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Directions, Schedule, Team & MoM Conference 2024

Threads of Connection: Sorry/Not Sorry – Confronting mother (and other) blame–healing & resistance in contemporary culture and beyond

St. Petersburg, Florida & Online

March 22-24, 2024

MORNING MEETUP

Each day of the conference we will plan on meeting first thing in the morning at 9AM at MoM. Then, we will walk over to Heiress Gallery for the events of the day. If you are coming to MoM by car GO THIS WAY: Take 28th St. South of Central. Left on Fairfield Ave. South to parking lot on left and multicolored sidewalk on right. Walk through door 2606. MoM is across the hallway and up the stairs from Fairgrounds St. Pete and DaddyKool Records. If you are arriving after 9:30 AM follow the directions below (except for Saturday midday crochet event)….

This Is How We Do It: One Person, One Day At A Time With Inspiration For All – SUPPORT MoM! We NEED YOU NOW.

Our Go Fund Me has launched with a goal of raising $30K. We will be using this money to pay our rent, keep our lights and phone on, and to make our website ADA compliant.

For twenty years on a shoestring budget, with an unrelenting commitment to thrive, founder Martha Joy Rose has championed the idea for a Museum of Motherhood, first through its New York non-profit status with the Motherhood Foundation Inc, to the MaMaPaLooZa Festival, to the streets of Seneca Falls, to Manhattan College, to the Department of Gender and Sexuality at USF in Tampa, to St Petersburg, Florida.

In 2019, the MOM Art Annex 501c3 was approved for Florida non-profit status. Then, the pandemic. MoM pivoted to mentor eighteen interns from around the world with a variety of projects and made its facility available to over a dozen artists in residence supporting mother made art, literature, and performance. Post-pandemic, from 2022-2023, we conducted over 178 in-home tours featuring the artifacts in our permanent collection, hosted healthy community suppers for families in need, and participated in Localtopia. We were able to purchase the Mother Tree for our permanent collection in 2023 and make the transition from the MOM Art Annex office to The Factory in the Arts District of St. Pete.