Artist Mothers Group: Photographing Light

Photographer Carolina Araneda will lead this workshop on photographing light and intentional camera movement. Free yourself from the “decisive moment” and “perfect light” and go where only your camera can take you! You will need to bring a camera that allows you to have control over shutter speed settings for this exercise. A close-up lens would be ideal if you have one.

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