2 300 434 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/80fa5756d33b7ada6ae745e7fffad753.jpg f6e860f13673dce7220473f4b7866114 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.momlists.tumblr.com" target="_blank">www.momlists.tumblr.com</a> Topic motherhood exhaustion sleep, coparenting relationship love awe struggle Medium paper pen ribbon waxed thread public art Artist Statement I am interested in using art to challenge people to think critically about cultural mythologies embedded in our everyday lives. I take familiar things, pry them open, look for truths, that people prefer stay quiet. In a cuddle session with my toddler, I find the eroticism in the pleasure of his skin on mine. My work is about careful noticing and reporting back. My current guerrilla public art project called #MomLists, consists of 150 lists about my motherhood experiences. #MomLists peels back the happy family selfies we see on social media and searches out an alternative motherhood narrative. #MomLists aims to spark dialogue and add to the conversation about parenting, motherhood, and sexism. I write about things that most moms don’t talk about: experiencing a new well inside of me bubbling with inexplicable rage, fists pounding thighs; feeling overwhelmed by how much I am needed; the pleasure I get from my son’s soft, little body. Though the writing is personal, so much of it is universal—exhaustion, gender roles, the decrease of sex in parenthood. Each list is handwritten on a 4x6 card. A top layer of bright decorative paper is sewn on top. Each piece hangs from a ribbon. The colorful paper with dangling ribbon tendrils creates a whimsical effect. The viewer wants to touch it, and unlike most art, #MomLists requires interaction. The reader has to lift the pretty exterior to get to the gritty, vulnerable list underneath. For this exhibit, I’d like to hang 30 of them in a square/box shape to mimic the box of the identity “mother.” In the sea of early parenthood, where one day bleeds into the next, the act of making—cutting, sewing, hand writing, stamping—then feeling the tangible, finished product in my hands, feels like a relief. Each piece is a clearly laid-out goal—the opposite of the uncertain, haphazard nature of raising a child. Location The location of the interview Berkeley California Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Minna Dubin Title A name given to the resource Minna Dubin paper pen ribbon waxed thread https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/7ae7fe6a5e266d1216bb06154b8d47d2.jpg e3609d1123dbcd6f3b65b8a05d4f764a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.miriamschaer.com/" target="_blank">http://www.miriamschaer.com/</a> Medium books sculpture installation photography Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York USA Artist Statement My work is an exploration of questions for which I find no easy answers. Usually, I use a variety of materials and media to build narratives or depict the complexity of situations not easily resolved. Recently, my work has focused on the relationship of motherhood, and the absence of motherhood, especially how women without children fare in a world that values women largely for their fertility. I became sensitized to the relationships between these conditions as my own mother began to exhibit signs of dementia. As we age, how do we negotiate the role reversals inherent in coping with parents who live beyond the point at which they can care for themselves, as they become, like small children, individuals cared for by their own children, now adults? Finding no simple answers, I hope my work stimulates a dialogue about these difficult issues. Topic mother child fertility absence of motherhood childlessness by choice childlessness by chance Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Miriam Schaer book installation photography sculpture https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/33a6bab520c00070ca6589ee96052224.png dc3952fb62c0494467b4dd1791738542 Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.miriamwinsor.com/the-dual-impossibilities#1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.miriamwinsor.com/the-dual-impossibilities#1</a> Medium photography writing Artist Statement Photography and text often have a symbiotic relationship; one aids and enhances our understanding of the other. We are able to create nuances of meaning by combining them. In this project, I attempt to make sense of my expectations of motherhood, the reality of the experience and my emotional responses to both. I use images and text relating to me and my daughter to explore the limitations of representation inherent in both mediums - it's impossible to fully represent the variety and breadth of the emotions or to show more than a tiny fragment of the relationship she and I share. Topic motherhood expectations v. reality childbirth maternal guilt mental health Location The location of the interview Surrey United Kingdom Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Miriam Winsor childbirth maternal guilt mental health photography text writing https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/1b56b3d70b80bd400495dc36b3301c02.jpg fa4b4821ac98d74b9b927c562f75eb7e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.mirtakupferminc.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.mirtakupferminc.net/</a> <a href="http://www.gitterarts.net/mothers_info.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.gitterarts.net/mothers_info.htm</a> Medium textile sculpture Location The location of the interview Buenos Aires Argentina Artist Statement With everything what represents in general the role of the mother and in Jewish culture in particular ,Mirta Kupferminc´s work caused surprise to the artist herself . The impact around the presented work , overflowed any expectations about it. Mirta approaches that mother from seeking and highlight the multiple aspects of this multifaceted role , especially emphasizing its individuality as a woman but also as a collective and even mythological aspect. Mirta choose to work loyal to her eclectic style which prevails the transgression of structures and aesthetic formalities : appeals to the use of different materials and techniques responding exclusively to her conceptual idea and practical needs in every case . The artist says : “My proposal is to make soft habitable sculptures that function as attire , clothes , or a dress. Given that clothing covers us , but also allows us to show who we are. That “second skin” shows out an image, but as I can get inside “the body ” , I am submitting myself to the experience of being “ in” that mom´s body. ” As in concentric circles, where one lives inside the other, the artist creates a sculpture with a specific gravity itself but where the symbolic proposal is reinforced when one manages to get inside the artwork, literally. A living sculpture that can protect or devour us ; both physically and symbolically. Soft sculpture whose name contains a pun : “Eve : Chair of all mothers “ refers to the chair as an object as well as to the main, the primeval . Topic motherood individuality maternal body Jewish culture clothing Wichí culture Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mirta Kupferminc Argentina Buenos Aires clothing individuality Jewish culture maternal body sculpture textile Wichí Culture Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Title Mommy Event Type Exhibition Exhibition Website http://yaleunion.org/mommy/ Gallery Yale Union Location The location of the interview Portland Oregon Curator Hope Svenson Robert Snowden Curatorial Statement "A group show that considers the mother, with work by Lutz Bacher, Susan Cianciolo, Sonya Hamilton, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Eliot Porter, Aura Rosenberg, Diane Simpson, Barbara T. Smith, Frances Stark, and Rosemarie Trockel. It will also include new site-specific works by Cathy Wilkes and Anicka Yi, and a performance by Karin Schneider. This exhibition assents to the mystery and chaos of motherhood. It is made with ambivalence toward coherent ideas of maternity. It is made in reaction to the circumference of saccharine sentimentality and repressive rage that persists in culturally mediated visions of the mother, a circumference that tightens like a noose around the necks of actual women. This show laments the culturally constructed binary of “family vs. career,” while acknowledging the persistence of that obstacle in the lives of artists. I believe there are more irreducible things at stake. This show is all of the places in between, the making-do, the quotidian, the disobedient, the law-abiding, the carnal, the repulsive, the both-and. I made this show with a desire to capture what is true—and not what resembles the truth—in my experience as a mother." Curatorial Statement From <a href="http://yaleunion.org/mommy/" target="_blank">http://yaleunion.org/mommy/</a> Artists Lutz Bacher Susan Cianciolo Sonya Hamilton Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven Lynn Hershman Leeson Eliot Porter Aura Rosenberg Diane Simpson Barbara T. Smith Frances Stark Rosemarie Trockel Cathy Wilkes Anicka Yi Karin Schneider Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) October 10–December 20, 2015 Topic motherhood mystery chaos family vs. career sentimentality rage Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mommy chaos family vs. career motherhood mystery Oregon Portland rage sentimentality https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ad2607adc05b4fa0fc7c2a06549bc918.jpg 4fd9652339028699e31195912a37f5b5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://monikastocktonmadd.wixsite.com/maddux">https://monikastocktonmadd.wixsite.com/maddux</a> Medium installation sculpture Location The location of the interview Wichita Kansas USA Artist Statement My research is into the multiple aspects of motherhood and I am investigating the obsession that develops in response to the psychological impact of loss, specifically the effects of miscarriage. To that I’ve added a study about the desire to become like my mother and the inability to do the same mother/daughter things I had anticipated. This desire developed into an obsession. I am curious about why I feel I need to produce a female offspring. I have asked myself if it stems from a maternal need that is unfulfilled by my sons, or if it was ingrained in me by my family dynamic, the environment in which I was raised. I was either naturally predisposed to nurture or I was trained, from the beginning, when I received my first doll that cared for, pretended was my own child and named her Hannah. My mother had 3 daughters and she made matching dresses for us and I couldn’t wait until I had a daughter to wear my handmade dresses. I am examining whether it is that I WANT to be like my mother or that I am EXPECTED to be like my mother. The narratives of MONIKAHOUSE are; motherhood, loss caused by miscarriage, obsession and its manifestations, desperation, dealing with resolution and hard adoptions of reality. All the work stems from this ‘brain’. It represents all my experiences as a mother, a daughter, a sister, a wife. In this space, I can create or recreate any experience I wish. It is an environment akin to a forest. It is often that you are not allowed to remove or even directly interact with the environment, however, you are encouraged to simply observe. An experience that is no less dynamic than if you were allowed to interact. Think Hiking verses Camping. For the last several years I have been creating rooms in a house, now I am using a house for installations of rooms. My thesis exhibition consists of sixteen rooms in an 1891 Queen Anne home that I have transformed into my life size dollhouse. I have used textiles, ready-made objects from my childhood, furniture and building materials, to create a continuous body of work. Topic miscarriage fertility infertility keepsakes obsession pregnancy tests installation art performance art dollhouse life size dollhouse monikahouse womanhouse motherhood loss daughter Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. MONIKAHOUSE in Riverside. MFA Thesis Exhibition. Wichita, KS. (2019) Publications A catalog or monograph published by the artist Sometime Babies Die, Children’s Book. March 2019 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monika Stockton Maddux daughter dollhouse fertility infertility installation installation art keepsakes life size dollhouse loss miscarriage monikahouse motherhood obsession performance art pregnancy tests sculpture womanhouse https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/fe072dff387d5e4d432492a42c1a516c.jpeg f3b54364e219c8f12a877dd1ec0bac3c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.motherinthemother.co.uk/exhibition" target="_blank">https://www.motherinthemother.co.uk/exhibition</a> Curator Melissa Hardwick Ruth Sidgwick Carolyn Hassan Gallery <a href="http://freespaceproject.org/exhibitions/" target="_blank">Free Space Gallery</a> <a href="https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/fresh-arts/fresh-arts-exhibitions" target="_blank">Fresh Arts</a> <a href="http://kwmc.org.uk/projects/category/exhibitions/" target="_blank">Knowle West Media Centre</a> Curatorial Statement A mixed media, exploration of maternal lineage. Shows work created over a three year participatory arts project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pippa Robinson Title A name given to the resource Mother in the Mother exhibition maternal lineage motherhood https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/54c660412b652d268c5af64316a5df17.png 248f4b189b267a0432c3d1e4ef4b9942 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Curator Michelle Hartney Curatorial Statement MOTHER LOAD is an interdisciplinary show featuring female identifying visual artists, musicians, dancers, writers, and performers making work about fertility, miscarriage, pregnancy, birth, postpartum depression and PTSD, postpartum sexuality, and motherhood. Artists Seeley Cardone <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/100">Christa Donnor</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/298">Aimee Gilmore</a> Katrina Majkut Michelle Hartney <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/42">Lise Haller Baggesen</a> Lea Tschilds Angela James She Speaks In Tongues Becky Levi Mary Sue Reese Michi Jigarjian <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/237">Qiana Mestrich</a> Christen Clifford Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mother-load-tickets-61180257798" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mother-load-tickets-61180257798</a> Gallery Collaboraction Theatre Company Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois USA Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) May 25, 2019 Topic fertility miscarriage pregnancy birth postpartum depression PTSD postpartum sexuality motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mother Load https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/11022529590c269bf33d16b90394585e.jpg 664fbf743e533b99f5222524370018a0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Sheilah Wilson Publisher Sheilah Wilson City of Publication Columbus State of Publication Ohio Country of Publication United States Date of Publication 2016 Topic motherhood art and motherhood art zine mothers Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mother Mother artist-parents motherhood motherhood as art practice mothering parenting zines https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/51ed79092f46a2c320dd27533c7bbb83.gif e282a5cc14047e8484721b6359929702 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.lentos.at/html/en/3312.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.lentos.at/html/en/3312.aspx</a> Curator Sabine Fellner Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller Stella Rollig Gallery Lentos Art Museum Curatorial Statement Super mom or childless? It almost looks as if there were no such thing any longer as motherhood pure and simple, as if all that is left is the choice between perfectionism and resignation. Nevertheless, motherhood has many aspects: joy, an intense experience of life, love relationship, learning, exultation, on one hand, and, on the other, frustration, being weighed down by expectations and the fear of being inadequate to the task. Until the 19th century motherhood was never called into question even if in actual reality the rewards often fell woefully short of projected ideals. It was only the advent of career openings for women that created alternatives to motherhood as a fulfilled life. Pregnancy, birth, abortion, life with children, the decision against children, the struggle of children with their mothers – all these themes have their place in art. Nor did we have to wait for 1960s feminist art to produce realistic portrayals of the mother’s role but fi nd renderings of social reality and individual conflicts already as early as the beginning of the 20th century. The exhibition showcases not only shifts in the stereotypes of motherhood from 1900 to today but also the changes in the perspective from which children see their mothers. It calls into question the optimisation logic of today’s life designs and nurtures the hope of change: an ever greater number of women with children opt out of the complex, often stressful regime of everyday life, refusing to accept their life world between career, children and consumption as preordained or God-given. Location The location of the interview Linz, Austria Event Type Exhibition Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 23 October 2015 to 21 February 2016 Topic pregnancy birth abortion life with children motherhood parenting Artists Uli Aigner Ed Alcock Iris Andraschek Robert Angerhofer Siegfried Anzinger Tina Barney Max Beckmann Charlotte Berend-Corinth Werner Berg Renate Bertlmann Margret Bilger Herbert Boeckl Louise Bourgeois Candice Breitz Arthur Brusenbauch Heinrich Campendonk Hans Canon Elinor Carucci Sevda Chkoutova Larry Clark <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank">Lenka Clayton</a> Lovis Corinth Wilhelm Dachauer Carola Dertnig Rineke Dijkstra Otto Dix Nathalie Djurberg Béatrice Dreux Diane Ducruet Miriam Elia Anton Faistauer Lucian Freud Fritz Fröhlich Aldo Giannotti Burt Glinn Lea Grundig Johannes Grützke Ernst Haas Conny Habbel Maria Hahnenkamp Keith Haring Karl Hartung Karl Hauk Carry Hauser Gottfried Helnwein Hannah Höch Axel Johannessen Birgit Jürgenssen Mary Kelly Josef Kern Franz Kimm Gustav Klimt Max Klinger Kiki Kogelnik Oskar Kokoschka Silvia Koller Broncia Koller-Pinell Käthe Kollwitz Julia Krahn Johannes Krejci Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller Alfred Kubin Maria Lassnig Leigh Ledare Erich Lessing Switbert Lobisser Baltasar Lobo Lea Lublin Elena Luksch-Makowsky Karin Mack Christian Macketanz Hans Makart Jeanne Mammen Matthias May Jonathan Meese Georg Merkel Larry Miller Gabi Mitterer Paula Modersohn-Becker Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Ron Mueck Otto Mueller Alice Neel Shirin Neshat Max Oppenheimer Florentina Pakosta Rebecca Paterno Pablo Picasso Margot Pilz Hanna Putz <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/114" target="_blank">Gail Rebhan</a> Paula Rego Rudolf Ribarz Annerose Riedl Frenzi Rigling Franz Ringel Ulrike Rosenbach Judith Samen Hansel Sato Egon Schiele Zineb Sedira Ulrika Segerberg Kiki Smith Annegret Soltau Viktoria Sorochinski Daniel Spoerri Sarah Sudhoff Viktor Tischler Paloma Varga Weisz Borjana Ventzislavova mit Mirsolav Nicic und Mladen Penev Nurith Wagner-Strauss Andy Walde Alfons Warhol Gillian Wearing Helene Winger-Stein Anna Witt Judith Zillich Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource MOTHER OF THE YEAR Between Empowerment and Crisis: Images of Motherhood from 1900 to Today abortion birth life with children motherhood parenting pregnancy https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/42edf00dd3aacce9773a762e3850155d.png 30d4adce039d7b38607913f3bf68094a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Motherhood in the Art World cover Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Claudia Sandoval Romero City of Publication Vienna Country of Publication Austria Date of Publication 2015 Topic motherhood art and mothering art visual culture Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Motherhood in the Art World anna oppermann annegret soltau elaine reichek ewa partum faith ringgold feministo fina miralles friedl kubelka vom groeller gina pane hackney flashers helke sander kirsten justesen laura mulvey lea lublin louise bourgeois mako idemitsu maria evelia marmolejo martha rosler Mary Kelly mierle laderman ukeles mimi smith mother artist mother artists motherhood motherhood and art practice motherhood and economic context motherhood and social context niki de saint phalle ree morton susan hiller tina keane ulrike rosenbach ursula reuter christiansen valie export zorka saglova https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/7f931016190eb2629652b1bef4e51e45.png e70c46915e9ec1f222f2e661907746d1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka 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 Bradford Ontario Canada Topic motherhood mothering About The Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) is a scholarly and activist organization on mothering-motherhood, developed from the former Association for Research on Mothering at York University (1998-2010). The initiative houses the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (formerly The Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering), Mother Outlaws, and is partnered with <a href="http://www.demeterpress.org/" target="_blank">Demeter Press</a>. The founder and director of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement is Andrea O'Reilly, <a href="mailto:aoreilly@yorku.ca">aoreilly@yorku.ca</a>. Organization Website <a href="http://motherhoodinitiative.org" target="_blank">http://motherhoodinitiative.org</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 Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) Bradford Canada motherhood mothering Ontario Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.lylarye.com/1.IMAGES/Information/Bibliography/2003Motherlode_Eichhorn.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.lylarye.com/1.IMAGES/Information/Bibliography/2003Motherlode_Eichhorn.pdf</a> Gallery Women's Art Resource Centre (WARC) Location The location of the interview Toronto Ontario Canada Curator Gretchen Sankey Virginia M. Eichhorn Artists Nicole Collins Janeita Eyre Rae Johnston Lyla Rye Pearl van Geest Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) September 6 - October 4, 2003 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource MOTHERLODE https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/0d55cda769a791970a56798dd80ec017.png 494f0830155340361ffea12ca2f8e6f6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/42">Lise Haller Baggesen</a> Publisher Green Lantern Press City of Publication Chicago State of Publication Illinois Country of Publication USA Date of Publication October 10, 2014 ISBN 13 978-0-9884185-5-4 Topic literary nonfiction feminism contemporary art Mothernism Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mothernism Amsterdam Chicago contemporary art Denmark feminism literary nonfiction Mothernism Netherlands science fiction https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/22d139469c1bd399d13e92d16bfec2f6.jpg e6bfa9bd4b4db2182d5b1b640f67a8d7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Event Type Gallery Exhibition Website <a href="https://womanmade.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://womanmade.org/</a> Gallery Woman Made Gallery Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/47" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Rachel Epp Buller</a> Curatorial Statement “Mothers” includes moving works by 37 women addressing the culturally ubiquitous role of motherhood, historically under-represented in visual art. The artists utilize a wide range of media, from photography, video, 3D, and even frosted cakes. The artists’ individual and sometimes intensely personal approaches to the subject of motherhood vary as much as their media. The work speaks to personal experiences (as a mother or as related to a mother), social constructions of motherhood, the balance of home and work, the politicization of mothers, pregnancy, breastfeeding, childbirth, bodily transformation, miscarriage, loss, and fertility/infertility. Artists are using materials traditionally found in domestic settings including clothes pins, canning jars, and yarn. Others use iconic imagery such as the Madonna and child. Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) November 5 to December 23, 2010 Topic motherhood domesticity politicization of mothers pregnancy breastfeeding childbirth bodily transformation miscarriage loss fertility infertility Artists Jjenna Hupp Andrews Kiki Augustin Melissa Ayotte Linda L. Bacon Adrian Baker Shaun Bangert Kristy Battani Jolene Beckman Cat Del Buono Corinna Button <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a> Barbara Diener Sheila A. Donovan Joy Christiansen Erb Niki Grangruth Luba Grenader Kate Hansen Kelly Harrington Katherine Michele Hatchell Judith Hladik-Voss Phyllis Hofman Lea Basile Lazarus Stephanie Lerma Melanie Lowrance Elaine Luther Julie Mader-Meersman Jennifer McNichols Maggie Meiners Freyda Miller Helen Payne Nancy Roberts Jaleesa Rosario Sarah Rust Sampedro Amanda Simons Colette Veasey-Cullors Lisa Venditelli Ellen Wetmore Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mothers bodily transformation breastfeeding childbirth domesticity fertility infertility loss miscarriage motherhood politicization of mothers pregnancy https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/c662fc8dad5b4c740e34b1e998430341.png 3fdcbdff87c9a4786bfa5579f1a47ebd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka 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 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Topic Artist Residency collaborative caretaking About About: Mothers in Arts supports women artists who are also mothers and shines a light on the mother-shaped blindspot within the art world. It puts forward a discussion about a problem that affects many young artist women when they become parents. Even though many artists have children, parenthood - specially motherhood - remains stigmatized in the art world. Therefore, besides the physical and mental challenges of childbearing an added feeling of isolation can be felt by many mothers. We believe that women have to remain part of the art community after they’ve become mothers. Mothers in Arts is a platform for artists and through an artists in residency we want to stimulate young women artists with children. Being a mother is not a stigma; motherhood can accompany a successful artistic practice. Residency: Mothers in Arts Residency (MA Residency) will be a studio space combined with a communal nursery. The Residency is specialized in supporting young emerging women artists, who are also mothers. Mothers in Arts is free of charge; the artists agree on take turns to work and look after each others children around an organized work schedule. MA Residency provides studio space for 3 artists and their children. The residency invites emerging woman artists to apply whose children are between 3 months an 24 months old. (3 months is the given maternity leave in the Netherlands and 2 years is the age, when according to the new regulation of childcare, children are provided with 2 days a week subsidized daycare) This “in between” period is crucial for an artist-parent: through the strict schedule and the constant attention which a baby requires, critical practice becomes limited. The Residency gives young mothers an opportunity to continue their artistic development. MA Residency takes place in Amsterdam between March 2017 and May 2017, and will be finished with an exhibition in June 2017. Organization Website <a href="http://www.mothersinarts.com/residency" target="_blank">http://www.mothersinarts.com/residency</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 Mothers in Arts Residency https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/f6a897fcd235fe75e8a937a7ec5e3498.png 9bcfb01091c913241db7752b10714449 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka 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. Organization Website <a href="http://motherswhomake.org">http://motherswhomake.org</a> Location The location of the interview United Kingdom About  Mothers Who Make is a growing national initiative aimed at supporting mothers who are artists - professional and/or passionate – writers, painters, actors, dancers, musicians, film-makers....every kind of maker is welcomed, and every kind of mother.    