Desperate Artwives

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EXCERPT FROM AUTHENTIC FLORIDA ARTICLE:

In 2010, Rose, aided by a team of academics and businesswomen, started the first ever Museum of Motherhood on the Upper Eastside of Manhattan. Relationships with local universities followed and students became interested in studying the art, science, and history of mothers, mothering, and motherhood. M.O.M. (as it is known), became a destination point for thousands of travelers in New York City.

In 2017, Rose moved the museum to the Artist Enclave of Historic Kenwood (St. Petersburg, FL) so she could continue her work and be nearer to her sons. A 1920s bungalow serves as an artist residency space for ongoing exhibitions on motherhood, where students and researchers further their work about mothers and families.

#AuthenticFlorida l Celebrate M.O.M: Museum of Motherhood in St. Pete, FL – JUST IN TIME FOR Mothers Day!! #MOM #MothersDay #Motherhood #ArtofMotherhood #Residencies @StPeteArts @AEHKstpete

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DAW Takeover:

Desperate Artwives in collaboration with artist Susan Merrick invite you to the next Public Takeover– exploring women’s visibility/invisibility within the workplace. By placing DAW in highly recognized patriarchal spaces, the Takeover aims to respond to issues women & mothers face in the workplace, not least the gender pay gap and gender assumptions around childcare. Our action will also include a connection to the invisible and undervalued work in the home that is still undertaken mainly by women.

o WHEN: Friday 11th of May
o WHERE: meet at 11:45am at BANK Station the action will start at 12 and ends at approximately 12:45 London, England
o WHAT: Takeover Bank area by covering ourselves with a domestic item of fabric (any shape, any colour) and stand still for the duration of the action. People joining social media can choose their own space to take over.

Remember to use all hash-tags when sharing your images on social media.

#desperateartwives
#publictakeover
#uniteddespitethedistance
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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW

Who: Depserate Artwives Collective – Mother Artists!

What: We envisage each artist performing a repetitive domestic action or interruption of their own interpretation for the duration whilst wearing something red for recognition. (Some of the actions will be – folding, cleaning the floor, calling the children, hanging the washing etc). Where: In and around the Tate Modern.

Please be ready to start at 1pm.

The action is to be flash mob style. We will be starting by being spread out (please choose your position and if you can, let us know where you will be – roughly).

We will gradually get together for a big finale at approx. 1:45. Final meeting point will be at the river entrance on Queen’s Walks in between the trees’ path. When: Sunday the 6th of August from 1pm to 1:45 approx.

How Long: Approx 45 minutes Aims:

• To make visible Women doing domestic actions, in front of the Tate Modern at a time when finally we see a woman taking over as director of the gallery.

• To draw attention to the lack of women artists hanging in the gallery and represented throughout the art world in general.

• To draw attention to an invisible and legitimate and often unheard voice, that of the motherartist and to give it value.

• To demonstrate against and give voice and recognition to the silent unpaid work done by the many millions of women around the world that is diminished, minimised and unacknowledged.

If you cannot make it in person and will join us via Social Media:

• ON THE DAY post a picture of yourself whilst performing a domestic action on YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE or TWITTER ACCOUNT

• Wear something red

• Make sure you hash tag the following #uniteddespitethedistance #motherartist #desperateartwives