Art and Motherhood Panel
Cost
Where
Maxon Mills
37 Furnace Bank Road
Wassaic, NY 12592
When
Saturday, July 19
1–2 PM
Who
How does motherhood/parenthood and its attending physical, mental, and material processes change the way artists make and look at art? Is there room in the art world for creators who work outside of the traditional trope of singular genius? How might collaboration, play, and care, and what we learn from our children inform artmaking and the ways that we view the process of creativity? In this panel we will be discussing themes relevant to artist parents, from both a social and aesthetic lens, and looking at how motherhood is not just a hurdle to overcome but itself a potential source of fruitful, radical, and necessary inspiration.
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About the Panelists
Eve Biddle is inspired by artists whose work is expansive in and out of the studio and who are constant organizers like Eliza Myrie, Rick Lowe, Theaster Gates, Christa Donner, Michelle Grabner, Andrew Simonet, Steve Powers, Jen Delos Reyes, Mierle Ukeles, and many more whose visions cannot be contained by a gallery or traditional models. As an object maker her influences are more personal: her parents, their photography and sculpture, her extended family, our experiences with our bodies, both beautiful and strange.
Biddle’s culture-making practice is an outgrowth of the Wassaic Project and her collaboration with Bowie, Jeff, and Elan. Through the Wassaic Project, they have hosted 38,000+ visitors, 680+ artists in residence, 1,000+ exhibiting artists through over 30 exhibitions, hosted 50+ dance companies, 150+ bands, 50+ film makers, and served 6,000+ students. They have curated performances at MASS MoCA, and spoken on panels at Open Engagement, Storm King, The Aldrich Museum, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Tyler School of Art, School of Visual Arts in NYC, and Preservation’s Studio-X. They have served as visiting artists and guest lecturers at Columbia University, Bard College, The City College of New York, Parsons The New School for Design, Art Omi, University of Pennsylvania, and Flux Factory.
Joanna Poag loves the tactile and process-based nature of clay and has held a dynamic studio practice for the past ten years. Her work explores memory as it relates to line, color, and pattern. She holds an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and exhibits nationally and internationally. Joanna has participated in several residencies and recently taught a two-week workshop at Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado. In addition to her art practice, Joanna is Academic Director of the Visual Arts Dept. at a RWU in Rochester, NY, where she resides with her husband and three young children.
Rebecca Weisman is a concept-driven artist working at the intersection of moving image and sculpture, exploring nature, reenactment, the body, and its messy relationship to the unconscious. Her work is strongly feminist and draws upon 1970’s performance art/sculpture, land art, écriture féminine, traditions of experimental film and video, and psychoanalytic theory. Weisman has shown work nationally and internationally and is currently a National Artist at A.I.R. Gallery. She has published articles on art and philosophy and taught courses in video art, installation, and conceptual art. Weisman holds a B.A. from Reed College and an M.F.A. from Goddard and currently lives and works in Vermont, USA.
Moderator:
An accomplished curator and administrator, and currently the Executive Director of The Fabric Museum and Workshop in Philadelphia, PA, Kelly Shindler has dedicated her career to amplifying creative voices and visions inside regional and national arts institutions across the US. At The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, a multidisciplinary grantmaker serving the Greater Philadelphia region, Shindler stewarded the organization’s support of its constituents by emphasizing service and collaboration. Most notably, she was an important thinking partner and collaborator in the design and implementation of a $10.2M COVID-19 recovery fund initiative for Philadelphia’s cultural sector—a life-saving force for many arts organizations as they sought to stabilize operations, develop new approaches to programming and public engagement, and deepen commitments to DEIA initiatives. She also served on the planning team for the 2023 Philadelphia Cultural Treasures Project Grants, a collaborative fund providing Philadelphia-based BIPOC-led organizations and artists with critical support. Most recently, Shindler has worked in partnership with the Center’s Executive Director to design its current Evolving Futures grant initiative for strategic business model change.
