resources on
mother-artists initatives, collectives and networks
(last update 11.12.2024)
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Mother Art is one of the first examples of self-organised mother-artists initiatives, from the Western perspective.*
Desperate Artwives, London, England (2011)
ARiM (An Artist Residency in Motherhood), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (2012)
Cultural ReProducers Network, Chicago, USA (2012)
The m/other voices, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2013)
Mothers Who Make MWM London, England (2014)
FAN (Family Activist Network) across the UK (2014)
Procreate Project, London, England (2013)
Manifesto for Maternal Performance (Art) 2016! Published in Performance Research A Journal of the Performing Arts (2017)
A.M.M.A.A. (The Archive for Mapping Mother Artists in Asia), Delhi, India (2016)
Maternal Journal, London, England (2017)
Mothers In Arts, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2017)
Maternal Fantasies, Berlin, Germany (2018)
Split Milk Gallery, Edinburgh, Ireland (2018)
Maternal Art Magazine, Todmorden, Yorkshire, England (2020-)
The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home, Liverpool, England (2007-2019)
Housewives on Prozac, NYC, New York USA (1997-2008)
Artist/Mother Podcast, Paris, Tennessee, USA (2018)
Stay Home Residency, Paris, Tennessee, USA (2020)
Leaking Women, Santiago, Chile (2019)
*Mother Art was formed in 1973 to address the issues of artists as mothers. Over thirteen years, eight women were involved in the working of the group, among other Suzanne Siegel. Although it is true that Mother Art collective emerged from the specific socio-political context of the 2nd wave feminism. However by incorporating intersectional practice and thinking, Mother Art collective went far ahead of its time. Knowing and understanding the particular context of Mother Art collective, might be helpful in building our collective body of knowledge and understanding of autonomy in today’s context of independent and self-organised practices.
The Mother Art Price, London, England (2017-2020)
Prams In The Hall, London, England (2012-2018)
Oxytocin, London, England (2017 and 2019)
The Mother House Studios, London, England (2016-2018 pilot project, permanent project since 2021)
The Mothernists and The Mothernists II: Who Cares for the 21st Century, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Copenhagen, Denmark (2015 and 2017)
Women Up! on-line, (2019)
Tomorrow Girls Troop, Tokio, Japan (2015)
Kwago, Manila, Philippines (2017)
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Upominki, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2012)
Oda Projesi, Istanbul, Turkey (2000)
Renewing the World, on-line (2021)
The Museum of Motherhood, NYC, New York, USA (2003) currently within MoM Art Annex in St. Petersburg
Journal of of Mother Studies (JourMS) (2015)
Elsewhere Studios, Paonia, Colorado, USA (2010)
The O Home, Makati, Philippines (2023)
to M•Others, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, (2020)
Vrouwenmantel Art Research Group, Breda, the Netherlands, (2021)
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tussen kunst & kind | between art & family, on-line (2024)
Apart from the Mother Art project in the middle, there is no hierarchy, chronology or reading/writing logic in this diagram. Sometimes links are made between projects stemming from earlier initiatives.
Mothers on the mic, Exeter, England (2022)
Artist Parent Index, online, (2016)
M.A.M.A. (Mother Artists Making Art), Los Angeles, California, USA (1998)
Mothers Artlovers, Prague, Czechia (2016)