Programming

Brown Moon: Play Date

Friday, September 11, 2026 | 2-4 pm EST

KST Alloy Studios
5530 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Brown Moon | Play Date invites children, caregivers, and community members of all ages—especially those ages 3–7—into a participatory experience exploring musical storytelling around the phases of the moon together. Blending shared activities, the experience encourages collective authorship, imagination, and reflection across generations.

Play Date is part of Anthropology of Motherhood and Radiant Hall's collaborative residency for caregiving creatives. Learn more here.

Registration Here (Free)

Past Events

7/25/26
10-12pm EST

Brown Moon | Play Date
radiant hall studios x aom artist residency with Melike Konour
KST Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, pa 15206

CULTURE of CARE SERIES with Madwomen in the Attic

10/19/25
2-4PM EST

These Walls Can Talk: Poetry Reading & Community Art Inspired by the Vanka Murals
In partnership with the Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka
and carlow university’s madwomen in the attic writers program
St. Nicholas Croatian Church, 24 Maryland Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15209

Mondays, 9/25-10/6/25 10:30 am-12:30 pm EST

Poetry with Veronica Corpuz: These Walls Can Talk
In partnership with the Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka
and carlow university’s madwomen in the attic writers program

8/9/25
7pm-8pm EST

from the wind to the water: an evening of poetry and sound art
presented by Riverlife in partnership with Anthropology of Motherhood
Riverlife’s Shore Thing, 2 Federal Street, Pittsburgh PA 15212

3/6/25

3/13/25

Temple University Institute on Disabilities Pennsylvania Tech Summit
with Keynote Speaker Rebekah Taussig, Ph.D.

Philadelphia, Thursday, March 6, 2025, 9 a.m. to 4:30 pm
Temple University, Howard Gittis Student Center

Pittsburgh, Thursday, March 13, 2025, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Carlow University, A.J. Palumbo Hall of Science and Technology

CULTURE of CARE SERIES with CITY of ASYLUM

4/13/23

3:30-4:30pm EST

Writing and Literature as Forms of Care with Author Susan Muaddi Darraj

3/20/23

7-8:30pm EST

Freedom to Care: Dialogues on Incarceration & Motherhood

with Panelists Dmitra Gideon, Shanda Harris, & Sarah Shotland

9/18/23-12/17/23

Eternal Maternal

Kelly Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Opening Reception: Monday, September 18, 6:00pm

8/28/23-01/19/24

Anthropology of Motherhood: Intersections with Disability

Dyer Arts Center at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf

52 Lomb Memorial Dr, Rochester, NY 14623, Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, and by appointment

11/18/23

Anthropology of Motherhood: Vacuum Sealed, West Chelsea Festival of Art, Spirit del Art Gallery

547 West 27th St., 209, 2nd flr. New York, NY 10001

Performance Art by Fran Flaherty. Materials: paint, canvas, customized plastic bags for canvas, shop vac.

6/2/23-6/11/23

Anthropology of Motherhood: Intersections with Disability

Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival

Opening Reception, June 2, 6-8 pm

10/28/22

The Labor of Care: Art and the Care Paradigm in Anthropology of Motherhood

SECAC 2022 Conference Program, Baltimore, Maryland, hosted by the Maryland Institute College of Art

CULTURE of CARE SERIES with CITY of ASYLUM

4/28/22

Care as a #CripRitual Critical Design Lab with Jarah Moesch

4/14/22

Turning the Recorder Off with Harrison Apple

3/31/22

Compassion for Earth, Animals, Humans, Self with Suzy González

3/17/22

Black Madonna to Alpha Shakti: The Great Mother Exalted with Katie Cercone

10/27/21

Anthropology of Motherhood: Paradigms of Care, Artistic Labors, & Anti-Ableism

Parenthood: Choices, Vices and Arts Expressions in Being a Disabled Parent
Lioness Collective: Performance and Poetry Reading
Caring as Curating: Maternal Feminist Practices and Aesthetics in “Anthropology of Motherhood”

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