an artwork with monetary and cultural value. Topic parenting caretaking quantified self weaving textiles fiber labor domestic labor time data visualization tracking visualization capitalism technology industrialization value repetition Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Pattern : Code, Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, California. 2019We Are Here, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California. 2020 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ahree Lee https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/15e4b0315beb0af79d10db9d12dd6330.jpg 62e4d1658389a12a1f5bd8bfc59f9456 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.fatemaabizar.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.fatemaabizar.com</a> Medium painting monoprinting free motion embroidery Location The location of the interview Tuscon Arizona Artist Statement “A trip to hell a trip to heaven and the death of the self for a new self.” These words by the artist Susan Miller are the most poignant I read on motherhood in my early postpartum days. Surely, there was joy at the arrival of this new being, but an inexplicable fear that sank in just as deep as the euphoria. If you asked me I could not sum up this fear. I suddenly felt afraid of everything. Though I had performed the feat of labor and birth, I felt unqualified for the role of a mother. Fragments of my pre-birth self still exist, but it was healing to begin thinking of the baby's birth as my own rebirth. Instead of desperately trying to reclaim my old self, or contend with how she would exist alongside this newfound mother identity, I mourned her passing, and began looking to this new self with curiosity and excitement. “Amma/Mama 1440” is an ongoing body of work where I hope to account for every minute of a twenty-four hour period in the forms of painting, monoprinting and machine drawing. In these pieces I explore the differences in the culture I was brought up in, versus the narratives around childbirth, childrearing and motherhood in the West. The pieces are also an attempt to be present. I found the antidote to fear in mindfulness. In the more challenging moments, I am able to pause through the simple act of taking note of the exact time. It brings peace to know that time flows. Topic embroidery monoprint motherhood painting Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fatima Abizar https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/f2f579746ba697ab909580cdf9afa2d3.jpg 052a55307adf6b0f56e081465c87f89c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://bexdesign.co/Visiting-Hours-Description-Page" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://bexdesign.co/Visiting-Hours-Description-Page</a> Medium book arts Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois Artist Statement bex ya yolk is a visual artist, multidisciplinary graphic designer, + book maker with a research practice focusing on the maternal complex."V I S I T I N G H O U R S" is a a hand bound book and 2017 exhibition detailing research on the phenomena of humans making humans. Isolating a mortal process and not the product it yields, this work detailed a series of poetic prose written by the artist on their experience in maternity. Topic human gestation abortion maternal body the maternal complex incubation maternal identity in the patriarchy Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource bex ya yolk https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/3f498638b5083ce5a60eb49232e0cb51.jpg 9ff03c786a25df04fc4c02ad9d8ccb9e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://chimo1117.wixsite.com/adama" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://chimo1117.wixsite.com/adama</a> Medium acrylic and pencil on paper Location The location of the interview Wakayama Japan Artist Statement 私は、我が子を通して見た世界、感じた世界を一枚の紙に表現します。<br />私はテーマを決めたあと、筆で形を作っていく描き方をしています。紙にジェッソを下塗りし、その上に色や線をのせていきます。作品の大きさにもよりますが、だいたい５日ほどで描き上げることが多いです。<br />その間、母（私）は子どもに寄り添い、乳をやり、生活のほとんどをその時間に費やします。<br />まさに「母が子に喰われる時を過ごす」のです。それでも母は絵を描こうとします。線一本を捻出するために多くの時間が費やされます。そのため、この9年間のアートワークは小作品やドローイングが多くなっています。<br />I express the world I see and feel through my child on a piece of paper.<br />After deciding on a theme, I draw by creating shapes with a brush. The paper is primed with gesso, and then the colors and lines are applied on top. Although it depends on the size of the work, I usually complete it in about five days.<br />During this time, the mother (I) sits close to the child, nurses it, and spends most of her time there.<br />It is exactly "a mother spends her time being eaten by her child". My mother still wants to paint. A lot of time is spent to come up with a single line. Therefore, the artworks of these 9 years are mostly small works and drawing.<br /><br />これらの作品群、そこに描かれている人物たちは、母親の深い感情をより多く詰め込み表現されるために、複雑な線と色が使われています。人物像の顔に当たる部分には、いくつもの小さな顔や、点や線、目のようなもの、歯のようなものが散りばめられているように描いています。これは、人の表情について、静止画において、第三者（鑑賞者）が、見る位置によって、または見る角度、感情によって異なる見方ができるように工夫されています。人間の表情は、短時間に多くの表情を示します。怒ったと思えば笑い、笑ったかと思えば悲しみ。いくつもの表情を一枚の紙に描くことは困難です。それならば、それらの感情をすべてそこに並べ、見たいように感じられれば良いと思うのです。<br />These works, and the figures depicted in them, use complex lines and colors to express more of the mother's deep emotions. The part that corresponds to the face of the human figure is painted with many small faces, dots and lines, things like eyes, and things like teeth. It is devised so that a third party (viewer) can see human facial expressions differently depending on the viewing position, viewing angle, and emotion. Human facial expressions show many expressions in a short time. Laugh when you think you're angry, sad when you think you're laughing. It is difficult to draw many facial expressions on one sheet of paper. Then I think it would be nice if I could put all those emotions in there and feel what I wanted to see.<br /><br /><br />私はなぜ絵を描くのか、それは我が子を記憶にとどめておきたいというシンプルな思いです。愛するもの、大切に思うものに対し、誰しも記憶に残しておきたいと思うのではないでしょうか。<br />私の記憶を留めるための方法（絵を描くということ）はとてもシンプルで古典的です。しかし、私にとっては、その方法が一番、身近であり、馴染みがあり、その行動が自分の存在意義を確かめることの手段の一つになっています。<br />The reason why I paint is a simple desire to remember my child. We all want to keep something in our memory for something we love and cherish.<br />My method of memory retention (painting) is very simple and classic. However, for me, that method is the most familiar and familiar, and the action is one of the means to confirm the significance of my existence. Topic painting and drawing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Adama C. Turay https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ea14bd38b1dcc6fed3b0bb8a1f37a6aa.jpg 0953060a248c70f74f40914397d4d0e9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website instagram @alenacapone Medium painting sketch installation Location The location of the interview Hersbruck Germany Artist Statement In my work i focus on my daily life as young mother of two small kids. I observe and discover our relation, their growth and try to collect everything in painting. Topic maternity childhood caring growth everyday life nurse observe carry carry play immersion relationship parenting Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alena Scharrer https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/e1b9fc80a465d3aec160b43eb8a7c514.jpg 6682b43bd09a388d2244e7bd7c027c6c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.catherinelecomte.com">www.catherinelecomte.com</a> Medium photography mixed media Location The location of the interview Burlington Massachusetts Artist Statement Collateral Damage explores an overlooked aspect of the fallout of the Dobbs decision: diminishing access to medical care for women who spontaneously miscarry. One in four pregnancies (or approximately 1 million a year in the U.S.) end in a miscarriage. Complications require the same medical interventions as abortions. Women have entered a new landscape of risk as doctors and pharmacists increasingly delay or deny miscarriage care for fear of running afoul of abortion bans. Topic “Collateral Damage” explores an overlooked aspect of the fallout of the Dobbs decision: diminishing access to medical care for women who spontaneously miscarry. One in four pregnancies (or approximately 1 million a year in the U.S.) end in a miscarriage. Complications require the same medical interventions as abortions. Women have entered a new landscape of risk as doctors and pharmacists increasingly delay or deny miscarriage care for fear of running afoul of abortion bans. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Catherine LeComte https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/681b8d9dc5e4537c51c96b12a935614b.jpg 1250d7ecd1198e7cc20139818c6c4eed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.wantuchart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.wantuchart.com</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/anna.wantuch.performer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.instagram.com/anna.wantuch.performer/</a> Medium choreography performance video photography Artist Statement In her works, she deals with the visibility of motherhood and parental themes. She is the author of a series of video performances MOT/HER KC in which she observed bodily changes during pregnancy. She presented the latter work at the Parallel Festival in Vienna, at the Cracow Art Week KRAKERS festival and many others. This work was shortlisted for the only international competition for caring artists, the Mother Art Prize, and was shown at a group exhibition in London in March 2023. Author of the performance Mothersuckers: A production about reproduction concerning the issue of motherhood, breastfeeding and being a mother artist. Topic motherhood mess exhaustion chaos breastfeeding social expectations Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anna Wańtuch Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website http://www.AnabellaLenzu.com Medium performance drawing dance video art photography Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement Art is a political act. Dance is discipline and revolt. My body is my country. I react to my environment and use the body as a receptacle and messenger of the multiple realities that we are immersed in. My work reflects my experience as a Latina/European artist living in New York and comes from a deep examination of my motivations as a woman, mother, and immigrant. Performance is a conduit for examining cultural identity through form and content, as well as relationships between people and society. Sharing my point of view of life with others is my duty and my pleasure. I investigate the interior logic of performance and the role of a dancer in our culture today, redefining the parameters of dance and theater. My works live inside and outside of the theatrical traditions and venues, as well as on the screen. My art is about celebration and criticism of socio-political and cultural barriers. It is a ceremony of awareness. I explore rituals to document intimacy and organize layers of character driven drama, and break apart quotidian social gestures. I am creating a living vocabulary of meaningful movement that springs directly from emotions with visceral strength. By using movement, spoken word, sounds, music, photographs, video projections, film, masks and props as tools, I create a dialogue to provoke a cathartic experience in the audience. Topic performance, drawing, dance, video art, photographyCapture histories, testimonials and experiences of mothers that are also choreographers and artists living and working in NYC, in order to create dialogues, appreciation and social support. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anabella Lenzu https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/15a9c7db7614a2d46f91672791fdb434.jpg eadda1587cb3412d1ba470e1604f9693 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.jennidachase.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jennidachase.com</a> Medium video Location The location of the interview Greensboro North Carolina Artist Statement The Fawn (2017) https://vimeo.com/203659240/4061badf8a Statement: The Fawn is a collaborative, intergenerational storytelling project for the 21st century. This social media born, expanded cinema work unites art and life through the reinvention and the magical realism of a child’s imagination, who is constantly stuck at her parent’s work, and she moves to another level with Snapchat. The Fawn is a no budget work that utilizes free mobile applications to explore character and contemporary issues in ecology through the whimsical perspective of childhood. The Fawn gets separated from her parents while searching for clean water. She encounters deforestation which drives her further into the forest where she meets all manner of creatures before discovering the heart of the forest where there is clean water. The film uses common technology and free mobile applications to weave a fantastical hero’s journey as she traverses modern ecological crises. "The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men. He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children." --Buckminster Fuller Topic intergenerational storytelling collaborating with kids play family art Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jennida Chase https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/82fc724100c54b9bdf8f9906c946accb.jpg 8238202d1d9b36f9faef2c75cb9c5b62 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.elizabethhansen.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.elizabethhansen.com</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview Switzerland Artist Statement How does pregnancy affect the perception of female identity? "Welcome/Welcome Back" (1996/2011/2021) comprises 32 self-portraits, two series shown as 16 image pairs taken 15 years apart: as a young woman in the first series, and as a middle-aged pregnant mom in the latter. The original series, "Welcome" (1996), explored the line between subject and object in the construction and assertion of female identity. Fifteen years later, as a 40-something pregnant mom, I was curious to see what impact time, the implication of motherhood, and other circumstances had on this sense of identity. By imitating the original photographs as closely as possible, the goal was to record not only physical changes, but especially the more nuanced and elusive psychological evolution. From a broader cultural perspective, I wanted to force a conversation about the female body’s particular capacity for radical changes in perception. Topic pregnancy pregnant body gender sexuality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth Hansen https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/599526a8ed2893fdd7084bfdbb515955.jpg d1fc6ab3f0957dfc5878b30b1e498021 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.shwetabist.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.shwetabist.com</a> Medium digital color photography Location The location of the interview New York Artist Statement Rooted in love, my work investigates the intimate relationship between mother and child and the reciprocity of mothering within this relationship. I draw attention to the emotional labor of mothering and the ambivalence often felt by mothers in their role as carers— aspects often overlooked in mainstream representations of motherhood. Topic maternal subjectivity emotional labor of mothering how it feels to be a mother the psychological experience of being a mother Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shweta Bist https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/96ffaa3831a580c9934b274e1b92c6ab.jpg 0e0f10606a2d00e879dc25a8dee17c0a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.allmimsywere.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.allmimsywere.wordpress.com</a> Medium photography hand drawing screenprinting Location The location of the interview Milan Artist Statement “Pasto libero” (free meal) is a project and visual diary aimed to raise questions about the way in which artists-parents have to reinvent themselves when having a family and encoutering health difficulties. The residency has a practice-research approach and the work will be carried on in the fringes of time left in an extremely demanding family situation, with the resources at hand. The contribution is the story of a very tortuous path and the way in which art can contribute to the wellbeing of a family. By choosing to pursue the residency I would like to emphasize the fact that motherhood is a life long journey an the important thing is how to concentrate on the small patches of beauty even in extreme situations. Topic motherhood care love nutrition health Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Irina Suteu https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/62a3dc14b88970e2234d3f440ffd015c.jpg e7b2c486ae15375c0bf44bdc0a381c78 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.susandonath.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.susandonath.com/</a> Medium Farbfotografie auf Alu-Dibond Location The location of the interview Dresden Germany Artist Statement Im Kontext des Lockdowns im Frühjahr 2020 mit der Schließung der Kindertagesstätten, Schulen habe ich mich als alleinerziehende Mutter und Soloselbstständige in der Situation befunden 2 Kinder durchgehend mit Homeschooling zu betreuen und zu versorgen. Parallel dazu habe ich versucht meine künstlerische Tätigkeit bzw. Selbstständigkeit aufrecht zu erhalten. In dieser Situation habe ich mich in die primäre Rolle als „Mutter“ verordnet gefühlt. Topic mutterschaft Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Susan Donath https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/024be41d0b9ebb59a929d1001480e3fc.jpg 506ade275c892df8648eaf04bc00fb24 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="clarapistner.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clarapistner.com</a> Medium video super 8 drawing painting Location The location of the interview Berlin Artist Statement Since my pregnancy in 2020 i started to very much concentrate my artistic work on my state of being and becoming. I begun a quite extensive research on artists and writers who did works about pregnancy, motherhood, birth, care work. Shocked by the invisibility of these subjects in the art context and at the same time convinced by their importance, also from a political and feminist point of few i got more and more obsessed. Finding bit by bit and above all finding very touching and strong pieces i got totally dedicated. I made an artist book containing all the art works, poems and text fragments i found combining my own works i did during my pregnancy, reflecting all the parallels, kinships and the very wide range of feelings and life realities and their expressions. In the first few months after the birth of my daughter in February 2021, I reduced my artistic practice mainly to drawing. However, it became a constant with which I reflected extensively and profoundly on this unique and intense stage of my life. The few hours, rather minutes, of daily drawing became my very personal time of concentration on myself. Feelings, perceptions, needs, situations of everyday life - I just start drawing, quickly, while the child is still sleeping; see what's going on inside me - make me aware, show me what's on my mind. In terms of content and practice, the boundaries between diary and drawing, diary and art merge - which is why I basically call my practice of diary writing a part of my artistic practice and my artistic work my diary. Different forms of diary have become infinitely valuable and fundamental for me and an incredibly satisfying, insightful practice that delighted, amused, surprised, amazed and confirmed me. Since i always worked a lot with video, I also made several videos that describe the everyday life with my child. The simultaneity of being a mother, a caretaker and an artist who is striving to continue working and needing to process questions of identity, feelings of (inter-)dependency, tasks, responsibilities, ambivalent feelings, different roles, strong and also gradual changes of the self, and many more. Topic pregnancy breastfeeding identity carework Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clara Pistner https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4895e5cde73e035f7173be6a57317a71.jpg 6020d4b1d0176ae911067d10767b8a87 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.melissalouisebolger.