- Wednesday, April 5, 2017
- 6:30pm – 9:00pm
- MAWA, 611 Main Street
As part of her visit to Winnipeg, New York multi-media artist, author and curator Myrel Chernick will join our meeting for a group critique. Chernick, editor of the book The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art, is an artist mother whose long and varied career features work about the maternal experience. We are thrilled to welcome her.
Free! Open to all artist mothers
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In the late 1970s Chernick began creating text-based multi-media installations in New York that were exhibited nationally and internationally. After the birth of her twins and the curtailment of her peripatetic existence she began concentrating on texts, which grew from short poetic statements to essays and short stories that were published in M/E/A/N/I/N/G, Mother Reader, Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, and Video Pool’s Poolside. In 1999 she began researching and developing the exhibition Maternal Metaphors, which was subsequently presented twice and included a catalog with an introduction by Chernick and an essay by Jennie Klein. This grew into the first comprehensive anthology on art and the maternal, The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art, organized and edited with Klein over five years and published by Demeter Press.