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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.elizabethpress.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.elizabethpress.net</a>
Medium
HD video
Location
The location of the interview
Troy
New York
Artist Statement
<p>Pandemic Letter #1 May 28, 2020</p>
<p>This video was created at what we considered to be the beginning of the pandemic as we were trying to figure out how to cope with our new existence under lockdown and how to communicate this new reality to our child. My partner and collaborator Angela Beallor helped record the video, shooting on a DSLR with a macro lens. Our kid turned three right before I wrote this. Now, they are four. So far, we have survived this pandemic with little personal loss but not without the stresses that come along with constantly being on for work, for our family, and for our community. We continue to struggle as a queer family in a predominately heteronormative parent community and we continue to work, as a white family, for racial justice in our town.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Elizabeth Press (EP/They/Them) is a media-maker and educator based in Troy, NY. Press is interested in socially engaged practices and experimental documentary which sometimes crosses over with topics of caregiving.</p>
<p>Press is a lecturer in the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute teaching classes in digital filmmaking and studio production. Press has also taught classes at New York University, The New School and several after-school and community media centers.</p>
<p>Press cut their teeth in journalism as a producer for the independent TV/Radio program, Democracy Now!. As a videographer, producer and editor, Press worked with BRIC Arts Media, The International Institute for Sustainable Development covering the UN climate negotiations, StreetFilms, GritTV with Laura Flanders and PBS.</p>
<p>Press’ work has been screened in international festivals across Europe and featured here in the New York Times, Democracy Now!, Rooftop Films, Exit Art, and EMPAC.<br /><br /></p>
<p>EP is on the board for the Sanctuary for Independent Media and helped bottom-line the launch of the low power FM station and the daily local news show, The Hudson Mohawk Magazine in 2017 that still runs today. </p>
<p>Press is a Fulbright Scholar, has an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a BA in Anthropology from Ithaca College. </p>
Topic
parenting
caretaking
covid-19
Exhibitions
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Femeeting 2020
<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/606" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maternochronics</a> online exhibition 2021
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Elizabeth Press (EP)
caretaking
Covid-19
New York
parenting
photography
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Artist Parent Organization Database
Service
An organization supporting artist parents.
Location
The location of the interview
New York, NY
USA
Topic
birth justice
birth
racial justice
public health
birth stories
birth story
reproductive justice
midwifery
doula
doulas
history of American gynecology
history of medicine
community organizing
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Staten Island
Bronx
Queens
NYC
New York City
New York
home birth
hospital birth
advocacy
female genital mutilation and cutting
FGMC
child welfare
drug use
substance use
pregnancy
parenting
stigma
abortion
young parents
teen parents
teen parent
teen parenting
policy
advocacy
gender
non binary
gender queer
trans
harm reduction
birth control
sterilization
fake clinics
crisis pregnancy centers
About
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">WHAT: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Birth Justice Podcast NYC takes a close, comprehensive and creative look at how folks in New York City experience and navigate reproductive oppression and create resilience strategies for their health and their families. Through storytelling and conversations, BJP NYC provides a space for dialogue and debate addressing one of New York City’s most pressing public health and racial justice issues: birth. Hosted by Taja Lindley, podcast episodes feature one-on-one long form interviews and conversations with advocates, organizers, historians, scholars, healers, birth workers, pregnant and parenting people, and folks of reproductive age.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first episode dropped Wednesday July 8th and featureds an interview between the host, Taja Lindley, and her mother, Adrianne Robinson, where they discussed Robinson’s experience giving birth to Lindley in 1985. This was a special occasion because the release date is also Lindley’s birthday.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">WHY:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the United States, Black women are three to four times more likely to die due to pregnancy related causes than white women. But in New York City, Black women are eight times more likely to die than white women. This is twice the national average. And during this pandemic moment, matters of public health are brought into focus, including long standing health inequities like maternal health. For example,when COVID first hit, NYC hospitals barred visitors during childbirth, leaving many people to labor alone. In response, Governor Cuomo issued an executive order allowing laboring people to have one support person during their childbirth. A few weeks after it was issued, however, Amber Rose Isaac - a 26-year-old pregnant Black woman - died after giving birth in a Bronx hospital. </span></p>