MWM was born in London in 2014 with Theatre Maker and Improbable Associate Director, Matilda Leyser. The initiative grew from Leyser's sense of there being experiences and challenges specific to being both a mother and an artist. She noticed many parallels between the two roles: both are concerned with creativity and play, both require stamina, patience, sensitivity, both keep her up at night. At the same time she was struck by the strength of the cultural assumption that the two were incompatible: she was told she must compromise on either her creative work or her mothering. She wanted to challenge this. She put out an invitation to mother-artists, across art forms, to join a peer support group to which they could also bring their children of any age. The response has been extraordinary.   MWM has rapidly spread across the country. There are currently regular peer-support groups meeting at 22 major arts-related venues in different regions, with more groups in the process of starting across the UK in 2019.   How does MWM work?   MWM meetings take place monthly in an arts-related venue. It is critical that the meeting is given the status of a participatory workshop, a rehearsal or class. A local mother-artist acts as a facilitator and participants are supported to exchange and work in a variety of ways. They explore emergent themes in their mothering and their making, points of connection between the two roles, points of dissonance, particular challenges, helpful resources. Examples of recent themes include: how to change and maintain your practice; the positive impact of motherhood on your work; housework – who does it?!                Every MWM meeting models a rare space in which participants are recognized and valued equally in their dual roles of mother and artist. The sessions are adult-centred but children are welcome to attend. Each MWM group shares a common ethos and practice but is able to grow and develop in response to the needs and interests of the regional artists that attend it. We want as many people as possible to be part of the unfolding MWM conversations. We do not seek to define who is a 'mother' or an 'artist'. Our reach is across generations and artforms - we are thrilled by the plurality of voices that are part of this discussion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mothers Who Make Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lizzy Humber Producer MWM https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/2c50e8ba746bf2849f65d2a3ea9b2239.JPG f693bd4584c0f380353e2cb3f3fb0033 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://gallery400.uic.edu/our-events/upcoming-events/opening-reception-alberto-aguilar/">https://gallery400.uic.edu/our-events/upcoming-events/opening-reception-alberto-aguilar/</a> Gallery Gallery 400 Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois USA Curator Lorelei Stewart Curatorial Statement Alberto Aguilar’s first large scale survey explores how the Chicago-born and based artist’s various life roles and surroundings have shaped a searching, inquisitive practice that is grounded in, and produces, a radical everyday. Aguilar’s creative work often incorporates whatever materials he has at hand and has extended into collaborations and exchanges with others, including his own family. Navigating measurement and limits, of his own body or in his ready materials—whether it’s the structure of a sheet of mini legal paper or the territory of an area rug, to name a few examples—his work bridges media, from painting and sculpture to video, installation, performance, and sound as well as the use of social media and teaching as art forms. Though his hand, direction, or intervention is typically straightforward, seemingly simple, his work has an enticing self-effacement that sparks curiosity and identification. Moreover, Aguilar’s systems-based processes build into their own monumentality, hinting at the broader implications of the deeply democratic ethos at the heart of his work. Beyond the works in the gallery space, the exhibition expands to include interventions into Gallery 400’s home building, extended projects off-site, and digital forays that may or may not be announced as part of the exhibition Artists Featuring: Isabella Aguilar, Joaquin Aguilar, Madeleine Aguilar, Paolo Aguilar, Sergio Manuel Aguilar, Sonia Aguilar, Dana Bassett, Alex Bradley Cohen, Pete Fagundo, Chiara Galimberti, Kirsten Leenaars, Nazafarin Lotfi, Jorge Lucero, John Preus, Josh Rios, Alexia Rodriguez, Edra Soto, Southwest Signs, Clintel Steed, Hui-min Tsen, Rafael E. Vera, Danny Volk, Sean Ward, Jim Woodfill, and more <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/33">Alberto Aguilar</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) April 26-June 15, 2019 Topic collaboration walking everyday life passage of time performance play democratic routine routine repetition fatherhood sound conversatinos monument domestic sale signs legacy commemoration Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource moves on a human scale https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/08541270b5e3ba97b65d53ca1558d609.jpg 6dfb40e3810eff69dbe22fd088f9b4d9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka 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 New York Topic motherhood mother studies museum education center pop-up exhibits About "The Museum of Motherhood (M.O.M.) is an exhibition and education center dedicated to the exploration of family – past, present, and future with a focus on mothers, fathers, and families. M.O.M.’s mission is to start great conversations, feature thought-provoking exhibits, and share information and education. Our aim is to collect, preserve, and disseminate articles, books, artifacts, images, and research on the science, art, and history of all aspects of procreation, birth, and caregiving. We care about those engaged in these activities, and actively promote members of the community interested in the emerging areas of Mother and Father Studies. M.O.M. is the first and only social change facility of its kind. We do not discriminate, are open to all perspectives, and recognize diversity as a guiding premise. The museum is currently online only, with events throughout NYC, as well as strategic Pop Up Exhibits as we search for our next-stage physical location." -Description from http://mommuseum.org/about-2/ Organization Website <a href="http://mommuseum.org/" target="_blank">http://mommuseum.org/</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 Museum of Motherhood (M.O.M.) mother studies motherhood museum https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/e5f33fbb5c7c4bb3725e0f14478947e3.jpg 304137b45ba549a96b7f09f9f53bebe3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="myacluff.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">myacluff.com</a> Medium ceramics drawing Location The location of the interview Belgrade Montana Artist Statement Motherhood is a multi-faceted experience. Through figurative ceramic sculpture and drawing, I attempt to bring equal attention to both the light and darker aspects of motherhood to show the importance of a well-rounded narrative to this universally recognized role. The ease of sentimentality that arises with the stereotypical ideals of mothers and babies is charming, but does not tell the whole story. And in my work, I aim to tell the whole story. Through depictions of the female form and mother, along with symbols such as the blanket, the pelvis, and the child or infant, I set up both familiar and slightly askew scenarios to challenge generalizations of motherhood. By examining the changes my children bring to my life, my work becomes loosely biographical. Though I also find richness in tapping into the stories and experiences of other mothers I find in literature, artwork, and in personal relationships. I take all those combined experiences to analyze the commonalities that mothers experience but do not always speak to openly. I employ comparisons of hard vs. soft and durable vs. fragile through the use of clay as my primary medium. I intentionally utilize the direct association of the body to the experience of motherhood by including the human figure, and embrace the vulnerabilities, raw emotions, and loosening of boundaries, both physical and emotional, that exponentially change women who take on this mantel. Through covering or wrapping various parts of the body I enhance my conversation concerning boundaries, and the contrasting elements of comfort and suppression. Overall, I elaborate on the taboo that while most mothers love their children more than anything else, they all also grapple with varied human emotions as patience and endurance is tested. Topic motherhood pregnancy female body pelvis reproduction postpartum mental health touch boundaries the body infancy childhood mother/daughter relationship maternity Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2020 WOMENANDCHILDREN, Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture, Bozeman, MT 2019 Dynamic: A Celebration of the Female Experience, (Featured Artist) AVA Community Art Center, Gillette, WY 2017 Fulcrum, 321 NE Davis, Portland OR 2017 Urban Artist Showcase, Parish Gallery, Chehalem Art Center, Newberg OR 2016 Identity, City Club of Portland, Portland OR Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mya Cluff Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.myrelchernick.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.myrelchernick.com/</a> Medium projections and multimedia installation single channel video photography Location The location of the interview New York, NY USA Artist Statement Myrel Chernick grew up in Metuchen, New Jersey, traveling to Paris for a year with her family at age nine. There she discovered culture, history, literature, art, food, beauty. This formative experience fueled her determination to leave the suburbs and live a different life. Chernick’s fascination with language began with her experience of learning French with the facility of childhood, understanding that it was very different from the language she knew, and that language was connected to culture. She studied art, receiving her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago after having moved to New York to participate in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Influenced by the conceptual art she saw around her, she sought to combine her love of literature and writing with light-filled installations. She began adding short phrases to her installations in 1977, influenced by Marguerite Duras, her austere but sensuous language, and her focus on the spaces between the words. Living in New York, Chernick has continued to work with projections and multimedia installations, single channel video and photography, while taking a detour to raise twins, curate two exhibitions on motherhood, edit The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art, and to expand her writing to include longer text/image works. She spends as much time in Paris as she possibly can, and is currently writing and illustrating a hybrid novel that takes place in her favorite city. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Myrel Chernick installation New York projections single channel video USA https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/900a87a32d62df93cdbf8fd973636bfc.png 0f2ca6f06ad18920730dc58347f096f6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.nannalysholt.dk">www.nannalysholt.dk</a> <a href="http://www.nannalysholthansen.com">www.nannalysholthansen.com</a> Topic pregnancy motherhood motherartist mothervoice technolgy cyborg feminism language posthumanism meditation memory theory intergenerational Medium live performance video installation sculpture photography poetry sound Artist Statement MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Art. BFA Faculty of Art, Design & Music, Kingston University London. In her artistic practice Nanna Lysholt Hansen is investigating relationships between the body, language, voice, gender and technology. By using her own personal experiences of the female body, sexuality, pregnancy, birth and motherhood she draws attention to the body as a technological and biological intergenerational mediator of knowledge, voice and memory. Location The location of the interview Copenhagen Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nanna Lysholt Hansen Title A name given to the resource Nanna Lysholt Hansen biology copenhagen cyborg feminism installation intergenerational language live performance mediation memory motherartist motherhood mothervoice photography poetry posthumanism pregnancy sculpture sound sound art technology theory https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/dee2271c94009f18beaea547d71907e0.png 4c78093e9d30b35f2dda3f8582de3eed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://maternalecologies.ca/" target="_blank">maternalecologies.ca</a> Medium performance video art Location The location of the interview Edmonton Alberta Canada Artist Statement Maternal Ecologies uses the frame of performance to recast the daily practices of early motherhood. For 3 years I reflected on, inhabited, and researched my experience of early maternal life through the FLUXUS-inspired format of the instruction piece. Year 1, Action A Day (Maternal Prescriptions) was performed for 84 consecutive days. Year 2, Action A Day (Inhabiting Firsts) was performed for 210 consecutive days. Year 3, Action A Day (Gone/There) was performed for 84 consecutive days. The project ended when my son turned 3. Topic daily practice motherhood Fluxus documentation art and research infants infant care breastfeeding Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank">New Maternalisms - Chile</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/65" target="_blank">New Maternalisms - Toronto</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natalie Loveless Alberta breastfeeding Canada curator daily practice documentation Edmonton infant care motherhood research research and art https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/6beec4585e5d3615050f31fa38c55983.jpg fffa59f735a7950c8d603c52256a6f6f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://nataliemball.com/section/33295.html">http://nataliemball.com/section/33295.html</a> Medium performance art installation Artist Statement "To Be Continued" is a claim for visual sovereignty. It is about taking back power through the relationship of a mother and her daughter in relation to historical genocide and disenfranchisement of the Modoc and Klamath people. I enlist auto-ethnography as an apparatus to offer you a visual articulation of a mother’s conscious actions to connect her daughter to her complex history, her water, her land, and her cultures for survival. For me, for my family, for many native people, and for my daughter the “Indian Wars” are not over. “To Be Continued” acknowledges my daughter’s Indigenous womanhood within a reality where the wars have not subsided. There are other kinds of war, with legislation, not howitzers; water rights, land acquisition, dam removal, salmon restoration, self determination and blood quantum. There is always a fight. When Ojibwe scholar Scott Lyons writes about native identity, "When the Indian speaks, it always speaks as an Indian," he is stating that it is not possible to ignore the complex narratives that create the idea of the Indian. I address this through traditional native markers, quilt pieces, a pony, but just in case you missed that the Indian is speaking as an Indian, I put the name Modoc in lights at the center of the piece. The door and floor put the installation in space and time, adding another layer of information. The space is being occupied, at least for the time being. What always was Indian land is back to being Indigenous space. The installation leaves no doubt, occupied or not, the space is Indian, Modoc in lights, telegraphing presence and native survivance. Topic motherhood mother/daughter relationship daughter native american genocide heritage Klamath Tribe Modoc Tribe auto-ethnography Indigenous womanhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natalie M. Ball auto-ethnography daughter genocide heritage Indigenous motherhood installation Klamath Tribe Modoc Tribe motherhood Native American performance art https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/2a51a60e3dda1533bd38ed331aea527d.jpg c94c5776ce01f5379877c12b1e374f8d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://natalie.macellaio.net/" target="_blank">http://natalie.macellaio.net/</a> Medium metal Location The location of the interview Dallas Texas Artist Statement My work marries a functional, aesthetic, and conceptual approach to metal. She works with concepts of adornment to create works that use the body to engage in conversations that draw directly from her personal life. “I was trained as a jeweler years ago, which brought me to understand the intricacies of creating work that is personal to each person wearing it and expresses parts of their life. The choice to work with precious metals has been because of their inherent strengths and weaknesses. I value silver, both for its culturally relevant quality and for its beauty. I employ copper for its strength and abundance. I am, after all, interested in creating something beautiful and desirable. As I continue to explore these personal narratives through these metals, themes that relate to my life as a mother begin to come through. My initial interest in small, intimate works, is finding a new source of expression that allows me to create intimate pieces that explore the relationships I have to my children.” Topic parent/child relationship motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natalie Marcellaio aesthetic clay Dallas installation jewelry metal mixed media motherhood parent/child relationship parenthood silver Texas https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4a5daa183dcc3c21fcd52dac95f50c3f.jpg 718e48a6f5c4d42c5a012aa1490a7e9f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Event Type Exhibition Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.com/2014-overview/" target="_blank">http://www.newmaternalisms.com/2014-overview/</a> <a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.ca." target="_blank">newmaternalisms.ca</a> Location The location of the interview Santiago Chile Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/104" target="_blank">Natalie Loveless</a> Soledad Novoa Donoso Curatorial Statement <div>New Maternalisms is a multi-pronged project conceived of by art historian, curator, and conceptual and performance artist <a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/Faculty_and_Staff/Faculty/Natalie_Loveless.aspx" target="_blank">Natalie S. Loveless</a> in 2010.  It consists of three curated exhibitions (New Maternalisms in 2012, held at the <a href="http://www.mercerunion.org/" target="_blank">Mercer Union</a>; New Maternalisms Chile in 2014, co-curated with<a href="http://www.artes.uchile.cl/noticias/40662/soledad-novoa-la-mujer-a-la-que-hay-que-tratar-con-cuidado" target="_blank">Soledad Novoa</a>, and held concurrently at the <a href="http://www.mac.uchile.cl/" target="_blank">Museo de Arte Contemporáneo </a> and the <a href="http://www.mnba.cl/617/w3-channel.html" target="_blank">Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts</a> in Santiago de Chile; and New Maternalisms Redux in 2016, held at the University of Alberta’s <a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/fab_gallery.aspx" target="_blank">FAB Gallery</a>), satellite events surrounding these (most notably the colloquium Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene, co-organized with <a href="http://sheenawilson.ca/" target="_blank">Dr. Sheena Wilson</a>), an individual three-year artistic research project, <a href="http://www.maternalecologies.ca/" target="_blank">Maternal Ecologies</a>, and publications (both catalogues and critical writings).</div> <div> </div> <div>The first New Maternalisms exhibition asked: Forty years after the intervention of feminist art, what is the experience of the daughters of that era who have become mothers? What are the discursive and material differences between early maternal artworks of the 1970s and those being produced in the first two decades of the 21st century? How might a return to the discourses that shaped the birth of feminist art help reshape how to think about the contours of political and activist art in today's cultural climate? Grounded in these questions, this exhibition brought together a group of artist who use performance to bring attention to the embodied, biological, and material enmeshment of early maternal practice in the context of feminist art theory and practice today.</div> <div> </div> <div>This second iteration of New Maternalisms was a co-curation with the Chilean curator Soledad Novoa. It brought together North American and European artist (curated by Loveless) with Chilean artists (curated by Novoa) to stage an international conversation on the status of the maternal in contemporary art. These works reflect the expressed need of many artists to find creative ways to integrate their practices as mothers, artists, curators, writers and teachers. By taking seriously the need to create from local conditions and materials, these practices give visibility and value to motherhood in art and as art.</div> <div> </div> <div>New Maternalisms Redux is the third and last in the New Maternalisms exhibition series (following Toronto 2012 and Santiago 2014). These exhibitions feature performance and project-based artists working with the maternal as a contemporary political and affective force. New Maternalisms Redux features five artists culled from the first two exhibitions, each of whom have been investigating the maternal, iteratively, for years. A three-day colloquium, <a href="http://newmaternalisms.squarespace.com/colloquium" target="_blank">Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene</a>, will be held in conjunction with the exhibition and include a number of prominent voices on feminist art and the maternal today (including Mary Kelly and Dr. Griselda Pollock as keynote participants). This colloquium, open to the public, brings crucial thinking on the anthropocene and anthropogenic climate change together with thinking on the maternal as metaphor, practice, and politics.</div>   Artists Catalina Bauer / Amelia Ibanez Yennyferth Becerra Carolina Hernández <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/160" target="_blank">Alejandra Herrera Silva</a> Loreto Pérez Ángela Ramirez Gabriela Rivera Alejandra Ugarte Ximena Zomosa <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank">Lenka Clayton</a> Leena Kela <a href="Courtney%20Kessel" target="_blank">Courtney Kessel</a> Tanya Lukin-Linklater <a href="Irene%20Lusztig" target="_blank">Irene Lusztig</a> Hélène Matte <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank">Jill Miller</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) June 25th - June 28th, August 27th Topic feminist art motherhood maternity maternal mother/daughter relationship political art activist art Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Maternalisms - Chile Chile feminism feminist art maternal maternity mother/daughter relationship motherhood political art Santiago https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/8f74b9cc5916aeb8936dfaf4d390aecf.jpg 34b0132e13eb6e7905b57af64177262d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Event Type Exhibition Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=226" target="_blank">http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php?m=program&id=226</a> <a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.ca." target="_blank">newmaternalisms.ca</a> Location The location of the interview Toronto Ontario Canada Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/104" target="_blank">Natalia Loveless</a> Curatorial Statement <div>New Maternalisms is a multi-pronged project conceived of by art historian, curator, and conceptual and performance artist <a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/Faculty_and_Staff/Faculty/Natalie_Loveless.aspx" target="_blank">Natalie S. Loveless</a> in 2010. It consists of three curated exhibitions (New Maternalisms in 2012, held at the <a href="http://www.mercerunion.org/" target="_blank">Mercer Union</a>; New Maternalisms Chile in 2014, co-curated with<a href="http://www.artes.uchile.cl/noticias/40662/soledad-novoa-la-mujer-a-la-que-hay-que-tratar-con-cuidado" target="_blank">Soledad Novoa</a>, and held concurrently at the <a href="http://www.mac.uchile.cl/" target="_blank">Museo de Arte Contemporáneo </a> and the <a href="http://www.mnba.cl/617/w3-channel.html" target="_blank">Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts</a> in Santiago de Chile; and New Maternalisms Redux in 2016, held at the University of Alberta’s <a href="http://www.artdesign.ualberta.ca/fab_gallery.aspx" target="_blank">FAB Gallery</a>), satellite events surrounding these (most notably the colloquium Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene, co-organized with <a href="http://sheenawilson.ca/" target="_blank">Dr. Sheena Wilson</a>), an individual three-year artistic research project, <a href="http://www.maternalecologies.ca/" target="_blank">Maternal Ecologies</a>, and publications (both catalogues and critical writings).</div> <div> </div> <div>The first New Maternalisms exhibition asked: Forty years after the intervention of feminist art, what is the experience of the daughters of that era who have become mothers? What are the discursive and material differences between early maternal artworks of the 1970s and those being produced in the first two decades of the 21st century? How might a return to the discourses that shaped the birth of feminist art help reshape how to think about the contours of political and activist art in today's cultural climate? Grounded in these questions, this exhibition brought together a group of artist who use performance to bring attention to the embodied, biological, and material enmeshment of early maternal practice in the context of feminist art theory and practice today.</div> <div> </div> <div>This second iteration of New Maternalisms was a co-curation with the Chilean curator Soledad Novoa. It brought together North American and European artist (curated by Loveless) with Chilean artists (curated by Novoa) to stage an international conversation on the status of the maternal in contemporary art. These works reflect the expressed need of many artists to find creative ways to integrate their practices as mothers, artists, curators, writers and teachers. By taking seriously the need to create from local conditions and materials, these practices give visibility and value to motherhood in art and as art.