Alex Bauman
ANTHROPOLOGY of MOTHERHOOD TEAM
Photograph of Fran Flaherty smiling, wearing dark glasses, earth-toned scarf, and balck shirt with shoulder length dark hair and gold circlet earrings. Photography by Kitoko Chargois.
FRAN LEDONIO FLAHERTY
FOUNDER & CURATOR
Fran Flaherty is the creator and co-curator of Anthropology of Motherhood, Assistant Professor of Digital Art and Emerging Media and Director of FabLab at Carlow University. As a first-generation immigrant mother from the Philippines and a Deaf artist, her work explores migrant family relations, maternal feminism, disability aesthetics, and social connection through the care paradigm—the idea that human survival depends on love, kinship, and interconnectedness. A member of the #notwhite collective, Flaherty’s work is part of collections at the Smith College Art Museum, Dyer Arts Center, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, and Carnegie Mellon University Archives.
Photograph of Veronica Corpuz smiling and looking down at an open book that she’s holding, with wavy dark hair, wearing a dark teal, saffron, and red flowered dress, with out-of-focus window panes fading in the backdrop. Photography by Kitoko Chargois.
VERONICA CORPUZ
Poet-in-Residence
Veronica Corpuz is a first-generation Filipina American poet and interdisciplinary artist exploring themes of identity, assimilation, loss, and grief. A workshop facilitator in the Madwomen in the Attic program at Carlow University and poet-in-residence with Anthropology of Motherhood, she also co-curates Mad Bookends, an online journal of creative writing featuring women writers of color. As a member of the #notwhite collective, she has performed and exhibited mixed media work and photography at Buen Vivir Gallery, the Brew House and Carlow University galleries in Pittsburgh, Harlan Gallery at Seton Hill University, McDonough Museum at Youngstown State University and Yolia Artspace with Los Fantasmas Artist Collective in Englewood, Colorado. Her most recent collection of poetry, The Widow’s Calendar, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
Black and white photograph of Adalgisa Bosonetto looking at the camera with a gentle smile, and her left hand in motion pulling back her hair from the top of her head.
ADALGISA BOSONETTO
Operations manager
Black and white close up photograph of Sara Tang smiling with long, dark wavy hair in a field of long grass.
Sara Tang
Digital Content Curator
PARTNERS & SPONSORS
The Heinz Endowments’ five programs— Arts & Culture; Children, Youth & Families; Community & Economic Development; Education; and Environment & Health — work collaboratively within our strategic priorities of Creativity, Learning and Sustainability. Our program staff provides the expertise needed to address challenges in the Pittsburgh region and to improve the quality of life for all of its residents. Together, the programs and strategic priorities advance the idea of a just and inclusive community where everyone has the opportunity to learn, work and flourish.
Kelly Strayhorn Theater is a home for creative experimentation, community dialogue, and collective action rooted in the liberation of Black and queer people.
Since 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, a non-profit arts organization, has worked to make the Steel City a place where the arts can flourish. Our efforts have focused on the cultural and economic development of the Cultural District, a 14-square-block area of downtown Pittsburgh. What was once a downtrodden red light district now thrives as a vibrant center for culture, art, food, and community. Pittsburgh’s Cultural District stands as a nationwide model for how the arts can play a pivotal role in urban revitalization.
City of Asylum builds a just community by protecting and celebrating freedom of creative expression.
Radiant Hall Studios empowers artists to sustain thriving studio practices by creating and preserving access to space, shared resources, programs, and a supportive community of peers.
Riverlife is a nonprofit organization formed in 1999 by people like you who saw the opportunity to create a plan for the redevelopment of Pittsburgh’s downtown riverfronts. We conducted hundreds of public meetings and gathered feedback from thousands of residents and visitors, asking:
“What would you like to see along Pittsburgh’s riverbanks?”
The Institute on Disabilities at Temple University learns from and works with people with disabilities and their families in diverse communities across Pennsylvania to create and share knowledge, change systems and society, and promote self-determined lives so that disability is recognized as a natural part of the human experience.
Established in 1945, The Pittsburgh Foundation is one of the nation’s oldest community foundations and as of 2022 is the 18th largest of more than 750 similar foundations across the United States.
Save Maxo Vanka’s mission is to conserve and protect for permanent public exhibition the nationally recognized Maxo Vanka murals within St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church in Pittsburgh, enabling the immigrant artist’s “gift to America” to serve as an enduring catalyst for community engagement and education, inspire social and cultural dialogue, celebrate diversity, and forge connections through reflections on the extraordinary American experience.
The Woodlands Foundation’s mission is to enrich the lives of children and adults with disability and chronic illness.
TechOWL (formerly PIAT) helps people with disabilities explore the tools and technology they need to be independent. TechOWL is Pennsylvania’s Assistive Technology Act program. TechOWL has nine regional centers across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A local gallery with a global reach, the Carlow University Art Gallery is the only art space in the Pittsburgh region dedicated to art and social justice. Our project is to embody the unique mission of Carlow through professionally curated exhibitions, to bridge campus and community, and to extend the teaching space through innovative public programming and experiential learning.
Through the gallery, Carlow students have the opportunity to work with professional artists, curators, and museum professionals (assist with installation, collection management, research and development of digital curation strategies).
The gallery, a Google Arts and Culture partner and part of Google’s Pittsburgh Project, serves as a center for dialogue and creativity for both the Carlow community and the greater Pittsburgh community.