PAST EXHIBITIONS
Two squares layered to look like two joined diamonds, with the top one chartreuse, and the bottom one turquoise teal, each fading into the other with thick digital paint strokes. Text on top square reads “Mirrored” in teal, and bottom text on edge of square reads “Muses” upside down in chartreuse and “Gallery Crawl Pop Up Exhibition” in black. Around the central exhibition image are the names of artists: Alicia Rose, Jacob Bauer, and Anthony Eastly in teal, and Juliandra Jones, Oreen Cohen, and Patty Tran in chartreuse. Logos for The Woodlands Foundation and Radiant Hall Studios are on either side of the center exhibition image.
Mirrored Muses // Pop Up Exhibition
Cultural Trust Arts Education Center
805-807 Liberty Avenue, 4th floor, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222
July 25, 2025
4:30 Pm-9PM est
Image Description: White text over cosmic purple night sky background reads "Radiant Small II ODDITIES & IMAGINATION; curated by Aubrey Hickey Flavin July 12”. Hand drawn cyclops cat with a big green eye sitting with forepaws in front of its body, perched on a green crescent moon swirly drawing on top of the purple background. Hand drawn spotted mushrooms with tall stems in foreground. Other text reads: “July 12 12-3 pm. Radiant Hall Studios McKees Rocks, 734 Thompson Ave. stuffy station. show + tell. art making." Logos of partners/sponsors Radiant Hall Studios and Anthropology of Motherhood on bottom right corner.
Radiant Small II: Oddities + Imagination
| R | radiant hall studios, McKees Rocks
734 Thompson Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15136
July 12, 2025
12pm-3pm est
Image Description: A wide-view photograph of the interior of the Dyer Center for the Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology / National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Two floors with panelled glass bannister and various white walls at different angles with art displayed on those walls.
Anthropology of Motherhood
Intersections with Disability
TechOWL Community Space · Institute on Disabilities
Temple University
1392 Cecil B Moore Ave, Philadelphia, PA
SEPTEMBER 19 - DECEMBER 1, 2024
DYER ARTS CENTER · NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF
Rochester Institute of Technology
52 Lomb Memorial Dr, Rochester, NY 14623
August 28, 2023 – January 19, 2024
Artworks that offer diverse perspectives on the experiences of disabled artists/mothers and disabled artists/caregivers, highlighting how deafness and disability shape the experience of caregiving, parenting, and motherhood, while challenging assumptions and stereotypes.
Kate Csallner Image Description: A wet newborn baby clutches their mother’s breast as she looks down lovingly.
Three Rivers Arts Festival
Anthropology of Motherhood Feeding Room
PITTSBURGH, PA · 2016-2024
2024 · aom: Kinship & Othermothering
2023 · aom: Intersections with Disability
2022 · aom: Birthing a Movement
2021 · Anthropology of Motherhood
2020 · anthropology of Motherhood virtual festival
2019 · Anthropology of Motherhood
2018 · Anthropology of Motherhood
2017 · Anthropology of Motherhood
2016 · Anthropology of Motherhood
A functional, hybrid exhibition innovatively designed as an art space, an interactive amenity, and a place of respite for families with young children at the Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh. Featured works of art engage in the complex visual, material, emotional, corporeal, and lived experience of motherhood, caregiving, parenting, nurturing, and maternal labor.
Image Description: Artist Fran Flaherty wearing red lipstick and a black shirt against a blackground on the left. Artist Meg Foley on the right, with expressive hands raised in motion and wearing shirt with graphic lines with sharp contrast against a blurred landscape background.
Eternal Maternal
KELLY STRAYHORN THEATER
5941 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Monday, September 18 – Sunday, December 17, 2023
Through Fran Flaherty’s Anthropology of Motherhood and Meg Foley’s Blood Baby, the visual art exhibition Eternal Maternal examines the details and expressions that encompass the nature of motherhood, acknowledging mothering as both an active pursuit and a fundamental state of existence, irrespective of and subject to gender. Flaherty and Foley delve into the realm of divine bodies, illuminating the inherent connection between mothering and the sacred. The works unveil the natural act of mothering intertwined with the profound forces of unconscious geology. Eternal Maternal serves as a testament to the extraordinary beauty and complexity inherent in the act of mothering, inviting contemplation, challenging preconceptions, and celebrating the diversity of maternal experiences. Curated by DS Kinsel.
Blood Baby: Communion with Meg Foley
Friday & Saturday, September 22*–23, 2023, 7:30pm
*Post performance discussion with ASL interpretation
Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Queer Parent Convening with Meg Foley
Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 7:00pm
KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Valerie George Image Description: An elder grandmother with glasses lies in a propped up hospital bed with her hand resting gently over the eyes and face of her granddaughter, the artist, who lovingly rests her head on the upper chest of her grandmother.
Anthropology of Motherhood
Culture of Care
Featuring a slate of artists who embrace the labor of care as “right and rewarding work.” Through video, sculpture, painting, and photography, their works address maternal identities with birth as a metaphor for regeneration, creation and renewal.
THE SLEETH GALLERY · OCTOBER 7 - october 29, 2021
59 College Ave Wesley Chapel Buckhannon, WV 26201
CARLOW UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY · OCTOBER 19, 2020 - FEBRUARY 5, 2021
3333 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
MCDONOUGH MUSEUM OF ART · JUNE 11 - JULY 24, 2021
525 Wick Ave, Youngstown, OH 44502
Michelle Gallagher Image Description: Barbed wire is twisted like a fence in the shape of the delicate, pink and gray lacy underwear that rests directly inside of it.
Responding to the Overturn
of Roe v. Wade
What does the 2022 overruling of Roe v. Wade mean for people who can become pregnant, for healthcare providers, for the LGBTQIA+ community, for people of color, and for affected intersectional groups and communities? Artists responded with work that examines the current politicization of abortion/reproductive care and bodily autonomy, and explores the personal, the historical, the communal, and the ethics of care. This virtual art exhibition engaged as an urgent and renewed call to action leading up to November’s election.
Fran Flaherty Image Description: A pregnant belly and bellybutton is shown with illuminations of gold that highlight the stretch marks, curves and lines.
Post-Erotica
A solo show examining the experiences and polarizing feelings of mothers with newborn infants by exploring breastfeeding, maternal body image, and post-partum depression.