</div> <div> </div> <div>New Maternalisms Redux is the third and last in the New Maternalisms exhibition series (following Toronto 2012 and Santiago 2014). These exhibitions feature performance and project-based artists working with the maternal as a contemporary political and affective force. New Maternalisms Redux features five artists culled from the first two exhibitions, each of whom have been investigating the maternal, iteratively, for years. A three-day colloquium, <a href="http://newmaternalisms.squarespace.com/colloquium" target="_blank">Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene</a>, will be held in conjunction with the exhibition and include a number of prominent voices on feminist art and the maternal today (including Mary Kelly and Dr. Griselda Pollock as keynote participants). This colloquium, open to the public, brings crucial thinking on the anthropocene and anthropogenic climate change together with thinking on the maternal as metaphor, practice, and politics.</div> Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank">Jill Miller</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/160" target="_blank">Alejandra Herrera Silva</a> Lovisa Johansson Marlene Renaud-B Hélène Matte <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/search?query=lenka+clayton&submit_search=Search" target="_blank">Lenka Clayton</a> Beth Hall and Mark Cooley Masha Godovannaya Gina Miller Dillon Paul & Lindsey Wolkowicz Victoria Singh Alice de Visscher Christine Pountney Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Fri March 23rd - Sun March 25th Topic feminist art maternal motherhood maternity art and activism Gallery <a href="http://www.mercerunion.org/" target="_blank">Mercer Union</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Maternalisms - Toronto feminism feminist art maternal maternity motherhood performance works political art video works https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/f366b7c6dc4a321a765949dd4632f365.jpg abf1f9bc1f7e2bdb48b1d32d9d13d3a0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Title Exhibition Exhibition Website <a href="https://newmaternalisms.squarespace.com/2016-exhibition-overview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://newmaternalisms.squarespace.com/2016-exhibition-overview/</a> Location The location of the interview Edmonton Alberta Canada Curatorial Statement New Maternalisms Redux is the third and last in the New Maternalisms exhibition series (following Toronto 2012 and Santiago 2014). It features five artists drawn from the first two exhibitions: Lenka Clayton, Jess Dobkin, Alejandra Herrera, Courtney Kessel, & Jill Miller. The work of these artists represents a spectrum of experience; it includes queer and straight identified mothers, single and partnered mothers, mothers of differently abled children, mothers of twins and singletons, and a represents range of race/class/economic privilege. This range of positionalities inflects the performance and project-based work presented here -- work that investigates the maternal iteratively, as a political and affective force. Considered individually and together, these works engage with one another and the public, drawing the community into important conversations around what it means to mother, as a non-reductive, thinking-feeling and political practice, today. A three-day colloquium, <a href="http://www.newmaternalisms.com/colloquium-overview/">Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene</a>, is being held in conjunction with the exhibition, with participants drawn from the most prominent voices on feminist art and the maternal today. The keynote presentation is being delivered by internationally recognized feminist theorist and art historian, Dr. Griselda Pollock. This colloquium, open to the public, brings crucial thinking on the anthropocene and anthropogenic climate change together with thinking on the maternal as metaphor, practice, and politics. Accompanying the exhibition there will be a film screening at Edmonton’s <a href="http://www.metrocinema.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theater</a> (3:30 pm on May 13th). The screening features two shorts, <a href="http://sheenawilson.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sheena Wilson’s</a> PetroMama and <a href="http://ginamiller.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gina Miller’s</a> Family Tissues, and a full-length screening of <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/295" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Irene Lusztig’s </a>award-winning <a href="http://motherhoodarchives.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Motherhood Archives</a>. Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lenka Clayton</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/377">Jess Dobkin</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/160" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandra Herrera Silva</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/27" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Courtney Kessel</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jill Miller</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) May 12 — June 4, 2016 Topic motherhood maternity maternal partnered mothers single mothers political art Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Maternalisms: Redux California Edmonton maternal maternity motherhood partnered mothers political art single mothers https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/f0e1dff3fb61f336f392ab3e1919f30d.jpg a82562d4ffb8875f76de156dbff20bef Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.nicolacanavan.com" target="_blank">http://www.nicolacanavan.com</a> <a href="http://www.raisingtheskirt.com" target="_blank">http://www.raisingtheskirt.com</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nicolahuntercanavan/?fref=ts" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/nicolahuntercanavan/?fref=ts</a> Medium painting performance art Location The location of the interview Jarrow South Tyneside United Kingdom Artist Statement Over the last 10 years I have been developing an artistic practice which is rooted in image making and spans live work, documentations of its products & traces and the re-presentation of these in other forms. With performance at its core, I investigate themes around feminism, abjection and ritual with a focus on interpreting or creating experiences in my own body. I have an active interest in the anthropological body, exploring the ways that social, cultural and political dynamics shape the perception and understanding of the human body and how these interactions are interpreted through social engagement how they are controlled through mass media and the arts.  In 2014 I created '<a href="http://www.raisingtheskirt.com" target="_blank">Raising the Skirt</a><a href="http://www.raisingtheskirt.com" target="_blank">'</a> in collaboration with Dawn Felicia Knox, which has since had international success being named one of Dazed and Confused's photo series of the year 2015. RTS is a multi-layered arts project which calls for the (re)claiming of the cunt, we are working on representing a diverse and fierce femininity through re-appropriating the defiant act of raising the skirt which is buried deep into many of our cultures.  'Landing in Her Skin' began in the spring of 2015 and aims to document the transition of woman to mother and back again, being a mother comes with its own otherness, this project will follow the lives of women and their ever changing body. Biography Born in North East England (UK), Nicola Hunter (formerly Canavan) has been performing and showing work nationally and internationally since 2007 within programmes such as Momentum Festival (Brussels), ]performance s p a c e[ (London), Inbetween Time Festival (Bristol), City of Women (Ljubljana) and SPILL National Platform (Ipswitch). She has collaborated with Predrag Pajdic, Manuel Vason (Double Exposures) and Ernst Fischer and has been awarded the Artsadmin Bursary, the Artists International Development Fund and has been financially supported and mentored by Unlimited, Live Art Development Agency and Pacitti Company. Topic feminism abjection ritual aesthetics motherhood motherness human body Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nicola Hunter abjection aesthetics feminism human body motherhood motherless painting performance art ritual https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/cf4cc4550d6e4d25b03251940d63e611.jpg befd951a4f80991a076c1791571fcbb8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.NicoleMcCormickSantiago.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.NicoleMcCormickSantiago.com</a> Medium oil charcoal graphite monotype Location The location of the interview Virginia Artist Statement I have always painted my immediate surroundings in an effort to decipher the world around me. Often my works depict familar domestic scenes with simple yet layered narratives. My most recent works are a thinly veiled attempt to navigate my journey through the convoluted dynamics of parenthood and the unavoidable life transitions inherent on this journey. Topic motherhood domestic home children chaos birthday parties parenting child-rearing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nicole M. Santiago Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.noelash.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.noelash.com</a> Medium oil painting watercolor woodworking Artist Statement For two months my daughter refused to bathe. What was once a non-issue now haunted us both, and we each had our coping mechanisms: she begging and wailing and writhing, I waiting her out, struggling to keep her little skull from dashing on the porcelain. My sanity always felt in peril, and I stared deep into the foggy glow of the tiled walls. I could never predict the transition from weeping into giggling, the point when her little person couldn’t pour all her focus onto fighting me. Distracted by the pleasure of warm water, she somehow forgot to keep crying, and I’d breathe to help my brain cool down. Topic motherhood childrearing childbirth Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. WHY MOM Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Noël Ash https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/e3bcc2ffa84da728f160026030dccd08.png 64b49192a1c6ce3b24318751636f291b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Adrienne Rich Publisher W. W. Norton & Company Date of Publication October 1, 1976 ISBN 13 9780393312843 ISBN 10 0393312844 Topic feminism gender birth feminist theory embodied motherhood patriarchy institution 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 Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution birth embodied motherhood feminism feminist theory gender institution of motherhood patriarchy https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/e11a50043df02a6258a1e5f2e225791f.pdf e255f7bd963b7e28da63f0beecf440aa https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/22bd0064c357d62b2f7e45d3cd75d0e7.png 03fb0ebf17424796d0cf52853cb60136 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Title Of Women Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.rockawayartistsalliance.org/" target="_blank">https://www.rockawayartistsalliance.org/</a> Gallery Studio 7 Gallery, Fort Tilden Location The location of the interview Rockaway New York Curatorial Statement In celebration of Women’s History Month, Rockaway Artist Alliance honors women and women artists of our generation. Madison Ohmane Artist Statement: Artificial Human Milk The disconnect between mother and infant. The mother’s milk is removed from the breasts with a machine, it is transported, it is cooled for preservation, it is stored and readily available for consumption at a later date, it is consumed by the infant every 3 hours in her presence or not. The direct relationship between mother and infant is removed. The process becomes mechanical. The milk becomes a product. The mother’s milk becomes artificial. When the mother/infant relationship is diminished, what is the end result? What happens when the infant is removed from the mother’s womb and placed in an artificial environment? What happens when the substance made specifically for the infant is replaced with something artificial? When does science take a step back and let nature resume its course? Or not? This work, Artificial Human Milk utilizes familiar plastic milk jugs and infant bottle nipples to represent food as commodity. The objects are placed at eye height to confront the viewer’s relationship with their own children; with their own mother. Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/51" target="_blank">Madison Ohmane</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) March 10 - April 8, 2018 Topic food systems breast milk breast feeding breast pump pumping bottle milk jug Related Resource <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/51" target="_blank">http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/51</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Of Women bottle breast milk breast pump breastfeeding food systems labor milk jug New York pumping Rockaway https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/d2416b4409aa9b0892b7301325ccd2e6.jpg 425954069723b1403404859445447984 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Composite Tension Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.oliviadefleuriot.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">oliviadefleuriot.com</a> Topic maternal body domestic labor mother/child intersubjectivity Medium fabric yarn thread foam wire metal ink paper Artist Statement As an artist and mother, I interweave the performative gestures of motherhood in my soft sculptural forms, consisting of fabric, yarn, and thread. My recent work, presented in the four-part installation, "Composite Tension" ("Corpus", "Slew", "Cleave" and "Tensile"), is informed by a personal archive, "Documentation Series: Year Off" (2018), where I took videos of my maternal body in relation to my child. I re-watched the videos each day and wrote my observations in two notebooks. The notebooks recorded my anxieties of being a good mother; separation, and the weaning process. I shredded and incorporated the handwritten pages into the sculpture "Corpus". The pregnant body is a vessel for containment, yet it exudes and spills out. The messiness extends to how the pregnant/maternal body exists as a part of another and is undefinable within patriarchal-capitalistic society. Through the discourse of craftivism, I investigate the tensioned relationship between motherhood and the artworld. The sculptures in "Composite Tension" are more than just undefinable messy bodies—they are messy bodies with the potential to speak about care within an institution. The softness, labour, and time speak to care. As I place them in the gallery space they remain as caring objects; as soft undefinable bodies. They are messy bodies; they are political bodies. Location The location of the interview British Columbia Canada Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Olivia de Fleuriot Perry Title A name given to the resource Olivia de Fleuriot Perry and paper domestic labour fabric foam ink maternal body metal mother/child intersubjectivity thread wire yarn https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/df8b63c31813a8dcced1cb565a1117ee.jpg b1c79e85ec8f35fbbed4340a4306feee Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://Www.Oonahyland.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Www.Oonahyland.com</a> Medium printmaking sculpture artists books Artist Statement I'm interested in how Silence from a trauma affects the descendents of a person. Forms of epigenetic history . How memory can be erased , masked and hidden and the consequences of doing so. I'm making work about the Magdalene laundries and mother and baby home. I am a child of a victim of these abusive homes in Ireland. Topic Active Forgetting Project memory trauma transgenerational trauma mother and baby homes Bon Secours Tuam silence haptic art transparency installation book art frottage Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oona Hyland https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/7e71b299cd76686a987903cbf46578e1.jpg e76881e23a6c0672e611b81cfb48c7c7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.artpatti.com" target="_blank">www.artpatti.com</a> Topic Child care motherhood postpartum body maternal mental health Medium Mixed media time based, social-practice painting Artist Statement Patti Maciesz is a Polish-American artist and curator based in Oakland, California. Her paintings explore place, narrative and identity and blend digital and analog techniques. Her work has been exhibited in Paris, Warsaw, Vermont, New York and Oakland. She graduated with a degree in Visual Arts from Bennington College in 2007 and later managed the Aldrich Editions program at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. She has since curated multiple international exhibitions including the inaugural exhibition at the Centre Du Mode et du Dessin for Chic Art Fair in Paris, Nowa Soda, an artist-in-residency program in Krakow and most recently Country Singer, a digital art show at Heron Arts in San Francisco featuring artist Dmitri Cherniak. Her recent work takes on the secrecy surrounding postpartum life by presenting the often brutal and sometimes comic realities of early parenthood. In a series of watercolor paintings the artist shares relatable and intimate portraits of her changing body, as well as documentation of the endless minutiae and unrewarded sacrifice of caring for a new child. Part figurative abstraction, part charting and time-sheet, Maciesz resists the invisibility that envelopes mothers with her work. Location The location of the interview Oakland California Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Patti Maciesz Title A name given to the resource Patti Maciesz body California childcare maternal mental health mental health motherhood Oakland postpartum body postpartum maternal body https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/b28d7b3e1ffebe4779f85c42674c74ff.jpg 4ec163cf3c9935af08dc35e716b618c4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://paulflippen.com/section/206602_The_Birds_and_The_Bees.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://paulflippen.com/section/206602_The_Birds_and_The_Bees.html</a> Topic birth family planning gestation Medium painting Artist Statement This body of work, inspired by the birth of my son, explores the complications of love, pleasure, and the act of creation – literal and metaphorical, biological and artistic. Pollinating birds and bees suggestively interact with abstractions derived from decorative patterns of antique marriage certificates – a union of instinctive desire with cultural expectations of formalized relationships. These crisply painted elements are layered over digital transfers of the chemical synthesis of progesterone (the “pregnancy hormone” necessary for healthy fetal development, and a major ingredient in many forms of birth control). These images are further layered over manipulated lace patterns found on internet photographs of lingerie and wedding dresses – mechanized patterns that, like lace itself, exist simultaneously to display and obscure. Location The location of the interview Colorado USA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Paul Flippen Title A name given to the resource Paul Flippen https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/34eb41f17690c26bca71da6ee75b6488.jpg f446039b229acae194df2ff8f62c50e1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.paulthulin.com/">https://www.paulthulin.com/</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview Richmond Virginia USA Topic photography poetry personal histories father daughter Maine family myths personal identity memory folklore Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/375">Pine Tree Ballads, Candela Gallery</a> Publications A catalog or monograph published by the artist <a href="https://store.candelabooks.com/store/pine-tree-ballads">Pine Tree Ballads</a> Artist Statement <div id="event-item-type-metadata-curatorial-statement" class="element"> <div class="element-text"> In the early 1900s, artist <a href="https://candelabooks.cmail20.com/t/y-l-kkjkduy-ttuyktttf-t/">Paul Thulin</a>‘s great-grandfather settled on an island off the coast of Maine because it resembled his homeland of Sweden. Over a century later, his family returns to the same area, Gray’s Point, each summer. Throughout his life, Thulin’s great-grandfather shared exquisitely detailed accounts of early settlers at the New England apple orchard; Such characters include a one-legged ship cook, a widowed schoolteacher, and an ingenious Native American blacksmith. The tales were an intricate mix of facts and lore that fueled the imagination and, on occasion, had the power to transform daily floorboard creaks and shadows into enduring ancestral spirits. Pine Tree Ballads is a poetic memoir, featuring the artist’s daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother as a single protean character (or multiple characters?) vibrating in time, navigating the mysteries and menace of a shared ancestral forest. This deeply personal photographic sequence is part visual narrative of family myths and part origin story. Pine Tree Ballads is fueled by both truth and imagination, which, in many instances are the fundamental ingredients of our personal history. The “docu-literary” structure of this monograph celebrates and fully exploits the duplicitous nature of photography/text to be simultaneously interpreted as both fact and fiction. At the surface, this project explores the emotive, contextual, and material constructs of history, culture, personal identity, memory, and folklore. </div> </div> <div id="event-item-type-metadata-artists" class="element"></div> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paul Thulin daughter family myths father folklore Maine memory personal histories personal identity photography poetry Richmond USA Virginia https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/9fab55cbc2c288c792bdc0a76c2b8417.jpg 4aecbbeee16959a8cb410b391a56f44e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.paulachambers.co.uk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.paulachambers.co.uk/index.html</a> Medium sculpture installation Location The location of the interview United Kingdom Artist Statement My mother was not a feminist, yet growing up in 1970s suburban north London I was witness to, and complicit in, her active refusal to conform to the expectations of a good housewife. Cleaning, tidying, dusting, washing up, were all low on the list of my mother’s priorities, instead she played tennis, she grew vegetables, she went out dancing; my sister and I were left to our own devices. As a feminist artist, I have adopted my mother’s domestic dissent, integrating it as philosophy into the processes and outcomes of my art making practice. I do not have a studio but make art in my kitchen; I rarely clean or tidy up, I utilize my domestic space and the objects that inhabit it, as a temporalized site of domestic resistance. The domestic objects and household ornaments of our childhoods take on an emotional value that shape our notions of self; that construct significant personal identities. In the body of work " "Transcendental Housework", I subvert these domestic objects that haunt our retrogressive imagination. This is dysfunctional furniture and ambivalent ornamentation. Sculptural objects, both floor based and wall based seem to lurk or loiter in the gallery space, they have a whiff of discontented anthropomorphism. Topic motherhood feminism childhood domestic space housework Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/404" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The M Word, One Paved Court Gallery, 1 – 12 May 2019</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paula Chambers childhood domestic feminist installations motherhood sculpture United Kingdom https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ddbc6fc00f72815bc30b355db9bb822a.jpg ee57308a469e31946301e2ad48ab9a46 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.pennydavis.com" target="_blank">www.pennydavis.com</a> Topic making with children play toys food naughtiness mother's verb list Medium sculpture video performance Location The location of the interview Leicester United Kingdom Artist Statement I am an artist working primarily in sculpture but also, drawing and video performance. I am interested in exploring the connections between maternal subjectivity and sculptural form and process. Building upon the legacy of artists such as Barbara Hepworth and Phyllida Barlow but also inspired by Richard Serra’s ‘Verb List’, I make sculptural assemblages using materials for their specific values as they can be applied to my experience of motherhood. Most recently this practice has extended to video and performance and I have begun to use my own children as assistants in the work I produce. Aesthetically and politically, I am engaged with a history of abstract sculpture which carries the weight of a very masculine modernism, minimalism and post-minimalism. Yet, I am particularly interested in how Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theories of maternal experience intersect with existing assumptions of abstraction in contemporary sculpture, of how sculpture might reveal the physical and emotional tensions of maternal ambivalence. I am interested in how abstraction can articulate maternal embodiment and the phenomenological experience of motherhood and how the interactions between form and material might reveal this. The sculpture has become concerned with this relationship between mother and child as temporary and contingent. The materials are both fragile and of low value: willow, packaging, polystyrene, building materials. There is a combination of natural and synthetic, using materials and processes to explore tensions associated with fine art and craft. The integrity of support is always in question in the sculptures dependency upon the environment. The viewer is never quite sure of which part supports what, and if you took a part away, there is the feeling that the entire structure would fall apart. An illusionistic treatment of material generates a mystery around its original identity – natural apes synthetic and vice versa. Within the construction, qualities of weight and strength are confused by their placement in relation to other sculptural parts or to the architecture. Surfaces are intensely worked to create a contradiction in scale: the viewer must physically engage with the sculpture whilst also pausing to observe intimate surface detail. