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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
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<a href="http://www.kasiecampbell.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.kasiecampbell.com</a>
Medium
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Edmonton
Alberta
Canada
Topic
breastfeeding
nursing
care taking
motherhood
parenting
breastmilk
pumping milk
newborn
newborn care
postpartum
postpartum anxieties
grief
mourning
Covid-19
pandemic
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<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/606" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maternochronics</a>
Artist Statement
<p>It almost feels like I have spent the past two years in isolation. I’ve been consistently trying to navigate my <span>artistic</span> practice through intense waves of grief over the loss of my mum, infertility/miscarriage, and a fear of dying. Things have shifted in the last 4 months, with added postpartum anxieties, healing associated with childbirth, obsessive tracking of my baby’s feeds, breastfeeding struggles and COVID 19. With the COVID pandemic, there were increased anxieties surrounding my newborns health. Will my baby be okay? What if my baby gets sick? What about check-ups? Am I feeding my baby enough? what if my milk dries up and I can’t feed my baby? What if I get sick and can't feed my baby? Am I spending adequate time with my oldest child?</p>
<p>As a way to ease my anxieties, I started pumping breast milk. I would pump at 5:00 every morning after our first feed. I began writing thoughts or worries along with the date on each bag of breastmilk. I would then photograph the bags of breastmilk as a way to document life postpartum, anxieties about mumhood and life in COVID19. The act of pumping breastmilk and freezing was a ritualistic and meditative way for me to cope and eased anxieties around getting sick and not being able to feed my baby.</p>
<p>Postpartum anxieties are exacerbated by the times we are living in.</p>
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Kasie Campbell
breastfeeding
breastmilk
Canada
care taking
Covid-19
grief
motherhood
mourning
newborn
newborn care
nursing
pandemic
parenting
photography
postpartum
postpartum anxieties
pumping milk
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Name
Emily Zarse
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://www.emilyzarse.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.emilyzarse.com/</a>
Topic
mothering
maternal body
intergenerational connection
exhaustion
postpartum
breastfeeding
care
matrescene
maternochronics
Medium
fiber
natural dyes
found objects
Artist Statement
Cloth has a memory like the body. I create fabric installation that explore the precarity of the postpartum body. Residue of physical and emotional trauma are captured on the surface of the floating maternal forms. Color from foraged plants and “saddened” with iron and calcium, records the depletion of energy and essential nutrients used to grow new life.
Emily Zarse is an installation artist working with the language of natural dyes and fiber processes to explore the maternal body and matrescence. She received a degree in Costume and Textile History from Cornell University and is currently a MFA candidate at Indiana University.
Location
The location of the interview
Bloomington
Indiana
USA
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Emily Zarse
Title
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Emily Zarse
breastfeeding
Care
exhaustion
fiber
found objects
intergenerational connection
maternal body
maternochronics
matrescence
mothering
natural dyes
postpartum
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.christiancruzperformance.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.christiancruzperformance.com</a>
Topic
sex after children
birthing (labor)
breastmilk
postpartum
body positivity
sex after children
Medium
performance art
installation
painting
poetry
sculpture
Artist Statement
My work takes the form of performance, installation, video, and photo. Through the poetic exploration of the mundane, I dignify invisible labor. Invisible Labor includes the emotional, spiritual, and domestic labor that it takes for human reproduction. Invisible labor is undervalued within a capitalist society. I create environments and objects that reexamine what is valuable within our society today, heal the imagination, and ritualize this radical process into a future reality.
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Christian Cruz
Title
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Christian Cruz
birthing (labor)
body positivity
breastfeeding
breastmilk
installation
painting
performance art
poetry
postpartum
sculpture
sex after children
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.carrascoart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">carrascoart.com</a>
Topic
birth
postpartum
newborn
breastfeeding
stretch marks
postpartum body
black mother
Mexican mother
breast milk
multipara
natural birth
Medium
oil on canvas
Artist Statement
I paint what I know. Sometimes it involves communicating perceptions, relationships, and feelings too difficult for me to put into words. I'm inspired by depth, continuity, love, faith, and multi-generational connections, the most meaningful things we have, and sometimes what we lose. There is a certain forgiveness of myself I must practice each time I paint. Raising a family with six children at home and caring for a mentally ill parent means that painting sessions are reduced to blocks of time lasting an hour or less. Painting in this manner reflects my current life circumstances in hurried brushstrokes and imperfections that reveal my most authentic voice.