Organization Website
<p><a href="https://www.birthjustice.nyc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>https://www.birthjustice.nyc/</b></a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.abladeofgrass.org/articles/black-maternal-mortality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>https://www.abladeofgrass.org/articles/black-maternal-mortality/</b></a></p>
<a href="http://patreon.com/birthjusticenyc" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">patreon.com/birthjusticenyc</span></a>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/birthjusticenyc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@birthjusticeNYC</span></a>
Organzation Director
Taja Lindley
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Birth Justice Podcast NYC
abortion
advocacy
birth
birth control
Birth justice
birth stories
birth story
Bronx
Brooklyn
child welfare
community organizing
crisi pregnancy centers
doula
doulas
drug use
fake clinics
female genital mutilation and cutting
FGMC
gender
gender queer
harm reduction
history of american gynecology
history of medicine
home birth
hospital birth
Manhattan
midwifery
New York
New York City
non binary
NYC
parenting
policy
pregnancy
public health
Queens
queer
racial justice
reproductive justice
Staten Island
sterilization
stigma
substance use
teen parent
teen parenting
teen parents
trans
young parents
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Resource Library
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Author
Alison Stone
Publisher
Routledge
City of Publication
New York
London
Date of Publication
2013
ISBN 13
9780415885423
Topic
feminism
psychoanalysis
maternal subjectivity
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Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity
feminism
London
maternal subjectivity
New York
psychoanalysis
Routledge
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Exhibition Archive
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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
<span>Massey Klein is pleased to present </span><em>The End & The Beginning</em><span>, a two-person exhibition exploring themes of life and death through works on paper by Alice Gibney and Sarah Irvin. </span><br /><br /><span>Alice Gibney’s illustrations in </span><em>The End & The Beginning</em><span> 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.</span><br /><br /><span>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.</span><br /><br /><span>Gibney is a Canadian artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. This is her second exhibition with the Gallery.</span><br /><br /><span>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. </span><br /><br /><span>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.</span><br /><br /><span>Irvin is an American artist who lives and works in Richmond, Virginia. This is her first exhibition with the Gallery. </span>
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
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The End & The Beginning
breastfeeding
data visualization
infant care
New York
rocking chair
USA
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://sewingstories.com/">https://sewingstories.com/</a>
Medium
fiber
Location
The location of the interview
Westchester County
New York
Artist Statement
Being a parent, especially in today's frightening world, is not easy. Balancing that difficult task with art making is even harder. My art speaks to the challenges and joys of being both a mother and an artist.
Topic
mother guilt
raising kids in a frightening world
joys and parenthood
guilt
parenting
mother
motherhood and creative practice
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Heather G. Stoltz
fiber
guilt
joys and parenthood
mother
motherhood and creative practice
New York
parenting
Westchester County
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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.<br /><br />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>
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Of Women
bottle
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
food systems
labor
milk jug
New York
pumping
Rockaway
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Resource Library
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Editor
Michi Jigarjian
Qiana Mestrich
Publisher
Secretary Press
City of Publication
New York
State of Publication
New York
Country of Publication
United States
Date of Publication
January 1, 2015
ISBN 13
978-0988321441
ISBN 10
0988321440
Topic
maternal thinking
motherhood
mother artists
art and mothering
visual culture
art
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How We Do Both: Art and Motherhood
art making
artist mothers
artist parents
mother artists
motherhood
motherhood and art practice
mothering
mothers
New York
visual culture
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Resource Library
Book
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Editor
Moyra Davey
Contributor
The author of an article within an anthology
Margaret Atwood
Lydia Davis
Annie Ernaux
Mary Gaitskill
Susan Griffin
Nancy Huston
Jane Lazarre
Ursula K. LeGuin
Margaret Mead
Toni Morrison
Tillie Olsen
Alicia Ostriker
Grace Paley
Sylvia Plath
Adrienne Rich
Sara Ruddick
Mona Simpson
Susan Rubin Suleiman
Alice Walker
Joy William