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Penny Davis Title A name given to the resource Penny Davis food Leicester play sculpture toys United Kingdom video performance https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/a7296982f9389d9613f0563156394712.jpg f2a0fcbc4a6fc7057dabd109b125d2a2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. ISBN 13 978-1-927335-92-5 Year of Publication December 2014 Editor Amber Kinser Kryn Freehling-Burton Terri Hawkes Contributor The author of an article within an anthology Courtney E. Brooks Kelly A. Dorgan Laura Endacott Bronwyn Preece Martha E. Gonzalez Joani Moartenson Lisa Sandlos <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/104" target="_blank">Natalie Loveless</a> Kelly Jeske Elyse M. Warford Lynne M. Webb Pavna Sodhi Sheilah Wilson <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/200" target="_blank">Jennie Klein</a> J. Lauren Johnson Date of Publication January 7, 2015 Topic motherhood activism public space mothers performance Publisher Demeter Press City of Publication Bradford Province of Publication Ontario Country of Publication Canada Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Performing Motherhood: Artistic, Activist, and Everyday Enactments activism motherhood mothering performance https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/f492c04be0739a4aa61ee5eb7ffaf37c.jpg 8de212f0320998023402cb3ca3373db9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Editor <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/171">Csilla Klenyánszki</a> Contributor The author of an article within an anthology Bogyó Virág (Graphic Designer) City of Publication Budapest Amsterdam Date of Publication April 2019 ISBN 13 978-90-829885-0-5 Topic artist mother, artist/mother motherhood care child care family and career domestic space home isolation humor maternal work mother artist identity chaos naptime motherhood and creative practice stay-at-home parent studio time work/life balance survival handbook Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pillars of Home artist mother artist/mother book Care chaos child care domestic space family and career home humor isolation maternal work mother artist identity motherhood motherhood and creative practice naptime stay-at-home parent studio time survival handbook work/life balance https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ebe31be06a0247e8220400e32b3dca10.png d4a5fdc82f045b1300bbb08e441029fe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://candelabooks.com/gallery/exhibition/pine-tree-ballads/#1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://candelabooks.com/gallery/exhibition/pine-tree-ballads/#1</a> Gallery Candela Gallery Location The location of the interview Richmond Virginia USA Curator Gordon Stettinius of Candela Books Curatorial Statement In the early 1900s, artist <a href="https://candelabooks.cmail20.com/t/y-l-kkjkduy-ttuyktttf-t/">Paul Thulin</a>‘s great-grandfather settled on an island off the coast of Maine because it resembled his homeland of Sweden. Over a century later, his family returns to the same area, Gray’s Point, each summer. Throughout his life, Thulin’s great-grandfather shared exquisitely detailed accounts of early settlers at the New England apple orchard; Such characters include a one-legged ship cook, a widowed schoolteacher, and an ingenious Native American blacksmith. The tales were an intricate mix of facts and lore that fueled the imagination and, on occasion, had the power to transform daily floorboard creaks and shadows into enduring ancestral spirits. Pine Tree Ballads is a poetic memoir, featuring the artist’s daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother as a single protean character (or multiple characters?) vibrating in time, navigating the mysteries and menace of a shared ancestral forest. This deeply personal photographic sequence is part visual narrative of family myths and part origin story. Pine Tree Ballads is fueled by both truth and imagination, which, in many instances are the fundamental ingredients of our personal history. The “docu-literary” structure of this monograph celebrates and fully exploits the duplicitous nature of photography/text to be simultaneously interpreted as both fact and fiction. At the surface, this project explores the emotive, contextual, and material constructs of history, culture, personal identity, memory, and folklore. Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/373">Paul Thulin</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) February 28 – April 20, 2019 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pine Tree Ballads daughter family myths father folklore Maine memory personal histories personal identity photography poetry Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://monyarowegallery.com/artist.php?aID=259" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://monyarowegallery.com/artist.php?aID=259</a> Medium acrylic on panel Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement I make paintings centering around my daily life. I paint what I know or think I know about the everyday experience of being alive. The paintings tend to explore the intimacy of domestic space The quieter familiar and private moments at home or abroad. I paint self portraits and portraits of my husband and child. They reflect part of the ritual or routine of life. This is the world of my home, wherever that maybe. I work from photos but also from the memory of those moments. It is what is there and sometimes from what I want to be there. Like any work from life there are a lot of truths and untruths. Topic birth pregnancy breastfeeding domestic life Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Polina Barskaya https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/accbbb35cdd952b8f36894b64958f599.jpg 178a9fe4c388a01cf88a4586c9eb6dc8 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/65c32696d032bd3edaf1ab0a26d59107.pdf 530169cce6592bdb12a9867f68e63abb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://pollypenrose.com/" target="_blank">http://pollypenrose.com/</a> Medium photography Topic self portrait female body femininity women social norms objectification pregnancy Artist Statement Polly Penrose studied Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts in London. She went on to work in Fashion Styling and after that worked for the photographer Tim Walker as his Studio Manager. She has always taken photographs, but started to take the practice seriously when she entered and won a competition held by the London Photographic Association in 2008. She held her first solo show, ‘A Body of Work’, at the Downstairs at Mother Gallery, London, in May 2014. She was part of a group show, Dear Sylvia, at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, March 2015 and the Hellerau Photography Award, in February 2016. She was shortlisted for the D&AD Photography Next Photographer Award in April 2015. Her work has featured on Dazed Digital, The British Journal of Photography, The Huffington Post, and many other influential blogs. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Polly Penrose female body femininity objectification photography self portrait social norms women https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/7be9d42c6621aed4dd2891926803b603.png abbefbc5fb6ad97865859a8553e0b502 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Mary Kelly Publisher Routledge & Kegan Paul Date of Publication 1983 ISBN 13 9780710094957 ISBN 10 0710094957 Topic art and motherhood feminist art mother-child relationship maternal desire maternal identity Lacan formation of a mother embodied motherhood motherhood as social construct language acquisition of language psychoanalysis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Post-partum Document acquisition of language embodied motherhood formation of a mother Lacan language Mary Kelly maternal identity mother/child relationship postpartum postpartum document psychoanalysis https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/0a55fbeef0204c027f84971272ef3cf3.png c41cf92753227ddba10ed464722ec779 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka 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. Topic artist network blog curating zine art prize Mother House studio collective interdisciplinary online gallery About ProCreate Project is a platform aiming to provide practical help and financial support for artists, enabling them to continue producing work during We aim to help artists build and combine their new existence as mothers with their practice. Mission – Build a platform that can provide practical help and financial support for artists and help artists build and combine their existence as mothers with their practice. – Connect artists with the forefront of creative business, creating networks and links with relevant movements, scenes and diverse niche groups. – Support, showcase and promote artist’s projects through on and off line events, activities and campaigns. – Develop communities that encourage open discussions between mother-artists and audience. – Provide space, facilities and drop-in childcare services to enable creative development. Organization Website <a href="http://www.procreateproject.com/" target="_blank">http://www.procreateproject.com/</a> Organzation Director Dyana Gravina Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource ProCreate Project artist network blog breastfeeding pregnancy https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/be105ab1dae6c57532d77b378ad6954b.jpg 8107421bcc1973a1681e3cd0ae314ea9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Location The location of the interview Barnstaple Devon United Kingdom Topic birth pregnancy research interdisciplinary midwifery women and gender studies social justice early parenthood research institute About Project AfterBirth began an exhibition intended to contribute to an interdisciplinary research initiative led by Project AfterBirth and a team of academics from the fields of obstetrics, mental health, midwifery, media studies, social justice, and women and gender studies, which is aimed at shedding light on modern pregnancy and birth practices and their impact on 21st century early parenthood experiences. Organization Website <a href="https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/</a> Organzation Director <a href="https://milaoshin1.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Mila Oshin</a> Kris Jager Gallery <a href="http://www.whitemoose.co.uk/site/" target="_blank">White Moose</a> Curator <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Mila Oshin</a> <a href="https://drunkwithjoy.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Kris Jager</a> Artists Alison O’Neill Amanda West <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/30" target="_blank">Belinda Kochanowska</a> Carole Evans Chris Anthem Clare Archibald <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/27" target="_blank">Courtney Kessel</a> Csilla Nagy Danielle Hobbs <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/135" target="_blank">Debbie Lee</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/31" target="_blank">Eti Wade</a> Geoffrey Harrison <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/32" target="_blank">Helen Sargeant</a> Hester Berry Ione Rucquoi <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/36" target="_blank">Jana Kasalova</a> Jenny Lewis Josie Beszant Laura James Wray <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/111" target="_blank">Lu Heintz</a> Madison Omahne <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/37" target="_blank">Magda Stawarska Beavan</a> Marilyn Kyle <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/38" target="_blank">Rachel Fallon</a> Rocio Saenz Ruth Gray <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/35" target="_blank">Sasha Waters Freyer</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/11" target="_blank">Sarah Sudhoff</a> Tareg Morris <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/62" target="_blank">Trish Morrissey</a> Event Type Exhibition Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) Sat 3 Oct 2015 – Fri 13 Nov 2015 Curatorial Statement The triumph of new motherhood. Stillbirth. Full-time fatherhood. Single parenthood. Miscarriage. Bringing up a child near a warzone. Bilingual speech development. Postnatal depression. Infertility. Adoption. These are just some of the themes dealt with in the 39 works of art showcased as part of Project AfterBirth; the first ever international exhibition on the subject of early parenthood, launching at White Moose gallery, UK, this October. Each of the 39 works in the exhibition – which spans the visual, performance, literary, film and digital arts – were made in the 21st century and represent the personal pregnancy, birth or new parenthood experiences of 30 international contemporary male and female artists. Due to the lingering taboo status of parenthood in the contemporary art world and its perceived inferiority as a subject, most of the works have never been shown publicly before. At times hilarious and at times deeply moving, the exhibition stands to leave a lasting impression on parents, but will also resonate with anyone in terms of their own individual birth and childhood journeys. The exhibition is also a first in demonstrating the profound influence pregnancy, birth and new parenthood experiences can have on the practice of 21st century female and male artists. Exhibition Website <a href="https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Project AfterBirth birth early parenthood England London midwifery pregnancy research research institute social justice United Kingdom women and gender studies https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/43d6ba07672bbe457f67070ee1dc0c21.jpg ad6d4c4447e83d9a89e63284384ef976 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.qianamestrich.com/hard-to-place" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.qianamestrich.com/hard-to-place</a> <a href="http://www.qianamestrich.com/photography-trust-your-struggle" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.qianamestrich.com/photography-trust-your-struggle</a> Medium photography book Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Artist Statement <h1>Hard To Place</h1> For all loves never allowed to be. Hard To Place is a true story about race, family and the child welfare system in post-war Britain. Combining confidential, UK government documentation with archival and (auto)biographical photography, this series traces the experience of Joseph, an orphan boy of Nigerian and Irish parentage growing up in 1960s/70s London. As a “half-cast(e)” child, in England, Joseph was considered “hard to place” amongst the mostly white, adoptive families. Joseph is my husband. On our first date he nervously told me his life story, continuously pulling at his sleeves to hide the ink of bad decisions made during his teenage years as a black skinhead. The little boy seen in Hard To Place is our son. The images in the book provide a visual alternative to the official, master narrative of child welfare that many mixed-race children are imprisoned by. <div> </div> <h1>Trust Your Struggle (2010)</h1> In 2010 during the months after giving birth to my son, I turned to the camera to work through a period of intense loneliness I had never felt before. Feelings of joy and love for my new baby came with equal sentiments of fear and isolation. This “post-partum” situation challenged me to make photographs within the spatial limits of our apartment and to visualize my entrance into motherhood. During this time, my photographic practice allowed me to hold on to a creative aspect of my previous self that I felt was slipping with every diaper change and breastmilk-pumping session. Trust Your Struggle is a photographic essay that documents what is often considered taboo when publicly discussing the new mother experience: the isolation, hectic days, sleepless nights, physical pain and those rare, selfish moments. Topic motherhood child welfare mixed-race children post-partum early motherhood breastmilk baby food baths Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/388">Mother Load</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Qiana Mestrich baby food breast pump breastfeeding breastmilk child wellfare early motherhood early parenthood mixed-race children wellfare https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/eb698806c6a1cb520282a2c0ce582823.jpg 0ed90458b384f9363f9e508d9a23730f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://criticalmediartstudio.com/index.php/2017/10/opening-of-quality-time-an-exhibition-by-the-artmamas-at-the-artbutus-gallery-in-the-coast-capital-library-kpu-kwantlen-polytechnic-october-2-27-2017/" target="_blank">http://criticalmediartstudio.com/index.php/2017/10/opening-of-quality-time-an-exhibition-by-the-artmamas-at-the-artbutus-gallery-in-the-coast-capital-library-kpu-kwantlen-polytechnic-october-2-27-2017/</a> Curator Art/Mamas Gallery The Artbutus Gallery in the Coast Capital Library , KPU | Kwantlen Polytechnic University Curatorial Statement This exhibition brings together individual works from A.M. (art/mamas), a group of Vancouver-based artist mothers, whose discussions have centred on motherhood and art practice and the intersections between reproductive and artistic labour. A.M. aims to elaborate a model for a feminist, women-centred, sustainable creation process that integrates life and all of its chaos into a viable and valued way of being and creating without being marginalized by and excluded from the male-dominated art system. Location The location of the interview The Artbutus Gallery in the Coast Capital Library , KPU | Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC, Canada Artists Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda Damla Tamer Sarah Shamash Maria Anna Parolin Heather Passmore Natasha McHardy prOphecy sun Robyn Laba Matilda Aslizadeh Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) October 2 - October 27, 2017 Topic artistic labor feminism motherhood and art practice Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Quality Time Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Heather Passmore artistic labor Canada feminism mother artist mother as artist reproductive labor sustainable practice https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/f45a30a2bf49947ced4c710cb090de9c.jpg 872724fec44356adf0bea0f68899b278 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://balance.ddtr.net/" target="_blank">http://balance.ddtr.net/</a> <a href="https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&isbn=9781409426134&lang=cy-GB" target="_blank">Reconciling Art and Mothering - Book</a> Medium writing curating printmaking book arts Location The location of the interview Bethel College Kansas United States Artist Statement <div>Dr. Rachel Epp Buller is a feminist-art historian-printmaker-book artist-professor-mother of three whose art and scholarship speak to these intersections. In her dual practice of critical and creative work, she turns to writing, making, and curating to increase the visibility of issues around motherhood, care work, and the maternal body. Her maternal writing includes books - Reconciling Art and Mothering, Mothering Mennonite, and Have Milk, Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding - and essays in n.paradoxa, Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, Studies in the Maternal, and in many edited collections. Her recent prints and artist books explore family identities, shared knowledge, imagined histories, and textual references to traditions of fine handwork passed on between generations of women. As a professor at a liberal arts college, she values collaboration in many forms and frequently works with colleagues across disciplinary boundaries. </div> <div> </div> Topic maternal body shifting identities care work breastfeeding parent-child collaboration maternal collaboration familial heritage handwork traditions Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rachel Epp Buller bookarts breastfeeding care taking care work curating familial heritage handwork traditions maternal body maternal collaboration parent/child collaboration parent/child relationships printmaking shifting identities writing https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/3f61edaef3afa8a13498d9359c1d0ed4.jpeg ca180c84e21a95b63475c380cc9e81b7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.rachelfallon.com/">http://www.rachelfallon.com/</a> <a href="http://www.procreateproject.com/portfolio/rachel-fallon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.procreateproject.com/portfolio/rachel-fallon/</a> Medium sculpture peformance photography metal textile paper Location The location of the interview Bray County Wicklow Ireland Artist Statement Fallon’s work explores themes of protection and defence in domestic and maternal realms. Her practice encompasses sculptural work in metal, textile and paper; drawing, performance and photography. Conflicts and ambivalences within familiar territories inform the initial choice of materials and technique for each work. The methods of making are crucial to revealing new ideas and resolving thought processes intrinsic to the original starting point of the piece. As well as an individual practice, Fallon also works in collaborative groups and collectives, both in Ireland and England. The two disparate ways of working feed into one another and are therefore equally important parts of her practice. Topic protection defense maternal protection maternal defense ambivalence Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rachel Fallon ambivalence Bray County Wicklow defense Ireland maternal ambivalence maternal defense maternal protection metal paper performance protection sculpture textile https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/1591489c57d509f9f451a6b4edfb5099.jpg 8108ba2ce98c407e42682ffd0402d51f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.rachelfoster77.com/" target="_blank">http://www.rachelfoster77.com/</a> Medium oil painting Artist Statement The voice of the mother is strong in my domestic scenes; she is an omniscient force, a conductor, or a referee. Chaos and clutter are represented with repetition and an uncomfortable relationship with perspective. The drama and disruption are tempered with an overt appreciation for the physicality of the act of painting and the closeness of family. Building the domestic environment with color and pattern, and representing the daily conflicts and developments with symbolism and metaphor are some of the ways I tell the story of the evolution of the family. The unexpected crisis has become a distinct character in my paintings, an insistent, loud, and powerful figure. Relationships shift and strain under the weight of the addition, creating opportunities for growth, and causing each member to adjust expectations held dear for the future. The unappealing and frightening moments are as beautiful as the peaceful and happy times, and require people to reevaluate their priorities. Topic children domestic scenes chaos maternal subjectivity maternal voice Location The location of the interview Olsburg Kansas Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rachel Foster chaos domestic scene maternal subjectivity maternal voice oil painting https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/05666a63e0ef3f76453521ec0c8ab194.jpg 0dc0a1d6d16263d3b3964fffd32ff5b0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.rachellebeaudoin.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.rachellebeaudoin.com/</a> Medium video performance animation Location The location of the interview Peterborough New Hampshire Artist Statement In performances, videos, I confront stereotypes and tropes of gender representation to create a space of uncertainty. I research and deconstruct the ways in which women are portrayed in popular culture and on the Internet. I contrast the natural world and the outdoors, to trends, themes and memes from the web, mashing up Kardashian culture with the rural, forested environment in New Hampshire where I live. Thighbrows, thigh gaps, and facial masks become fodder for my work. I use humor and sarcasm as an entry point into issues of gender, power and class in order to call out the invisible structures and sexism that pervades both the physical world and the online world. Masks, makeup and identity are also a fascination of mine. Often employing physical comedy, my videos document performances in which I explore the pressures and contradictions I face on a daily basis. I push concepts from web videos and advertising to the absurd so that the content becomes humorous and sometimes alarming. Since becoming a mother, this experience has become part of my work. I have created videos to address the infantilization of expectant mothers and reality of caring for children and parents. Personal, sometimes awkward, yet open and inviting, the work emphasizes the physicality of the body, showing both vulnerability and strength, following in the tradition of feminist performance art. This work comes from a place of experience and honesty. Topic sandwich generation biodata infantilization of pregnant people body changes stretch marks invisible labor emotional labor Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Maternochronics You Are Not Wonderful Just Because You Are a Mother Artist/Mother Podcast, online, juried by Qiana Mestrich In Union, Remotely, Shaker Museum, Mount Lebanon, NY Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rachelle Beaudoin https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/db19ba996faba1b04f977ceacc206848.JPG a8ddc4156a9c5ea7ce970fd275ca270a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.ArtistRaulGonzalez.com">www.ArtistRaulGonzalez.com</a> Topic stay-at-home parent fatherhood gender roles primary caregiver domestic labor identity labor Medium drawing painting performance Artist Statement My work explores topics such as work, fatherhood, identity, gender roles, construction, labor, the working class, identity, and abstraction. I use versatile methods of painting, drawing, printmaking, performance, and dance. I believe in demystifying the canvas, redefining social stereotypes, and working towards evolving as an individual, father, and artist. I use my artwork to share my personal experience and to educate. I also use it as a place to share energy, joy, and love. What we create is both a reflection of the internal self and the world we absorb. I am constantly exploring new cultures through music, dance, and art. Through my experiences, the artwork I create evolves just as well. My motto is Werk. Hustle. Sleep Repeat. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Raul Gonzalez Title A name given to the resource Raul Gonzalez abstraction domestic labor drawing fatherhood gender roles identity painting performance primary caretaker stay-at-home parent working class https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/587721c91608b1837e4c8f5d20cb076f.jpg bd97ddd3f5bc528d7d9bf6ed84761a83 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="rebeccaackermann.com/art" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rebeccaackermann.com/art</a> Medium clay sculpture Location The location of the interview San Francisco California Artist Statement I sculpt tiny clay foods and household items in an attempt to reclaim domestic space separated from the actual highly gendered labor of caretaking. My art practice grew out of my need to care for my own mental health while working and parenting my daughter. I have found that when I'm able to create space for my own work, caring for my child, my family, and my community nutures and expands my mental health and sense of self. When I don't reserve any energy for my own growth and processing, caretaking can feel stunting, overwhelming, and like a minefield of anxiety and obligation. Topic clay, cooking cooking domesticity motherhood sculpture Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2021, Care Virtual Exhibition Curated by Kaylan Buteyn and Benz Amataya Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rebecca Ackermann https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/607ebf6e27fdc9711bbb2e7b366a97f2.jpg ded7ea99b9b7f4b5827176e97e88cb55 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.rebecca-silberman.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.rebecca-silberman.com/&source=gmail&ust=1558475421184000&usg=AFQjCNFwi0u_fzEKNRjDRoUA_ZXf33cEwg">https://www.rebecca-silberman.com/</a> <a href="https://procreateanthology.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/rebecca-silberman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://procreateanthology.