The cost of being a mother-artist
Over the past several years, I’ve been doing a lot of reading, research, reflection and thinking about the relationship between motherhood and the working world, particularly that of the artist. I was reading an article recently (Performing the Maternal in Public Space by Laura Endacott) in which the artist, applying for a faculty job at a university, asked what kind of evening and overtime hours she could expect. She was treated as if the question itself was unprofessional a
What is Motherist?
Motherist is a social practice experiment in artmaking between mother/artists and their children. It began a couple years ago when artists Briana Linden and Heather Hawksford began investigating the intersection of motherhood and artistry. We wondered "how can mothers work alongside one another and with our children to make meaningful artwork?" We had found that our work was informed by our experience of our children and were curious about diving deeper into our own practice,