Art and Motherhood Panel
Cost
Where
Maxon Mills
37 Furnace Bank Road
Wassaic, NY 12592
When
Saturday, July 19
1–2 PM
Who
How does motherhood/parenthood and its attending physical, mental, and material processes change the way artists make and look at art? Is there room in the art world for creators who work outside of the traditional trope of singular genius? How might collaboration, play, and care, and what we learn from our children inform artmaking and the ways that we view the process of creativity? In this panel we will be discussing themes relevant to artist parents, from both a social and aesthetic lens, and looking at how motherhood is not just a hurdle to overcome but itself a potential source of fruitful, radical, and necessary inspiration.
About the Panelists
Eve Biddle is inspired by artists whose work is expansive in and out of the studio and who are constant organizers like Eliza Myrie, Rick Lowe, Theaster Gates, Christa Donner, Michelle Grabner, Andrew Simonet, Steve Powers, Jen Delos Reyes, Mierle Ukeles, and many more whose visions cannot be contained by a gallery or traditional models. As an object maker her influences are more personal: her parents, their photography and sculpture, her extended family, our experiences with our bodies, both beautiful and strange.
Biddle’s culture-making practice is an outgrowth of the Wassaic Project and her collaboration with Bowie, Jeff, and Elan. Through the Wassaic Project, they have hosted 38,000+ visitors, 680+ artists in residence, 1,000+ exhibiting artists through over 30 exhibitions, hosted 50+ dance companies, 150+ bands, 50+ film makers, and served 6,000+ students. They have curated performances at MASS MoCA, and spoken on panels at Open Engagement, Storm King, The Aldrich Museum, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Tyler School of Art, School of Visual Arts in NYC, and Preservation’s Studio-X. They have served as visiting artists and guest lecturers at Columbia University, Bard College, The City College of New York, Parsons The New School for Design, Art Omi, University of Pennsylvania, and Flux Factory.
Joanna Poag loves the tactile and process-based nature of clay and has held a dynamic studio practice for the past ten years. Her work explores memory as it relates to line, color, and pattern. She holds an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and exhibits nationally and internationally. Joanna has participated in several residencies and recently taught a two-week workshop at Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado. In addition to her art practice, Joanna is Academic Director of the Visual Arts Dept. at a RWU in Rochester, NY, where she resides with her husband and three young children.
Rebecca Weisman is a concept-driven artist working at the intersection of moving image and sculpture, exploring nature, reenactment, the body, and its messy relationship to the unconscious. Her work is strongly feminist and draws upon 1970’s performance art/sculpture, land art, écriture féminine, traditions of experimental film and video, and psychoanalytic theory. Weisman has shown work nationally and internationally and is currently a National Artist at A.I.R. Gallery. She has published articles on art and philosophy and taught courses in video art, installation, and conceptual art. Weisman holds a B.A. from Reed College and an M.F.A. from Goddard and currently lives and works in Vermont, USA.
Moderator:
An accomplished curator and administrator, and currently the Executive Director of The Fabric Museum and Workshop in Philadelphia, PA, Kelly Shindler has dedicated her career to amplifying creative voices and visions inside regional and national arts institutions across the US. At The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, a multidisciplinary grantmaker serving the Greater Philadelphia region, Shindler stewarded the organization’s support of its constituents by emphasizing service and collaboration. Most notably, she was an important thinking partner and collaborator in the design and implementation of a $10.2M COVID-19 recovery fund initiative for Philadelphia’s cultural sector—a life-saving force for many arts organizations as they sought to stabilize operations, develop new approaches to programming and public engagement, and deepen commitments to DEIA initiatives. She also served on the planning team for the 2023 Philadelphia Cultural Treasures Project Grants, a collaborative fund providing Philadelphia-based BIPOC-led organizations and artists with critical support. Most recently, Shindler has worked in partnership with the Center’s Executive Director to design its current Evolving Futures grant initiative for strategic business model change.
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