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/rebecca-silberman/</a> Medium tintype Location The location of the interview Virginia Artist Statement "On roughly the same day each month for nearly 14 years, I have made a full body portrait of my daughter, Rosalee, on a black backdrop, spanning from newborn to, now, a young woman. The project, which was first exhibited in early 2014, a month after my daughter Rosalee turned 12, consisted of 144 8” x 10” tintype plates. While this started out as something I intended to pursue only during my daughter’s first year of life, it quickly developed into a compulsion of record-keeping, which also includes notebooks full of writing and drawings." -Rebecca Silberman, from the <a href="https://procreateanthology.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/rebecca-silberman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(Pro)Create Anthology</a> Topic portrait newborn record keeping daughter Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/391" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Care and Feeding: The Art of Parenthood, Palo Alto Art Center, 2018</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rebecca Silberman daughter motherhood newborn portrait record keeping tintype Virginia https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/98015d3663fd364a7813c78243b97252.png 131b8cae3dc2815811716d4bc54ebfc5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Editor <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/47">Rachel Epp Buller</a> Contributor The author of an article within an anthology Heather Belknap Jensen Marguerite Gerard Deborah J Wilk Paula J Birnbaum Jessica Dallow Andrea Liss Erin Barnett Cecily Cheo Elzbieta Korolczuk Charles Reeve Mariangeles Soto-Diaz Diana Quinby Sandra Matthews <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/114">Gail Rebhan</a> Jessica D Clements Jackie Skrzynski <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/196" target="_self">Denise Ferris</a> Maru Ituarte Erika Swinson Joan Linder Nane Ariadne Jordan <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/204">Elizabeth MacKenzie</a> Natasha Christopher <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Myrel Chernick</a> Publisher Ashgate City of Publication Farnham Province of Publication Surrey Country of Publication England Date of Publication 2012 ISBN 13 9781409426134 Topic feminist art theory feminist theory The Feminist Art Project art history maternal body mother as artist curating breastfeeding motherhood childbirth Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reconciling Art and Mothering art history breastfeeding childbirth curating feminist art theory feminist theory maternal body mother as artist motherhood The Feminist Art Project https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/83cfde19b1d5a417654dfc04385a4554.jpg 3e6ad2bf48003136707f474ba05aeb58 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.renee-bouchard.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.renee-bouchard.com</a> Medium painting Location The location of the interview Vermont Artist Statement Renée Bouchard Artist Statement 2020 “If we look at looking too long, it falls apart. Underneath the benign surface of the orderly world is the ‘optical unconscious,’ a deceptive, fragmentary domain that has to be forcibly reconstituted in order to make daily sense.” James Elkins I intersect child rearing and art making as a form of resistance to the long held suppression of unwaged mothers and artists. Since my 7 year old son was a toddler, he often has been invited to participate with me in the studio. I see children’s art as the earliest and most abstract search for language. Within the performative moments of our collaborations I constantly (re) construct my relationship with visual culture, woman’s work, and my most intimate self. Escaping the confines of one reality and entering an alternate reality is often where I find freedom within the complexity of the mind and the emotions it houses. I use titles to constrain the viewer within my abstract, representational paintings. Color for me is the machine that organizes the movement within the space. I use the color wheel to juxtapose pleasure and the abject with ideas of power and freedom from the perspective of a woman. I work in spurts on several paintings simultaneously in a journalistic manner, documenting clusters of daily life. Language, media, music, and studio detritus weave together with memory and the present act of painting. “Forever – is composed of Nows.” Emily Dickinson Topic antepartum postpartum Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Renée Bouchard https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/e08abe5415066fb0f453a481bc36de3a.jpg 97eacb62c0c448598f33b7088515d03e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.rcoutureart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.rcoutureart.com</a> Medium photography sculpture installation video Artist Statement Influenced by the personal and the political, I explore a wide range of themes within my work. I have developed a diverse practice that allows my ideas to dictate media, form, and process. The project SUBROSA (Miscarriage) explores the confusion, sadness, conflicting emotions, and the process of moving forward after miscarriage. Sub rosa is the Latin term for "under the rose," which means "in secret.” For many, miscarriage is a secret and solitary experience. This may seem odd given one in four pregnancies result in miscarriage, approximately 750,000 to 1,000,000 every year in the United States. However, scores of women or families miscarry alone due to the “12-week rule.” Medically, miscarriage is treated as a “routine pregnancy complication.” Your doctor or midwife explain options. You receive a booklet with pictures and explanations designed to inform a woman/couple of the why’s and what-happens-next. People are uncomfortable talking about pregnancy loss, so they don’t. How do you mourn someone who never came into being? There are no rituals for miscarriage, thus no cultural steps or process designed to aid in mourning. You try to imagine a new future, a new what-happens-next. And in time, you do, though it is difficult. Topic motherhood postpartum depression miscarriage Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Renee Couture https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/0f6c7f1e3e152dae0ea413888dc50ed3.jpg cd9fc7191ccc2629f95d7503270e4113 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.reneeromero.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.reneeromero.com</a> Medium film photography digital media cyanotype Location The location of the interview Los Angeles California Artist Statement Using film based photography, and alternative photographic processes I explore my identity, familial relationships and caretaking of my 20 month old daughter. My most recent completed body of work, A Physical Memory is a collection of 365 polaroid images taken in 2018 capturing an intimate look into my daily life from family, snapshots, pregnancy, and new motherhood. In the spring of 2020 I began a self guided artist residency, using my daughter as an inspiration rather than obstacle in my art practice. Creating cyanotype prints of the toys she leaves on the floor. Topic childcare parenting play pregnancy fatherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Renee Romero https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/a96fbddd704105b9428358a82f270e02.jpg 3f9c6a20ce7ffcd59d3f1fa5c2278fe3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.robinassner-alvey.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.robinassner-alvey.com</a> Medium photography Location The location of the interview St. Louis Artist Statement As a forty-three-old plus size woman and artist who has two young children, I feel an irresistible need to photograph myself. Navigating motherhood is a unique experience, one that I wasn’t prepared for but one that I have thoroughly embraced. I’ve always had a strained relationship with my body, but once my daughters were born that relationship changed. I grew new life inside of me and now I was nourishing them from my body. I’m still amazed that I was able to create an entirely new life inside of myself and that my body knew exactly what to do to make that happen. These photographs capture the various facets of motherhood and the toll it has on the body. I also have been using alternative photographic processes like Cyanotypes and Turmeric printing, to make photograms with the postpartum detritus leftover from my cesarean aftercare. The enormously large pads, the flimsy mesh underwear, and the restrictive belly bands are used to help start the healing process once the baby has been born. They are peculiar objects that became fodder for me to come to terms with my childbirth experiences. Topic breastfeeding Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robin Assner-Alvey https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/84e00c00056b4e8e01a42d00f04577db.jpg 4952a9c07f57db47cf49b7b0b61a0499 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.robynleroyevans.com" target="_blank">www.robynleroyevans.com</a> Topic mother-artist body motherhood pregnancy childbirth ambivalence Medium photography video installation Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Robyn LeRoy-Evans Title A name given to the resource Robyn LeRoy-Evans ambivalence body childbirth installation mother as artist motherhood photography pregnancy video https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/33e48990f2629d814e5eea03012e41a7.jpg a5b3da59769c6920f366e662f1f027e9 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/3e9d6890b298bb14905a1f22cbff966b.jpg fa45b16a0b038272b9e3d7e86ca78335 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4794f4ae6f1fcf8d22c0a6afc50f4f35.jpg 8adf4b40cc2d0764d05cd8aa16ffb492 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://whitewatergallery.com/roman-charity/">http://whitewatergallery.com/roman-charity/</a> Curator Serena Kataoka – Executive Director Gallery <a href="http://whitewatergallery.com/">White Water Gallery</a> Curatorial Statement This exhibition explores an under-examined motive for discomfort with breastfeeding: that it is a powerful display of human interdependence. I also intend the project to raise questions about the politics of milk, women’s breasts and the use of public space. Location The location of the interview North Bay Ontario Canada Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/105">Heather Passmore</a> Topic breastfeeding interdependence public space breasts milk Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) August 28 – September 30, 2018 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Roman Charity Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Heather Passmore breastfeeding breastmilk Canada interdependence milk mothers Ontario public space https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/d46e8ceacd81f54660e4f581035d8d8d.jpg 5f89c555126881edfc8b70ac81c5e7f0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.ronnikomarow.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.ronnikomarow.com</a> Medium "Dairy of a Bake Sale Diva," installation, 8 ft. x 8 ft. x 8 ft., 400 handmade papier maché cupcakes, 125 ft. of hand lettering with oil crayon on vellum. Other works are artist's books and prints (monotype, monoprint, drypoint, relief). Location The location of the interview Massachussetts Artist Statement Mine is a humble journey, creating art inspired by stories that are mundane if deeply personal, though stories with aspects that can resonate on a considerably broader scale. For over a decade I have tapped into my experiences in mothering as inspiration for my work, celebrating the small but essential moments that illuminate this life-long journey. My artwork uses whatever media seems to best fit the story, taking shape through prints, drawings, book-like forms, collages, assemblages and most recently through larger-scale mixed-media installations. While my art practice can take serendipitous turns, I continually rely on my grounding in traditional study of color, form, line and shape. I also rely on continued reading and reflection on what it means to raise children in such uncertain times. Topic parenting of a middle-school child (equity in education) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ronni Komarow https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/97e2cfa7ec62f0f598784a3eb156ac88.tif d086f96fdc12af0cc8b8d594997f1f9b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.rosiegunn.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.rosiegunn.co.uk/</a> Topic motherhood parenting childhood pregnancy school chaos family life domestic scenes Medium photography video art installation art Artist Statement The 3 screen high definition video installation ‘living room’, captures the banality of the domestic scene and contrasts this with the performance that the children create with in it. The living room is perhaps their stage – a place for them to try out ideas and show off. But also a multifunctional space for them to play, work, argue, relax and so on. It is a rather claustrophobic and chaotic piece that reflects the dominance that the kids have in the family living room during the holiday period. "As a mother and woman artist, I have been interested in my son’s games, words, songs and drawings and have made other work around these themes. Recently my daughter is becoming part of this work. The dialogue I have with my kids about the work I make is really important. I continue to ponder the implications of featuring my children in artwork that I might exhibit publicly and want to include them as part of a playful process in it’s development. I hope they regard the resulting images as representing celebration, desire, passionate attachment as well as sometimes showing trouble and tension." Location The location of the interview Farnham Surrey United Kingdom Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rosie Gunn chaos childhood family life Farnham installation art motherhood parenting photograph pregnancy school Surrey United Kingdom video art https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/d38a85afbce7fcabda26da3fee8aa968.jpeg fb047ff581b6b8645ccd71878ab8ecb2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.roxanaalgergeffen.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.roxanaalgergeffen.com</a> Medium mixed media painting collage installation photography Location The location of the interview Washington, DC Artist Statement  I’ve spent the last decade exploring the world of domestic life and family systems. Although I started as a painter, describing the chaotic and contradictory world of parenting seemed to require a multi-layered, eclectic approach, and I have expanded my practice to include collage, installation and photography. Recently, I’ve been drawn into the digital worlds my children inhabit so readily (in part because the subject of ‘screen’ causes so much debate and anxiety in the cultural discourse) and the imagery I’ve found there has been surprisingly inspiring and oddly familiar. One game had a pixelated, modular landscape—touched with moments of surprising, naturalistic beauty—that became an excellent metaphor for my domestic world. I use this imagery layered with realism, as well as a layering of techniques, to develop the idea of parenting and domestic life as a many-layered experience: funny, moving, and labor-intensive. Topic domestic life family systems parenting parenthood realism abstraction Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Roxana Alger Geffen abstraction collage domestic domestic life family systems installation mess mixed media painting parenthood parenting photography realism toys https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/95ea434006f65fb30bcc3e4e592a847a.jpg 3fecabebc224d94e46bbbc3f2753d5f6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.RuthChase.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.RuthChase.com</a> Medium acrylic on canvas public art video Location The location of the interview California Artist Statement I struggle with the notion of what a woman is. My work explores what it means to be a woman and the struggle to understand all that entails including motherhood. I create large intimate paintings inspired by images and content that women have submitted and from selfies that my daughter has taken. I also create public art installations and video from public engagement projects. Motherhood opened a world within me that is both painful and empowering. Causing me to reevaluate the roles I have resisted and submitted to, and how I see myself as a woman. Using my daughters’ selfies, I am able to capture the complexity of the mother/daughter relationship. Experiencing my daughter’s adolescence has awoken memories, causing a deep reflection on how our childhood shapes us as women, and the role vulnerability plays in our development. Working with content that people have submitted allows me to step back and see a broader view of the female experience. I use social media as a communal aspect of my process that takes me out of the isolation of my studio and expands my understanding of women outside of my own experiences. Topic artist as mother mothering relationship with child reflections of adolescence through motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ruth Chase https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/d21ef38b40990e18f7c8c2e2b002e10f.jpg 14045843ed81f156bc5b7a58194e6856 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.sallylewry.com" target="_blank">http://www.sallylewry.com</a> Topic artistic practice mother/artist identity identity shocks of motherhood shifting identity Artist Residency in Motherhood Medium performance art visual art mixed media Artist Statement Based in Melbourne Australia, I am an independent artist and writer working within various mediums including performance and visual arts. My work engages with a deep sense of socio-political content examining the human condition. I value long, intuitive processes in which I interrogate shifting identities and personal politic; the starting point of a work often arising from lived experience. My current enquiry investigates themes of motherhood and grief. Valuing highly-skilled craft, my practice engages in somatic research, movement, imagery, language, light, sound and a range of mixed media within solo and collaborative contexts, collaborating with a range of artists from various disciplines. My current enquiry explores forms and processes within a visual arts context while my lineage in performance making continues to inform the work I make. I seek to create moving and challenging relationships in which an audience can be active and present. I invest in on-going training and research, in various forms and value shared dialogue within a community of artists in order to facilitate a rigorous and pertinent practice. Engaged in exploring the possibilities of various forms I am invested in creating a body of work which speaks to the time in which it is created. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sally Lewry Title A name given to the resource Sally Lewry https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/17bdc1e6e1f8e8dda3bc665a9bc42123.jpg 0dc8329efd505b32db620df021c46147 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Echoes of Silence Description An account of the resource film still Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.sarabrighty.co.uk">www.sarabrighty.co.uk</a> Topic pregnancy birth miscarriage loss Medium mixed media installation photography drawing scuplture Artist Statement My ongoing practise researches and investigates parenthood, including; pregnancy, child birth, the relationships we have with our children, and considers that parenthood may not always be that of gaining a child but may be about losing them too. I create installations as a visual interpretation of sensitive and personal experiences. I work across a variety mediums and disciplines using photography and film, painting, drawing and sculpture and the components can also be viewed as individual pieces. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sara Brighty Title A name given to the resource Sara Brighty birth drawing installation installation art loss miscarriage photography pregnancy sculpture https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/97e711d81cec991f8e2f487d423ee28f.jpg 1b9226d02746332e8de58a222e97646b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.sarahubbs.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.sarahubbs.com</a> Medium sculpture glass plastic drawing installation mixed-media Location The location of the interview Tuscon Arizona Artist Statement My work is about the crossing of consumer culture with the deeper human instincts of value, care, intimacy, and play. Utilizing the framework of assemblage, I look for traces of objects within the shapes of body parts and discarded product packaging. My mold-blown glass sculptures are created from plaster casts of the body and vacuum-formed plastic toy and product packaging. The pieces reference the doubling of time and identity, drawing on my experience as mother and daughter. Topic consumer culture consumption related to childhood gift giving play intergenerational care caregiving as mother and daughter repitition work fragility value materiality of childhood Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Painting At Night, Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN (curated by Melanie Cooper Pennington for The Artist Mother Podcast) Femme Vitale, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga, TN (curated by Leah Dalton and Raquel Mullins) Care, Virtual Exhibition Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sara Hubbs https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/301b46e924fd92f9937194edeb43c81d.jpg 96e8dd7c8f4edc2f450209ddd3eca4ff Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="sarahdolanart.com">sarahdolanart.com</a> Topic nursing sleep naptime breastfeeding body maternal body Medium fibers printmaking recycled materials Artist Statement I create work during times while my child sleeps, primarily during the midday nap. During this nap-length studio time I use materials on hand, including my clothing and nursing pads, combined with additional elements of embroidery or paint. I use these materials to explore the maternal body, breastfeeding, and the emotional and physical changes that occur throughout the process of being the mother of a young child. Location The location of the interview Alexandria Virginia USA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sarah Dolan Title A name given to the resource Sarah Dolan body breastfeeding fiber nap naptime nursing printmaking recycled material https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/49ed2d09c8f7d03c18a5a48f4845163d.jpg 455a2d6a5c744c18099bc4e5f0bcac11 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.sarahirvinart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.sarahirvinart.com</a> Biographical Text When I started my graduate program in 2013, I was confident that becoming a mother was not compatible with my studio practice. In the middle of my first semester, I began to question this assumption. As an experiment, I assumed the opposite was true, that there was work that I could only make if I was a mother. I was suddenly able to envision not only the work, but also myself in the role of “mother” for the first time. Three months later I was pregnant and I got to work. Creating in this way allows me to form myself in a role of “mother” and in turn motherhood continually redefines my practice. The work opens up dialogues about circumstances that are publicly debated, but only privately experienced. I measured my stomach with a piece of yarn at navel height the day I found out I was pregnant. I tied the yarn off in a loop. I repeated this every day until the day I went into labor. Every week of the second trimester, I lifted 26 pounds, one pound over the recommended amount a pregnant woman should lift, using a block and tackle pulley system and created a transfer drawing with the impact when it was dropped from nine feet. I established mechanisms to capture the physical actions of parenting as a mark on a page, beginning while I was in labor. For instance, the area rug in the nursery created transfer drawings as we walked across the room, the glider rocker created drawings as we rocked, and the stroller created drawings as we strolled. These works were enabled by the activities of our daily lives and captured the kinetic energy and labor involved in the care and nurturing of an infant. During the second and third months of my daughter’s life, I created a series of watercolors exclusively while she slept, with each set considered complete when she awoke, allowing my circumstances to dictate aspects of my creative output. While breastfeeding, I made drawings on paper I created from my bed sheets with looping marks corresponding to individual suck and swallow motions of nursing providing a real-time read out of this experience. I commissioned a reproduction of the plastic measuring scoop that comes in a container of Similac infant formula to be cast from silver baby spoons. Other iterations of this series include my daughter’s nursery as camera obscura; cyanotypes created with her blankets, toys and clothing; early stages of her own mark-making captured through fingerprint dust; silverpoint drawings tracing her early movements made with jewelry from my grandmother; and paintings made with a baby bottle and formula. As a whole, this project-based work is a personal narrative taking form as poetic visual data. The works are exhibited as sets and series. An entire year’s action of rocking a baby is a set of 59 drawings made with our rocking chair. One year of walking across a nursery rug is a row of 12 large transfer drawings. Fifty feet of watercolors represent a tiny sampling of the available time during early parenthood when the baby slept. The work visualizes how care taking has shaped me as an individual and how it has transformed my mark making. I view everything related to the experience of parenthood as a valid subject matter and/or mark making tool and this has opened up new methods of creating. The pieces are derived from the everyday. The interface of specific materials and processes with the everyday provides an entry point into broader topics of gender, production, reproduction, care, biological processes and cultural systems. Medium painting drawing papermaking video art photography installation Topics The topics addressed within the Artist's work. motherhood parenthood breastfeeding infants and sleep pregnancy Location The location of the interview Richmond Virginia Topic breastfeeding motherhood infants and sleep pregnancy baby formula caretaking gender and caretaking domestic labor maternal ambivalence Artist Residency in Motherhood gender equality home domestic space care work Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/274" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Labors</a> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/392">The End & The Beginning</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sarah Irvin ambivalence body breastfeeding care work domestic labor domestic space drawing gender gender equality home infant care labor maternal abivalence maternal body maternal time motherhood mothering painting paper papermaking repetition repetitive tasks ritual tracking video https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/2afcf352d60c40fac06ea025a41a991b.jpg f2bf9540650db5736f0f352441303ab7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.sarahnguyenart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.sarahnguyenart.com</a> Medium artist books Location The location of the interview Missouri Artist Statement There are only