Location: Chashama at 320 West 23rd St.

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Full Schedule:
6:30pm | Arrival, snacks, welcome
6:45pm | Elana opens with some songs & poems from Mother Country
7:15pm | Curator-led walk-through and artist talks
8:30pm | close

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More about the exhibit:

The exhibition features works by Las Hermanas Iglesias, Tabitha Soren, Jaishri Abichandani, Amanda Kates, Aimee Gilmore, Oasa DuVerney and Kate Fauvell. 

“My vision began with wanting to make sure that powerhouse Artist Mama’s were getting their work exhibited. Since having to survive the pandemic as a single Mother, my life and art have completely changed, and I’m not alone. The impact it has had on womxn identifying people who are mothers is clearly disproportionate. In the U.S. as of January 2021, 4,637,000 jobs were lost by womxn and 32 percent of those womxn said child care was the reason for that unemployment. (source: Bureau of Labour Statistics, as of Jan. 2021). Many of us have been facing extreme challenges of time management, as self-employed artists some of us were forced to sacrifice our work completely, and others like the artist Mama’s in this exhibition, continued to find a way to do it all. What I found myself in search for creatively (and as a mother) is what I’ve looked for in pieces for the exhibition: a distinctive perspective on motherhood and the essential exploration in a mama’s communication of their truth.” — Kate Fauvell, artist & curator

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More about the exhibit:

The exhibition features works by Las Hermanas Iglesias, Tabitha Soren, Jaishri Abichandani, Amanda Kates, Aimee Gilmore, and Kate Fauvell. 

“My vision began with wanting to make sure that powerhouse Artist Mama’s were getting their work exhibited. Since having to survive the pandemic as a single Mother, my life and art have completely changed, and I’m not alone. The impact it has had on womxn identifying people who are mothers is clearly disproportionate. In the U.S. as of January 2021, 4,637,000 jobs were lost by womxn and 32 percent of those womxn said child care was the reason for that unemployment. (source: Bureau of Labour Statistics, as of Jan. 2021). Many of us have been facing extreme challenges of time management, as self-employed artists some of us were forced to sacrifice our work completely, and others like the artist Mama’s in this exhibition, continued to find a way to do it all. What I found myself in search for creatively (and as a mother) is what I’ve looked for in pieces for the exhibition: a distinctive perspective on motherhood and the essential exploration in a mama’s communication of their truth.” — Kate Fauvell, artist & curator

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More about Elana Bell:

Elana Bell is a poet, sound practitioner, and sacred creative. Her debut poetry collection, Eyes, Stones (Louisiana State University Press 2012), was selected by Fanny Howe as winner of the 2011 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, AGNI, Barrow Street, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the AROHO Foundation, and the Drisha Institute. She was a finalist for the inaugural Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism from Split This Rock, an award that recognizes and honors a poet who is doing innovative and transformative work at the intersection of poetry and social change. Learn more here: https://www.elanabell.com/