anthropology of motherhood
three rivers arts festival
JUNE 4 - JUNE 13, 2021
O’REILLY THEATER
621 PENN AVE
PITTSBURGH, PA 15222
Celebrating its sixth year as part of the festival, Anthropology of Motherhood features works of art and design that engage in the complex visual, material, emotional, corporeal, and lived experiences of motherhood, caregiving, parenting, nurturing and maternal labor. This installation will serve as an art space, interactive amenity, and place of respite for families with young children, this year’s exhibition has also been reimagined for virtual exploration at TrustArts.org/TRAF.
ARTISTS
CURATORS
Adalgisa Bosonetto, Studio Manager
Amy Bowman Mc-Elhone, PhD, Curator
Fran Ledonio Flaherty, Founder and Curator
Sara Tang, Digital Content Curator
Please Be Advised
This exhibition attends to the bodily experiences of motherhood and caregiving, which are often stigmatized in Western culture. As such, there is imagery that represents female reproductive anatomies, childbirth, breastfeeding, and the experience, both spiritual and corporeal, of a mastectomy.
It is the undertaking of this exhibition and gallery to facilitate a space for dialogue, conversation, and discourse in order to countervail social injustices, including but not limited to the stigmatization, objectification, and marginalization of women. Embodying our mission of social justice, this exhibition foregrounds the lived experience and visual representation of motherhoods, caregiving, and the ethics of care.
