Maternal Journal #2
Edited by Amy Hughes Braden
Project for an Empty Space, 2019
Paperback, 10 x 7 in.
110 pages
$40.00
WPA Note:
In 2018, WPA and artist Amy Hughes Braden co-organized a residency program for artist caregivers at our gallery and office spaces. As part of the project, Hughes Braden also organized a conference at Howard University and published first edition of Maternal Journal.
Description:
Artist Mother Studio partnered with Project for Empty Space for the second iteration of Maternal Journal. This edition was inspired by the words of bell hooks from Feminism is For Everybody: "In future feminist movement we need to work harder to show parents the ways ending sexism positively changes family life. Feminist movement is pro-family. Ending patriarchal domination of children, by men or women, is the only way to make the family a place where children can be safe, where they can be free, where they can know love."
Contributors include: Victoria Bailey, Celeste A. Bateman, Sheila Black and Eliza Hayse, Lori Anne Boocks, Sophie Buckner, Marina Carreira, Christen Clifford, Mya Cluff, Ellen Cornett, M.A. Dennis, Nene A. Diallo, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Maria Eife, Nadia Liz Estela, Maternal Fantasies, Iris Alin Green, Steve Fitzpatrick, Hannah Gaudite, Kimberley Gertig, Aimee Gilmore, Michelle Hartney, Megan Hildebrandt, Sarah Irvin, Michi Jigarjian, Donna Conklin King, Candice Kwan, Vaughan Larsen, Ariel Lavery, Meg Leahy, Gera Lozano, Tsedaye Makonnen,MANDEM, Lex Marie, China Martens, Deborah Mashibini-Prior, Jessica Mueller, na na, Anna Ogier-Bloomer, Sheri Park, Lara Payne, Tori Pelz, Kathy Putnam, Trixi Rosa, Hannah Baker Saltmarsh, Daniell Savoy, Judy Southerland, Anonymous, Liane Tyrrel, Alana Tyson, Maya Varadaraj, Camila Ussa Villamil,Jasmine Waiters,Sophia Wallace, Jess Weible, Ellyn Weiss, Emilia White and Sara J. Winston.
About the Author(s):
Artist Mother Studio (AMS), managed by artist Amy Hughes Braden, has existed in several forms since its inception in 2018. First and foremost they are an itinerant, childcare supported, studio residency for artists with children. The first cohort worked out of a DIY community arts space called Rhizome in DC, and the second cohort took up residence at Washington Project for the Arts in both our office and exhibition space. AMS has also taken the shape of a conference at Howard University, and an ongoing zine titled Maternal Journal.