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Artist/Mother Podcast, Fort Wayne, IN (2026)

09/03/2025

🚨 New episode with !!

There is no separation between art and life, motherhood and studio for artist and curator Kimia Kline. Born and raised in Nashville to Iranian refugee parents, Kimia’s early influences on her practice included a combination of outsider and folk art plus the Persian textiles that graced her family home.  Her work today is heavily influenced by those two sources, juxtaposing wood sculptures and carvings with paintings on delicate papyrus adorned with gemstones. In this episode we connect about Kimia’s curatorial practice, how she makes decisions in her studio, and the reality of her day to day as a caregiver with two young children. For Kimia, everything is studio and that means she has a practice of mining the inspiration that exists around her and keeps an open door for her kids to visit her backyard studio. Kimia is honest about her ability to focus on her practice with the help of an assembled team of support. She reminds us that even while we can’t always pursue our practice with as much energy as we’d like to, ultimately the pace does not matter. Our children’s childhood is fleeting and to be enjoyed now. In the end we all get to where we are going as artists and parents.

Listen in and share with a friend!

05/17/2025

Tomorrow! Go see the incredible artist caregiver show “Those Who Tend” at in Brooklyn and attend a free family friendly workshop!

Come Make Art With Us!
Date: Sunday, May 18
Time: 1–3pm
Location: 52 2nd Ave, Suite 40, Brooklyn, NY 11215

You’ll be able to view the exhibition + a family friendly activity will be offered. We hope you can make it out to !

09/13/2024

Join us tomorrow morning at for a panel conversation with 3 artists from the Painting at Night show!

We are delighted to hear more from:

and learn about their artist and caregiving practices and their work in the show.

Panel conversation will take place from 10-11am and be moderated by A/M podcast host

Hope to see you there and tonight at the reception!

09/09/2024

Exhibition, residency AND interview opportunity for Artist Parents! 🎉

Artist parents need time and space to create. And a platform to share their work!

In collaboration with , seeks to provide a supportive environment and nourishing resources to help artists who are parents to thrive.

Two selected artists will receive:
▫️1 month exhibition at our gallery (2 person show)
▫️a week long stay at our artist residency in Fort Wayne, IN (family friendly and to be used during the 2025 calendar year)
▫️an interview on the Artist/Mother podcast
▫️promotion and marketing of your artwork
▫️an opening reception on Friday, May 2nd, 2025

As artist parents ourselves, we understand the challenge and complexity involved when you are making art and raising humans. This exhibition and residency opportunity was created to respond to the need for emerging and mid career artists to have opportunities to make and show their work in inclusive spaces.

We welcome submissions from persons of all genders and backgrounds as long as you identify as a parent. Please submit work in its finished form. We recognize that the work submitted may not be what you end up exhibiting.

Exhibition opening will take place: Friday evening, May 2nd, 2025. Residency dates are flexible and can be scheduled any time during the 2025 calendar year.

Apply at: https://www.kinhouseart.com/double-duty

Artist featured: .art

12/21/2023

Images 1-2 are some new experimental pieces that are quite small (12” ish). I am planning a new body of work for 2024, which dives deeply into the idea of being materially maximalist. I’d like to really push the limit with color and texture, and use a much bigger range of materials including ceramics and silicone. I think the conceptual component here is the idea of abundance and not holding back or being afraid of being too much.

My art practice has definitely taken a big step back since having my third child. I am hoping to seek more balance in this area in 2024. I think self erasure is an issue that many primary caregivers struggle with, especially with multiple children to juggle, and being in charge of running a household.

So, I remind myself that creativity continues to flow out of me regardless of what else I am caught up in, and that there will be a time when the caregiving demands are much lower.

Images 3-7 are a few creative ‘side quests’ that I worked on in 2023, and have proven easier to pick up/put down while in the midst of parenting.

12/20/2023

This is my current studio space. It’s a room at my home in San Francisco. I share the other half of the room with my partner who has a lot of useful tools! The best way of describing my studio would be organized chaos. There is nothing minimal in my life. It’s a full life, I have learned to rely on systems of organization that allow for mess and vibrancy.