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.melissalouisebolger.com</a> Medium colored pencil and watercolor on paper Location The location of the interview San Francisco California Artist Statement My current work is guided by the loss of my mother, who died tragically at a young age. Many years after she died, I received a wildly colorful, crocheted Afghan blanket she had made. Holding this Afghan, I could see the hours she spent sewn through each stitch and knot. It was a profound moment in my life and a turning point for my art practice. I used this blanket as a point of reference to unlock early memories of my childhood, finding a renewed bond with my mother. I selected my favorite color square and asked my siblings to select their favorites too. I took all of our favorite colors, crocheted a granny square and then drew that object that connects us all. As I worked, I thought about all the hours that go into being a parent. I thought about domesticity and womanhood, and the creativity behind the crafts that help us meditate, heal and decompress. These realistic renderings are portraits of connections to family. These drawing are my way of giving something back to my mother and also creating something completely new from an old object. Topic motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melissa Louise Bolger https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/e0f9315b56fe314160606fe89b11ca86.jpg fef98712732e3ee77f84c040e13ca6b1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://katejoranson.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://katejoranson.com/</a> Medium mixed media Location The location of the interview Pittsburg Pennsylvania Artist Statement My work as an artist, librarian, and parent are all part of an expanded practice where I activate the intersection of art-making and the labor of caregiving, maintenance work, and mindfulness. As a part of my Curiosity Archive project, I document my daughter's questions. We collaborate on re-presenting them in a variety of digital and physical forms, including artists’ books, zines, and ephemeral interventions in the built environment. Topic caregiving curiosity Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kate Joranson https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/01605c083928e83c340640cd809970c8.jpg 51106129deb604c14bcf95d7c3b213ce Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.annashukeylo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.annashukeylo.com</a> Medium painting Location The location of the interview New Jersey Artist Statement When my daughter was born in the middle of the pandemic, I experienced myself moving through time in way I have never experienced before. Endless sleepless nights that pass in a minute, milestones and beautiful changes happen in a blink of an eye, and watching my husband transform into a father overnight as if there was a whole new person in there. Capturing this unexplainable phenomenon that is so common yet so unfamiliar and magical has become the focus of my painting. Light and color, scale have all come to reflect both my experience of the moment and the intimacy. Every painting of the Repose series, often capturing the new father and his little mini-me daughter, becomes a little precious relic that captures the quite withing the chaotic life of a full time working parent. These pieces are both memory sakes and moments of very precious enjoyment of creating, made in the evenings, during naps, on kitchen tables, at the work office, when time seems dealt out in minutes. Topic fatherhood motherhood parenthood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anna Shukeylo Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.elizabethpress.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.elizabethpress.net</a> Medium HD video Location The location of the interview Troy New York Artist Statement Pandemic Letter #1 May 28, 2020 This video was created at what we considered to be the beginning of the pandemic as we were trying to figure out how to cope with our new existence under lockdown and how to communicate this new reality to our child. My partner and collaborator Angela Beallor helped record the video, shooting on a DSLR with a macro lens. Our kid turned three right before I wrote this. Now, they are four. So far, we have survived this pandemic with little personal loss but not without the stresses that come along with constantly being on for work, for our family, and for our community. We continue to struggle as a queer family in a predominately heteronormative parent community and we continue to work, as a white family, for racial justice in our town. Elizabeth Press (EP/They/Them) is a media-maker and educator based in Troy, NY. Press is interested in socially engaged practices and experimental documentary which sometimes crosses over with topics of caregiving. Press is a lecturer in the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute teaching classes in digital filmmaking and studio production. Press has also taught classes at New York University, The New School and several after-school and community media centers. Press cut their teeth in journalism as a producer for the independent TV/Radio program, Democracy Now!. As a videographer, producer and editor, Press worked with BRIC Arts Media, The International Institute for Sustainable Development covering the UN climate negotiations, StreetFilms, GritTV with Laura Flanders and PBS. Press’ work has been screened in international festivals across Europe and featured here in the New York Times, Democracy Now!, Rooftop Films, Exit Art, and EMPAC. EP is on the board for the Sanctuary for Independent Media and helped bottom-line the launch of the low power FM station and the daily local news show, The Hudson Mohawk Magazine in 2017 that still runs today. Press is a Fulbright Scholar, has an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a BA in Anthropology from Ithaca College. Topic parenting caretaking covid-19 Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Femeeting 2020, Maternochronics Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth Press (EP) https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/50aac815c3b348e9750c3b4694c010f3.jpg 57cb966ad2c41755a5fed80fd2596656 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://elisa-ortega-montilla.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://elisa-ortega-montilla.com</a> Medium installation sculpture Location The location of the interview Santa Barbara California Artist Statement Growing up in the 1980s in Spain, ten years after my country transitioned from dictatorship to democracy, has marked the way I relate to materials in my art practice. I grew up hearing stories from my grandmother about the Spanish Civil War while she mended hand-me-downs for me from my cousins. What was a result of economic austerity from the Franco years later became an ethical choice for me. My work explores three fundamental parts of who I am: my experience of being a woman and my feminist values; my feelings of acculturation from living in the US while maintaining my Spanish identity; and my opposition to consumerism and commitment to environmental sustainability. My practice uses installations, wood sculptures, and reclaimed and overlooked textiles, addressing themes of memory, transformation, adaptation, and identity through materials that have been discarded, deconstructed, and reconstructed. I mix the found and the made, the new and the old; tradition and experimentation, the mass-produced and the handmade; my Spanish values and my American experience, the present and the past. I’m drawn to the expressive and experiential nature of abstraction because it provides me with a universal language that transcends regions, structures, and categories. Non-binary anthropomorphic volumes, bodily suggestions, sensual movements, and feminine shapes are oblique references to the human condition and a soft invocation of the female body. Topic gender women's rights sexuality objectification of the female body immigration adoption Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elisa Ortega Montilla https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/efb089d6db639d1e1b69845894aed6bc.jpg d2b396e03bd3f2ca2373a0763bc60406 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="Http://tulika.art" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Http://tulika.art</a> Medium acrylic paint mixed media Location The location of the interview Chicago Artist Statement Combining my 4year old daughter’s sketches, my painting and my mother’s crochet-- I am working on these mixed media works during shelter in place. During the pandemic- we are coping with our ennui, anxiety and frustration through making art- my daughter and me in the US and her grandmother in India. I need for this work to document these days and remind us that no matter where we are physically on the planet, our sentiments and frustrations are real. Our losses, anxiety and fears are real. Our love, albeit virtual, is real. I hope these works will foster a dialogue of commonality of experience across the globe. These works can be part of a larger narrative about motherhood, migration and belonging. Topic infertility immigrant child-rearing pandemic collaboration across borders between my mother daughter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tulika Ladsariya Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website instagram: jasminemoseley.art Medium acrylic paint Location The location of the interview Nashville Tennessee Artist Statement I love illustrating women and children in my works. They symbolize beauty, grace, and innocence in the present while foreshadowing growth, change, and hope for the future. Topic Black children Black mothers grooming protection growth innocence Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jasmine Moseley https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/895074614f6ff4ecc1c8d9bc9960fc48.jpg 6ba4dc5bdb940105aba2ebf689c823a3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.mequittaahuja.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.mequittaahuja.com</a> Medium painting drawing Location The location of the interview Weston Connecticut Topic pregnancy IVF miscarriage sleep death birth grandmother maternal lineage love fertility family the body mother and child self-portraiture home domesticity grief sonograms art history Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, Curated by Adrienne L. Childs Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mequitta Ahuja https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/70a6864aad8eac1a1538d81ac0dd71a5.jpg 1c66cd9b4d4bbc0337a763777964ddc0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.diabassett.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.diabassett.com</a> Medium fiber found objects performance painting Location The location of the interview San Diego California Artist Statement I use distorted and erratic renditions of drawing and fiber techniques such as crocheting, weaving, and wrapping to build sculptural installations varying in size. My process begins when I encounter fabrics that are sourced from family and friends. The tactile experience of touching the fabrics can lead to an intimate, thoughtful meditation when I ponder the history of a garment. Who wore or used this? Where were they going or what were they doing when they used it? I may cut the fabric into long continuous thread, draw onto it, or sew it into a wearable sculpture. Dense forms and linear elements take shape as I let the qualities of the materials guide me. The improvisational aspect of my practice allows unpredictability to prosper. Topic parenting caretaking breastfeeding dyad relationship microbiomes touch nurturing napping sleep babyhood toddlerhood pregnancy postpartum anxiety hapiness physiology nature biology Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dia Bassett https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/b8f9a27a65130e9bc8f61b971e1824c6.jpg 596f3ff6267445b86d6757bdd7981185 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.karolinalavergne.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.karolinalavergne.com</a> Medium video art photography writing Location The location of the interview Los Angeles California Artist Statement Karolina Lavergne is a video artist and writer based in Los Angeles. She has an MFA in Graduate Fine Art from ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA. Karolina’s work explores the domestic as a sphere that is both a refuge and a trap, and in which desire is inseparable from struggle. She also uses gender as a lens through which to think through the hidden, reproductive labor of caring for oneself and others, house work, and the maternal. As a way of working, she sources her life as material, blurring the line between fiction and autobiography, construction, persona, exaggeration, truth, and lie. Topic parenting caretaking caregiving quantified self weaving fiber textiles labor domestic labor timedata visualization tracking visualization capitalism technology industrialization value repitition Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Pattern : Code, Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, California. 2019We Are Here, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California. 2020 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karolina Lavergne https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/446222d1437b659d3d3090b0b20ee1de.jpg d128c2244d4c0b31c915b2a3f7527ae0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.alisonchen.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.alisonchen.com</a> Medium video photography performance Location The location of the interview Los Angeles California Artist Statement Through video, performance, photography, and text, I explore the complexities and confusions that surround the act of love and the dynamics of vulnerability. What are the areas where our preconceived notions fall short. How do we hold on to beauty amidst fear and failure? My work approaches motherhood from within this framework as I process the ramifications of the transformation into “mother” and the simultaneous shift in her relationship to time and mortality. Ultimately, the work explores the concurrent existence of bliss and fear, birth/life and death, resistance and acquiescence. Topic motherhood loss miscarriage breastfeeding postpartum body Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Color: Coded, New Art Center, Newton, MA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alison Chen https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/50b10f0d2dc04f0bced54df390275b7f.jpg 34dcd90c34aba2773d03ed5a5c34b435 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.jenniferlong.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jenniferlong.ca</a> Medium photography lens based Location The location of the interview Toronto Canada Artist Statement My practice is propelled by an interest in the varied experiences of girls and women, and the limited ways in which they are represented within image making. Through a Feminist lens, I work with constructed narratives that are inspired by the quiet moments in girls and women’s lives where seemingly nothing (and everything) occurs. I am especially interested in the complex emotions that underlie these mundane points in time. Themes of vulnerability, transformation, and discovery are explored in my image making through the use of touch, gesture, and the gaze as I observe conscious and unconscious modes of communication. Over the past decade, my art practice has focused on the early stages of motherhood and pregnancy as I navigated this new terrain in my personal life. My current series, ‘Caesura’, developed out of my observations of the struggle my daughters grapple with as they find a balance between their dependence on me and their growing independence. This series re-constructs and intertwines various remembrances, making visual the experience of seeing myself reflected in my daughters’ gestures and actions. At the forefront of this project is the need to make space for my ever-changing outlook of being a mother and an artist. Topic memory pregnancy domesticity girlhood childhood motherhood mothering body image feminism vulnerability image feminism vulnerability transformation parenting touch intergenerational family play daily life domestic labour invisible labour caretaking mundane Artist Residency in Motherhood gesture maternal body mother/daughter relationship Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jennifer Long Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://karathorndike.gallery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://karathorndike.gallery</a> Medium sculpture photography Location The location of the interview Scotland Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kara Thorndike https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/7222f21c1444a2856ca4813f57f8f539.jpg 3e56b69c5d0c99207de52c0d51b9b1a6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.daniellehatch.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.daniellehatch.com</a> Medium installation photography Location The location of the interview Bentonville Arkansas Artist Statement Working across disciplines of performance, installation, and sculpture, Danielle Hatch uses the materials of home-making and home-building to explore what lies underneath the surface of domesticity. Her work investigates feminine identity as something we build through narrative. In giving form to intergenerational knowledge, the interior lives of mothers, and intimate friendships between women, she seeks to make visible the underlying structures that have historically kept women from expressing themselves authentically, and turns to the feminine lived experience as a site of potential empowerment. Topic motherhood the female body as a source of nourishment Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Danielle Hatch https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ce50ac648ccf19d89b99eebe8c35d1d2.jpg 4f5e6120ef48fbf876721308b97c4fd5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.deirdrecolganjones.