I was reading about Miriam Schapiro & Melissa Meyer's idea of femmage after Andrea Klein gave a talk about ways to genuinely include craft in the art room at the Pennsylvania Art Education Association conference last fall. I was thinking that there could be a subcategory of femmage for all the working artist/mom's out there called a mommage, as I believe our studio habits probably look a bit different than other women's studio habits. (I know that right after my son was born, I suddenly realized that the paints needed locked up and certain tools could not be kept out anymore. Additionally, I knew certain processes were not safe for me to do at all in my home anymore due to space restrictions.) So in preparation for the Motherhood Journey art show (opening in May in Mount Joy and June in Elizabethtown!), I set out to create the list of rules for what qualifies a work of art as a mommage.
Here's the list so far (and I'm totally open to suggestions):
*a woman who has become a mother by pregnancy (defined by conception but not limited by fruition), adoption, foster care, and/or surrogacy. (TO GIVE RISE TO) I'll post my results after I attempt this process.
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