two things that I wanted to be in this life, an artist and a mother. My work is inspired by the intricacies of family life and of familial relationships. I use a balance of abstract and representational forms in order to sever the connection between shape and meaning, connecting the viewer instead to the gesture of the brush or cut of the knife, so that s/he becomes complicit in the art. Myths, reverence and refinement of nature, and observance of daily life, are the concepts behind my work, expressing the vulnerability of motherhood and my own obsession of caring for a son with a fatal genetic disease. How Does your Garden Grow? Consist two Jacob Ladder books. One side of the Jacob Ladder’s books contains printed images of original paintings of plants, which have been used to assist abortions, and the other side has information of how each plant was used in abortions. The Jacobs’ ladder format references the child’s toy and has biblical implications. The paintings of the plants are impressions of the plants. They are not botanically accurate paintings. Nor are the instructions, formulas, and information about the plants, any more than vague descriptions of what these plants were used for and how they were used. These books are not meant to guide or instruct women on how to obtain abortions through these particular means. These plants are not viable options to reproductive health. They are meant to only be impressions of the past and predictions for the future. Can be viewed at the Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College. This series is part of my work which addresses political and cultural happenings in the United States of America. The stories and myths of a culture convey a sense of place and a sense of the people who inhabit that place. In this way, visual art that interacts with with a story enters a narrative sphere where it must encounter the local. Topic abortion family life motherhood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sarah Nguyen https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/2be907ab5fd400f44f557811e36f570a.png d141e17537285e4f0ef5f62883922748 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.sarahsudhoff.com/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.sarahsudhoff.com/home</a> Medium peformance art photography video Topic breastfeeding motherhood postpartum body Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unveiled, CPAC, Denver, Colorado</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sarah Sudhoff breastfeeding motherhood performance art photography postpartum body video art https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/dbeece619409f77454fab35c6a046ccd.jpg c26ad6a5a90f885711c6e4cb7eba4ebf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.pieshake.com/#!experimental-shorts/cx06" target="_blank">http://www.pieshake.com/#!experimental-shorts/cx06</a> Medium film video art Location The location of the interview Richmond Virginia Artist Statement Since the mid-1990s, I have been making films about outsiders, misfits and everyday radicals, telling stories that occupy the intersection of intimate experience and public discourse. Several of these works are lyrical explorations of motherhood made with a hand-cranked 16mm film camera. These experimental shorts and looping projections mine the tension between the subjective, lived experience of women and mothers; our interior lives of fantasy and projection, and reality as refracted through our media-dense world. Topic motherhood 16mm film camera maternal ambivalence sex education conception gestation pregnancy families homes domestic life Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sasha Waters Freyer 16mm film camera conception domestic life families film gestation homes maternal ambivalence pregnancy Richmond sex education video art Virginia https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/325b469ce503f49b61b4bffcefa97498.jpg 3280aca14321035e21c63571ad6549bc https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/d178c44552ee06ba8e5845e05cf88cc8.jpg 1f7fa106954ca80d0e5eeda9cde4778c https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/0bd888d9653702740b8c93a8a848e676.jpg 72f1ff645354051b7dbd85f22e54e488 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.saskiasaunders.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.saskiasaunders.com</a> <a href="http://www.instagram.com/saskia_saunders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.instagram.com/saskia_saunders</a> Medium Textile sculpture fabric paper acrylic monoprints Location The location of the interview Buckinghamshire United Kingdom Artist Statement Saskia Saunders creates textural artworks using domestic materials, such as string, household linens and paint, that are metaphors for the fragility of life. This triptych of monoprints explores the ebb and flow of Saunders' identity, at times all consumed by motherhood, at times emboldened by it. The print blocks were created from nappy sacks wrapped around baby car seat packaging, the detritus of Saunders' day to day life as a mother. From her travels in Japan, Saunders is inspired by the concepts of negative space (Ma) and embracing imperfections (Wabi-sabi).Creating space in each piece for the mind to focus, notice details and the light between. Saunders' work is strongly linked to a sense of place, the home. Her art is an invitation to experience a calm pause, a moment of contemplation in a world of clutter and noise. Saunders achieved a First Class degree Woven Textiles at the University of Brighton and has worked with woven textile design companies and social enterprises in New York, China and Cambodia. Topic motherhood car seat nappies diapers detritus of motherhood Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/299">Left Overs</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saskia Saunders acrylic artist residency in motherhood canvas detritus of motherhood diapers fabric ink monoprints motherhood nappies paper Textile sculpture https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/cfff4c0e8d2ce3647339983c0d98c669.jpg 2dc08ffddabcafd0bae190aca2cd04ce Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.carrying-stones.com/ties-that-bind/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://wwww.carrying-stones.com</a> Medium sculpture performance art data visualization social practice Location The location of the interview San Francisco California USA Artist Statement The Carrying Stones Project is an ongoing series of sculpture, data visualization, and social practice works that explores women’s work inequity in its many forms. Cooking, cleaning, childcare and eldercare responsibilities often still default to women, keeping them from advancing at work and in society. Even community volunteerism—care-taking of the larger community—falls disproportionately on women. This project documents the physical, emotional, and practical effects of these imbalanced burdens. The inequalities that working women face are both systemic and pervasive, and those biases affect individual women differently. As such, the concepts for the Carrying Stones works are viewed through an intersectional lens, and are distilled from the personal narratives of women of diverse ages, ethnicities, orientations, working roles, and socio-economic statuses. Topic parenting caretaking non-binary parenting women's work women's labor gender inequity wage gap unpaid labor unpaid work work life balance feminism intersectional feminism domestic work housework elder care data visualization Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. (Opening September 2019) “Counting the Hours: Art, Data, and the Untold Stories of Women’s Work,” Sculpture, photographic portraiture, social practice, from The Carrying Stones Project, Code and Canvas, San Francisco, CA (solo) Art Market San Francisco, 2 main floor on-site installations from The Carrying Stones Project Force of Nature: Women’s Work Visualized," sculpture, photographic portraiture, social practice, from The Carrying Stones Project, Classic Cars West Gallery, Oakland, CA. Curated by Dasha Matsuura, director, Spoke Art (solo) "The Weight of Your World," social practice public interactive event, Classic Cars West Gallery, Oakland, CA "Ties That Bind," public sculpture, social practice, and performance, from the Carrying Stones Project, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA (solo) "Ties That Bind," social practice public sculpture assembly event, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA "Ties That Bind," 10-minute performance with 13 actors, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sawyer Rose arenting California caretaking childcare data visualization domestic labor domestic work elder care feminism gender equality gender inequity housework intersectional feminism non-binary parenting performance art sculpture unpaid labor unpaid work wage gap women’s labor women’s work work life balance https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/3705b3d39946d31facd53d0ef0e87c83.png 596b0391ab442d4df7afcf07d37fdf6d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://selinatrepp.info/section/384377-nap-animation.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://selinatrepp.info/section/384377-nap-animation.html</a> Medium mixed media animation installation performance Location The location of the interview Chicago Illinois Artist Statement Rather than documenting or representing the real world, I reflect on it by moving sideways from it, constructing a parallel reality, a reality that mixes the familiar with the uncanny, real and unreal at once. The making of my work is based on experimental situations. My process is chance based. I write instructions, which lead to scenarios, open-ended structures, for performances that result in artworks. While past works have featured others performing for me, my new work puts me into the frame. Pointing the lens on myself is decidedly uncomfortable for me; I feel safer behind the camera. The decision to cast myself both as subject and object comes out of the realization that I need to work with the discomfort and tension that this action creates in me. If I am embarrassed by my work, then it is worth pursuing. Topic napping motherhood infants and sleep sleep Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Selina Trepp animation Chicago conceptual art Illinois infants and sleep installation mixed media motherhood napping performance sleep https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4790f609da5fcfa4e1754c4051f92d34.jpg f49f68f87805dac0a5b293e2d004f6d8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://fazakasgallery.com/portfolio/she-i-la-group-exhibition/" target="_blank">http://fazakasgallery.com/portfolio/she-i-la-group-exhibition/</a> Curator LaTiesha Fazakas Gallery Fazakas Gallery Curatorial Statement An all-female group exhibition to coincide with International Women’s Day 2017, featuring work by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous multidisciplinary contemporary artists. This group of Vancouver-based artist mothers will be presenting a unique collective and heterogeneous artist talk on motherhood and art practice and the intersections between reproductive and artistic labour. The panel discussion, in the form of an informal dialogue, will elaborate a utopian model for a feminist, women-centred, sustainable creation process that integrates life and all of its chaos into a viable and valued way of being and creating without being marginalized by and excluded from the male-dominated art system. Location The location of the interview Fazakas Gallery, 688 E Hastings St, Vancouver, Canada Artists Gabriela Aceves-Sepulveda Matilda Aslizadeh Jeneen Frei Njootli Robyn Laba Natasha McHardy Yvonne Muinde Joyce Ozier Heather Passmore Maria Anna Parolin Rosa Quintana-Lillo Sarah Shamash prOphecy sun Damla Tamer Charlene Vickers Carollyne Yardley Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) March 8, 2017 Topic motherhood Indigenous artists pregnancy reproduction motherhood and art practice artistic labor Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SHEILA: Women, Art, and Production Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Heather Passmore artistic labor Indigenous motherhood motherhood motherhood and art practice pregnancy reproduction https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/1fe1a3fec4884770ddf21b515b500d72.jpg dc326640bbdb90e521591f81798a62ae Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.sheilahwilson.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.sheilahwilson.com</a> Topic research and work interested in domestic and motherhood as expanded field Medium photography video writing Artist Statement "Conflating the miraculous with notions of chance and arbitrariness, Sheilah Wilson’s work alludes to religious motifs from a perspective of a sincere and heartbroken skeptic. It often centers around the empty center, an impossibility that she bravely faces while connecting history, land and personal experience into fluid and surprising actions within her artistic practice." Leeza Meksin for Temporary Contemporary Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Denison University Title A name given to the resource Sheilah Wilson https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/85da3d5caa0395e78e0dc1585b14cde5.jpg 114eabbc295bbdeb9549e36a50513847 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.sherfickart.me">www.sherfickart.me</a> Topic motherhood medication post-partum depression anti-depressants family family history medical care medicine Medium mixed media installation textile mixed media textile Artist Statement As an artist, I never identified myself with my family. My having a family was just a part of my biology, driving relations and the cause of both joy and sorrow. All of these identifiers caused ambiguity within me. Constriction, restraint, joy with sorrow, and invisibility were the products of my familial experiences. Unfortunately, this separatist attitude developed into a denial of my complete person. I AM a woman, a daughter, a granddaughter, an aunt, a sister, a wife, and a mother. I carry the practices of many generations- messages of motherhood and womanhood in my very veins and soul. As I began an archeological dig into my familial ties, I re- discovered and acknowledged - for the first time - my family history and existence. My works now include the very ambiguity I feel over this issue. The use of domestic and childhood materials and constructions of fabric and vintage apparel reveal the paradox of family history – myths, storytelling, truth, lies, misunderstandings, and, above all, the difficulty of unconditionally loving one another. By questioning what family ties mean to me, I offer a record of one artist’s journey into acceptance and the embrace of the familial spirit I have denied for years. My work now reflects the depolarization of my familial/individual self. My art intends to question the roles of women and women artists. My use of domestic and childhood materials and constructions of fabric and prescription bottles reveal the paradox of the life of this woman artist. I have embraced my love of the color pink and the vintage teal that stands for home and comfort and I celebrate the drugs which allow me to create and thrive. By questioning what femininity and pharmaceuticals means to me, I hope to offer a record of one-woman artist’s journey into acceptance and the embrace of the feminine spirit I have denied for years. Recent works visualize the depolarization of my artist/feminine self.  In <a href="https://www.sherfickart.me/#/artgallery/a-paxil-a-day/">A PAXIL A DAY</a>, I chose to display the medications themselves in clear, pharmacy style mylar bags. Hung plainly on the wall in a grid pattern, I make my medical and emotional history transparent to the viewer. I am not ashamed of needing the prescriptions, I am proud of myself for seeking and developing a regime for well-being. A PAXIL A DAY serves as an announcement and/or ‘bulletin’ board of my status. By celebrating the pharmaceuticals which help me to live and thrive, by being unashamed to live authentically – I hope to alleviate the social prejudice that exists against mothers on medication. In <a href="https://www.sherfickart.me/#/artgallery/coping-skills/">COPING SKILLS,</a> I have confronted and embraced my history of medical issues and my use of anti-anxiety and anti-depression prescriptions. After a practice of collecting all the prescriptions and their bottles since 1997, I chose to crazy quilt them with vintage fabrics utilizing tatting thread in rough, utilitarian stitches. By displaying these bottles (45 which equal one year of medications) on a plain wooden altar with a plexi-mirrored shelf, I celebrate the life I have been able to live due to their remedies. As a result of pharmaceutical intervention, I maintain a well-being of physical and emotional health which allows me to be the best wife, mother, artist, and human I can be. Location The location of the interview Spring Hill Tennessee USA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sher Fick Title A name given to the resource Sher Fick anti-depressants family family ties installation medication mixed media motherhood postpartum postpartum depression textile https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/08b6952b0987ecb952d9ec420850f4b5.jpg 1e74169a3a5a0010f2b529667f22d484 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shira.richter1/about?section=bio&pnref=about" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/shira.richter1/about?section=bio&pnref=about</a> Topic motherhood and political context motherhood and economic context motherhood and social context invisible labor mothering motherhood mother work maternal body postpartum body Medium film photography video art visual performance lectures prose academic writing poetry Location The location of the interview Israel Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/79" target="_blank">The Mother, Daughter and Holy Spirit</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Shira Richter Title A name given to the resource Shira Richter academic writing film invisible labor Israel lectures maternal body mother work motherhood motherhood and economic context motherhood and political context motherhood and social context mothering performance art poetry postpartum body prose video art https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/599526a8ed2893fdd7084bfdbb515955.jpg d1fc6ab3f0957dfc5878b30b1e498021 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.shwetabist.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.shwetabist.com</a> Medium digital color photography Location The location of the interview New York Artist Statement Rooted in love, my work investigates the intimate relationship between mother and child and the reciprocity of mothering within this relationship. I draw attention to the emotional labor of mothering and the ambivalence often felt by mothers in their role as carers— aspects often overlooked in mainstream representations of motherhood. Topic maternal subjectivity emotional labor of mothering how it feels to be a mother the psychological experience of being a mother Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shweta Bist https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/15aad49e420ccd4485a575b44d3513e5.jpg 4875a6dfe078764cdd1ef67404c61393 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/01936cbd461da771a6351d92f90b0bfd.jpg 88f282060b38b177933c072306b5c20b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.sofiaroncero.com">www.sofiaroncero.com</a> <a href="http://www.sofiaroncerostudio.tumblr.com">www.sofiaroncerostudio.tumblr.com</a> Topic intervention on maternity objects Artist Residency in Motherhood Medium video photography photocopies performance Artist Statement Multidisciplinary artist, focused on the search for the limits of identity. Location The location of the interview Madrid Spain Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sofía Roncero Title A name given to the resource Sofia Roncero artist residency in motherhood maternity objects objects photocopies photography video https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/0c2b7d439ff6fb3ab3dd2ea0ca9e2522.png e714b9de3399f2603503397760c22e98 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka 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 Edinburgh Scotland About Spilt Milk is a not-for-profit arts organisation who support and promote the work of artist-mothers. Founded by Lauren McLaughlin, Spilt Milk is a curated platform showcasing the beautiful, exciting, diverse and groundbreaking artwork being produced by International female artists who are practicing art alongside raising children. As well as providing opportunities for artists to exhibit work, gain exposure and sell work, we are also creating links with flexible/affordable childcare models in Scotland and the rest of the UK in order to make it easier for artists with children to create new work and sustain their careers. We aim to facilitate an exciting programme of exhibitions, events and workshops which will create a supportive and collaborative community for female artists and their children to fully engage with the contemporary art world. Organization Website <a href="https://www.spiltmilkgallery.com/" target="_blank">https://www.spiltmilkgallery.com/</a> Organzation Director Lauren McLaughlin Topic childcare non-profit gallery online gallery Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Spilt Milk Gallery childcare Edinburg motherhood motherhood and art practice 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 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/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/3761609bc349e26c589bf55508c5ae17.jpg d1cb7be071baff8802671bae06bbed80 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://vimeo.com/168804441" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://vimeo.com/168804441</a> Medium film video Location The location of the interview London United Kingdom Sofia Bulgaria Artist Statement Ever since Stiliyana fell pregnant in 2015, she has been exclusively interested in the maternal-female body as a ‘subject-in-process’. The methods used for the examination is taking the woman as both the surveyor and the surveyed within her entity as two constituent, yet always distinct elements within her identity as a woman. ‘Women watch themselves being looked at’. During the birth of her daughter Stelena, her artistic focus took more institutional direction and started questioning the definition of labour during the negotiations between the woman and institution. A question which arose during the birth was whether the woman’s labour begins when she is officially admitted to the hospital and agreed by the personnel and whether the maternal experience is filtered through a screen of social influences. Her film ‘Parturition’, shot whilst giving birth at St Thomas’s hospital used the personal processes of both labour and birth as instruments to trace their appearances as a journey outside memory and rational thought, to a place that supplies material for the production of meaning that remains forever out of reach, but turning it into a live project by directing and acting in a diversification of roles. The artist believes that the processes of both birth and labour are the transformative events through which the birthing mother would be able to recognise, consequently materialise her subjectivity. The conceptual division which the woman experiences during birth giving creates a space of progression. Progression from the internal feminine environment of the womb to the external space of life itself. The consciousness becomes the expanding womb as the woman turns into an extension.  Stiliyana continues to be interested in the theme of deinstitutionalisation. She would like the birthing mother to be turned from a medical object into a celebratory matriarchal reproductive economy. Birth is neither a disease, nor an illness. In fact, it is the most beautiful battle which leads to even more beautiful experience, the one of motherhood. Topic reproduction birth womb medicalization of birth labor and delivery subjectivity maternal body Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/299" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Left Overs</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stiliyana Minkovska birth Bulgaria childbirth England film labor and delivery London medicalization of birth reproduction Sofia subjectivity video womb https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/fcc6c722e03b5de8bf5841444c442389.jpg 4a16c6fa73551b4b0f919db424da4303 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Anne Mavor Contributor The author of an article within an anthology Christine Eagon Publisher Rowanberry Books Date of Publication October 15, 1996 ISBN 13 978-0965372404 ISBN 10 0965372405 Topic motherhood artist mothers mothers personal narrative motherhood and art practice Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Strong Hearts, Inspired Minds: 21 Artists Who Are Mothers Tell Their Stories artist mothers mother artists mother as artist motherhood mothers 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/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/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/1a6e5e154c03964371d5f7a3b4e2e136.jpg 8ae9118ea86f9e5a8591066912aafbae Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka 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. Topic grants financial support award artists parents writers About <div> <div>The Sustainable Arts Foundation supports artists and writers with children. Too often, creative impulses must be set aside to meet the wonderful—but pressing — demands of raising a family. We support individual artists with annual unrestricted cash awards; at least half of these awards are made to applicants of color. We also support artist residencies in their efforts to make their programs more family friendly.</div> </div> Organization Website <a href="http://www.sustainableartsfoundation.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.sustainableartsfoundation.org</a> Location The location of the interview San Francisco, CA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sustainable Arts Foundation artists award financial support grants parents writers https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/627f38aa621b2ba2eeb28f54797dac5c.jpg 64e7f28a1fe1b2ba09c1e9d4be957b25 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="http://mfgallery.net/BFart/BFart.