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.deirdrecolganjones.com</a> Medium sculpture installation found and discarded materials Location The location of the interview Chicago Artist Statement Neglected Space forms a structure for my work. Part of my practice is collecting ordinarily discarded objects, and their accumulation makes them primary building material. Having trained as an architect and as an artist, my installations and objects are grounded within existing architectural theory and vocabulary, yet seek to challenge the boundaries of formal practice. Most pieces are determined by their site and are supported by traditional architecture and materials. Together they produce a kind of absurd space. Through my work I seek to question the usual order and dominance inherent in our ordinary built environment. Topic found snack debris tentative structures Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Deirdre Colgan Jones https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/08888dae86a1e3857957b7dcc16ae95d.jpg 8e96c4ba697c2b9c908bd96c95a927fb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.bathshebaokwenje.com/mother-i#5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.bathshebaokwenje.com/mother-i#5</a> Location The location of the interview Uganda (Nationality)Rwanda (lives) Artist Statement This work is a portrait of a mother. The living room was built to contain her feelings, with the walls programmed to reveal them based on the proximity of the audience. The wallpaper, patterned from another portrait of the mother five months pregnant with her second set of twins, offers an abstracted glimpse of her. The books and the photographs are hers. This work explores her lived experience and her interior life. Beneath the mothering and the obligation and the sacrifice, is she there? Is this her? What is she feeling? Topic parenting motherhood gender dynamics birth control partnership twins Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bathsheba Okwenje https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/83cfde19b1d5a417654dfc04385a4554.jpg 3e6ad2bf48003136707f474ba05aeb58 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.renee-bouchard.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.renee-bouchard.com</a> Medium painting Location The location of the interview Vermont Artist Statement Renée Bouchard Artist Statement 2020 “If we look at looking too long, it falls apart. Underneath the benign surface of the orderly world is the ‘optical unconscious,’ a deceptive, fragmentary domain that has to be forcibly reconstituted in order to make daily sense.” James Elkins I intersect child rearing and art making as a form of resistance to the long held suppression of unwaged mothers and artists. Since my 7 year old son was a toddler, he often has been invited to participate with me in the studio. I see children’s art as the earliest and most abstract search for language. Within the performative moments of our collaborations I constantly (re) construct my relationship with visual culture, woman’s work, and my most intimate self. Escaping the confines of one reality and entering an alternate reality is often where I find freedom within the complexity of the mind and the emotions it houses. I use titles to constrain the viewer within my abstract, representational paintings. Color for me is the machine that organizes the movement within the space. I use the color wheel to juxtapose pleasure and the abject with ideas of power and freedom from the perspective of a woman. I work in spurts on several paintings simultaneously in a journalistic manner, documenting clusters of daily life. Language, media, music, and studio detritus weave together with memory and the present act of painting. “Forever – is composed of Nows.” Emily Dickinson Topic antepartum postpartum Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Renée Bouchard https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/92ba84fba7e9100decbf747106c1d1bf.jpg cd027da9a53a4cf3955dc992ed81d987 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.anadiaknox.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.anadiaknox.com</a> Medium performance sculpture installation video photography Location The location of the interview Loris South Carolina Artist Statement My most recent body of work utilizes themes relating to body, identity and time, from the perspective of a mother, partner and individual. I am interested in the ways that nurturing and caring for a child translates as occupational labor, and how this makes common cause with the working class by exploring the laborious nature of parenthood. I approach these ideas through various methods, including casting, construction and performance. While the different series in this body of work investigate separate ideas relating to roles of the postpartum body, a shared use of material can be seen throughout. Construction materials such as wooden pallets, 2x4s and scaffolding reference blue collar workforce, while breast milk storage bags and nursing pads suggest the time-consuming and repetitive notions associated with motherhood. The series in this body of work evolves as my role as a caretaker evolves, and aims to question how modern society values parenthood. Topic breastfeeding nuturing postpartum body sexuality motherhood parenthood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alexandra Knox https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/0f6c7f1e3e152dae0ea413888dc50ed3.jpg cd9fc7191ccc2629f95d7503270e4113 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.reneeromero.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.reneeromero.com</a> Medium film photography digital media cyanotype Location The location of the interview Los Angeles California Artist Statement Using film based photography, and alternative photographic processes I explore my identity, familial relationships and caretaking of my 20 month old daughter. My most recent completed body of work, A Physical Memory is a collection of 365 polaroid images taken in 2018 capturing an intimate look into my daily life from family, snapshots, pregnancy, and new motherhood. In the spring of 2020 I began a self guided artist residency, using my daughter as an inspiration rather than obstacle in my art practice. Creating cyanotype prints of the toys she leaves on the floor. Topic childcare parenting play pregnancy fatherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Renee Romero https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ddc29c2494462ce343e82b33093ce412.jpg 2d2d8498470d5f3d4d92e7f14fcfeb0b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.annalouiserichardson.com/about.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.annalouiserichardson.com/about.html</a> Medium drawing charcoal installation Location The location of the interview Mundijong Australia Artist Statement Anna Louise Richardson is an artist and freelance curator investigating rural Australian identity and associated mythologies. Richardson works primarily in charcoal and graphite on cement fibreboard, using a realistic approach, flattened perspective, cut-out shapes and manipulated scale to amplify the subject matter. Her artistic practice reveals ideas of intergenerational exchange, parenthood and signifiers of identity based on her experiences of life in rural Australia living and working on a multi-generation family farm. The complexities of human relationships with the natural world and the intergenerational qualities of these relationships are driving themes throughout her practice. Richardson's work depicts animals as a recurring motif to examine shared values on the role of animals in culture, commerce and ecology and how these are shaped through different histories, storytelling and imagination. Richardson shares a studio on the farm with her husband Abdul-Rahman Abdullah– a Malay/Australian Muslim artist whose sculptural practice draws on the narrative capacity of animals to explore the intersection of politics, cultural identity and the natural world. Their two daughters, Aziza and Althea are the seventh generation to grow up on the property. Richardson holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Curtin University of Technology, Perth and has been a practicing artist since 2014. Primarily a visual artist, since having her first child she has also contracted as a freelance curator working with Australian art institutions, festivals and organisations. In 2019 Richardson completed Aziza’s Zodiac (2018-19), a 12-panel artwork featuring one animal for every month of a year after the birth of her first daughter. The work, a yearlong project created for an exhibition designed for child audiences reflected Aziza's life, told through the animals around her. This was the start of a new direction for Richardson's practice and serves as a record of her daughter’s personal history on the farm and responds to her own evolving narrative of motherhood in a rural setting. Her most recent work examines what domestic and familiar objects may tell us about our own histories, presents and futures. She has been drawing objects that reflect household hazards such as rat poison, knives and power cords, highlighting the proximity of danger present in everyday life, particularly those that underline parental worry. These works speak directly to our common sense of anxiety about danger, our collective fear of death, and our innate need to protect the ones we love. Topic parenthood rural regional danger anxiety documentation of rural motherhood farming animals Artist Residency in Motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anna Louise Richardson https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/d46e8ceacd81f54660e4f581035d8d8d.jpg 5f89c555126881edfc8b70ac81c5e7f0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.ronnikomarow.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.ronnikomarow.com</a> Medium "Dairy of a Bake Sale Diva," installation, 8 ft. x 8 ft. x 8 ft., 400 handmade papier maché cupcakes, 125 ft. of hand lettering with oil crayon on vellum. Other works are artist's books and prints (monotype, monoprint, drypoint, relief). Location The location of the interview Massachussetts Artist Statement Mine is a humble journey, creating art inspired by stories that are mundane if deeply personal, though stories with aspects that can resonate on a considerably broader scale. For over a decade I have tapped into my experiences in mothering as inspiration for my work, celebrating the small but essential moments that illuminate this life-long journey. My artwork uses whatever media seems to best fit the story, taking shape through prints, drawings, book-like forms, collages, assemblages and most recently through larger-scale mixed-media installations. While my art practice can take serendipitous turns, I continually rely on my grounding in traditional study of color, form, line and shape. I also rely on continued reading and reflection on what it means to raise children in such uncertain times. Topic parenting of a middle-school child (equity in education) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ronni Komarow https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/91feee3f0639c84ab59ba33290f2e75f.jpg 7b77811b36755297b325453817aa1126 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="carrascoart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">carrascoart.com</a> Medium oil on canvas Location The location of the interview Colorado Springs Colorado Artist Statement I paint what I know. Sometimes it involves communicating perceptions, relationships, and feelings too difficult for me to put into words. I'm inspired by depth, continuity, love, faith, and multi-generational connections, the most meaningful things we have, and sometimes what we lose. There is a certain forgiveness of myself I must practice each time I paint. Raising a family with six children at home and caring for a mentally ill parent means that painting sessions are reduced to blocks of time lasting an hour or less. Painting in this manner reflects my current life circumstances in hurried brushstrokes and imperfections that reveal my most authentic voice. Topic birth postpartum newborn breastfeeding stretch marks postpartum body black mother Mexican mother breast milk multipara natural birth Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lupita Carrasco https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/719a8276d61f3d5a6b4cb200ee13f009.jpg bb5a155d3a4ad44118111b4691d53f6f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.kristinskees.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kristinskees.com</a> Medium photography fiber art Location The location of the interview Virginia USA Artist Statement The ongoing Cozy Portrait portrait series combines traditional women’s craft, contemporary DIY culture, portraiture, and a love of the unexpected and absurd. This work morphs and conforms to each person I photograph and the cozy is custom made for each subject. Reminiscent of an ill-fitting handmade sweater, the cozy represents the fine line between comfort and constriction. It is simultaneously a warm cocoon and a claustrophobic straight-jacket. It is this relationship of artist and subject that represents my own journey as a daughter and a mother. For me, these primal relationships are fraught with contradictions. Where protection becomes suppression, and one’s identity is consumed, blurred and defined by that relationship. In addition to the Cozy Portrait series, these themes of motherhood and identity are explored throughout my work, including the photographic series Mother/Artist, Yawning Beagles, Tiny Trophies, and others Topic caretaking mothering cozy craft fiber knitting cocoon protecting daughter constriction identity motherhood Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Cozy Portraits, solo exhibition, New Image Gallery, James Madison University, VA, 2018Mother / Artist, solo exhibition, the Charles H. Taylor Art Center, Hampton, VA, 2018Yawning Beagles, solo show, Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA, 2013Family Matters, PhotoPlace Gallery, (Online Annex), Middlebury, VT,, 2015 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kristin Skees https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/536c287ce65bb2dee7e2788bf1b8409f.jpg 7f2daa478e1bc32e24d4aa5c21c9051e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.susannedutoit.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.susannedutoit.com</a> Medium painting drawing Location The location of the interview United Kingdom Artist Statement The subjects in most of my paintings of Motherhood are my daughters, who now have young children of their own. They are dealing with the same tensions and sacrifices that I did. My work are mostly intimate scenes, and have a strong undercurrent of exhaustion and melancholy reflecting the epic, amazing and difficult nature of motherhood itself. Running through them is the conflict between the incredible beauty of new life, and the sacrifices made by the mother to enable it. I am able to dig deeply into these feelings because, in a sense, I am reliving my own experiences through them. Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Motherhood - Felix and Spear Gallery, London 2017 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Susanne du Toit https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/06555e33111fb79c69aed52c72b0b389.jpg cc0dcf966dcac48ab1044dd07658f6e7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.victorialsmits.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">victorialsmits.com</a> Medium interdisciplinary mixed media Location The location of the interview Eugene Oregon Artist Statement My art practice references my place as womxn/artist/mother where I see “motherhood as an inextricable aspect of [my] female being…[where] the possibility of formulating a grander female vision and voice becomes graspable” (Rachel Cusk, NYT). I pursue this vision in an interdisciplinary practice with found media from the mundanity of my surroundings, objects I encounter in my role as mother, in my home and backyard. This said mundanity is a collection of dryer lint, dryer sheets, fabric, my son’s drawings, found vintage books on home-keeping, stains and dyes extracted from spices and garden leaves. They are signifiers for my place but are fundamental to my practice, leading to theoretical questions and artistic experimentation: How do historic constructs of mothers conflict with matricentric feminism? How does the minutia of the mother and artist role inform maternal empowerment in opposition to hegemonic ideologies of mothering? My practice intends to challenge the traditional patriarchal role of mother. Current projects include a text over starched and ironed dryer lint series and documentation of unpaid labor in my home among smaller works. The ritual of domestic activities (lint from laundry) and the cultural female framework (quotes) are stitched over in a performative and ritualistic way to create a new liturgy. The full collective artwork includes 40 performative acts, alluding to biblical tests or trials, a wandering, leading to a theologically enlightened hierarchal perception whereby gender egalitarianism is met and integrated into spiritual life. The documenting domestic activities via GPS is translated to vector programs and laser printed on large (approximately 32”x48”), translucent acrylic. These present a visual language accounting for unpaid labor found in the home. I intend to reframe perception through formative reinvention, a taking of the mundane existence motherhood can bring and transforming it, allowing an altered and divergent path. Topic maternal place matricentric feminism Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Victoria L. Smits https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/185e5b2f119350327de8da32e77396f9.jpg f05ffb0ec7d316671cf308f6f0d6c6b4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.mariavelascostudio.com">www.mariavelascostudio.com</a> Medium installation art participatory art social practice collaboration Location The location of the interview Greenland Artist Statement My work exists at the intersection of art and social practice, where dialogue, process, and participation lead to new insights. I create site-specific installations, urban interventions, and participatory projects to investigate spaces, architecture; history; and, foremost, the human interactions intersecting them. My artistic practice is an opportunity to connect with a community, examine cultural conditions, and question assumptions about what we take for granted. Specifically, I deal with issues of displacement, migration, gender identity, vulnerability, and the structures of authority that govern our lives. To challenge the idea of ‘single authorship,’ I create open-ended works that invite viewers to become participants and even co-creators of the artistic experience. Ultimately, I see my practice as both social sculpture and an architecture of intimacy, conflating the private and the public, the inner and outer world; the work always in progress, seeking the necessary complicity with viewers. My creative interests have been amplified by becoming a mother. However it has been challenging to figure professional logistics, since parenting is rendered invisible - in the arts, in academia and the culture at large. "Intertwined Worlds" is a sketchbook collaboration with my ten-year-old son, Alex, who loves to draw and is a young artist. Through this exploration, I find a poignant unfolding of our worlds, a sort of peeking in each other's minds. Topic multiple authorship single mother artist-parent-academic intimacy Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource F. María Velasco Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.mandycano.