MOTHER LOAD is a multi-disciplinary show featuring female-identifying and gender non-conforming visual artists, musicians, dancers, writers, and performers making work about fertility, miscarriage, abortion, pregnancy, birth, postpartum depression and PTSD, postpartum sexuality, and motherhood. Curated and organized by Michelle Hartney, with co-organizer Anna Ogier-Bloomer.
Exhibition Dates: May 1 – 30, 2020
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 2020, 6 – 8PM
Performance Event: Saturday, May 16, 2020, Time TBD
Some of the selected artists and performers include:
Visual Art: Seeley Cardone, Christa Donnor, Aimee Gilmore, Lise Haller Baggesen, Michelle Hartney, Katrina Majkut, Anna Ogier-Bloomer
Music: Becky Levi, Angela James, Lea Tschilds, She Speaks In Tongues Dance: Mary Sue Reese
Performance: Michelle Hartney — Kimberly Said No
Readings: “How We Do Both: Art and Motherhood” edited by Michi Jigarjian, Qiana Mestrich; “BABY LOVE — How My Infant Son Became The Other Man,” by Christen Clifford; "Mothernism," by Lise Haller Baggesen
And more to come!