THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL
ANTHROPOLOGY of MOTHERHOOD
FEEDING ROOM
PITTSBURGH 2016-2024
Image description: A short-haired mother exchanges silly faces with her baby as she prepares to change their diaper in the AoM Feeding Room. A rocking chair with pillows, a colorful rug, and comfy trays to help with infant care are also seen.
Anthropology of Motherhood: Culture of Care has served as 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.
2024
For AoM’s ninth year with the Three Rivers Arts Festival, Kinship and Othermothering were explored through arts, writing, dance performance, and film. The first AoM film series screened daily at the Harris Theater, while the art exhibition and Feeding Room took place at the Byham Theater, both locations in Pittsburgh’s Cultural District.
Virtual Gallery
2023
The 2023 edition of AoM was presented in collaboration with the Dyer Arts Center at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. This exhibition had a focus on Deaf and Disability culture and its synchronicity with the culture of care and maternal feminism.
Virtual Gallery
2022
As the lockdown measures related to the global pandemic lifted, a physical art space and respite for families with children was curated in the Encore Building in downtown Pittsburgh’s cultural district. In addition, a virtual gallery with the talents of artists near and far was also created.
Virtual Gallery
2021
As the lockdown measures related to the global pandemic lifted, a physical art space and respite for families with children was curated in the O’Reilly Theater in downtown Pittsburgh’s cultural district. In addition, a virtual gallery with the talents of artists near and far was also created.
Virtual Gallery
2020
Normally a functional, hybrid exhibition that is innovatively designed as both an art space, an interactive amenity, and a place of respite for families with young children, this year’s exhibition was reimagined to be explored virtually.
2019
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Video description: A backdrop of the Brooklyn Bridge is seen along with images of brown mothers rapping, kissing their children, and small children playing on a playground.
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