I had a really busy year and am late to update this news section!
I was in two dream-come-true shows this year on a subject close to me: motherhood. I was thrilled to be included in Notes on Motherhood at ASU Art Museum in Tempe (my alma mater), curated by Brittany Corrales. The show included work from the collection as well as work from contemporary artists based in Arizona and “explores various stages of matrescence, or “mother-becoming” –– from birth and caregiving to grief and loss. The exhibition challenges the narrow depictions of mothers and mothering within art history and visual culture.” (from the ASU website) You can read more about this show here.
I was so honored to be included in the groundbreaking show, Designing Motherhood at The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. The show in Houston was the fifth version co-organized by curator Sarah Darro. It was created by a group of curators and researchers including; Michelle Millar Fisher, Amber Winick, Juliana Rowen Barton, Gabriella Nelson and Zoe Greggs.
From the Craft Houston website: “Handcrafted objects are the intermediary space between the womb and the world. From handwoven swaddling cloths and knitted baby blankets to embroidered baby carriers and basket-woven bassinets, craft is often the first human experience of the material world,” notes HCCC Curator and Exhibitions Director Sarah Darro. “HCCC’s presentation of Designing Motherhood draws out the intertwined properties of labor, care, embedded history, material intelligence, and intergenerational knowledge shared by craft and parenthood, ultimately asserting such reproductive experiences as forms of craft themselves.”
Read more here.