Artist Mothers Group: Mixed Media Paintings

At this mixed media painting workshop, participants are invited to bring along any papers or flat mixed media items you’d like to use and share. Canvas, paint and some mixed media materials will be available. Space is limited to 20, so RSVP to Sandra [email protected] to hold your spot. Note: the Artist Mothers will start their annual One-a-Day project in October.

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

Artist Mothers at MAWA is facilitated by Sandra Brown.