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.mandycano.com</a> Medium interdisciplinary Location The location of the interview Michigan Artist Statement Much of my practice is informed by my life experiences. Following my grandmother’s death, my mother divorced my father, joined the army and took me with her. I was 1 year old. My mother’s sisters quickly followed her path, vacating our Virginia homestead, a place my family had occupied since the mid 1600’s. Childhood was a succession of army bases and new schools. Whenever my mother went on active duty, she shipped me off to various relatives throughout the U.S. I sought locational and generational belonging in old photos and family stories. Such second hand memories became a surrogate home. This disjunctured experience of time undergirds all of my projects. I address our understanding of chronological progression, collective and personal memory, and the atemporality of ritual in a variety of ways - from performances and video, to sculptures, drawings and textile works. A diverse approach enables me to situate my personal history and practice within a larger context. For example, I often use discarded clothing, burlap, wine, tea, breastmilk, ash, human hair and ink. I am not only attracted to the physicality of these materials, but I also love their rich cultural associations. Burlap connotes labor, mourning, and poverty. It also continues to function as shipping sacks for coffee, rice, sugar and other products tainted by the history of global trade. Tea possesses similar associations. A comforting staple for much of the world, the tea trade is wed to the Anglo colonization of India, China’s Opium Wars, and the ultimate collapse of the British Empire. Wine teeters between debauchery and sacred ceremony. Hair is bodily identity, suggesting both desire and repulsion. It is the product of an aberrant beauty market, as well as a material loaded with mythological references. In harnessing the layered meanings of my materials, I access multiple times and cultures, and find a placement and purpose for my own finitude. Process is equally significant. Textile works, for example, are more than objects; rather, they are relics of a ritualistic process during which I open myself to the passing seconds, minutes, and hours. Ser Humilis is a vestige of 6 months spent hand-stitching rags. This massive shroud embodies prolonged touch and contains the histories of each fabric’s former use. I see my projects as a materialization of time, a record of my process and life. Studio production is an external reflection of my want for home. The short moments I occupy earth are couched in a larger human context in which we all are conditioned by matters of gender, race, culture, and a longing for something that exceeds those limitations. The more I labor within the studio, the more I make a place for myself within this world, and reconcile life’s brevity with a sense of belonging. Topic Intergenerational concepts of time/memory familial storytelling progenation within the context of power strugglewoman-centric domesticity Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mandy Cano Villalobos https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/390dc5a37a66a1013927de2dcccded31.jpg 3a45455dabe5f608c9a79e0ec1d61010 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.gracecross.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.gracecross.net</a> Location The location of the interview Cape Town South Africa Artist Statement Grace Cross (b. Harare, Zimbabwe 1988) is a material painter who draws symbols about motherhood, home, belief structures, and land; making shipting recipe's rooted in feminism, history, performative archaeology and African cosmology, to reflect her experiences of cultural transmission. Her painting practice, since the birth of her daughter, focuses on female storytelling, spirituality, and mining symbols of motherhood in her lush and colourfilled canvases. Her paintings seek to represent a cosmological world, where paint weaves images together to work as spells or incantations. The painded symbols thread ideas together, daming and mending, compositionally sewing the symbolic into the real, tethering the objects to one another. She traces a history of laboring women, their bloodline, their red thread of fate, through her paintings - placenta red, metnrual red, nipple-suked-raw red. This is the tie that binds - an umbilical cord - the maternal line. The thread is fine buth strong; it will not come undone; even as it unspools, running from the distant past to the present, from one canvas to another. Cross lives and works as a mother and painter in Cape Town Topic motherhood parenting breastfeeding gender-based violence play caretaking symbolism fertility nutrition latch food storytelling matriessence babies pregnancy archaeology feminism psychic trauma womb birth awakening child's play language aquisition poetry burdens reproduction patterns textiles women's work domesticity labor performative painting spirituality bloodline Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Mother is a Drum, 2019, Smith Studio, Cape Town Atlas is a Woman, 2020, The Vault, Zeitz Silo Hotel, Cape Town Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grace Cross https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4f01b518a7df61e84a2f6ad34616f10a.jpg 3ecf3360ce30fc608619f29ebf75baf8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.milkdiaries.weebly.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.milkdiaries.weebly.com</a> Medium writing painting photography collage drawing natural fiber singing dance Location The location of the interview Lithuania Artist Statement I choose to celebrate my art through motherhood, and my motherhood through art. My work will promote inclusion and equanimity and will connect me to my child and my self. Topic motherhood parent-child mutual dependence, learning from the child collaboration of mother and child inclusion in the family mother's aim to sustain herself from art making Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agnieszka Olszewska https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/8d34f94a00994fe38fe74b6012272397.jpg 4eb134a6b244b32f3a48efdaf05ecc93 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.adriennebrown-david.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.adriennebrown-david.com</a> Medium oil paint Location The location of the interview Water Valley Mississippi Artist Statement I grew up in a house where asado was eaten with kimchi and where dinner conversations seamlessly shifted from English to Spanish to Korean and sometimes even Galego. My Korean, Uruguayan, Spanish, and Portuguese backgrounds lead to multi-cultural, idiosyncratic, ill-fitting puzzle pieces that make up who I am. Likewise, my multi-panel paintings are intensely fractured, creating conflict upon close inspection of the juxtaposed illusionistic and abstracted, flattened and textured forms. I disrupt the continuity from one piece to the next, as well as, push and pull on figure and ground to play with how front-to-back are perceived. Growing up, I received many quizzical looks as individuals attempted to understand and piece together my varied, ethnic background. I wish to recreate that same experience in my paintings by provoking the audience to question and work to find connections that pull the piece together. Comparable to the oddly placed blocks in the paintings, which are linked through composition and color palette, I too, am linked by a unified body made up of mixed traditions and ancestries. Topic My work focuses almost exclusively on the growth and development of black girls in America. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Adrienne Brown-David https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/aeb7c64577150b210dc3ef1cbca7d629.jpg 807a4e93e7cbf3ff3089898368c59ffe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.jenniferlugris.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jenniferlugris.com</a> Medium painting Artist Statement I grew up in a house where asado was eaten with kimchi and where dinner conversations seamlessly shifted from English to Spanish to Korean and sometimes even Galego. My Korean, Uruguayan, Spanish, and Portuguese backgrounds lead to multi-cultural, idiosyncratic, ill-fitting puzzle pieces that make up who I am. Likewise, my multi-panel paintings are intensely fractured, creating conflict upon close inspection of the juxtaposed illusionistic and abstracted, flattened and textured forms. I disrupt the continuity from one piece to the next, as well as, push and pull on figure and ground to play with how front-to-back are perceived. Growing up, I received many quizzical looks as individuals attempted to understand and piece together my varied, ethnic background. I wish to recreate that same experience in my paintings by provoking the audience to question and work to find connections that pull the piece together. Comparable to the oddly placed blocks in the paintings, which are linked through composition and color palette, I too, am linked by a unified body made up of mixed traditions and ancestries. Topic motherhood family marriage child breastfeeding identity BIPOC immigration multiculturalism biracial family history ancestors California Uruguay South Korea North Korea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jennifer Lurgis https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/86c098d451e9e4b39cd979daffe71781.jpg 9b0c472db045cf7ce16b4311c9c49cfe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="bethwelchart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bethwelchart.com</a> Medium pen ink charcoal vellum Location The location of the interview Baton Rouge Louisiana Artist Statement Memory is neither static nor absolute. The mind recalls memories imperfectly, adding and releasing details, never able to recall the elusive truth of personal history. Childhood memories are bound in this reality of remembered facts and forgotten particulars, true fictions unto themselves. No one teaches women how to be mothers. It is a skill learned through memory and emulation. A woman follows the teachings of the women who raised her, but only her own recollection of the lessons. Her memory is unerringly altered in the retelling of time. The maternal figures who so influenced her own course to motherhood are now only ghosts, hazy, their voices faint. By creating drawings of mothers in charcoal and their offspring in pen and ink I reflect on the blur of motherhood and the divide of the clarity of child rearing. The layers of vellum depict the separation of the past and future generations of women. Like memory, vellum slightly clouds and obscures the mothers. The images of the mothers are rendered in charcoal, which can be fuzzy, messy, and imprecise, like a child’s impression of a parent. On the other hand, the children are drawn in pen and ink, which is tedious and painstaking and permanent – much the way parents view childrearing. Pen and ink requires study – every line deliberated upon and purposefully chosen, much like every decision in parenthood. A child does not notice a new line on a parent’s face, or a new gray hair; a parent notices every scrape and scratch, the precise shape of a new tooth or the tremor of a closed eyelid. These mediums explore simultaneously what it means to be the child of a mother, and the mother of a child. Through this series I explore motherhood and the mutable remembrances of childhood in the context of memory. Topic mother daughter relationships memory memory loss dementia caring for one's mother role reversal of parent and childcaregiving Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Beth Welch Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://monyarowegallery.com/artist.php?aID=259" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://monyarowegallery.com/artist.php?aID=259</a> Medium acrylic on panel Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement I make paintings centering around my daily life. I paint what I know or think I know about the everyday experience of being alive. The paintings tend to explore the intimacy of domestic space The quieter familiar and private moments at home or abroad. I paint self portraits and portraits of my husband and child. They reflect part of the ritual or routine of life. This is the world of my home, wherever that maybe. I work from photos but also from the memory of those moments. It is what is there and sometimes from what I want to be there. Like any work from life there are a lot of truths and untruths. Topic birth pregnancy breastfeeding domestic life Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Polina Barskaya https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/8d46eefe4a3bf741272a4e491cc9d918.jpg 9fb7d587f76ef2a99024535cc68210b8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.kassandrapalmer.com/vesselproject2019" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.kassandrapalmer.com/vesselproject2019</a> Medium oil on panel Artist Statement The Vessel Project consists of a series of small oil paintings that were made in the fall of 2019 during my first pregnancy. As my body began to more and more obviously transform itself around a person I had yet to meet, I came to reconsider the concept of "the vessel" and its role relative to the things that it might hold. Expressions of a radical and common act of caretaking and compromise, these paintings are relational images that point towards the unspeakably dynamic process of making a life and a home. Topic pregnancy Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Painting at Night 2020 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kassandra Palmer https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/9c747b10dce77a3708dc4bf1fd616e33.jpg d3a9a8568528a3bd419a22245e48fd31 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="Theartofhintz.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Theartofhintz.com</a> Medium painting oil gouche Location The location of the interview Delaware Artist Statement I am a painter working primarily with oils and gouache creating abstractions with saturated colors, geometric patterns, and natural forms. Art making, particularly painting, has long been an integral part of my identity. I've chosen to hold space and time in my life for painting repeatedly because it functions as a vehicle for introspection, meditation, and exploration. Making patterns by repeating simple shapes requires patience, commitment, and faith in many small gestures to build the whole. I use recurring motifs inspired by personal experience, Judeo-Christian religious spaces, and mother nature herself. Often my pieces will start from direct observation like a moonrise, a meadow in late fall, or the wind moving grasses. As the paintings grow, I intuitively add layers of abstraction and symbolism such as the flower of life, the star of David, and phases of the moon. My painting has explored the intersection between my desire for the familiarity and community of organized religion and being drawn to a more solitary spiritual practice rooted in nature. Currently my work is turning to explore themes of motherhood, breastfeeding, and creating life. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jen Hintz Eggers Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="meenakhalili.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meenakhalili.com</a> Medium digital illustration collage Artist Statement 100 Days of Honest Pregnancy is a series of illustrations documenting 100 days of preparing body and mind for the unexpected. A drawing a day in our final trimester. Wide-ranging content laced with humor, overwhelming anxiety, and simultaneous joyous excitement. Artist Bio: MEENA KHALILI is a professor of design and interaction, who makes daily drawings of things. She is an artist who uses design as a strategy for creation, and a designer who brings artistic methods to her solutions. Khalili is the recipient of the National Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement in Graphic Design by the Southeastern College Art Conference. Her work has shown at the Type Director’s Club of New York, Chicago Design Museum, and galleries throughout North America, Canada, China, Indonesia, Croatia, Australia, and Moscow, with illustrations and book art in permanent collections at the VCU Libraries Special Collections and Archives, the Omni Hotel Louisville, and the Library of Congress. Her interdisciplinary research moves between traditional design and studio art practices and explores UX, storytelling, typography, and language through design, illustration, moving image, and book art. Much of her research takes inspiration from her experience as an Iranian-American. ​ ​ A native of Washington, D.C. and Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Visual Art + Design, Meena holds a BFA in Illustration and an MFA in Visual Communication + Graphic Design from VCUarts and completed study at the Illustration Academy, and the LdM Institute in Florence, Italy. Meena is the Co-Chair of the National AIGA Design Educators Community Steering Committee. In addition to her international exhibitions, she maintains an active speaking schedule with engagements and workshops throughout the U.S., and internationally most recently in Hong Kong, Doha, and Venice. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meena Khalili https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/c23bd60adda282846270f21cc288eb14.jpg 171896a27cca7f9826a4ecf00b24ecb6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="Mpetersonart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mpetersonart.com</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview New Hampshire USA Artist Statement I focus on reclaiming the iconic image of the nursing mother through a photographic series of 35 continuous frames documenting the last time I nursed my infant titled Jamie’s Last Breast. In the images my child is clothed while I am disheveled and openly processing the intense loss that this moment signifies. The images highlight the contrasting experiences of the mother and child. The unfiltered documentation of this process is meant to be a rebuttal and a resistance to the traditional and often religious representation of the relationship between the mother and child in which the emotional experience of the mother is negated. Topic nursing weaning breastfeeding Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michelle Peterson Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="idbohemia.