Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to 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. Gallery UC Santa Cruz Sesnon Gallery Curator Irene Lusztig Artists <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Lenka Clayton</a> Mary Kelly <a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/295" target="_blank">Irene Lusztig</a> <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/24" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Jill Miller</a> Mother Art Collective Alejandra Herrera Silva Mierle Laderman Ukeles Natalie Loveless <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a> Mark Cooley Beth Hall Masha Godovannaya <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/27" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Courtney Kessel</a> Ellina Kevorkian Dillon Paul Lindsey Wolkowicz Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) February 5 - March 15, 2014 Curatorial Statement "Nearly forty years after Mary Kelly’s germinal 1976 exhibition of Post-Partum Document, the work of women artists who explicitly engage with images, processes, and experiences of maternity remains marginalized in the art world. Despite a notable resurgence of attention to the maternal in 21st Century art theory and practice, such work is, more often than not, read inside a discourse of indulgence, sentimentality, and identity rather than as representative of larger concerns with ecological systems, ethics, care, or labor. Complicated Labors investigates this problem, bringing together historical and contemporary work addressing maternal labor to ask questions about the status of feminism — and feminist art — today. The exhibition will be accompanied by a one-day symposium on February 5, 2014 at UCSC, with a keynote address by foundational feminist artist Mary Kelly. The symposium will create a space for critical interdisciplinary dialogue around issues of maternity, feminism, art-making, and writing, explicitly putting the 1970s in conversation with the current moment and putting writers in conversation with visual artists. Complicated Labors builds on recent group exhibitions on the topic, including Myrel Chernick’s and Jennie Klein’s 2004 and 2006 Maternal Metaphors and Maternal Metaphors II and Natalie Loveless’s 2010 New Maternalisms. This exhibition addresses recent books such as Andrea Liss’s 2009 Feminist Art and the Maternal, new journals such as Studies in the Maternal, and new collectives such as Broodwork." - From http://people.ucsc.edu/~ilusztig/complicated_labors/about.html# Topic maternity creative practice feminism motherhood Exhibition Website <a href="http://people.ucsc.edu/~ilusztig/complicated_labors/about.html#" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://people.ucsc.edu/~ilusztig/complicated_labors/about.html#</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 Complicated Labors: feminism, maternity and creative practice feminism maternal labor maternity