Publisher
<a href="https://www.sevenstories.com/">Seven Stories Press</a>
City of Publication
New York City
State of Publication
New York
Country of Publication
United States
Date of Publication
May 10, 2001
ISBN 13
978-1583220726
ISBN 10
1583220720
Topic
literary nonfiction
motherhood
writing
maternal experience
maternal subjectivity
maternity
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<a href="https://www.sevenstories.com/books/3324-mother-reader">Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood</a>
literary nonfiction
margaret atwood
maternal experience
maternity
motherhood
New York
writing
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.myrelchernick.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener 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
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <span class="caps">MFA</span> 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.</p>
<p>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 <span>The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art</span>, 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.</p>
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/463">The Maternal in Creative Work Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art, Contributor</a>
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Myrel Chernick
installation
New York
projections
single channel video
USA
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Exhibition Archive
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Artists
Morgan Levy
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/163" target="_blank">Anna Ogier-Bloomer</a>
Exhibition Website
<a href="http://calendar.artcat.com/exhibits/8176" target="_blank">http://calendar.artcat.com/exhibits/8176</a>
Gallery
chashama uws Gallery
Location
The location of the interview
Columbus Avenue
Upper West Side
New York
Curator
Ad Nauseum Lyceum
Curatorial Statement
<p>Ad Nauseam Lyceum is pleased to present Domestic Skin, an exhibition of photographs by Morgan Levy and Anna Ogier-Bloomer, two New York based artists whose portrayal of family is central to their work. Ad Nauseam Lyceum’s first exhibition devoted solely to photography, Domestic Skin addresses the tension between destiny and growth, presented through the lens of two distinct female photographers. Morgan Levy’s portrayal of pre-adolescent girls in paper costumes and placed against a backdrop of her landscape photographs serve as a metaphor for the psychological complexities her subjects face. Anna Ogier-Bloomer’s documentation of her middle class family in Ohio captured over a five-year period illustrates the stark reality and familiarity of loved ones in transition. Together these artists present a story of growing up female, stepping out of what’s comfortable, and whether by idealistic choice or bare necessity, putting on a new persona.</p>
<p>Ad Nauseam Lyceum is an artist run organization committed to showcasing multi-disciplinary work by emerging artists in New York . The group aims to give young artists an opportunity to collaborate, present work, and have a creative dialogue outside the traditional art market. Founded in 2006 by Ryan Frank, Deena Selenow, and Rory Sheridan, the group has hosted previous events at Emphemeroptera Art Space, chashama, <span class="caps">EXPLOSIVO</span>! and Studio 717, and has collectively shown the work of over 50 visual and performing artists. Dedicated to blurring the lines between various artistic genres, Ad Nauseam Lyceum is a platform for a new generation of artists working in performance, visual art, and new media.</p>
<p>chashama is a non-profit New York City arts organization with a nine-year history of supporting artists of all genres and experience levels by offering them access to space and major support resources. chashama provides opportunities for artists by transforming vacant real estate into multi-arts complexes and animating them with innovative and challenging art. Through low and no-cost admissions, chashama provides more opportunities for audiences as well as artists.</p>
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
October 17 - November 2, 2008
Topic
growth
psychological complexity
family
domestic
gender
family
photography
persona
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A name given to the resource
Domestic Skin
Columbus Avenue
domestic
family
growth
New York
psychological complexity
Upper West Side
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.annaogierbloomer.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">annaogierbloomer.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
family
breastfeeding
Medium
photography
Artist Statement
This work, made during the first two years of my new role as mother,demonstratesthe complexityof doing the most difficult yet most meaningful work I’d ever done. The physical act of motherhood begins at conception and continues to evolve through a child’s life. Here, I turnmy lens on these physical elements: pain on the surface of the skin, illness, emotional outpouring of love and distress, the engorgement of the breast. These things simultaneously bring excruciating physical pain and unparalleled emotional joy. Through images of my own mother, I attach a thread from one generation to the next. I confront the complexity of these seemingly contradictory states of being, and the ways in which women feel the pull of motherhood, their children, and their physical self and appearance in a way unlike anything or anyone else.
