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M.A.M.A. Issue 40 – Anna Perach, Art, and Jane Yolen, Poetry
– M.A.M.A. Issue 40 – Anna Perach, Art, and Jane Yolen, Poetry Anna Perach Anna’s practice is informed by the dynamic between personal and cultural myths. She explores how our private narratives are deeply rooted in ancient storytelling and…
Courtney Kessel – Art
Courtney Kessel – “In Balance With” and Other Works Courtney Kessel’s inventive collaborative works with her daughter Chloe use Kessel’s initial script or score, but rely on each performer’s interpretations and contributions. She notes, “I guess the best way…
M.A.M.A. Issue 39 – Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor and Kimberly L. Becker
M.A.M.A. Issue 39 – Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor Muttererde (2017) Video and Kimberly L. Becker – “Language Class” Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor Muttererde (2017) Video Muttererde profiles conversations with five black femmes on the knowledge and non-knowledge of their mothers,…
M.A.M.A. Issue 38 – Casey Jenkins and Amy Watkins
Issue 38 – October Casey Jenkins – sMother [Performance Art] and Amy Watkins, Poetry Casey Jenkins sMother psychological-endurance artwork. Gendered assumptions, judgments and advice – whether meant to protect or to control – bind and confine those perceived to…
Dafne DeJesus – Art
Dafne DeJesus: “Mother’s Helper” Nature provides. Nature can also take everything back in a minute. What we all do to contribute to and take care of our Mother is absolutely essential to our survival as human beings. Before I…
Interview with Keisha-Gaye Anderson
Interview, Poetry and Artwork featuring Keisha-Gaye Anderson Folio curated by JP Howard for Mom Egg Review VOX Online JP – Congratulations on your new books! I know that Everything is Necessary has just been published by Willow Books and…
Naomi Lawrence – Art
Art by Naomi Lawrence I admit I cyber-stalked Naomi Lawrence. Her flower creations started appearing around El Barrio, in NYC, about 2014, on metal fences; bright spots of improbably large flowers floating in front of abandoned lots. Blue…
Keisha-Gaye Anderson – Poetry and Art
Poetry by Keisha-Gaye Anderson from Everything is Necessary Everything is Necessary every thing is necessary, required to be is just is how you see is up to you are you pink and green caladium, a field of hearts in bloom,…
Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day! On Mother’s Day, MER celebrates all aspects of “mother”–the noun (“a mother’) but also the verb (“to mother”), and, for that matter, adjective and adverb. Wishing all who mother in any way a beautiful day! French…
Camille Aubry – A Journey to Motherhood
Camille Aubry – A Journey to Motherhood Artist’s Statement I am a French illustrator and cartoonist based in Bristol, UK. I explore the subject of motherhood in my artwork, and more particularly through my comic book A Journey to Motherhood.…
Joetta Maue – Art
Joetta Maue Artist Statement As an artist I have utilized my daily life as muse; my work inevitably reflects this, therefore, as I became a mother my work explored and continues to explore this complex relationship and landscape. Through motherhood…
M.A.M.A. Issue 37 – Tereza Buskova and Caitlin Grace McDonnell
Art by Tereza Buskova – ‘Clipping the Church’ Words by Caitlin Grace McDonnell – ‘Measure of Grace” Tereza Buskova – Clipping the Church In many cultures, even today, new mothers and their infants are subject to a period of…