MoM is pleased to host two new exhibits: St Pete Month of Photography in our Gallery Space at The Factory featuring photos and reflections by Heather Whitten titled ‘This is What Abortion Looks Like‘ along with a special online student exhibition titled Milk Futures: Kinship in the Age of Technology by Zixin Shang.
This Is What Abortion Looks Like
By Heather Whitten
This project was born from a need to make the unseen visible.
To witness what medication abortion actually looks like in real bodies, real spaces.
These images offer a more honest, human understanding of abortion.
MoM Gallery during regular museum hours: May 1st to May 29th
Gallery talk with the artist on Saturday, May 23th at 6.00pmMuseum of Motherhood-2606 Fairfield Ave S Building 7 Door B, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, 33713
This is a production of the Saint Petersburg Month of Photography in collaboration with the Museum of Motherhood.
Milk Futures: Kinship In The Age of Technology
Curated by Zixin Shang, Master of Fine art in Studio art George Washington University, multi-media artist and curator, Zixin (Cassie) brings a background in public and studio art.
Zixin’s practice—spanning painting, installation, 3D modeling, and photography—explores cross-cultural narratives, female identity, and emotional memory.
Her curatorial vision centers on how exhibitions can serve as both structures and channels for the exchange of ideas, with a special focus on the mental and physical experiences of Asian women.
Milk Futures brings together six female artists from diverse national and cultural backgrounds. Encompassing sculpture, video, painting and performance, their work interrogates the evolving landscape of breastfeeding, kinship and the political occupation of the maternal body within public and legal domains.These works present the multifaceted nature of motherhood in contemporary life. The exhibition highlights the maternal body as a site of nourishment and care, while also exploring how kinship is precariously sustained within social spaces defined by constraint and deprivation.
This exhibition connects individual experiences with cross-cultural perspectives and confronts the viewer to reconsider: in an era of globalization and rapid technological development, are the meanings of “nature” and “family” beginning to change? When the maternal body as the very source of nourishment is strangled by legal structures and political pressure, who ultimately determines its autonomy?
Full Exhibit Launches May 10th
For the past 23 years, this social change experiment has grown into a living archive, educational space, and community gathering place dedicated to one of the most universal human experiences: motherhood. At the Museum of Motherhood, we believe that the stories, labor, creativity, and scientific realities connected to women, mothers, caregiving, birth, and family life deserve to be seen, studied, and celebrated.
MoM operates on a shoestring budget with a passionate team of volunteers committed to enlightening perspectives on women, mothers, and families. We shine a light on the art of motherhood as well as the science and herstory of these creators, culture makers, and change-makers. Through exhibits, educational programs, performances, research, conversations, and community events, we create space for dialogue around topics too often overlooked despite touching every human life.
Your support helps preserve stories that might otherwise be forgotten. It helps us provide accessible cultural programming, support artists and scholars, engage students and interns, and foster meaningful conversations about caregiving, identity, health, equity, family, and human connection.
At a time when loneliness, division, burnout, and economic strain affect so many families, institutions like MoM matter more than ever. We are building a future where caregiving is valued, where women’s experiences are documented with dignity, and where people of all backgrounds can come together to explore what it means to nurture life, community, and one another.
When you support the Museum of Motherhood, you are not simply funding a museum. You are investing in education, empathy, history, creativity, and social change. You are helping ensure that the invisible labor and profound contributions of mothers and caregivers are finally recognized as central to human culture and civilization.
We invite you to become part of this growing movement. Every donation, membership, volunteer hour, partnership, and shared story helps keep this important work alive.
Museum of Motherhood, St. Petersburg (2606 Fairfield Ave South, St. Petersburg, FL 33712)
Volunteer (we’re grateful if you can) or $17/hour
