MOTHER ART COLLECTIVE is a collective of women artists, most active during the 1970′s and 1980′s, dedicated to creating social-political art. By gathering women’s personal stories and crafting them in such a way as to incite collective action and intervention, the collective personalized issues, such as the social invisibility of maternal labour and the impact of the lack of socially supported day care on the professional practices of working artist-mothers, in ways that are still relevant today. Recently, Mother Art has produced a video and book detailing the history of their collective, and have been featured in retrospectives and invitational exhibitions internationally.

Mother Art Cleans Up Again, installation view, 2011; image courtesy of the artists.