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://mfgallery.net/BFart/BFart.html</a> Gallery MF Gallery Location The location of the interview Brooklyn New York Curator Leigh Pennebaker Martina Secondo Russo Curatorial Statement In honor of International Women's Month, MF Gallery is hosting an art show that explores the joys, challenges, and body-politics of breastfeeding and motherhood in the 21st century. Part of the proceeds will benefit La Leche League. Co-Curated by Leigh Pennebaker, (founder of @breastfeedingart feed on instagram) and Martina Secondo Russo, (owner of MF Gallery) this show will feature artwork in a variety of media from two dozen international artists, including Nicoz Balboa, Christa David, Jess Dobkin, Debbies Drummond, Marina Font, Geertje Geertsma, Aimee Gilmore, Jenna Gribbon, Samantha Hahn, Sigal Arad Inbar, Kasey Jones, Raeleen Kao, Lucy Knisley, Rachel Marcotte, Tara McPherson, Anna Melo, Jenny Middleton, April Rose, Martina Secondo Russo, Debra Sheldon, SWOON, Lexx Valdez, Anna Wiggins, Megan Wynne and more. Today, many female artists are moving beyond the ancient Madonna archetype and creating fresh and exciting work using their firsthand experience with breastfeeding to explore what it means to be women, mothers, and feminists. These artists are making work that celebrates the naturalness and normalcy of breastfeeding and pushes back at a culture that penalizes and censors women’s bodies at every turn. Breastfeeding can be one of the most beautiful and fulfilling journeys in life, but women who wish to nurse their babies often face an uphill battle in a culture that doesn’t provide adequate postpartum support, and in which women are constantly judged and criticized no matter what they do. Even street harassment takes specific form, as strangers admonish mothers to ‘cover up’ while breastfeeding in public spaces. Artists are harnessing such experiences and using them as fuel to create while deepening the discourse around mothers, babies, and our mammal bodies. A portion of the proceeds from artwork sales will be donated to La Leche League of Brooklyn, the local chapter of La Leche League International, whose mission is to help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education, and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother. Artists Nicoz Balboa Christa David Jess Dobkin Debbies Drummond Marina Font Geertje Geertsma <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/298" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aimee Gilmore</a> Jenna Gribbon Samantha Hahn Sigal Arad Inbar <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/367">Kasey Jones</a> Raeleen Kao Lucy Knisley Rachel Marcotte Tara McPherson Anna Melo Jenny Middleton April Rose Martina Secondo Russo Debra Sheldon SWOON Lexx Valdez Anna Wiggins <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megan Wynne</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) March 10 - April 22, 2018 Topic breastfeeding motherhood babies breastfeededing advocacy public breastfeeding Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Art of Breastfeeding: Modern Narratives of Motherhood breastfeeding breastfeeding advocacy mothers public breastfeeding public space https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/0fa26d544059e4ee30231f5cd76083b7.jpg 5693f26852667ad03f9f198526c537b2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka 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. Topic changing models of motherhood motherhood and fertility motherhood and loss motherhood and the media motherhood and memory motherhood and mental health motherhood and place motherhood and sexuality motherhood and technology motherhood and visual art motherhood and writing motherhood and work other-mothers photography writing poetry About The egg, the womb, the head and the moon is an online, interdisciplinary, collaborative arts project that that will last for nine months (42 weeks)–a time frame that purposefully mirrors that of the duration of pregnancy. The site contains moving and powerful art and texts by artists, performers, photographers, academics and poets exploring a diverse range of subjects about the maternal. At the end of the 42 weeks (May 2014) a celebratory exhibition will be held at The Artsmill Gallery in Hebden Bridge. The exhibition will be born out of the communications and interactions made visible through this space. The site includes documentation of visual art work, video, sound, performance and texts including contextual dialogue and blog posts that have arisen through the creative process. It is our aim to share our collective research and reveal the cross-disciplinary and collaborative nature of our practice in order to connect and exchange ideas with a wider audience. Organization Website <a href="http://www.eggwombheadmoon.com/" target="_blank">http://www.eggwombheadmoon.com/</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The egg, the womb, the head and the moon artist collective collaborative project fertility loss mental health motherhood other-mothers photography poetry sexuality technology the media writing https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/6879e5262cb9e377c7e3d58fdff4ff99.jpg 4aba0e661f5c73f7e77b4ce49e157512 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://www.masseyklein.com/the-end-the-beginning">https://www.masseyklein.com/the-end-the-beginning</a> Gallery Massey Klein Gallery Location The location of the interview New York USA Curator Ryan Massey Curatorial Statement Massey Klein is pleased to present The End & The Beginning, a two-person exhibition exploring themes of life and death through works on paper by Alice Gibney and Sarah Irvin.   Alice Gibney’s illustrations in The End & The Beginning are humorous explorations of humanoid and animal figures.  Her characters twist, rise, dance, and praise; their movement captured through frames as if they are sequences in a stop-motion film.  The charcoal, color pencil, and ink on paper drawings range in scale from 1:1 ratio of human proportions to small, intimate sketches. Gibney’s works were created in response to a sudden and unexpected loss of a loved one.  Her figurative drawings began to blur and erode as the artist’s emotional life and identity spread itself across the paper in a performative gesture of mourning and reflection.  Celtic myths, slapstick humor, and Samuel Beckett became the beacons of light that shifted the artist’s perspective and made room for grief to evolve into a new tale. And so these characters were born to tell a new story: one wrought with paradoxes and clumsiness. They belong to a world that is not ours, but has the flavor of somewhere familiar. A tent, a child’s playtime sculpture, synthetic wigs, and exaggerated clothing cover their frames and become their bodies. Gibney is a Canadian artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.  This is her second exhibition with the Gallery. Sarah Irvin’s graphite drawings on paper record the experience of new life and motherhood.  At various times while breastfeeding, the artist created drawings that codified her daughter's action of eating. Loops go up with a suck and round down with a swallow, transcribing the unreadable language of a baby at the breast.  Also while breastfeeding, Irvin used a digital program to track the start time, breast side, and duration of each feeding.  From this immense amount of data, the artist created an interactive sculpture resembling a card catalogue that allows the viewer to not only review different sessions, but physically acknowledge the significant amount time and energy needed for an often unacknowledged task.     In the artist’s rocking chair series, the act of caring for a baby is codified as a form of mark-making. Pieces of graphite hung from the underside of Irvin’s glider rocking chair and created marks on a piece of paper attached to the stationary base. The series began when her daughter was born and was completed the day she turned one. Anyone who used the rocking chair during the first year of the child’s life participated in the creation of the works.  In addition to the original works on paper, the Gallery will release a limited print edition of the first and last breastfeeding and rocking chair sessions as well as a small edition of breastfeeding record logs for the collector to “complete” on their own. Irvin is an American artist who lives and works in Richmond, Virginia.  This is her first exhibition with the Gallery.  Artists Alice Gibney Sarah Irvin Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) January 11 - February 17, 2019 Topic breastfeeding rocking chairs infant care parenting data visualization Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The End & The Beginning breastfeeding data visualization infant care New York rocking chair USA https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/74a4a3a0e20982315a0ee1f99c82dfc0.jpg a359993c8b3acf50a29271e7176845f7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Massimiliano Gioni Publisher Skira Date of Publication April 5, 2016 ISBN 13 9788857228600 ISBN 10 8857228606 Topic iconography of motherhood maternity visual culture art history Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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 Great Mother: Women, Maternity, and Power in Art and Visual Culture, 1900-2015 art art history ida applebroog leonora carrington louise bourgeois magdalena abakanowicz maternity motherhood mothers visual culture https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/c1ef902bbd1820e497ffec880b69b729.jpg 38da7a5f28dc4b55e93afc5449c374b3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, 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 Lena Simic Gary Anderson Neal Gabriel Sid Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.twoaddthree.org/" target="_blank">http://www.twoaddthree.org/</a> Medium social practice Location The location of the interview Anfield Liverpool England United Kingdom Artist Statement twoaddthree are Gary Anderson, Lena Simic add Neal, Gabriel and Sid.We are artists. We are activists. We are a family. Mummy and kids are in the frame and Daddy’s behind the camera. We are a nice nuclear family. We are a hetero-normative unit. Tesco loves us, Disney adores us and McDonalds can’t get enough of us. We are complicit in consumer capitalism. We, the family, are the solid bedrock of society, at least that is what we are told. Instead we will dissent! We will have fun and take the piss. We have decided to organize a programme of events in our council house for the duration of Liverpool 08 and beyond. We have decided to voice our discontent. We have decided to ask questions around art and culture, money and capitalism, private and public, familial and civic life. We have decided to disobey. We, as a family, have decided to be naughty. Topic activism nuclear family family life domestic life money capitalism social critique domestic labor Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home activism Anfield capitalism domestic labor domestic life England family life Liverpool money social critique social practice United Kingdom https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/1a38eee3b1d8dd889e2b34fd1d3e1bb4.pdf 5475198bd74288b4e1635548c1682c5d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) January 30 - March 12, 2016 Curator Amber Berson Juliana Driever Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/143">Dillon de Give</a> Home Affairs Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley) Lise Haller Baggesen LoVid Shane Aslan Selzer Gallery EFA Project Space Curatorial Statement The Let Down Reflex is an exhibition that attempts to recognize the complexities of parenting in the art world, and asks if a better alternative for families can exist. Calling out a slippage in today’s feminist art world, the curators summon a group of artist-parents to contribute to a springboard for re-imagining an art world where “Mom” is not a demeaning characterization, where childcare is factored in for participating artists at art spaces, and where artists aren’t forced to choose between home and work because of a lack of parental leave. The “let down reflex,” a term referencing the involuntary reflex that causes nursing mothers to produce breast milk, takes on a double meaning in this exhibition, referring here to the reflexive tendency of letting down parents, and particularly mothers, within the flawed labor system of the art world. Topic fair wages art world parenthood Exhibition Website <a href="http://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/the-let-down-reflex/" target="_blank">http://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/the-let-down-reflex/</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Letdown Reflex art world breastfeeding childcare fair wages families let down reflex New York nursing mothers parental leave https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/999134d5825f1039f60fb6fc638c0abd.png d63176deebd5f6956827970db1de22c3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Location The location of the interview United Kingdom About The M Word includes ‘The M Wall’ a collection of works dedicated to the subject of perinatal mental health and its interconnection with Art. The works included in the collection will not only be a visual depiction of the artists’ struggles, ways of coping and coming to terms with their personal maternal experiences, they will also raise the question of how art can support, reinforce and promote good mental health. The aim of this collection is to tour across the country in a variety of exhibition venues, conferences and seminars, with the intention of raising awareness of and opening up a conversation around the subjects and issues depicted within the works. It will form the basis for a growing collection and going forward, artists are able to apply to submit works into this collection by sending an email to desperateartwivesproject@gmail.com. The M wall artists are Helen Sargeant, Rachel Fallon, Caroline Kelley, Lauren Mclaughlin, Laura Fooks, Katy Howe, Amy Dignam, Debbie Lee, and Tracey Kershaw. Organization Website <a href="https://themword-daw.weebly.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://themword-daw.weebly.com/</a> Organzation Director Amy Dignam Exhibition Website <a href="https://themword-daw.weebly.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://themword-daw.weebly.com/</a> Gallery One Paved Court Gallery Curatorial Statement The M Word includes ‘The M Wall’ a collection of works dedicated to the subject of perinatal mental health and its interconnection with Art. The works included in the collection will not only be a visual depiction of the artists’ struggles, ways of coping and coming to terms with their personal maternal experiences, they will also raise the question of how art can support, reinforce and promote good mental health. The aim of this collection is to tour across the country in a variety of exhibition venues, conferences and seminars, with the intention of raising awareness of and opening up a conversation around the subjects and issues depicted within the works. It will form the basis for a growing collection and going forward, artists are able to apply to submit works into this collection by sending an email to desperateartwivesproject@gmail.com. The M wall artists are Helen Sargeant, Rachel Fallon, Caroline Kelley, Lauren Mclaughlin, Laura Fooks, Katy Howe, Amy Dignam, Debbie Lee, and Tracey Kershaw. Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/97" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paula Chambers</a> Katy Howe Leni Dothan <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/48" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tracey Kershaw</a> Sophia Marinkov Jones Leanne Pearce <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megan Wynne</a> Dawn Yow Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) May 2 - May 12, 2019 Curator <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amy Dignam</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The M Word https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ada51dd5e24c72999af6748c0d35279f.png bcffe147fb052182f998c83b5cb15c36 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Editor <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank">Myrel Chernick</a> Jennie Klein Publisher Demeter Press City of Publication Bradford Province of Publication Ontario Country of Publication Canada Date of Publication May 11, 2011 ISBN 13 978-0986667121 ISBN 10 0986667129 Topic motherhood art mother artists embodied motherhood ideology of motherhood visual culture art and mothering caretaking Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art artist mothers embodied motherhood feminism motherhood mothering mothers mothers and art visual culture https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4970b0c63c5c1e724f4cf52a96cada58.png 02286fa8df989abaaa8277bfccc84c22 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Dorothy Dinnerstein Publisher <a href="http://www.otherpress.com/">Other Press</a> City of Publication New York City State of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Date of Publication June 17, 1999 ISBN 13 978-1892746252 ISBN 10 1892746255 Topic psychoanalysis child care gender roles caretaking care work maternal work Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise care work caregiving caretaking child care gender roles psychoanalysis https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4b02a71e702fbebf34c2a591afd84153.png e0e6d4e2077a51c3972651327008bd32 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka 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. About The Mother Load is a global network of women who have connected through the simple act of passing a name from one person to another, creating an elaborate community of women who are both artists and mothers. In 2012, US based artists Lesli Robertson and Natalie Macellaio established The Mother Load, in an effort to encourage dialogue and connection between women who balance artistic careers and motherhood. This project is about recording these connections and finding ways to share, collaborate and support each other and our work. Organization Website <a href="http://www.themotherload.org" target="_blank">http://www.themotherload.org</a> Organzation Director Lesli Robertson <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/145" target="_blank">Natalie Marcellaio</a> Topic motherhood artists with children women artists artist network Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Mother Load artist network artists with children motherhood women artists https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/4ddde78f3e452bd3190ff6b4ddc128a2.jpg bc31c02f049b6c46d1f985dbc4234296 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka 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 Bexhill United Kingdom Topic motherhood mental health artist mother maternal health About Mother lode: a principal vein or zone of gold or silver ore, or colloquially the real/imaginary origin of something valuable or in great abundance. [Wikipedia] The aim of this project is to extract the gold from challenging experiences of motherhood by giving opportunities for artists who are mothers to work with those who may be experiencing mental health difficulties as a result of motherhood. This involves a series of art & writing workshops at the De La Warr Pavilion in 2019 led by artist-mothers for a group of mothers referred by Recovery Partners, resulting in a series of podcasts & publication of their work, which will raise awareness of the hidden issues surrounding motherhood & mental health. The project aims to give voice to a diverse group of mothers at all stages of motherhood, whose experiences may not otherwise be heard & connect with professional women artists exploring motherhood. Anyone who identifies as a mother is welcome. The project is coordinated by artist Xaverine MA Bates. Organization Website <a href="https://themotherlodeproject.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://themotherlodeproject.com/</a> Organzation Director Xaverine M A Bates Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Mother Lode Project https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/6d709b72f5ecb3baf3f285991b103768.jpg e91acd79ef94b59a64cd515368519445 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://mamsie.wikispaces.com/file/view/Shira+Richter.pdf" target="_blank">https://mamsie.wikispaces.com/file/view/Shira+Richter.pdf</a> Curator Varda Genosar Gallery Hertzliya Artist Residence Gallery Exhibition Title The Mother, Daughter and Holy Spirit Event Type Exhibition Location The location of the interview Herzliya Israel Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/78" target="_blank">Shira Richter</a> Topic motherhood maternal body postpartum body Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 2006 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Mother, Daughter and Holy Spirit Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Shira Richter Herzliya Israel maternal body motherhood photography postpartum body https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/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/621e8caa73017480498f2dccc0a6e259.png f4ce2de672b3f56c91ee24a3a7a4d87e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Event Type Exhibit Exhibition Website <a href="http://kunsthallezurich.ch/en/playground-project">http://kunsthallezurich.ch/en/playground-project </a> <a href="http://kunsthallezurich.ch/en/publications/playground-project">http://kunsthallezurich.ch/en/publications/playground-project</a> Museum <a href="http://kunsthallezurich.ch/en/information">Kunsthalle Zürich</a> Location The location of the interview Zürich Switzerland Curator Gabriela Burkhalter Curatorial Statement <div class="views-field views-field-body-1 intro-text"> Until the 1980s – and in rare cases until today – playgrounds were places for social experiments, risky projects, and spectacular sculptures. Architects, urban planners, artists, parents, and children were invited to leave their comfort zone and to venture something new. Curated by <a href="http://www.architekturfuerkinder.ch/">Gabriela Burkhalter</a>, The Playground Project will bring many of these exemplary, but nowadays forgotten initiatives, pioneering acts, and adventures back, and install three playgrounds for children to run, hide and climb. May our cities invent new playgrounds! We’re not only showing playgrounds for kids, we also are a playground! Come, climb into our Lozziwurm, tie knots in the rope studio, sit at the large table to draw and built, and take a swing on our long ropes! </div> <div class="views-field views-field-body"> <div class="field-content read-more-content"> <div class="content-toggle"> The playground is a byproduct of the industrialized city of the twentieth century. Even now, it continues to be both an ugly duckling and a coveted space. A focal point for ideas about education and childhood, about urban planning and public space, about architecture and art, about creativity and control, the playground has repeatedly resisted institutional and ideological appropriation and grown in its own sometimes quite anarchic ways. The coexistence of contradictory expectations, moments of temporary progress, and radical developments makes playgrounds so exciting. Still, as hardly anyone sees playgrounds as part of their cultural heritage, much of their history has been forgotten or can barely be understood anymore – even if all of us often have quite precise personal memories of this niche where we met our friends, took pride in new things we dared to do, braved danger without thinking about it, and learned to confront and resolve conflicts. There have been four paradigm shifts in the development of the playground in the course of the last 150 years. First, at the beginning of the twentieth century, social reformers took children off the street and onto the playground. Then, at the beginning of the 1930s, the idea arose that children should play with natural materials rather than playground equipment. In the 1960s, the decade of autonomy and do-it-yourself, parents, children, and neighborhood groups began to take charge of playgrounds themselves. Finally, in the 1980s, with the end of social and political utopias, a crisis in playground design began. With Marjory Allen (Lady Allen of Hurtwood), Joseph Brown, Waldemar Cordeiro, Riccardo Dalisi, Richard Dattner, Aldo van Eyck, M. Paul Friedberg, Michael Grossert, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Alfred Ledermann, Bernhard Luginbühl, Yvan Pestalozzi, Group Ludic, Egon Møller-Nielsen, Palle Nielsen, Isamu Noguchi, Sreejata Roy, Niki de Saint Phalle, Josef Schagerl, Mitsuru (Man) Senda, Carl Theodor Sørensen, Alfred Trachsel et al. Including real and amazing playgrounds for real and amazing kids! Bring your parents! The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive catalog introducing, discussing and illustrating numerous projects: <a href="https://wemakeit.com/projects/the-playground-project">The Playground Project</a>, edited by Gabriela Burkhalter, with contributions by Daniel Baumann, Gabriela Burkhalter, Vincent Romagny, Sreejata Roy, and Xavier de la Salle, German / English, Kunsthalle Zürich / JRP|Ringier 2016. </div> </div> </div> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 20 February to 15 May 2016 Topic playground social experiments sculpture children architecture urban planning Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Playground Project architecture children playground sculpture social experiments Switzerland urban planning Zürich https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/933a0b0c93289a814f31ed9a6adc50ba.png 64f2acaebbc039863b2f41ca8687567a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Publisher Ariadne's Thread Date of Publication November 15, 2015 Topic child free childlessness by choice childlessness by chance prejudice against childless women childless women women without children feminist art Author <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/250" target="_self">Miriam Schaer</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Presence of Their Absence https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ac9ada459eedc7f92d52bbd8eb6579c7.jpg 8fdae41e323eb45ad2dd88a7155e6f8e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Ann Crittenden Publisher Picador City of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Date of Publication November 23, 2010 ISBN 13 978-0312655402 ISBN 10 0312655401 Topic maternal work motherhood motherhood and economic context economics mothers care work Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued care labor care work caretaking economics economy and caregiving motherhood motherhood and economic context https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/609a190ad2dca2061279be5f5320163a.png 3035b36613921dab007e04f3953815ab Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Nancy Chodorow Publisher University of California Press State of Publication California Country of Publication USA Date of Publication July 1979 ISBN 13 9780520038929 ISBN 10 0520038924 Topic mothering motherhood sociology psychoanalysis feminist 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 The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender motherhood mothering psychoanalysis reproduction sociology https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/87b714cb32d42c3fccf10b0058bdbf74.jpeg a2bf1fc394cd9d3822880c1fcd14eab4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://onca.org.uk/whats-on/next/selkie-weaving-wild-feminine/" target="_blank">https://onca.org.uk/whats-on/next/selkie-weaving-wild-feminine/</a> Curator Alice Clayton Gallery O N C A Curatorial Statement Imogen Di Sapia reflects on the folklore of The Selkie through craft. This body of textile work is an exploration of motherhood and perinatal mental health through weaving, using the symbols and themes within the story to communicate the experience. The exhibition also considers ethical textiles and the use of materials and methods that consider animal welfare and the environment. Location The location of the interview Brighton United Kingdom Artists Imogen Di Sapia Lily Waugh Gladys Paulus Joanna Hruby Caroline Bond Topic motherhood mental health perinatal mental health postpartum mental health weaving textile Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Selkie; Weaving & The Wild Feminine A Textile Exhibition by Imogen Di Sapia Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Imogen Di Sapia Brighton mental health perinatal mental health postpartum mental health postpartum health textile United Kingdom weaving https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/9be937dc98a2a8560625aa4ee4f20f00.jpeg 2d03fd5be707ce4ad68c505a5d2e91fc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.axisweb.org/P/TheresaBradbury" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.axisweb.org/P/TheresaBradbury</a> Topic femininity gender roles abjection activism adulthood art artist/mother artists with children ,binary tensions body capitalism censorship mother/daughter collaboration performativity patriarchy contemporary art practice feminism feminist theory gender norms Medium performance live art photography sculpture Artist Statement Artist Statement – Theresa Bradbury My current practice is an exploration of ideas about the feminine being a social construct – an artificial masquerade. The female as living as her own spectator, the female as always accompanied by her own image. My concerns surrounding the masquerade and performative nature of femininity and the display and objectification of the female body as commodity within Capitalist society. Utilising a live art, film, photographic, performance and sculptural practice to reinforce positive feminist perspectives on the female body. To subvert the prevailing tropes of femininity as prescribed through a patriarchal lens. Investigating questions relating to the body in site, alongside themes of representation and gender, exploring and interrogating social boundaries and acceptable codes of exposure. The appropriate/inappropriate dichotomy, particularly in relation to femininity. The idea that the female body can be acted upon and coerced by external forces must be disrupted to reframe the body as active and autonomous. If the body is a surface to be inscribed upon by cultural and societal forces, what is real? My body as alienated, as belonging to the other. Constant awareness of my body, not as it is for me, but for the other. Femininity formed through the constant surveillance of ourselves against others through the mirror image, a device used to measure yourself against. My work references an anti-aesthetic, a disruption of the social and symbolic ordering of the female body, exploring a rejection of woman as idealised surface and questioning and disrupting the idea of a proper social body. Confronting the viewer with the abjection of the body, refusing containment and allowing seepage and immersion with bodily fluids. My practice attempts to erode the fetishishtic dominant structures of patriarchal Capitalism. By presenting the abjectness of the body, the work both solicits and repels the viewer and refuses the link to commodity culture. The construction of femininity as temporal and manipulable, an artifice, what constitutes femininity and who draws the boundaries? My work subverts the socially dictated artificial femininity represented through media imagery. Femininity which is something that must be purchased and imposed artificially upon the surface of the female and a radical acceptance of mess, fluids and flesh are part of feminist resistance. Location The location of the interview Shrewsbury England United Kingdom Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Theresa Bradbury Title A name given to the resource Theresa Bradbury 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/94cae9053762c69d9739339a4abd9155.png 0eea4b659b44db97d608db45ab70e74d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Resource Library Book A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Author Luce Irigaray Publisher Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 13 978-3319392219 ISBN 10 3319392212 Topic philosophy feminism birth phenomenology social philosophy psychoanalysis Date of Publication February 19, 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 To Be Born: Genesis of a New Human Being birth feminism Irigaray Luce Irigaray phenomenology philosophy psychoanalysis social philosophy https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/7e7c2aa9e71ed4ad156a24d4df100bbc.jpeg f1889d497f340537eadbc9b9e4e56fdc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.