Until recently I had a studio at Root Division, which is a gallery/studio/education arts non profit here in SF. Root division supports emergent artists by providing below market rate studio spaces. The gallery is a separate program to the studios with a full calendar of shows throughout the year. There are opportunities to teach, help install shows, and work on events. It really is a great opportunity, I’m happy to have been a part of such a giving community, and glad that there are still ways of existing as an artist in this constantly evolving city.

It is very convenient having a studio practice at home, especially now that I have three kids. But it can get lonely. I’d like to focus on building a stronger community of artist caregivers in 2024, and am currently brainstorming ways to achieve that goal.

1-3: home studio
4-5: my time at root division

12/20/2023

Hi! I’m Rachel. Happy to be taking over the artist/mother feed today.

Here we have some recent works; these are all made of latex that I tint using acrylic paint. It’s been a really fun series to focus on in 2023. The process is a little gnarly as you need to wear a respirator while the latex is wet and off gassing. Latex is a natural material but it needs to be mixed with solvents in order to remain viscous. This is one reason why I will probably be using less latex in future projects. Another reason is that latex changes over time, it eventually becomes brittle and can tear. The brilliant Eva Hesse’s latex work titled Expanded Expansion from 1969 is a great example of this.

I make these pieces on the floor, in many layers. Once dry, I peel them up to reveal the work. It’s always a surprise! I have enjoyed this ‘big reveal’ aspect of the project because it has allowed me to let go of trying to push the work to look a certain way, so that I can focus on the materiality of the latex, the vibrancy of the colors, and how they all interact. I think it is important for me to be in a playful and dreamlike state of mind while I am working. It is in these states I am the most poetic, and the act of making the work is the most healing. Side note: I think working in clay evokes a similar mindset, whether throwing or hand building, it is very meditative.

I hope that my calm yet playful state of mind can somehow spill over into the world. So there is a manifesting component to the work. It is healing, and I hoping it can heal. In this way, this series has been a lot about gratitude. Because it is impossible to move towards healing and positivity without being grateful for what you have already received.
1: small pink 1
2: detail shot of an untitled piece
3: window, grid, spill, time.
4: playing with scale
5: instillation view plus my elusive middle schooler

12/14/2023

Did you catch the article by - so many good thoughts to ponder!

“The problem, then, is not just one of logistics and lack of time and financial resources (although these are urgent concerns, particularly in a system designed to extract maximum labor for minimal return). It’s a matter of vocation, that exalted notion of work as a totalizing force, not a quotidian trade but a way of life. Art and mothering, in the romantic imagination, are each cast as the kind of labor that consumes wholly, that is worth being consumed by. The British sculptor Reg Butler, in a lecture in 1962, infamously chalked up the “vitality” of female art students to “frustrated maternity” and suggested that once they had children, they would “no longer experience the passionate discontent sufficient to drive them constantly toward the labors of creation in other ways.” One wonders if he envisioned motherhood as an endlessly beatific state, every moment of exhaustion, isolation and boredom redeemed by the memory of having given birth, or as a process of ongoing creation in which the children are the equivalent of artworks, conscientiously shaped by the mother, rather than her being run roughshod over by little strangers.”

Catch it all here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/t-magazine/mothers-artists-working-women.html

12/05/2023

Free session tomorrow!

Join us to pause, reflect, and look back before we move forward! We will share an activity with you to help you remember how far you have come as an artist and mark important milestones in your career, creating a timeline together!

This free session is the second in a series of three, hosted by our online community of artists! You can learn more and download the free Thriving Artists Toolkit to help you wrap up your year and plan for 2024 by heading to www.thrivetogethernetwork.com/challenge

Zoom link in bio to join us at 1:00pm ET

12/02/2023

Details and moments from Room Three of Self Adjacent at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond!

12/02/2023

Install images from Room Three of Self Adjacent at the Visual arts Center in Richmond, Virginia.

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Install views of Room Three of the Self Adjacent Exhibition at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond.

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