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The Artist Parent Index is a searchable database of artists making work about their experience as parents: you can view it and/or register your work at artistparentindex.com
February 9, 2016 by Cevan Castle Lehna Huie is a multidisciplinary fine artist, arts educator, cultural worker and curator, and mom to Simone, her one-year-old daughter. In the fall of 2015, she participated in a five week residency at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. I spoke with her about the transition into … Continue reading
January 30, 2016 by Cevan Castle Rebeca Raney is a New York based artist and designer, an arts educator, and mom to a two year old. She is a voice of encouragement for artists considering children. During the recent Center for Parenting Artists event PLAY&GROUP 1: a picnic with New York composer Ithai Benjamin and his robotic puppets, … Continue reading
The Center for Parenting Artists is pleased to invite families to an indoor picnic on January 23rd, 2016, 11:00am-12:30pm. The event will be hosted at the CUE Art Foundation, with music performed by New York composer, artist, and dad, Ithai Benjamin. Following the performance will be a brief interview and discussion with local artists on the continuation … Continue reading
Artist and mother of twins Shira Richter pulls no punches in this interview with Hannah Rubin for The Sisterhood, part of a series of articles that aims to address gender imbalance in the art world. Richter speaks with surprising directness of the transition that women-artists make as they become mothers, and reveals cultural beliefs and … Continue reading
“Professional contemporary artists of any gender working in any visual, performing, text, film or digital art discipline are invited to submit work they created in response to their own pregnancy, birth and/or early parenthood experiences. The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Friday 15th May.” https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com
Boston area artist-parents organize to host in-person events and share online resources: https://www.facebook.com/ groups/759814474101893/
Lorna Simpson’s beautiful interview on her accomplishments, making art while parenting, the need for intellectual stimulation while raising an infant, and how being a mother made her a stronger artist. http://aleim.com/issue3/interview-lorna/
Choreographer Andrew Simonet’s “crowd-sourced, opinionated, positive” guide to being an artist with children! bit.ly/1B6kidr
(Subtitle: you can blame the Abstract Impressionists for your troubles) There is no doubt that small, nursery-aged children take up a considerable amount of time and energy. Seasoned parents will quickly share, however, that it goes incredibly fast, despite what it feels like in the moment. They reminisce: babyhood was over in the blink of an … Continue reading
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