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Lupita Carrasco
Title
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Lupita Carrasco
birth
black mother
breast milk
breastfeeding
Mexican mother
multipara
natural birth
newborn
oil on canvas
postpartum
postpartum body
stretch marks
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.diabassett.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.diabassett.com</a>
Medium
fiber
found objects
performance
painting
Location
The location of the interview
San Diego
California
USA
Topic
parenting
caretaking
breastfeeding
dyad relationship
microbiomes
touch
nurturing
napping
sleep
babyhood
toddlerhood
pregnancy
postpartum
anxiety
hapiness
physiology
nature
biology
Artist Statement
<span> I use distorted and erratic renditions of drawing and fiber techniques such as crocheting, weaving, and wrapping to build sculptural installations varying in size. My process begins when I encounter fabrics that are sourced from family and friends. The tactile experience of touching the fabrics can lead to an intimate, thoughtful meditation when I ponder the history of a garment. Who wore or used this? Where were they going or what were they doing when they used it? I may cut the fabric into long continuous thread, draw onto it, or sew it into a wearable sculpture. Dense forms and linear elements take shape as I let the qualities of the materials guide me. The improvisational aspect of my practice allows unpredictability to prosper.</span><br /><br /><span>Inspired by my own experience of entering motherhood, I want to show the power of the mother’s body and how she influences the infant physically as well as emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. Sometimes my work takes shape as figurative drawings of the nursing relationship I have with my daughter. I incorporate repetitive text into the drawings that speak to the ever-changing mental space of becoming a mother—the anxiety and worry, the joy and gratitude. Other times my work becomes sculptural, utilizing the curvealinear forms found in nature and women’s bodies. Looking at nature’s processes of decay, entropy, rupture, and unraveling, I find an ever-increasing affinity to my body. Becoming a mother has begun to transform the art I make as I see the kinship to nature more clearly. I want viewers to reconnect with their own vulnerability as well as their strength, as motherhood has required I do so in a more profound way. Within this state of vulnerability and power, I believe we can access the sensitivity that will facilitate our collective empathy.</span>
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Title
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Dia Bassett
anxiety
babyhood
biology
breastfeeding
caretaking
dyad relationship
fiber
found objects
happiness
microbiomes
napping
nature
nurturing
painting
parenting
performance
physiology
postpartum
pregnancy
sleep
toddlerhood
touch
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Artist Parent Organization Database
Service
An organization supporting artist parents.
Location
The location of the interview
Baltimore
Maryland
Topic
maternal form
maternal body
motherhood
postpartum
maternal relationship
mother-child relationship
identity
race
pregnancy
form
weight
postpartum body
abstract
figurative
magazine
publication
visual art
photography
creative writing
breastfeeding
milk
maternal experience
fruit
About
Containing an intentionally curated body of work, conceptually driven, and visually
focused, MILKED is a new publication that focuses on the undertones of the maternal figure.
Styled like a newspaper, and published as a book, this full color, 8.5” x 14” publication features
76 pages of visual art, photography and written word by international, female artists. MILKED is
an independent project, initiated and curated by Lee Nowell-Wilson and designed by Darin
Michelle. Both artists. Both mothers.
Organization Website
<a href="http://www.leenowellwilson.com/milked-magazine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leenowellwilson.com/milked-magazine</a>
<a href="http://www.milkedmagazine.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">milkedmagazine.com</a>
Organzation Director
Lee Nowell-Wilson (founder, editor, and curator)
Darin Michelle
(creative director and designer)
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MILKED
abstract
breastfeeding
creative writing
figurative
form
fruit
identity
magazine
maternal body
maternal experience
Maternal form
maternal relationship
milk
mother- child relationship
motherhood
photography
postpartum
postpartum body
pregnancy
publication
Race
visual art
weight
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="https://www.whakatanemuseum.org.nz/exhibitions-and-events/mother" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.whakatanemuseum.org.nz/exhibitions-and-events/mother</a>
Curator
Sarah Hudson
Gallery
Te Kōputu - Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre
Curatorial Statement
M/other is an exhibition on contemporary artists from around New Zealand creating work about motherhood, mothering and maternal roles. Artist contributions from: Erena Baker, Leala Faleseuga, Rhonda Halliday, Turumeke Harrington, Claire Harris, Tash Helasdottir-Cole, Zoe Thompson-Moore, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Kararaina Toi, Justine Walker
Location
The location of the interview
Whakatāne
New Zealand
Artists
Erena Baker
Leala Faleseuga
Rhonda Halliday
Turumeke Harrington
Claire Harris
Tash Helasdottir-Cole
Zoe Thompson-Moore
Jasmine Togo-Brisby
Kararaina Toi
Justine Walker
Topic
motherhood
mothering
maternal roles
artist mother
artist/mother,
artistic labor
artists with children
autonomy
binary tensions
birthday parties
bleeding
breast milk
breast pump
care labor
body
birth
contemporary art
conceptual art
IVF, mental health, miscarriage, maternal, needlework, postpartum, personal, women artists, women representation,
domestic families
feminism
handwork traditions
indigenous motherhood
infertility
intergenerational
IVF
mental health
miscarriage
maternal
needlework
postpartum
personal
women artists
women representation
Duration
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April 20 - August 17, 2019
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M/other
Contributor
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Sarah Hudson
artist mother
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autonomy
binary tensions
birth
birthday parties
bleeding
body
breast milk
breast pump
care labor
conceptual art
contemporary art
domestic
families
feminism
handwork traditions
Indigenous motherhood
infertility
intergenerational
IVF
maternal
maternal roles
mental health
miscarriage
motherhood
mothering
needlework
New Zealand
personal
postpartum
Whakatāne
women artists
women representation
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Title
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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
<br /><span>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.<br /><br /></span>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. <br /><br />In <a href="https://www.sherfickart.me/#/artgallery/a-paxil-a-day/"><strong>A PAXIL A DAY</strong></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.<br /><br />In <a href="https://www.sherfickart.me/#/artgallery/coping-skills/"><strong>COPING SKILLS,</strong></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
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Sher Fick
Title
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Sher Fick
anti-depressants
family
family ties
installation
medication
mixed media
motherhood
postpartum
postpartum depression
textile
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Resource Library
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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
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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