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">idbohemia.com</a> <a href="http://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/christina-ignacio-deines?general_filter=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.artworkarchive.com/profile/christina-ignacio-deines?general_filter=2</a> Medium site specific installation sculpture and assemblage, painting painting photography drawing music and sound experience design Location The location of the interview Edmonton Alberta Canada Artist Statement Why do we connect? What are the foundations on which connection is built? How do we nurture deep connection? I have been exploring the phenomena and ecology of connection and belonging for more than a decade. My work examines our needs and motivations, the formative effect of culture and life history on identity, and the powerful influence that objects, experiences, and environment have on our well-being and relationships. In practice, I weave connection into the artistic process by bridging ideas and disciplines— applying 2D visual principles in 3D space, for example, and applying fine art, decorative and craft techniques. Scratch-built components may be combined with current, mass-produced materials, particularly in the installations, to ground a work in the present even when its inspiration is found in the past. In my body of work, I have looked at the ways connection and belonging are expressed in romantic relationships relative to a single identity (1), and in national identity relative to the life cycle of a species (2). I have recast creative partners as a sacred ideal (3), and recreated sites of profound physical and spiritual union (4). I have challenged sexual and political power dynamics among social groups (5), and depicted temptation and sisterhood in sapphic narrative poetry (6), I have crossed cultures to create a fresh aesthetic language for modern marital relationships, fusing French and Inuit fairy and folk tales with arch-rib barns and Gothic churches (7), and the decorative arts of nomadic peoples from Mongolia to the Mojave (8). I have related the emotional experience of love to physical and visual sensations (9). I have translated the process of rehabilitation into a journey of connections between individuals, systems and the broader community (10). I have presented shelter and security as the basis for healthy intimate and parental relationships (11). Recently, I remodelled a mass-produced dollhouse into a one-of-a-kind heirloom, to describe how legacy and maternal identity connects generations of family (12). While rooted in an ongoing practice of communicating connection and belonging in art by building immersive, experiential installations, my recent work is a deeply engaging progression into more visceral and nuanced emotional territory, and more daring and experimental explorations of materials, scale and collaboration. My work often seeks to translate our darker human struggles into objects and environments of protection, joy, and beauty. Recent shifts in our cultural and political climate, coupled with research and conversations I’ve had with healthcare professionals, mental health professionals, academics, and my own peer group of women, mothers and families, has convinced me that motherhood and maternal identity are important artistic subjects worth exploring, and that my approach is unique and substantive. In an increasingly divided and isolating culture, it is not simply relevant to lay bare the struggle of connection and belonging. It is in fact vital. 1 An Open Love Letter: There is no Japanese word for Identity, 2005; 2 Salmon Run - Comox, 2007; 3 The Writer and His Muse, 2006; 4 Some Like It Hot Pink, 2009 and Love Without Borders, 2011; 5 Queens (After John Singer Sargent), 2009; 6 Forbidden Feast (After Christina Rossetti), 2015; 7 Beauty & The Beast, 2010; 8 East x Southwest, 2014; 9 Sea of Light, 2011; 10 Explore The Map of Courage - Sculpture Series, 2016; 11 Light The Way Home, 2017; 12 Riven’s Dream Lodge, 2018 Topic sexuality maternal mental health postpartum depression and recovery trauma PTSD birth desire sexual power dynamics identity motherhood parenting intimacy family legacy Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Christina Ignacio-Deines https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/b01a902c65e984d66d7dd9830297d8d1.jpg ca43c5a87b9e336edc930a8d11a69f6e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.jessicamongeon.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.jessicamongeon.com/</a> Medium acrylic gouche silkscreen acrylic gouache, silkscreen on watercolor paper Location The location of the interview Ozark Arkansas Artist Statement My work examines the relationship between humans and nature by juxtaposing landscape elements and human biology. By acknowledging our embodiment of nature, perhaps we can care for the ecosystems that sustain us as much as we care for our own bodies. My series, "Origins"are imaginary landscapes with placenta imagery, lichen, and mushrooms. The backgrounds contain silkscreened or painted abstracted placentas inspired by my own placenta print that I made after my son’s birth. The placenta symbolizes new life and connection because it is how the mother nourishes her child while in the womb. "Upon the Earth" combines a rocky landscape with moss between the cracks, various types of lichen, and silkscreened placenta prints. The title upon the earth speaks to the first steps of a baby; there are footprints from my child hidden in the background. It also refers to the saying "earthside" which refers to a baby being born. Topic placenta prints birth footprint child son Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jessica Mongeon https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/84f898cada100b0b504611758a8e9699.jpg b088f2f7c3451ee3be2de02de14fd7c1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.jesslevey.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jesslevey.com</a> Medium video photography Location The location of the interview New York Artist Statement My two most recent video projects are directly related to motherhood, and I am currently working on a new video piece for which I am interviewing mothers about their experiences during the pandemic: Bathtime: A sound and video piece reflecting on the overwhelming day to day life as a mother and teacher in NYC in 2020. In March, when we began our lockdown in NYC I was constantly struggling to both find solitude and to warm my chilled bones. It was still winter, and I was persistently cold and exhausted. My mother in law was staying with us and our daughter was sleeping in our bedroom with my husband and I, while her grandmother used her room. Our small apartment became even tighter. Our neighborhood of Jackson Heights, Queens quickly became the epicenter of the epicenter. We couldn’t go outside except for the quick grocery store run on the deserted streets with storefront after storefront shuttered with grey metal gates. I began taking scalding hot baths at night to both be alone and to be immersed in quiet. Yet, it was never truly quiet since the sound of the drain was obnoxiously aggressive. The only way to experience complete silence was to tightly grasp the drain with my feet. Like most parents during quarantine, my small attempts for any semblance of solitude and quiet were futile. I craved for these moments, yet even when I could find them, it was impossible to quiet the sounds of the many stresses within my own mind. The image and gesture of my attempt to quiet the drain sparked the inspiration for this piece. The layering of various sounds becomes heightened throughout the piece in much the same way that our anxieties increasingly heighten throughout our days in quarantine during this pandemic. Mama’s ABCs: Mama’s ABCs explores the often complicated and dramatic emotions that come with motherhood. In this multi-media collage various female voices express words from both sides of the parenting spectrum as a child’s puzzle is put into place. The inspiration for this work came to me while laying in bed with a fever while the repetitive, grating sounds from a broken alphabet puzzle served as the background to my already unpleasant mental and physical state. This piece utilizes my photo/video collage process for which aspects of a photograph are removed and then replaced with video projection. For the sound collage, I invited various mothers to sit in silence and record themselves as they spontaneously recalled words that came to mind when they thought about their child. Topic child rearing motherhood emotional toll of mothering Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jess Levey https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/bdd73b8ecb21b042fd595435f96af06d.jpg 3d8da3f4ffbee1f67d45f98302d94b8a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website Instagram @chloemarsden.nz Medium I am a practice based visual artist. I work across mediums; drawing, painting, collage and photography- to find the perfect translation for each project. drawingpaintingcollagephotography Artist Statement My journey to become a mother started many years before I gave birth to my son. Years of fertility problems gave me a lot of time to reflect upon the implications both physically and emotionally, of becoming a mother. However, nothing would prepare me for the confusing mix of emotions I felt when my son finally arrived. I constantly felt split, in two minds about everything. The strong urge to protect accompanied by fear of the tremendous responsibility. I was confused by the power and powerlessness of my new role. I was no longer just my-self any more. I experienced deep love but also craved physical space. Memories of my own childhood, a severe lack of sleep and unrealistic expectations distorted my sense of reality. My current work focuses on my own identity transformation of becoming a mother and the often conflicting, all-consuming feelings experienced in motherhood. These contradictory emotions are described as maternal ambivalence. I believe a mother needs to know herself, to own up to the diverse, conflicting, overwhelming feelings brought up by motherhood. Whether she stays at home, goes out to work, is partnered or single. A mother who can face her own inner turmoil can in turn make sense of her child. If a mother can be herself with a child, and honestly express joy, anger, love, contentment - a full range of emotions - that will help the child to know themselves. By fully recognizing this early experience mothers -to- be could be made more aware they are entering a confusing and disorienting time. They could be better emotionally equipped to ride the experience of maternal ambivalence. Topic Past work has explored female reproduction and her personal experience of infertility, miscarriages and IVF treatment. My current work is a response to my identity transformation of becoming a mother, infertility, miscarriages, IVF, identity transformation, mother IVF miscarriage infertility identity transformation Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chloё Marsden Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.joettamaue.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.joettamaue.com</a> Medium drawing photography textile Location The location of the interview Boston Massachusetts Artist Statement Joetta Maue’s collection of photographs, drawings, and embroideries transform the mess and literal decay of our everyday lives into a meditation on and celebration of the domestic landscape, parenting & motherhood revealing beauty in the most basic evidence of how we move through our days. Topic The domestic landscape motherhood detritus marriage Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Joetta Maue https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/2afcf352d60c40fac06ea025a41a991b.jpg f2bf9540650db5736f0f352441303ab7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.sarahnguyenart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.sarahnguyenart.com</a> Medium artist books Location The location of the interview Missouri Artist Statement There are only two things that I wanted to be in this life, an artist and a mother. My work is inspired by the intricacies of family life and of familial relationships. I use a balance of abstract and representational forms in order to sever the connection between shape and meaning, connecting the viewer instead to the gesture of the brush or cut of the knife, so that s/he becomes complicit in the art. Myths, reverence and refinement of nature, and observance of daily life, are the concepts behind my work, expressing the vulnerability of motherhood and my own obsession of caring for a son with a fatal genetic disease. How Does your Garden Grow? Consist two Jacob Ladder books. One side of the Jacob Ladder’s books contains printed images of original paintings of plants, which have been used to assist abortions, and the other side has information of how each plant was used in abortions. The Jacobs’ ladder format references the child’s toy and has biblical implications. The paintings of the plants are impressions of the plants. They are not botanically accurate paintings. Nor are the instructions, formulas, and information about the plants, any more than vague descriptions of what these plants were used for and how they were used. These books are not meant to guide or instruct women on how to obtain abortions through these particular means. These plants are not viable options to reproductive health. They are meant to only be impressions of the past and predictions for the future. Can be viewed at the Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College. This series is part of my work which addresses political and cultural happenings in the United States of America. The stories and myths of a culture convey a sense of place and a sense of the people who inhabit that place. In this way, visual art that interacts with with a story enters a narrative sphere where it must encounter the local. Topic abortion family life motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sarah Nguyen Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.staceystormes.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.staceystormes.com</a> Medium interdisciplinary video new media photography Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stacey Stormes https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/6cbd80fc0c573cf5edd9cb5758106ed0.jpg 0927308352b956175344394e46b600bd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.kathrynrodrigues.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kathrynrodrigues.com</a> Medium photography drawing mixed media Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois USA Artist Statement My current work explores ideas of transcendence within a domestic setting and the psychology of motherhood. As a primary caregiver of young children, the majority of my time is spent at home. This can sometimes feel isolating and mundane, but beginning in the late afternoon through the early evening hours our house becomes a repository for light reflections, refractions and shadows. The ghostly patches of light always take on different and fleeting forms and the imagery morphs minute by minute before disappearing abruptly. These ephemeral images appear at a time when everyone is tired, hungry and lacks self-control, providing a transitory respite from the micro-necessities of daily life and the macro-anxieties of the outside world, and facilitating a connection to the curiosities of nature and the creative spirit. The title of the series refers to both the historic, literary meaning of “The Witching Hour” as the time of night, usually between 12-3am, when the spirit world is at its most active as well as the contemporary meaning that parents of young children use to refer to the hours just before bedtime when children are at their most chaotic and intense. By choosing to photograph using medium format film, I create space and time to slowly investigate and compose these images. In some, the texture of a wall or a small chip of paint is the only aspect suggesting an object or sense of place, thereby juxtaposing the ethereal and the ordinary. This ongoing series explores the urge to find and document these fleeting but sublime moments of discovery, mystery, whimsy and hope. Topictranscendence in a domestic setting Topic transcendence in a domestic setting psychology of motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kathryn Rodrigues https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/80512a74b050e2dd37f9ce637405eebb.jpg 659a112a4406fcfd3bbd1cc8f8be3777 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.christiancruzperformance.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.christiancruzperformance.com</a> Medium performance art installation painting poetry sculpture Location The location of the interview Dallas Texas Artist Statement My work takes the form of performance, installation, video, and photo. Through the poetic exploration of the mundane, I dignify invisible labor. Invisible Labor includes the emotional, spiritual, and domestic labor that it takes for human reproduction. Invisible labor is undervalued within a capitalist society. I create environments and objects that reexamine what is valuable within our society today, heal the imagination, and ritualize this radical process into a future reality. Topic sex after children birthing (labor) breastmilk postpartum body positivity Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Christian Cruz https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/e08abe5415066fb0f453a481bc36de3a.jpg 97eacb62c0c448598f33b7088515d03e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.rcoutureart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.rcoutureart.com</a> Medium photography sculpture installation video Artist Statement Influenced by the personal and the political, I explore a wide range of themes within my work. I have developed a diverse practice that allows my ideas to dictate media, form, and process. The project SUBROSA (Miscarriage) explores the confusion, sadness, conflicting emotions, and the process of moving forward after miscarriage. Sub rosa is the Latin term for "under the rose," which means "in secret.” For many, miscarriage is a secret and solitary experience. This may seem odd given one in four pregnancies result in miscarriage, approximately 750,000 to 1,000,000 every year in the United States. However, scores of women or families miscarry alone due to the “12-week rule.” Medically, miscarriage is treated as a “routine pregnancy complication.” Your doctor or midwife explain options. You receive a booklet with pictures and explanations designed to inform a woman/couple of the why’s and what-happens-next. People are uncomfortable talking about pregnancy loss, so they don’t. How do you mourn someone who never came into being? There are no rituals for miscarriage, thus no cultural steps or process designed to aid in mourning. You try to imagine a new future, a new what-happens-next. And in time, you do, though it is difficult. Topic motherhood postpartum depression miscarriage Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Renee Couture Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.elainelutherart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.elainelutherart.com</a> Medium assemblage sculpture Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois USA Artist Statement Motherhood, art, death. It’s all tied up for me. My brother Joe died during “the time of death.” That’s what we call it. In fifteen months, eight beloved people—family, friends, an infant—died. For a while, my husband and I would say, “It can’t get any worse.” Then it would get worse, so we stopped saying that. In 2005, my baby daughter died. Before I had kids, I had lots of time, but nothing to say. Now, with three kids, I have no time, but I have something to say, and I’m not afraid. There’s tremendous power in tremendous loss. I see the little bits and pieces left behind at the playground—a barrette, a pencil, a scrap of ribbon. Who left it? Did they notice it was gone? I see the mystery of a little piece of a broken toy, how it becomes unrecognizable. What is it? What was its purpose? Ordinary things like a bread tab inspire a new design in my jewelry. These are the things that make up my daily life as a mom— bread tabs and lost barrettes and parts of broken toys. I find meaning, and solace, and remembrance in the ordinary things that are left behin Topic housework juggling/balance infant death Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elaine Luther https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/dbf510398441a66b00d1f9fb6eeedcdd.jpg fb056ef854b2494907465f684f16d3d8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.kellymarshallfineart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kellymarshallfineart.com</a> Medium performance sculpture Location The location of the interview San Diego California USA Artist Statement As a visual artist, I have long been interested in using abstract images and multimedia applications to investigate gendered and sexualized experiences. I am confronting my profound anger about the treatment of women in both historical and contemporary social contexts through violence, marginalization, discrimination, and bias. That anger is matched by my interest in the aesthetic experience of beauty and exploring forms that inspire that experience. Throughout my art practice, I am gathering fabric and shaping it over my body, to explore a relationship between women’s labor, the domestic space, and my personal experience of it. I am also examining how these roles impact privacy, intimacy, and cultural dictations of motherhood. With the curve of my body on the hard concrete and a tablecloth as my only cover, I contemplate the weight of isolation as in contrast to privacy. These textiles are charged with ontologies that circulate around the history of adornments and their role in a marketplace that thrives because of their investment in images of women as sexual objects, and their dependence on the labor of bodies that have been historically disenfranchised because of their class, race, and gender. Topic domesticity birth injury invisible labor intimacy bodies Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kelly Marshall https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/0c91b0d1ba240e75c8b520e2a8ab4a12.jpg 4f4ff1249cbcb03fe5f7516e3e992d4c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.jacquelinebelljohnson.