Artist Mothers Group: Mixed Media Challenge

What’s in Your Bag? Mixed Media Challenge with Sandra Brown

Sandra Brown will lead this mixed media workshop, at which each participant will be given a brown paper bag filled with 10 different, random, found items. Everyone will be challenged to create something out of the bag and its mystery contents. Some glue guns and mixed media construction materials will be supplied, but please bring along extra glue guns and exacto knives.

The acts and demands of child-rearing are exhausting and challenging. While caregiving, it can feel like we are not taken seriously as artists. Some women give up artmaking completely. Others refuse to choose, knowing that artmaking is an oxygen mask one must put on before assisting little ones.

The Artist Mothers Group at MAWA extends an invitation to all artist mothers to come and meet other women who embrace both mothering and artistic production. This peer-based group usually meets on the first Wednesday of each month. Meetings are relaxed and informal. The group experiments with art materials, critiques each other’s work, and shares snacks, concerns, ideas, inspiration, strategies and support for those who juggle the tricky life of artmaking and mothering.

Facilitated by Sandra Brown and Brenna George

If you can’t make the meetings, please consider participating in the Artist Mothers at MAWA Facebook page, Artist Mothers at MAWA.