2023
Fairbanks, AK
MOTHER | Exhibit
Sept 1, 2023 | 5:00 - 7:00 PM Bear Gallery | Fairbanks AK
Seven Alaskan Artist Mothers will be displaying a variety of new contemporary works in the second iteration (Bunnell Street Arts Center 2022) of MOTHER at the Bear Gallery in September 2023 – exhibition programming includes performances and workshops.
Artists included in this group are:
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Brianna Allen, Homer
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Carla Klinker Cope, Homer
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Myesha Callahan Freet, Chugiak
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Somer Hahm, Fairbanks
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Lily Hope, Juneau
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Amy Komar, Homer
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Amy Meissner, Anchorage
About this exhibition, from Alaskan Artist Mothers:
MOTHER
A position, an act, a summoning, an expletive, a transition, an irreversibility.
The word conjures comfort, expectation, humility, defiance, entanglement, lineage, disappointment, rage, and bliss. The state is simultaneously verdant and mundane, a vein of generational knowledge and deep intuition tempered by unknowing and unlearning.
MOTHER is created from within our mothering experience, but also in response to our relationships with one another – sustenance, balm, commitment, and reckoning.
We do this work to contextualize, remember, and honor all stages of mothering. By couching our questions in reprieve and tenderness, we reinforce connections to mothers who came before, to those seen everyday, and to others who have yet to become.
“Grow” – Performance by Myesha Callahan Freet at First Friday Reception
A time-based performance art depicting the intentional, repetitive care of a child using plants from my personal collection as subject matter. This work is a continuation of “Nurture,” a performance in the exploration of care performed at Bunnell Street Arts Center in December 2022. “Grow” is about care and the act of embracing letting go during Myesha’s mothering experience. Plant offerings will be left for show attendees.
Workshop with Amy Meissner – “The Art of Garment Repair: Decorative Stitch”
Join artist and repair practitioner, Amy Meissner, for an intimate workshop featuring the art of repair, with a focus on mending via embroidery and the Japanese technique of sashiko. This craft practice, which utilizes creativity through color and stitch variation, is widely applicable to many well-loved garments, including denim, base layers, and outerwear. The class will consist of group repair evaluation, appropriate tutorials to address as many versions of this repair technique as possible, individual consultation, and time for group work.
MOMologues: Directed by Carey Seward
“MOMologues” is a one-evening, live performance based on the newly released book, “The Momologue Collective: An Anthology by Self-Identifying Mothers”. The collection of anonymous stories about motherhood were gathered by multidisciplinary artist of Homer, Brianna Allen. “MOMologues” is produced and directed by Carey Seward of Seward Follies Production Company.
2022
Homer, Alaska
MOTHER | Exhibit
Dec 2, 2022 | 5:00 - 7:00 PM Bunnell Street Arts Center | 106 W. Bunnell Ave. Homer, AK, 99603
Seven Alaskan artist mothers present “MOTHER” at Bunnell Street Arts Center for the month of December. Exhibit programming will include performances, and a mending workshop. The exhibit opening is 5-7p on Friday, December 2nd and will commence with “Nurturing”, a performance by Myesha Callahan Freet at 5:45pm, followed by artist talks at 6pm.
“Mother: A position, an act, a summoning, an expletive, a transition, an irreversibility.
The word conjures comfort, expectation, humility, defiance, entanglement, lineage, disappointment, rage, and bliss. The state is simultaneously verdant and mundane, a vein of generational knowledge and deep intuition tempered by unknowing and unlearning.
Mother is created from within our mothering experience, but also in response to our relationships with one another – sustenance, balm, commitment, and reckoning.
We do this work to contextualize, remember, and honor all stages of mothering. By couching our questions in reprieve and tenderness, we reinforce connections to mothers who came before, to those seen everyday, and to others who have yet to become.”
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