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.jacquelinebelljohnson.com/</a> Medium installation sculpture photography mixed media printmaking writing Location The location of the interview San Bernandino Artist Statement I spent almost 2 decades of my life with a chronic illness that was presumed to make pregnancy impossible. My work at that time explored the concepts of a body shriveled, of war between thought and failure, and anger at the system I was locked into. When I had children, at first, the art I made were these fleeting seconds of beauty in between the demands of infants. Now that my children are at an age (3 and 5) where they can participate with me on artistic adventures and pursue their own. We do projects together at times, collaborating in art making. I also take their portraits, fascinated at how such young little people can have fully developed personalities of their own. I watch them play and want to capture that magical disposition. My work et al is inherently feminist; addressing my past, and larger considerations of gendered labor, including the caregiving labor expected of women both inside and outside the home. Topic fertility/infertility motherhood children portraiture child wonderment mother and child art collaboration Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jacqueline Bell Johnson https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/95ea434006f65fb30bcc3e4e592a847a.jpg 3fecabebc224d94e46bbbc3f2753d5f6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.RuthChase.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.RuthChase.com</a> Medium acrylic on canvas public art video Location The location of the interview California Artist Statement I struggle with the notion of what a woman is. My work explores what it means to be a woman and the struggle to understand all that entails including motherhood. I create large intimate paintings inspired by images and content that women have submitted and from selfies that my daughter has taken. I also create public art installations and video from public engagement projects. Motherhood opened a world within me that is both painful and empowering. Causing me to reevaluate the roles I have resisted and submitted to, and how I see myself as a woman. Using my daughters’ selfies, I am able to capture the complexity of the mother/daughter relationship. Experiencing my daughter’s adolescence has awoken memories, causing a deep reflection on how our childhood shapes us as women, and the role vulnerability plays in our development. Working with content that people have submitted allows me to step back and see a broader view of the female experience. I use social media as a communal aspect of my process that takes me out of the isolation of my studio and expands my understanding of women outside of my own experiences. Topic artist as mother mothering relationship with child reflections of adolescence through motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ruth Chase https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/c4dc30d8a1edbfc6d4afbceed975b811.jpg 21b98b5853344aa58e5a730bfc30d22d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.lesliefandrich.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.lesliefandrich.com/</a> Medium textiles fabric found objects sculpture collage mixed media Artist Statement My feminist, interdisciplinary art practice considers the interplay between subject and object and the liminal nature of our bodies. I create objects and spaces that may allow the viewer to re-experience and recall moments of transformation from childhood. I am interested in the boundaries of our bodies and how we are in relationship to our domestic spaces and to each other. I am interested in the pregnant/nursing/mothering body and how it holds and cares for other bodies and how our bodies change, age and need repair. Topic bodies pregnancy the womb breastfeeding dependance family relationships domesticity Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Leslie Fandrich https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ab62565c444ab80d43b97f28c5e20468.jpg 02d75f27bc8d25b80bd5daa08fe4d787 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.catherinemellinger.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.catherinemellinger.com</a> <a href="http://www.post-part.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.post-part.com</a> Medium mixed media inter-arts installation Location The location of the interview Waterloo Kitchener Canada Artist Statement Mellinger's work takes inspiration from both historical collage movements and contemporary feminist perspectives. With a practice that began rooted in the ideas and themes behind female artists of the Dada period, namely Hannah Hoch, she continues to find empowerment in the works of Joan Jonas, Francesca Woodman, Ana Mendieta and Cindy Sherman. Mellinger’s recent work centres on her experience as a mother living with mental illness. Her new series of works survey 30 years of having a name for what she experiences - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Though she is herself a mid-career artist by the standards of overall practice, Mellinger is a new emerging artists within the disability/Mad Arts community. She examines notions of “performative mothering” and dips her toes into the anthropological history of clowning. She is honoured to count choreographer Jennifer Dallas and photographer Melanie Gordon as collaborators. Mellinger is also lead artists of the inter-arts project Post-Part, currently preparing for it's third exhibition in Kitchener, Ontario. Inspired by the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Post-Part re-imagines the experience of Postpartum Mood Disorders as an immersive arts installation using illustration, collage, RGB filter technology and audio compositions created by using testimonies from birthing parents. Her previous work includes an artistic exchange with contemporary writer Marianne Apostolides, which resulted in a suite of images that was published in Apostolides’ book Deep Salt Water (published by book*hug 2017). The works have received many accolades within the literary and arts communities, including recently being reviewed in Feminist Studies Volume 46.1 within the essay “Abortion as a Feminist Pedagogy of Grief in Marianne Apostolides’s Deep Salt Water” by Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst. Topic perinatal mental health Postpartum Mood Disorders (OCD) abortion Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Catherine Mellinger https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/64d051d1e55be55c21c386533ba83b99.jpg c917f6c3ac5c3fd3fbf1e0ae03d2c473 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.williamglaserwilson.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.williamglaserwilson.com</a> Medium photography sculpture Location The location of the interview New York Artist Statement Oly’ is an interdisciplinary survey showcasing the emergence of worldly phenomena through the eyes of a young child whilst intertwining the psychological implications of becoming a parent. Through the exploration of various material forms, we’re asked to reexamine objects and experiences we’ve now come to find as commonplace to rediscover them for the “first time”. This project chronologically spans the first years of life, attempting to signify through photographic representation and manipulated physical objects memories we could never ourselves recall; whether it be the emergence of color or seeing our first children's book. By reappropriating, manipulating, and transforming children's book imagery, and a variety of household objects, we find ourselves experiencing the world through an infant. Topic perception fatherhood domesticity rituals Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource William Glaser Wilson https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/a4a5577001bbc0328c86e604a3654f5c.jpg 3e9e3d373c6d27949332706ec3a115ad Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.emilyzarse.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.emilyzarse.com/</a> Medium fiber natural dyes found objects Location The location of the interview Bloomington Indiana USA Artist Statement Cloth has a memory like the body. I create fabric installation that explore the precarity of the postpartum body. Residue of physical and emotional trauma are captured on the surface of the floating maternal forms. Color from foraged plants and “saddened” with iron and calcium, records the depletion of energy and essential nutrients used to grow new life. Emily Zarse is an installation artist working with the language of natural dyes and fiber processes to explore the maternal body and matrescence. She received a degree in Costume and Textile History from Cornell University and is currently a MFA candidate at Indiana University. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Emily Zarse https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/c80a8362b47504bf3a4d2e704ec1eb40.jpg 4291fc802e35828c384150f7de40b854 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="christianaupdegraff.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">christianaupdegraff.com</a> Medium sculpture metalsmithing silicone polyester resin cement graphite enamel sterling silver cotton wool silk human hair Location The location of the interview Los Angeles Artist Statement It may be a result of being a vessel of comfort, or perhaps better stated; a servant of comfort, I am particularly interested in the objects of human comfort in conjunction with imagery of emptiness and decay. I am also intrigued by the interior and exterior views, and careful placement of work in a gallery setting which allows the viewer to gain access to the inside of a piece, but never fully experience or access it. These themes have been prevalent in other work, work which preceded my role of mother, but I could not fully see all of the parallels between old and new work until becoming a mother. It has made me more human. It has made me warmer. It has certainly made me more intuitive. Topic dichotomy of artist/mother, comfort comfort loss corporeal deterioration time uncertainty fear stagnation Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Christiana E. Updegraff https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/cf4cc4550d6e4d25b03251940d63e611.jpg befd951a4f80991a076c1791571fcbb8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.NicoleMcCormickSantiago.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.NicoleMcCormickSantiago.com</a> Medium oil charcoal graphite monotype Location The location of the interview Virginia Artist Statement I have always painted my immediate surroundings in an effort to decipher the world around me. Often my works depict familar domestic scenes with simple yet layered narratives. My most recent works are a thinly veiled attempt to navigate my journey through the convoluted dynamics of parenthood and the unavoidable life transitions inherent on this journey. Topic motherhood domestic home children chaos birthday parties parenting child-rearing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nicole M. Santiago https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/b4aaadf50d390cd17611208b7fe20cac.jpg e90af45aebb562cef1f103316fddf286 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://claraalden.se" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://claraalden.se</a> Medium video audio text sculpture drawing installation Location The location of the interview Gothenberg Sweeden Artist Statement Artist StatementClara Aldén (1988) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. During the last few years, her practice has revolved mainly around topics of domesticity and the maternal. Within Aldéns artistic practice, motherhood is considered a practice and not a state of being. Likewise, this practice is not considered to be limited by biological bounds. This view is inspired by Donna Haraway’s thoughts on kin-making, and even if the interest for the maternal grew out of Aldéns own experiences of motherhood, her practice stretches away from direct biological connotations and explores the practice of maternity in the expanded notion. The notion of care, regarding interruption as a positive force, and trying to work in a relational and non-autonomous manner are important maternal aspects within her work. Collaboration is another important aspect, and within her latest projects, her children have been her most important collaborators. Topic maintenance art maternal art reproduction/production Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clara Aldén https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/1aef9ed1a42018070f03f648f01ddf21.jpg d35e03e66328b4eea9a15fa5fa9b9f2e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.annagoldsmithart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.annagoldsmithart.com</a> Medium mixed media Artist Statement Parenting is exhausting. Parenting during a pandemic can feel soul crushing. In this piece we can only see the mother's eyes -- and the endless stream of words flowing through her, like a mantra gone awry. Because like all mothers she is going on (and on). Creating art -- and finding some humor in this time -- has kept me (somewhat) sane. The art I've been working on is based on snippets of conversations I've had with other moms over social media. We are all doing the best we can. We are all going on and on even if we really just want to is just lie down and have some time to ourselves. Or in the words echoed by many friends, "Parents weren't meant to spend this much time with their kids." Bio Anna is an artist, writer and mother living in Portsmouth, NH. She has recently gotten back into art after a 10 year hiatus, which is (not coincidentally) the age of her oldest son. Topic maternal exhaustion Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anna Goldsmith https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/b4c9002cdbafaf9cf29770e54bf1ba03.jpg 2ded2926e8699fc60c27e07463e7cc54 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="kristycavaretta.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kristycavaretta.com</a> Medium printmaking woodblock direct object printmaking cyanotype Location The location of the interview Maine Artist Statement Kristy explores the minutia of domestic life through a variety of media. Topic early motherhood, maternal fatigue, domestic waste maternal fatigue domestic waste Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kristy Cavaretta https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/d1ce3adc07ffd4a50f526eddfe325ad9.jpg a7589c080b9e8b456f20d2c46b2809fb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.larysabauge.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.larysabauge.com</a> Medium performance art video Location The location of the interview Amsterdam Artist Statement My work challenges the very nature of the concept of belonging, roots, the necessity of being part of something bigger, a family, a tribe, a community, etc. I take this basic instinct as a main poetic driving force, I am on a quest of reestablishing (lost) connections between people. Strongly influenced by the socially engaged and feminist art practices, I usually work directly with the context and collaborate with concrete people in form of interview, collective music making, improvised theatre. Having gathered this material, I create embodied experiences (performance art pieces), often using sound and participative practices in public spaces. In the performance CÁRITAS, me (still childless, choosing then to be childfree) and my childless 70-yearold friend are in a barn with young cows raised for meat only. The piece is a reflection on what is female body if not used for reproduction, how does the maternity of our beings manifest itself. Topic female body identity belonging connection maternity Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Larysa Bauge Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.zacharypstephens.