The MAMAs / Mother Artists Making Art
A gathering for people who mother
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The PAMAs / Pregnant Artists Making Art
A gathering for people who birth
A gathering for people who mother
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The PAMAs / Pregnant Artists Making Art
A gathering for people who birth
The MAMAs/PAMAs offers a safe gathering space for mother artists and people who birth to explore the intersectionality of the mother-artist identity. We provide peer support, mindful connection, artistic inspiration and creative provocation to those engaged in this inquiry via their being + work in the world.
The MAMAs/PAMAs uses the word mother as an inclusive, liberatory term. We welcome all who identify with the word mother, embracing its potential for multiplicity (biological, adoptive, foster), value-overlap (Baba, caregiver, parent) and centrality (identity, purpose, calling).
We reclaim the words Mother and Artist as identities that occupy shared space, and when liberated or claimed can thrive in a symbiotic, intersectional flourishing.
We aim to construct conversations, convenings and making-spaces within the public and private realm that celebrate this overlap as a vibrant creative boon, a necessary and essential human understanding/undertaking, well-established in the past and present and consciously building the future.
We believe that motherhood shall be sacred and visible.
We embrace artists working in all forms/disciplines, professionally and/or passionately.
PLEASE VISIT www.motherartistsmakingart.com FOR FALL 2021 MAMAs + PAMAs SCHEDULE! All gatherings are held via Zoom. Click HERE to receive more information. The MAMAs/PAMAs Sessions meets once a week for six consecutive weeks. When registering, please choose one session indicated by day/time. Each gathering forwards intentional investigation into the Mother-Artist identity via active exploration of the creative work of the mother artists present as well as an Inspirational Mother Artist from the larger community of Mother Artists Making Art.
The MAMAs/PAMAs is facilitated Catherine Mueller (pronounced Miller). Catherine is an Interdisciplinary Artist, Actor/Creator, Educator and the Founder/Director of The Institute for Collaboration and Play. She is the mother of a vibrant son, born October, 2016. Her writings about the intersection of motherhood and art-making can be found on the PAAL blog and on Howlround. Her original performance work has been developed with/presented by The Orchard Project, The Public Theater, Ars Nova, The Grahamstown National Arts Festival, The NY Clown Theater Festival, and many others. She has also been featured in many national network commercials and voiceovers. Member SAG-AFTRA, AEA. For more information about Catherine, please visit www.mywonderchamber.com, or further peruse this website.
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The MAMAs / PAMAs is the anchor of a larger movement foregrounding the value and visibility of Mother-Artists. This is a shared initiative via the Parent Artist Advocacy League (www.paaltheatre.org) and The Institute for Collaboration and Play (www.ifcap.org). Together we endeavor to restore creativity and play into the context of pregnant bodies and motherhood. Please find us on Instagram and read The MAMAs Column.
Both PAAL and IFCAP welcome all caregiving responsibilities and realities in the background or foreground of any meetings, phone calls, and exchanges and embrace your life in our pursuit of productive and supportive practices.
PAAL and IFCAP are transgender and non-binary affirming spaces. We support a safe space for everyone's experience of pregnancy, birth and beyond. Our programs are designed for anyone going through the huge changes we experience as artist-parents, whether that's as someone who identifies as a mother or birthing person, including cis-, Trans and gender non-conforming parents and caregivers.
PAAL and IFCAP commit to anti-racist roots in our structures, practices, policies, principles, and producing.
Both PAAL and IFCAP welcome all caregiving responsibilities and realities in the background or foreground of any meetings, phone calls, and exchanges and embrace your life in our pursuit of productive and supportive practices.
PAAL and IFCAP are transgender and non-binary affirming spaces. We support a safe space for everyone's experience of pregnancy, birth and beyond. Our programs are designed for anyone going through the huge changes we experience as artist-parents, whether that's as someone who identifies as a mother or birthing person, including cis-, Trans and gender non-conforming parents and caregivers.
PAAL and IFCAP commit to anti-racist roots in our structures, practices, policies, principles, and producing.