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.tonyameeks.com">Www.tonyameeks.com</a> Topic Soulship parenting / art parenting Medium performance art Artist Statement Tonya Meeks is a performance artists creating show with her two year old son. Location The location of the interview Marina del Ray California USA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tonya Meeks California Marina del Ray performance United States 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/3b80b353ee37f8d0f7f022be1fe257ca.jpg 2684516f1ebcd086674364d57cb84192 Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://traceykershaw.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://traceykershaw.co.uk/</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tellmeaboutyourmother/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.facebook.com/tellmeaboutyourmother/</a> Medium social practice video art Location The location of the interview Nottingham England United Kingdom Artist Statement Tracey studied Fine Art at the University of Nottingham, and since graduating in 2011 has been developing her practice, which focuses on aspects of the maternal, including her evolving relationship with her son. She currently lives and works in Nottingham, practising from Backlit Studios. Tracey’s maternal experience is central to her art practice. The profound and often overwhelming emotions that her motherhood brings have driven her to engage with other interrelated subjects such as fertility, ageing and the fragility of time passing. After creating and exhibiting a number of maternally-themed works, Tracey undertook a one year residency at the University of Nottingham in 2012/13, and used this time to start developing her current project ‘tell me about your mother’. While her early work focussed mainly on her own relationship with her son, ‘tell me about your mother’ takes a less introspective direction, aiming to both celebrate and expose the powerful, yet often problematic, relationships between mothers and their children. Topic motherhood aging fertility passage of time mother/son relationship son loss Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/404" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The M Word, One Paved Court Gallery, 1 – 12 May 2019</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tracey Kershaw aging England fertility mother/son relationship motherhood Nottingham social practice son United Kingdom video art https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/9188177ba67616c39853f285bfee80d5.png 9ed2f6ab28fea78d54fe38840f800a7c Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="https://www.tracymarietaylor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.tracymarietaylor.com</a> Location The location of the interview Chicago USA Artist Statement Cried Milk (2018 - present) Cried Milk uses data collected from a smartphone app to visualize what it looks like to exclusively breast pump for twelve months. Each visualization represents one month of data. The blue rings represent one hour, the change in value tracks the hours of sunlight and darkness, while the change in saturation indicates broad weather patterns (sunny versus cloudy). The straight lines each represent one day and the yellow circular bursts represent each 30-minute pumping session. The size of each circle correlates to the quantity of milk collected. This project connect to broader cultural conversations about motherhood. As infertility rates continue to skyrocket, many women experience motherhood through a similar, clinical lens. My hope is that this project gives voice to the millions of women who have struggled to become mothers and honor the under-valued labor of motherhood. The Shape of Your Sounds (2017 - present) Using audio surveillance technologies provided by a commercial baby monitor, I capture my baby’s cries and translate that data into visual shapes. The sound waves loop back on themselves in a 360-degree rotation. The result is vaguely reminiscent of the shape of a flower; each burst of sound looks like a petal. The initial purpose for this project was to try to find visual patterns that could be more easily interpreted. However, I quickly realized this was a fool’s game; the visual patterns are as indiscernible as his sounds. Therefore, what remains is a visual record of a moment in time; a beautiful reminder of those sleepless nights when the world was comprised of just my son and myself. Sleep Regression (2016 – 2017) “Sleep Regression” is a series of intimate works that were painted in the space of nap times and record the moments I watched my son while working in my home studio. The paintings’ small size and blue palette reproduce the video format and color, mimicking the tension between the close, private space of sleep and the distance created by the act of surveillance. The effects are eerie and disturbing images of rest. Lingering in the unconscious state of sleep the baby’s body looks lifeless. Are these representations of a sleeping child or a fetus? These works are thus unusual documents of baby’s first year of life–odd surrogates for the family photo album. The gray-scale paintings, on the other hand, reinforce the reference to the sonogram, creating layers of distance. The painting series thus portrays an interesting paradox: the increasing stylistic abstraction chronicles my catharsis after years of fertility struggles as I move further away from my past sorrows, yet the works also reflect a turn inward and becomes more specific to my body (womb) and more private. The delineated forms in black, white, and grey look like the thermal imaging of a birth–drapery resembles the uterine wall, a dark ground morphs into a vaginal opening. Topic abstraction aesthetics art artist mother baby baby food bodily transformation breast milk breast pump breastfeeding breastfeeding advocacy breastmilk care care taking care work caregiving caretaking communication conceptual art contemporary art creative practice creative practice and family life cyborg daily life daily routine daily tasks data data tracking data visualization documentation domestic life domesticity early motherhood everyday activities exhaustion family and career feeding female body female experience feminism feminist feminist art food food systems gender equality gender roles good mother grief growth guilt healthcare human body infant care invisible labor isolation lactation let down reflex loss maternal experience maternal healthcare maternal time medical care milk milk jug money mother and child mother artist mother guilt mother work mother/child relationship motherhood motherhood and economic context motherhood as art practice mothering motherwork mundane details nature vs. technology nursing nursing mothers parental leave personal personal boundaries personal experience personal space pumping record keeping remembering repetition repetitive tasks representations of motherhood research and art sleep deprivation social norms son technology time unpaid labor visualizations women's health women's identity audio waves archive care labor crying data visualization documentation emotional space infants and sleep language language development sleep training Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2018- “Fits and Starts,” Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2018- “The Shape of Your Sounds” (solo), Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL Medium acylic flashe sculpture digital Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tracy Marie Taylor https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/aa35184d422f681ad9e0f90481f19537.jpg 735d3b9597c4a4c83d1f5b2ad779f053 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.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.trishmorrissey.com/" target="_blank">http://www.trishmorrissey.com/</a> Medium photography installation video art spoken word Topic motherhood parenthood parent/child collaboration face painting pregnancy karaoke family dynamics family vacation parenting Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Trish Morrissey face painting family dynamics family vacation installation karaoke motherhood parent/child collaboration parenthood parenting photography pregnancy spoken word video 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 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/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 https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/c1927f55ef05957cd408c27cd35fd392.jpg cca76c1bfaa630729371fb1077be7282 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website <a href="https://cpacphoto.org/unveiled/">https://cpacphoto.org/unveiled/</a> Gallery Colorado Photographic Arts Center Location The location of the interview Denver Colorado Curator Samantha Johnston Curatorial Statement The Colorado Photographic Arts Center presents Unveiled – an exhibition of three photographic projects that address overlooked aspects of women’s sexuality, motherhood, and reproductive health. In her series Parturition, Lindsey Beal documents vintage gynecological tools dating back to the 1700’s, uncovering a complicated history of medicine fraught with sexism and racism. Megan Jacobs’ project “Hidden Mothers” references Victorian-era portraiture of mothers and children, offering a contemporary metaphor for the unrecognized work of motherhood. And in Wired, Sarah Sudhoff photographs sex research devices used at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction—challenging us to separate emotionless scientific inquiry from notions of sexual taboos. Artists <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/369" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lindsey Beal</a> Megan Jacobs <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Sudhoff</a> Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) May 17, 2019 – June 29, 2019 Topic sexuality motherhood reproductive 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 Unveiled https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/ca6fb8eb11353e66ea1d5699ca542a25.jpg 7dcc0c66220d42f21756c6dc7bf14814 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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.verastankovic.com" target="_blank">https://www.verastankovic.com/</a> Medium sculpture installation photography collage urban intervention performance art object sculpture photography writing interdisciplinary Location The location of the interview Ljubljana Slovenia Europe Artist Statement I am fascinated by transformation processes. I observe transforming spaces, economy, environment, cities, work, cells, bodies, knowledge, history, countries, roles, education, technology, relationships, selves, languages. Becoming and being a mother is for me all about transformation. My first solo exhibition in the Zepter Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia was called Metamorphosis . The objects I made used banal everyday objects (plastic bags) and transformed them into an immense vagina or into umbilical cords falling from the ceiling. This story from 1999 was a intimate story of separating oneself from the primary family and a story about the everyday and the environment.  From 2006 to 2012 my partner and I went through a series of unsuccessful IVFs and several miscarriages. I did several sculptural works that documented this part of our lives - like the Womb exhibited in 2010 in Museum de Ceramica de l’Alcora, Spain. It was just about the pain, I guess. In 2012, I was invited to make an urban intervention inside the Vesel Garden in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I was three months pregnant with my son and did not know what to expect about the occurring pregnancy. So I did an urban intervention with a participative performance and called this work Embryo garden. It was all about the thin line between life and death of the child to be, but also of the artistic child within myself. My experience as a parent has been both challenging and inspiring for me as an artist. I explored the relationship between the roles of artist and parent in my 2016 exhibition in the Glass Atrium of the City Hall of Ljubljana, called A Thank You Note To the Cleaning Lady. The work that lent its name to the exhibition questions the relation between reproductive, maintenance work and having greater purpose in life. As a whole, the exhibition was born as a product of broken antagonism between being a parent and an artist and of cooperation between the two roles. The installation To Include Everything, Everything, Everything, Absolutely, Absolutely, Everything especially focused on that. And the work The Map is about the child experiencing and learning by himself, and the artist-mother just observing and taking notes. In this process, I sometimes feel as if steeling from him.  Topic play daily life work/life balance parenting domestic artist/mother fertility infertility vagina parent/child collaboration World War II exploring anger cleaning maintenence everyday powerlessness ritual grandmother's 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 Vera Stankovic anger archive artist/mother calendar cleaning collage daily life domestic everyday fertility grandmother infertility installation maintenance Maps motherhood parent/child collaboration parenting plastic play Poljanska powerlessness Pozega-Slavonia pregnancy readymade ritual sculpture Serbia Slovenia toys vagina womb work/life balance World War II writing 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/cc69a33a1c063cbf3818964b15d68106.jpg 1c5034a49fc52d0c9dc25731730bae73 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition Archive Event A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea party, conflagration. Exhibition Website www.dianakrilova.com Curator Diana Krilova Gallery 5th Base Gallery, London E1 5LJ Curatorial Statement Exhibition of drawings in ink made daily by mother submerged into the world of her children. Motherhood is a state of being that passes by just as childhood does, it is often taken for granted and goes by unnoticed. There are moments of magic and times of frustration in this world of wander and learning by both sides that of mother and her children. This body of work is a tiny part of an ongoing long term journey to discover how surrounding environment is shaping us. Location The location of the interview London Artists Diana Krilova Topic motherhood environments children self and other Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Visual Diary of a Mother Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Diana Krilova children environments London mother and child https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/cf84943ad4db72d44e86489d13d02270.png 89432579066a700f92c937284940a8dc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.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.wednesdaykim.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.wednesdaykim.com</a> Medium multimedia video installation Location The location of the interview United States Artist Statement Unwelcome experiences from sexual trauma have led me to having intrusive thoughts. These intrusive thoughts and unpleasant ideas became an obsession. The hidden forces of the unconscious blend with traumatic memories and incoherent mixtures from my subconscious mind, forming bizarre images, which appeared in my daydreams and night dreams. Much of my works are like the world refracted through the prism of a schizophrenic mind. My art involves found objects, assemblage, videos, sculptures, and performance; a mixture of analog, digital, and movement. I would like the experience of viewers seeing my art to be somewhat like a game of hide-and-seek with me, psychologically. Sometimes I am hiding in my work, trying not to be found; other times, I chase viewers. I do not wish to provide or prescribe what my work means to the viewers. My hope is to connect with the viewers’ own momentary expression as they experience the recordings of my story. As far as others viewing my artwork, I like to think that momentary catharsis can occur. Topic pregnancy nightmares trauma guilty pleasure depression sleepyhead flustered scattered dangling Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. "Mother Art Prize show 2018" / Mimosa House gallery, London, UK  2019 Wednesday Kim’s Open studio (supported by The Procreate Project and Create London) / The White House Dagenham, London, UK "SUPERNOVA 2017 Outdoor Digital Animation Festival" / Denver, USA "Life 2.0", isthisit? pavilion, The Wrong Biennale 2017 / London, UK "VIDEOHOUSE II" / Deslave,Tijuana, Méxic "Lanzarote International Video Art" 2017/ Cultura Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Spain "FUSE"2017 / Ättiksfabriken Art Space and Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden "Filmideo 2017" / Index Art Center, Newark, NJ, USA "Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:"2017 / Re: Art Show, Brooklyn, NY, USA 2019 Wednesday Kim’s Open studio (supported by The <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Procreate Project</a> and Create London) / The White House Dagenham, London, UK Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wednesday Kim 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/a19b572900e6e59c02291cf70cf28f66.JPG 4203fe8e018d2397d216f546685fc796 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://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://xaverine.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://xaverine.com/</a> Medium multi-disciplinary Location The location of the interview East Sussex United Kingdom Artist Statement Xaverine M A Bates is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring themes of gender, motherhood, mental health and eco-feminism. She completed her BA Fine Art at Brighton University in 2008 and has been practising since then in East Sussex. She also has a degree in Philosophy & Anthropology, lived in Mexico for 2½ years and is married to an Icelander with whom she has one daughter. She is currently coordinating The Mother Lode Project, which aims to extract the gold from challenging experiences of motherhood by giving opportunities for artists who are mothers to work with those who may be experiencing mental health difficulties as a result of motherhood. To be held at the De La Warr Pavilion in 2019. Topic motherhood mental health depression suicidal ideation identity bipolar disorder Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. 2018: 100 years on & what have we got? Hastings Women’s Voice @ Hastings Arts Forum, Hastings, UK – group show featuring ‘For the mothers’, a poem about motherhood 2018: oh motHER, Spilt Milk Gallery members’ show, Custom House Gallery, Edinburgh, UK – group show featuring ‘Stockpiled’ (mixed media: stockpiled medication, shredded journals, thread Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Xaverine MA Bates bipolar disorder depression identity maternal mental health mental health suicidal ideation United Kindgom Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.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/909e17b91eaeeb52e3d07eef88eeff4f.JPG 31b155746b95add396d3205d0a475d68 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.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.zackbent.com" target="_blank">www.zackbent.com</a> Topic domestic life fatherhood rituals family history wilderness Medium photograpy video installation Artist Statement As an artist, I am drawn to incidences where the domestication and wilderness overlap and interact. The work I create takes various forms from sculptural installation, video and sound works as well as photographic studies and series. My current work draws from my experience visiting and photographing a parcel of forest fire land in Washington USA over the past year. The photographs include geometric sculptures and mythic performative acts by my sons that respond to the desolation of the forest while acknowledging the impending growth just beneath the surface of the land. The work is a study in the silence and death encapsulated in forest fires as an inside-out look at traditional views on the sublime and beauty in the wilderness. Location The location of the interview Seattle Washington USA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Zack Bent Title A name given to the resource Zack Bent domestic life fatherhood installation photography rituals Seattle video Washington wilderness https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/6def31fe8617a0eeabdeff4f39cb168a.jpg e3aba8e9e550e18b124ecdce735157a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.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.zoefreney.com">www.zoefreney.com</a> Medium oil paint pastel Location The location of the interview Adelaide South Australia Artist Statement Zoe Freney is an artist, writer, educator and mother. These roles jostle for attention and time, but mothering is a constant occupation, and it is this never-letting-up that is borne out in Freney’s works. For Freney, painting remains a vital means of expression. The painting Thinking of Flying (2018) describes the frustration of having to forego the creative, meaning-making practices of painting as one struggles instead with the daily tasks of child rearing and the demands of the household. But within mothering there is still room for dreaming and reflection. There are opportunities to nurture children’s imaginations, to initiate them into creative lives. While Freney’s work examines the banality and joys of mothering, it is also about transcendence. We are all thinking of flying. Topic Matricentric feminism feminist mothering empowered mothering, control lack of control definition identity maternal subjectivity Madonna ‘yummy mummy,’ maternal subjectivity contemporary painting embodied knowledge, contemporary drawing Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Silver Linings, Praxis Artspace, Bowden, South Australia, 20 June – 17 July 2019 Motherology, Collective Haunt Inc, Norwood South Australia, 8 November – 9 December 2018 Good Mother, Central Gallery, Glenside South Australia, 12 August—7 September 2018 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Zoe Freney ‘yummy mummy ’ contemporary painting contemporary drawing control definition embodied knowledge empowered mothering feminist mothering identity lack of control Madonna maternal subjectivity Matricentric feminism oil paint pastel https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/c46c43a7ba4f11fe58669e1c538caf3b.jpg 6791af9b590fe42c39570e0af68cde41 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, 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 Rosie Garton Ildiko Rippel Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.zooindigo.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.zooindigo.co.uk/</a> Medium video photography performance Location The location of the interview Nottingham United Kingdom Artist Statement Zoo Indigo is an Anglo-German contemporary performance company based in Nottingham, founded by Rosie Garton and Ildiko Rippel. They have created performance work since 2002, touring regionally, nationally and internationally. The Company have devised many multidisciplinary performance works in collaboration with artists from a variety of disciplines, and produced a range of forms of work, including theatre-based performances, street interventions and interactive site-specific projects. The performance work tends to stem from exploration with autobiography from performers and audience, with a focus on the innovative integration of digital technologies. With the use of humour, popular music and the reprocessing of cultural texts, (often iconic film images), the company juxtaposes the banalities of the everyday with the extraordinary. Topic autobiography humor popular music cultural texts children migration home displacement 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 Zoo Indigo autobiography children cultural texts displacement home humor migration motherhood Nottingham performance photography popular music United Kingdom video 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