Shortly on the heels of showing the Welcome to Motherland exhibition in May and last week in Lake Geneva, I’m excited to announce a new project of Greetings from Motherland! Our main group was not ready to say goodbye to each other, so I decided to stay in Madison for one more month to lead a new series of workshops with the help of the original group in the Eagle Heights Community, which is part of the University of Wisconsin student and faculty family housing.
It’s an international community with mothers from all over the world, and over five weeks we’ll explore the relationship between food and the expectations of us as mothers in our various cultures. Through writing, drawing, cyanotypes (a photographic process), and sewing in response to these questions and others, participants from different cultures and generations will tell their stories.
Together in July we’ll create a site-specific installation in the Eagle Heights Community Gardens, which is the biggest organic community garden in the United States. It’s a gorgeous place, and we’ll have the final potluck brunch celebration on the morning of July 31st. Like all Greetings From Motherland events, there will be an opportunity to contribute your story as well. We hope you’ll join us.
Priority for the workshops (and the free childcare) is being given to the residents of Eagle Heights, but if you’re interested in joining us for one or more of the workshops, please drop me a line! We’ll be meeting every Tuesday afternoon from 3:30-5:30pm for the next five weeks, and we welcome anyone who wants to make art with us.
And a big thank you to the University Heights Assembly and the University of Wisconsin Office of Child Care and Family Resources for helping make this project possible.
Eagle Heights Community Garden
