"As mentioned you are a mother, how do you balance the role of mother and the role of artist? What are the challenges of being a working artist and a mom?
My 4 children are ages 9, 7, 5, and 2. I keep open the notion that the amount of time I am able to spend in my studio will fluctuate constantly until all of my kids are in school full time. If I were still in graduate school, I could get up, have breakfast, drink a coffee, and work from 9-12 in my studio. But this isn’t possible with 2 kids still at home. I treasure the time with my kids—cooking with them, taking them for treats to the coffee shop, strolling the Botanical Gardens with them, and reading to them. So I choose to look at this as time that is going to inform my work not take me away from my work. I am always thinking about my work whether I am sewing or not. I am confident that I would never have stumbled upon this medium had I not become a parent and wanted and needed my work to change. I tell my artist friends who become mother’s to look for how their work will change for the better when they become mothers. We cannot imagine it until it happens." |
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