https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/5f071837edc1072d48ab7f0abaaf9e0f.jpg 09988cf8e39d830c2860ae729adafa73 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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.lenkaclayton.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.lenkaclayton.com/</a> <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/#/artist-residency-in-motherhood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Artist Residency in Motherhood</a> Medium conceptual art video art drawing sculpture performance art Location The location of the interview Pittsburg Pennsylvania Artist Statement In 2012 I founded <a href="http://www.residencyinmotherhood.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An Artist Residency in Motherhood</a> — a structured, fully-funded artist residency that takes place inside my own home and life as a mother of two young children. Artist residencies are usually designed as a way to allow artists to escape from the routines and responsibilities of their everyday lives. An Artist Residency in Motherhood is different. Set firmly inside the traditionally “inhospitable” environment of a family home, it subverts the art-world’s romanticization of the unattached artist, and frames motherhood as a valuable site, rather than an invisible labour for exploration and artistic production. As the first artist-in-resident-in-motherhood I aim to embrace the fragmented mental focus, exhaustion, nap-length studio time and countless distractions of parenthood as well as the absurd poetry of time spent with young children as my working materials and situation, rather than obstacles to be overcome. The following works are amongst those made during my tenure as Artist-in-Residence-in-Motherhood; <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/the-distance-i-can-be-from-my-son">The Distance I Can Be From My Son</a> <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/all-the-scissors-in-the-house-made-safer">All Scissors in the House Made Safer</a> <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/objects-from-my-sons-mouth">63 Objects from My Son's Mouth</a> <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/womens-intuition-hats">Women's Intuition (hats)</a> <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/moons-from-next-door">Moons From Next Door</a> <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.com/one-brown-shoe">One Brown Shoe</a> The project is archived in full at <a href="http://www.residencyinmotherhood.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.residencyinmotherhood.com.</a> On conclusion of my tenure in May, 2014 the project will be passed along to two new residents. An Artist Residency in Motherhood was funded by the Robert C. Smith Fund and the Betsy R. Clark Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation and a Sustainable Art Foundation Award, and supported in kind by Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse.An Artist Residency in Motherhood was exhibited at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts in 2012, and documents and works from the project are currently being exhibited in Complicated Labors at University of California Santa Cruz, curated by Irene Lusztig & Natalie Loveless until March 15th 2014. Topic motherhood motherhood and studio practice studio time mental focus household safety children and safety care taking choking hazards children and independence Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complicated Labors</a> New Maternalisms <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> <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/417" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bodies of Work, Baxter ST Camera Club of New York</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lenka Clayton care taking children and independence choking hazards conceptual art dogs drawing household safety mental focus motherhood motherhood and art practice Pennsylvania performance art Pittsburg sculpture studio practice studio time video art