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.zacharypstephens.com</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview New Hampshire Artist Statement Are We There Yet? is a series of large-format photographs exploring modern fatherhood. Utilizing moments of humor and satire, the highly constructed tableau images create scenarios that play out the anxieties and everyday encounters of being a dad in rural, suburban America. After finding myself married with three kids and living in a small suburban-esque neighborhood filled with cookie-cutter houses, things that I never exactly imagined or planned for, the idealized notions of the American family have become increasingly significant as well as overwhelming to me. Between the patriarchal depictions of fatherhood in the 1980s and 1990s media that influenced my idea of family through my childhood, to the contemporary pressures of being an involved and nurturing father, all the while not really having any idea of how to be a father at all, this project is my way of trying to understand where I exist within this spectrum, and what fatherhood, family, and masculinity mean to me. Each image deals with relatable parenting struggles and the stereotypes associated with fatherhood, including the realities of managing chaos, the high levels of tension, the feelings of lost identity and inadequacy, and the sheer love of being a parent. They juxtapose the highly polished and colorful elements within everyday family life with scenarios and symbolic elements that create a sense of unease and exhaustion. The result creates a surreal and often humorous narrative that provides relatability to a broad spectrum of viewers and questions the constructions that drive modern parenting. If we can’t laugh, we cry. Sometimes we do both. Topic fatherhood parenting Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Zachary P. Stephens https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/79e3602c91a6f1b42bb3df4f73a58c6d.jpg c26b865a69f3dcf015118280cefa2fc2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.kasiecampbell.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kasiecampbell.com</a> Location The location of the interview Edmonton Alberta Canada Artist Statement It almost feels like I have spent the past two years in isolation. I’ve been consistently trying to navigate my artistic practice through intense waves of grief over the loss of my mum, infertility/miscarriage, and a fear of dying. Things have shifted in the last 4 months, with added postpartum anxieties, healing associated with childbirth, obsessive tracking of my baby’s feeds, breastfeeding struggles and COVID 19. With the COVID pandemic, there were increased anxieties surrounding my newborns health. Will my baby be okay? What if my baby gets sick? What about check-ups? Am I feeding my baby enough? what if my milk dries up and I can’t feed my baby? What if I get sick and can't feed my baby? Am I spending adequate time with my oldest child? As a way to ease my anxieties, I started pumping breast milk. I would pump at 5:00 every morning after our first feed. I began writing thoughts or worries along with the date on each bag of breastmilk. I would then photograph the bags of breastmilk as a way to document life postpartum, anxieties about mumhood and life in COVID19. The act of pumping breastmilk and freezing was a ritualistic and meditative way for me to cope and eased anxieties around getting sick and not being able to feed my baby. Postpartum anxieties are exacerbated by the times we are living in. Topic breastfeeding nursing care taking motherhood parenting breastmilk pumping milk newborn newborn care postpartum postpartum anxieties grief mourning Covid-19 pandemic Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Maternochronics Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kasie Campbell https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/05666a63e0ef3f76453521ec0c8ab194.jpg 0dc0a1d6d16263d3b3964fffd32ff5b0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.rachellebeaudoin.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.rachellebeaudoin.com/</a> Medium video performance animation Location The location of the interview Peterborough New Hampshire Artist Statement In performances, videos, I confront stereotypes and tropes of gender representation to create a space of uncertainty. I research and deconstruct the ways in which women are portrayed in popular culture and on the Internet. I contrast the natural world and the outdoors, to trends, themes and memes from the web, mashing up Kardashian culture with the rural, forested environment in New Hampshire where I live. Thighbrows, thigh gaps, and facial masks become fodder for my work. I use humor and sarcasm as an entry point into issues of gender, power and class in order to call out the invisible structures and sexism that pervades both the physical world and the online world. Masks, makeup and identity are also a fascination of mine. Often employing physical comedy, my videos document performances in which I explore the pressures and contradictions I face on a daily basis. I push concepts from web videos and advertising to the absurd so that the content becomes humorous and sometimes alarming. Since becoming a mother, this experience has become part of my work. I have created videos to address the infantilization of expectant mothers and reality of caring for children and parents. Personal, sometimes awkward, yet open and inviting, the work emphasizes the physicality of the body, showing both vulnerability and strength, following in the tradition of feminist performance art. This work comes from a place of experience and honesty. Topic sandwich generation biodata infantilization of pregnant people body changes stretch marks invisible labor emotional labor Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Maternochronics You Are Not Wonderful Just Because You Are a Mother Artist/Mother Podcast, online, juried by Qiana Mestrich In Union, Remotely, Shaker Museum, Mount Lebanon, NY Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rachelle Beaudoin https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/1cc34dcefc8100f79d581a36bfb35d00.jpg 4e7714fa914d6fb9650b4df0465461bf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.lauraclarke.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.lauraclarke.co.uk</a> Medium print Location The location of the interview Bath United Kingdom Artist Statement I wanted to make work that looked at the ritual of cleansing. In our house the bathtub is part of a nighty ritual before bed, but like every activity in our house it is not a private affair. This image shows how virtually impossible physical space is as a mother of small children. Liminality is created through the use of breastmilk; a cleansing, healing, nourishing potion, but also the very thing that often leads me to feel ‘touched out’. Topic motherhood touched out breastfeeding parental exhaustion breastfeeding aversion bath time ritual breast milk Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Home Sweet Home, Exhibited with the Rented by the Hour collective 2020Maternochronics Maternal Exhaustion in the Time of Pandemic, Virtual Exhibtion 2021 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Laura Clarke https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/d57d60d19f6a2b539c3f4b3d6958a79b.jpg fb7462d29e4a3bb414c5839c10cf2c22 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://Www.Brettegabel.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Www.Brettegabel.com</a> Medium textile, quilting, sculpture, installation quilting sculpture installation Location The location of the interview Toronto Canada Artist Statement My artistic practice is an ongoing examination of the subtle emotional space between feelings of comfort and discomfort. Since having a child in 2015 my work has explored my anxieties as a mother. The work considers domestic space, distress calls and repetition. Topic domesticity, motherhood, postpartum anxiety motherhood postpartum anxiety Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brette Gabel https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/7d7a1d6e2aefa1308e586369eb60ee09.jpg 44e8cf0416503da293da7facaab597a6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.karendmillerstudio.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.karendmillerstudio.com</a> Medium textile art Location The location of the interview Ottawa Ontario Canada Artist Statement I’ve always been drawn to fibre as a medium, at first because it is so forgiving, and later for its almost perfect versatility. It provides me with a host of materials to work with, from the thinnest of threads to the heaviest of felts, and allows me to explore dimensionality, texture, and light. And it has a long tradition to it, particularly the hooking technique that I prefer, that reaches back across generations of women whose work was seen as functional rather than aesthetic. How appropriate that I use this technique today to consider the devalued labour of women and mothers. Its slow rhythm is in opposition to much of the pace of the motherhood journey. Yet each loop of yarn brings me closer to elevating and recognizing the experiences that we as mothers have long been told society is not comfortable hearing. Topic motherhood textile art identity child-rearing Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Maternochronics Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karen D. Miller https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/bf77c66d3c69ac098c4ead7c50dc8a79.jpg cb33ee60b72bc91c20334ddcdf5b5bc6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.delphahudsonartist.co.ukk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.delphahudsonartist.co.ukk</a> Medium painting film sculpture performance installation Location The location of the interview Cornwall United States Artist Statement I paint chaotic and dystopian domestic scenes. In surreal and crowded spaces women and children gesture as if from a medieval illuminated manuscript, or an Old Master like Bosch or Michelangelo. I choreograph powerful female protagonists and situate them in new imaginary realms to challenge domestic legacies that make women and mothers invisible. Richly textured compositions use the fluidity of dripped bitumen with oil colour to create dynamic networks or patterns of ambiguous realism. The painting process is textual and performative, bodily creating figures that are excessive yet relatable. Small, cherubic, troublesome children embroil us in a palimpsest of narratives that question historical hierarchies and power structures. My practice aims to excavate lived experience and initiate new conversations about value. Art is a space to open up cultural and social signification and ask for change. Topic caring mothering Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Distanced Domestic exhibition by co.curation, London Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Delpha Hudson https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/cf40e97729f4a3d60b161d1c796f0661.jpg 2065d7749c4557bdc886aab0706a813f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="christineAholtz.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">christineAholtz.com</a> Medium fibers performance Location The location of the interview St. Louis Missouri United States Artist Statement My artwork is a visual diary about my obsessive thoughts and humorous take on habit, identity and time. Juggling three part-time jobs in addition to being an artist, spouse and mother feels like I live six different lives simultaneously. I constantly try to make sense of the nonsensical through installations, sculptures and performances. As a pathway to self-inquiry, I meticulously craft ridiculous objects and performances to visually embody the absurdities of my daily experiences. The processes are both a struggle and cathartic — just like parenting. Topic parenting caretaking habits repetition mundane performance process Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Maternochronics: Maternal Exhaustion in the Time of Pandemic, online exhibition 2020 2020 “It Hits Home,” (two person show with Jessica Witte) The Gallery at The Kranzberg, St. Louis, MO Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Christine A. Holtz https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/97e711d81cec991f8e2f487d423ee28f.jpg 1b9226d02746332e8de58a222e97646b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.sarahubbs.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.sarahubbs.com</a> Medium sculpture glass plastic drawing installation mixed-media Location The location of the interview Tuscon Arizona Artist Statement My work is about the crossing of consumer culture with the deeper human instincts of value, care, intimacy, and play. Utilizing the framework of assemblage, I look for traces of objects within the shapes of body parts and discarded product packaging. My mold-blown glass sculptures are created from plaster casts of the body and vacuum-formed plastic toy and product packaging. The pieces reference the doubling of time and identity, drawing on my experience as mother and daughter. Topic consumer culture consumption related to childhood gift giving play intergenerational care caregiving as mother and daughter repitition work fragility value materiality of childhood Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Painting At Night, Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN (curated by Melanie Cooper Pennington for The Artist Mother Podcast) Femme Vitale, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga, TN (curated by Leah Dalton and Raquel Mullins) Care, Virtual Exhibition Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sara Hubbs https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/8b345b73d0a9a24063c6f8052e6e2500.jpg 1ddf24c8d45f8774984173d09b7ce507 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="casaundrabeard.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">casaundrabeard.com</a> Medium ironing board iron Location The location of the interview Rogersville Missouri Artist Statement My work represents my frustrations about domestic life, by communicating the raw, unfiltered side of how my anxiety and motherhood sometimes coincide. By addressing the harsh stigmas society has towards both anxiety and motherhood, I hope to normalize the reality rather than continue the cycle of these idealized notions of what motherhood is supposed to be. My work may appear selfish at times, but I think that is ok, and should become the societal norm. It is a part of the job description as a parent that your needs become second to your child’s, but your needs must not be forgotten. The work that I am creating allows me to release my frustrations about domestic life, and motherhood is a part of that. Recognizing my faults as a person, as a mother, and learning from them can only make me better at my job. I visually express the exhaustion I feel from the seemingly constant and endless amount of housework with Good Moms Need Help II. I used a domestic object, an ironing board, I then bent and twisted until it became useless. Useless in the sense of being an ironing board. It appears sad, tired, it is trying desperately to perform its duties but can’t. I should be able to discuss my feelings and frustrations without ridicule but that is not often the case. I am often met with, “you’ll miss these days,” resulting in my feelings being again disregarded, and as if I can feel nothing but happiness about motherhood or I am viewed as ungrateful. Will I miss this time in my children’s lives? Absolutely. Is it also valid that some days the housework and messes they create are exhausting and make me go crazy to the point I complain, absolutely. Topic motherhood parenting anxiety anxiety attack family home domestic domesticity feminism housework overwhelmed chores stress laundry housework frustrations childcare chores care giver homemaker working mom Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Casaundra Beard Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://jessicawitte.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://jessicawitte.com/</a> Medium transmedia Location The location of the interview St. Louis Missouri Topic parenting family caretaking labor domestic memorials NICU cancer covid-19 change growth personal relationships illness vanity self-reflection isolation temporary ephemeral deliate powder chalk UV-burn burned wallpaper systemic racism systemic oppression patterns children housework organization Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. It Hits Home: Parenting Amid A Pandemic Kranzberg Gallery, St Louis Missouri Jessica Witte:At(Tending) Contemporary Gallery, STLCC-FV Ferguson, MO, Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jessica Witte https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/7d09d02d973a4caa726cff9740cd4693.jpg 819e344fd64214783d5c3ae6e4e92604 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.jamiegdiamond.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jamiegdiamond.com</a> Medium photography performance Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement Jamie Diamond (b. 1983) is a performance artist, photographer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work mostly focuses on the human figure, deconstructing images throughout an array of concepts such as motherhood, authenticity and memory. She uses personal narratives as a departure point to compose photographs that challenge the boundaries between reality and fiction. 365 Days: 1938/2017 In 2015, while visiting Berlin, I stumbled upon a discarded vernacular German family photo album. As I turned each page, I saw the life of a child unfold, 27 days old, 47 days old, 80 days old, ending at 365 days. I then looked at the date and it occurred to me that this was at the dawn of the Second World War. This body of work is a collaboration between me and my son and two strangers, a mother and a child and explores the interplay between shared global history and maternal identity. I have carefully re-enacted each picture with my son since his birth, set within the same time frame outlined in the album, from 27 days old to a year. My recreations are over-layed with the original source material from 1938, collapsing space, time and memory into one photograph. The pixels merge with the grain, in the way I merge with this stranger, our developmental milestones and fears become one. By collapsing the historical photograph with my staged re-enactment I create a new narrative in which our shared identity at a time of uncertainty become united. Mother Love: In this project I collaborated with an outsider art making community called the Reborners, a group of self-taught female artists who hand-make, collect and interact with hyper-realistic dolls. Working with the community allowed me to explore the grey area between reality and artifice where relationships are constructed with inanimate objects, between human and doll, artist and artwork, uncanny and real. After spending a year investigating and recording their practice, I chose to become a Reborner to gain a better understanding of the community. Nine Months of Reborning documents my introduction to the community and the making of my first nine dolls, as well as the working nursery I established in my studio and on eBay, called the Bitten Apple Nursery. Before putting the finished dolls up for adoption on eBay, I took a portrait of each one. The final photograph is the remnant of this exchange. For the subsequent Amy Project, I invited celebrated Artists from the community to individually interpret and idealize the same doll. I then photograph each doll mimicking vernacular school portraits. Each of the dolls are unique to their maker’s hand, but share an uncanny similarity through their common origin. For the final act in the Reborn collaboration, I have identified and appropriated different canonical images of the Christ Child, and invited Reborn artists to create individual portrait babies. Depictions vary drastically from artist to artist, all ultimately presenting their personal, ideal representation of a singular figure. The photographs engage with the tradition of portraiture, evoking classical sculptural busts that are at once familiar and strange. I Promise to Be a Good Mother: In this series, I assume the role of subject and photographer and put on the mask of motherhood, dressing up in my mother’s clothes and interacting with Annabelle, a reborn doll. The project was inspired by and named after a diary I kept as a girl that documented the relationship with my own mother, written as a kind of rule sheet for later life. I started staging specific memories from my childhood, acting out recalled events and behaviors. Eventually the performance evolved into an exploration of the complexities surrounding the paradox of the mother/child relationship, investigating both its vernacular and art historical depictions, while mimicking and ignoring the traditional visual signifiers of motherhood. I’m interested in the fantasy of motherhood, the social structure of the relationship between mother and child, and the performance of inherited social and gender roles. Working in a variety of locations, both interiors and landscapes, I play out these scenarios with Annabelle for the camera, isolating specific idyllic and contradictory moments. Topic motherhood family photographic veracity performance family history memory identity role play reborn doll surrogate pregnancy fiction album archive reenactment Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Surrogate: A Love Ideal, Milan Osservatorio, Fondazione Prada, Italy Curated by Melissa Harris, 2019 Nine Months of Reborning, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2019 I Promise to be a Good Mother, AJL Art, Berlin, Germany, 20123 65 Days: 1938/2017, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany, 2021 A New Society, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canad Family Affairs, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2021 Walk in My Shoes, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, United States, 2015 Please Touch: Body Boundaries, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, United States Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jamie Diamond https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/68dd8ae3a7e099a6da49ddab82f868c9.jpg 77d6529cec9185c1ea603dbd44cb3c7a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.celiarocha.