Location
The location of the interview
New York
USA
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Anna Ogier-Bloomer
Title
A name given to the resource
Anna Ogier-Bloomer
breastfeeding
family
lactation
motherhood
New York
pain
photography
United States
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Artist Parent Organization Database
Service
An organization supporting artist parents.
Location
The location of the interview
New York
Topic
artists with children
artist collective
artist network
online resource
creative careers
professional practices
digital resource
About
<p>The Center for Parenting Artists is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to encouraging and sharing resources for artists with children. Our members represent all of the arts- painters, opera singers, actors, activists, theorists, and more. It is of vital importance to the arts community, and substantive thinking within our fields, that artists have longevity in their creative practice and represent varied life experiences.</p>
<p>To that end, the Center for Parenting Artists promotes the improved visibility of artists with children, as well as child and partner-friendly:</p>
<p>– grants and opportunities<br />– artist residencies<br />– legislation on children and families<br />– childcare policy<br />– education policy and access<br />– cooperative strategies<br />– arts organizations<br />– arts policy<br />– business practice and ethical compensation practices<br />– residential and studio access stability</p>
Organization Website
<a href="https://centerforparentingartists.wordpress.com" target="_blank">https://centerforparentingartists.wordpress.com</a>
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Center for Parenting Artists
artist collective
artist network
artist support
artists with children
digital resource
New York
parenting
professional practices
resource
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Title
A name given to the resource
Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="Website%20www.kristinemoran.com" target="_blank">www.kristinemoran.com</a>
Medium
painting
Location
The location of the interview
Brooklyn
New York
Artist Statement
Through formal and abstract gestures, Kristine Moran presents a new series of paintings that consider the complexities of relationships and the charged psychological spaces that emotional exchanges can perpetuate. This is visualized by Moran's concern with bodily actions and the moment when an emotion or vision becomes articulated through the body and directed towards a familial or intimately related figure. In Moran's coherent yet clouded scenes, these actions are transformed by the artist into something more symbolic, possibly reminding the viewer of their own ties to other people or moments of intense outpour.
In many ways, Moran's paintings are a reflection of the physical and metaphysical spaces she has occupied or continues to occupy. The artist's studio, her home, and her art practice coalesce in unexpected ways. During countless hours spent observing and interacting with friends and family, issues of gender politics, domestic labor, relationship failures and personal moralities are laid bare to dissect. Various series of paintings have come to echo Moran's transition into motherhood and at the same time, becoming motherless. Whether through observation or lived experience, these moments make their way into loose narratives that form the basis for her paintings. These are often filled with absurdity, dark humor, and euphoria, mirroring the qualities of life.
Moran's interchange of the personal and professional is deeply connected to a lineage of female artists who have utilized their lived experience as a means of speaking to what it means to be alive. The artist sees her work closely aligned with the practices of Alice Neel, Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Murray and Frances Stark.
Topic
birth
domestic labor
motherhood
children and restaurants
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Title
A name given to the resource
Kristine Moran
birth
Brooklyn
domestic labor
motherhood
New York
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Title
A name given to the resource
Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://annakell.com/section/396317_DRAWING.html" target="_blank">http://annakell.com/section/396317_DRAWING.html</a>
Medium
Graphite on paper
Location
The location of the interview
New York City
New York
Topic
breastfeeding
motherhood
portrait
newborn
son
nursing mother
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Title
A name given to the resource
Anna Kell
breastfeeding
New York
newborn
nursing mothers
portrait
son
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Title
A name given to the resource
Exhibition Archive
Event
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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
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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