Fathers and childless women in academia are three times more likely to secure tenure-track positions than are working mothers.
Source: Academia Must Correct Systemic Discrimination and Bias Against Mothers – US News
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Isabelle Graw on “Kids in the Art World”
Timo Feldhaus: How has the way you work changed since your child was born? Or, to put it in neoliberal terms: Does having a child result in any advantages for your work?
6 Questions About Art & Parenthood – Canadian Art
When will the artworld finally be okay with parents making work about one of their primary life-changing experiences?
Female Gazing, Bryony Angell interviews Ana Alvarez-Errecalde – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
Through the eyes of women artists, motherhood is increasingly a subject of contemporary art. For the Argentine-born artist Ana Alvarez-Errecalde, motherhood was the very impetus for becoming
Artist Jamie Leonhart finds a muse in her maternal side
Jamie Leonhart births her new song cycle, “Estuary: An Artist/Mother Story” this weekend at the Kimmel Center’s SEI Innovation Studio.
Source: Artist Jamie Leonhart finds a muse in her maternal side
She saw me.
Yesterday, in clinic, she saw me. I was running through my day, busy, too many on the schedule, short on fellow staff, and not enough time for anything. She was late for her appointment, by a lot. …
Source: She saw me.
Why disregarding motherhood and women’s bodies won’t help feminism
Bodies matter. Bodies that eat, sleep, care, nurse, love and, yes, gestate. The world, and the sexism that pervades it, doesn’t make sense without them.
Source: Why disregarding motherhood and women’s bodies won’t help feminism
Artist Makes Powerful Statement About Dangers of U.S. Maternity Care
Dying in childbirth is not something that most American women typically worry about. But perhaps it should be: The maternal mortality rate here is the highest of all developed nations — and recently saw an increase, putting the U.S. on a list with countries including war-torn Afghanistan. It’s a shocking
Source: Artist Makes Powerful Statement About Dangers of U.S. Maternity Care
British women: ‘Consent during childbirth is a joke’ – Telegraph
The case of an American woman, who was unwillingly cut by doctors during birth, has shocked many. But this problem isn’t confined to the US, says Milli Hill. British women find it just as hard to get their voices heard
Source: British women: ‘Consent during childbirth is a joke’ – Telegraph
PRESS RELEASE: International Call Out for Parenting Artists
PRESS RELEASE
Monday 6 April 2015
On Monday 6th April 2015, Project AfterBirth launches an international open call inviting professional contemporary artists of any gender working in any visual, performing, text, film or digital art discipline to submit work they created in response to their own or their partner’s pregnancy, birth and/or early parenthood experiences. The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Friday 15th May.
By the end of June 2015, a dedicated panel of international arts professionals will announce a selection from submissions which will feature in an exhibition about the impact of early parenthood on the artist. This selection panel comprises founding artists/curators Kris Jager & Mila Oshin (Joy Experiment, Exeter, UK), Stella Levy and Julie Gavin (White Moose, Devon, UK), Martha Joy Rose (Museum of Motherhood, New York, USA), Helen Knowles (The Birth Rites Collection, Manchester, UK) and Francesca Pinto (The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK).
The panel will be looking for high quality and engaging work, reflecting a variety of personal perspectives on 21st century pregnancy, birth and early parenthood experiences by a mix of emerging and established professional contemporary artists working in traditional and new media.
The Project AfterBirth exhibition will launch at White Moose gallery in the South West of the UK on 2nd October 2015 with the aim to tour to a number of UK, European and USA art spaces in 2016-19.
Most submitted work may also contribute to an interdisciplinary research initiative led by Project AfterBirth and a team of academics from the fields of obstetrics, mental health, midwifery, media studies, social justice, and women and gender studies. This initiative will be aimed at shedding light on current Western pregnancy & birth practices, investigating their impact on early parenthood experiences, and informing their future.
A further important aim is to present submitted work on a new online platform dedicated to contemporary art, social activism and research on the subject of new parenthood.
For more information or to join the mailing list, please visit: http://www.projectafterbirth.com
For all ENQUIRIES please email projectafterbirth@lionartprojects.co.uk
Project AfterBirth‘s 2015 programme is delivered with generous support from:
Project AfterBirth logo image credit: Hilary Paynter, ‘Another Life’, 1977, reproduced with kind permission from the artist for illustrative purposes.
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