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.celiarocha.com</a> Medium drawing photogrpahy installation social practice Location The location of the interview Santa Ana California Artist Statement I am a Portuguese interdisciplinary artist living and working in Southern California. My lived experience and my interest in activism are the driving forces in my creative process. I use my artwork as a tool for activism, drawing on social issues that have affected me on a personal level, such as my experience of motherhood, the politics of childbirth or sexual violence. My artwork explores universal issues of gender and collective identity, culture, memory and loss, while it is imbued with the feeling of saudade, a typically Portuguese trait roughly translated as a nostalgic longing or yearning of someone or something of the past. I have used a wide range of media - including painting, installation, social practice, video and sound - but drawing and photography remain at the core of my practice. Influenced by Vija Celmins's drawings, Andrea Bowers use of text and activism and Suzanne Lacy’s commitment to social justice, my work examines inequality and is borne out of a desire to call attention to the often invisible and overlooked issues that affect primarily women. @celiarochastudio Topic parenting caretaking pregnancy labor childbirth motherhood maternal c-section cesarean section natural birth home birth feminism breastfeeding baby clothes babies children maternal mortality Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2021 Maternochronics | Virtual exhibition | maternochronics.com 2018 Maternal Matters | Bolsky Gallery | Otis College of Art and Design | Los Angeles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Célia Rocha https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/df8b63c31813a8dcced1cb565a1117ee.jpg b1c79e85ec8f35fbbed4340a4306feee Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://Www.Oonahyland.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Www.Oonahyland.com</a> Medium printmaking sculpture artists books Artist Statement I'm interested in how Silence from a trauma affects the descendents of a person. Forms of epigenetic history . How memory can be erased , masked and hidden and the consequences of doing so. I'm making work about the Magdalene laundries and mother and baby home. I am a child of a victim of these abusive homes in Ireland. Topic Active Forgetting Project memory trauma transgenerational trauma mother and baby homes Bon Secours Tuam silence haptic art transparency installation book art frottage Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oona Hyland https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/587721c91608b1837e4c8f5d20cb076f.jpg bd97ddd3f5bc528d7d9bf6ed84761a83 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="rebeccaackermann.com/art" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rebeccaackermann.com/art</a> Medium clay sculpture Location The location of the interview San Francisco California Artist Statement I sculpt tiny clay foods and household items in an attempt to reclaim domestic space separated from the actual highly gendered labor of caretaking. My art practice grew out of my need to care for my own mental health while working and parenting my daughter. I have found that when I'm able to create space for my own work, caring for my child, my family, and my community nutures and expands my mental health and sense of self. When I don't reserve any energy for my own growth and processing, caretaking can feel stunting, overwhelming, and like a minefield of anxiety and obligation. Topic clay, cooking cooking domesticity motherhood sculpture Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2021, Care Virtual Exhibition Curated by Kaylan Buteyn and Benz Amataya Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rebecca Ackermann https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/23a0de376a02e3e4e9be87696f0fc382.jpg b7e7abfe1349e66181c78f04684a81bf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://cynthiaeisenberg.wixsite.com/misitio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://cynthiaeisenberg.wixsite.com/misitio</a> Medium painting Location The location of the interview Buenos Aires Artist Statement My children were young and for several years I didn't touch a paintbrush. There was no room for that. Rather than oil painting, you had to buy trainers. I was always a bit out of the circuit, out of the stereotype of the "artist". A bit of Argentina always sends you to the periphery. But being on the outside enriches you. The museum is wonderful as inspiration, but also the supermarket, the underground or your niece's quinceañera with all the drunken uncles. I had run out of images. I was suffering from a kind of amnesia. One day I got my hands on the black and white photos of my grandmother's house. Like a necklace of several generations of lustrous smiles strung together. There were so many stories I had heard that the photos refused to tell. Eva Perón and Ceferino. The Spanish Civil War. The long-distance marriages. The foetus in a jar. The whole secret and feminine universe hidden by the plastic smiles of the photos. This is how I returned to painting. In "Almas bellas" I set out to retrace my family history, putting together an album from old family photos re-signified. A selection of told and untold stories that come to light through painting. Topic family, inheritance. lineage, ancestors, motherhood inheritance lineage ancestors motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cynthia Eisenberg https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/a96fbddd704105b9428358a82f270e02.jpg 3f9c6a20ce7ffcd59d3f1fa5c2278fe3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.robinassner-alvey.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.robinassner-alvey.com</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview St. Louis Artist Statement As a forty-three-old plus size woman and artist who has two young children, I feel an irresistible need to photograph myself. Navigating motherhood is a unique experience, one that I wasn’t prepared for but one that I have thoroughly embraced. I’ve always had a strained relationship with my body, but once my daughters were born that relationship changed. I grew new life inside of me and now I was nourishing them from my body. I’m still amazed that I was able to create an entirely new life inside of myself and that my body knew exactly what to do to make that happen. These photographs capture the various facets of motherhood and the toll it has on the body. I also have been using alternative photographic processes like Cyanotypes and Turmeric printing, to make photograms with the postpartum detritus leftover from my cesarean aftercare. The enormously large pads, the flimsy mesh underwear, and the restrictive belly bands are used to help start the healing process once the baby has been born. They are peculiar objects that became fodder for me to come to terms with my childbirth experiences. Topic breastfeeding Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robin Assner-Alvey https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/643500edecaa26e798265f648be173e0.jpg 6c1f29580a7c796b3dcc158dbcc6b470 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.meredithstarr.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.meredithstarr.com</a> Medium drawing painting cyanotype extended reality Location The location of the interview Plainview New York Artist Statement Meredith Starr’s projects are attempts to reflect our own humanity back at us. She transforms the mundane ephemera she’s noticed, houseplants she nurtured or accidentally killed, plastic she and her family accumulated in a year, records of how her time was divided as a working mother. The medium of her projects serves the subject-matter. She simultaneously works in analog processes like cyanotype printing and contemporary technology like virtual and augmented reality, sometimes in conversation with each other. Her artworks are often metaphorical or invented landscapes with narratives that reveal relationships the body has to objects, her children, and the earth. They are tactile, immersive and often interactive. Starr uses play and humor throughout her work to make subtle commentary about the state of our ecology, domesticity and gender politics. Specific artist statements from some of the projects about Meredith's experience as a mother are described below. Tracking.... depicts a study of the pursuit of ideal uteinizing hormones and estrogen levels for conception. The recording of the daily data output from a fertility monitor attempts to bring humor to an often taboo subject- fertility, by confronting the viewer with the “smiley face” image. An investigation of identity politics, the piece juxtaposes pop culture imagery with the loss of womens’ voices and their reduction to reproductive capabilities in contemporary culture. You Have My Attention... We are made of time, and we are bound to time. Time’s elasticity and the significance we assign to how we spend it has confounded and inspired artists and writers, such as Jorge Luis Borges in his mediation on time, and Ursula K. Le Guin in her Hymn to Time. The ability to self track our time with “smart” technology now gives us the ability to trace our hours. You Have My Attention is influenced both by daily data points generated by self-tracking and “The Daily Rituals of How Artist’s Spend Their Time.” These paintings seek to expand the conversation with a visual representation of a working artist and mother’s complicated life, a reflection about its larger patterns and nuanced detail.This project is about careful observation, identity politics and the powerful patterns of daily routine. Every Second Feels Like Left...Printed with the sun, the cyanotypes in this project record brief moments of time outside during the pandemic. The artist observes, and sometimes marvels at, the brutal and enduring activity of the wasps, crickets, cicadas, mice, rabbits, and birds. “Every Second Feels Like Theft” is full of their wings, their songs, their beating hearts and sometimes their torn, broken bodies. It’s also full of the miscellany collected, used, reused, and discarded during lockdown (broken plates; abandoned egg shells; neglected houseplants; scans from medical appointments; forgotten nylons; plastic bags; lawn ornaments) and the ephemera of physical lives (baby teeth, locks of hair, beard shavings, nail clippings). The process of creating a cyanotype and watching the rich blue emerge over time is itself a metaphor for the absurd struggles of the pandemic. Through the artist’s images in Every Second Feels Like Theft, the humor and joy of forced time with family during the pandemic is revealed. The artwork contrasts with and complements poems written by Sarah Kain Gutowski as part of an 82 page manuscript, which puzzles through the sameness and silence of quarantine, the listlessness of isolation, and the slow burn of our changing relationships. Together, image and text reflect emotions the pandemic made more prevalent and more extreme in our lives as mothers: our fears, our anxieties, our devotions, our whims, our regrets, and our loves. Topic fertility mothering during the pandemic the relationship between mothering and time Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meredith Starr https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/9b65c920c054a0bd2d30bf7997f03c4f.jpg f18474b0c51aed5b0162fed66f41cb76 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.jensandersartworks.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.jensandersartworks.com</a> Medium painting Location The location of the interview Los Angeles California Artist Statement After birthing my two daughters, I found myself on the other side of a monumental chasm that I had not known I would need to cross. From this vantage point, I began to paint self portraits. You see, I needed to re-introduce myself to my body and my face, in order to locate my identity, which I had lost somewhere on the other side of the chasm. I started painting myself, but in the process, I realized I’m not just me anymore; I multiplied. Or I disappeared. Probably both. My figurative oil and acrylic paintings are stories of particular moments. They carry color like a sunset next to a trash bin; ordinary situations, domestic arrangements, that leave room for something else. A split, a two-ness. We have a cute little dog that jumps at our faces. And we have an aquarium. Our snail ruthlessly ate the beautiful little orange fish in our aquarium. The snail itself is orange, and so delicate, and so helpful, cleaning up the tank. The duality of a creature never fails to appear, so that’s something to count on. But it’s so horrifying and dangerous and so very much like motherhood. Topic childbearing as an older woman identity changes around parenthood psychological impact of motherhood bearing witness of children Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jen Sanders https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/7a6567d913b556fd061f90b15665c316.jpg 599d03065323456b1fa66c00a0535c1a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.instagram.com/katie.gresham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.instagram.com/katie.gresham</a> Medium fiber arts embroidery collage painting drawing Location The location of the interview Washington DC Artist Statement Using my own postpartum and motherhood experiences as inspiration and reference, I make art across mediums to express the suppressed emotions and burdens of mothering and caregiving in contemporary society. The mother figures are slumped, holding themselves up under immense weight, and either faceless or with faces overwhelmed by intense emotion. In my embroidery series, self-portraits are stitched in dusty cream colored thread that is nearly camouflaged against stained, once white kitchen towels that have been jaggedly cut in half. The faces are expressive, sometimes grotesquely so, conveying emotions that are often viewed as inappropriate for a mother in our society to have–rage, exhaustion, regret, ambivalence; faces that I reenacted privately for photo references. In contrast, the mother figures in my collage series are faceless. Their identities have been wiped away as they attempt to tend to the endless daily caregiving tasks while scores of child figures drag, climb, and play on them. This is an expression of American society’s assumption of the mother’s previous identity being erased. The child figures are colored vibrantly and cut from my children’s discarded artwork. They easily eclipse the neutral colored mother figure, cut from used parchment paper, just as a mother’s needs and desires are often overshadowed by those of her children. My work uses personal experience as a point of departure to portray and normalize ambivalence as part of the maternal experience–feeling intense negative emotions as well as unconditional love; enjoying time with one’s children as well as feeling held back or overwhelmed by them. As mainstream media and contemporary culture propagate a myth of the “perfect” or “ideal” mother, my work pushes back by validating the complicated, tense, ambivalent reality of caregiving and asserting the value of a more honest conversation about caregivers’ complex identities. Topic motherhood caregiving labor postpartum maternal body maternal experience ambivalence emotion care work artist mother body Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Katie Gresham Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.leahdevun.com/in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction#14" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.leahdevun.com/in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction#14</a> Medium film photography Location The location of the interview New Jersey Artist Statement I'm an associate professor at Rutgers University, where I teach in the departments of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. My scholarship, artwork, and curatorial practice reflect my interest in queer and trans history, science and technology, archives and collectives, and feminist activism. I'm the author of three books and edited volumes: The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance (Columbia University Press, 2021); "Trans*historicities" (with Zeb Tortorici), a special issue of the journal TSQ (Duke, 2018); and Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time (Columbia, 2009). My essays and reviews have appeared in Wired, Spot, Radical History Review, GLQ, WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly), Osiris, ASAP/Journal, postmedieval, Journal of the History of Sexuality, and a number of books. I've lectured internationally and received grants and residential fellowships from the National Science Foundation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UCLA, the Huntington Library, and the Stanford Humanities Center, among others. Topic breastfeeding birth designed maternity objects breast pumping Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Leah DeVun