May 25th 2019

Mother Load

@ COLLABORACTION

1579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

Opening Saturday, May 25th, from 6PM - 9PM

MOTHER LOAD is an interdisciplinary show featuring female identifying visual artists, musicians, dancers, writers, and performers making work about fertility, miscarriage, pregnancy, birth, postpartum depression and PTSD, postpartum sexuality, and motherhood.

tickets $8
6pm doors open
7pm performances begin

One piece of art will be up for auction with 100% of the sale going to Healthcare Alternative Systems a local non-profit that provides behavioral health services to Chicago’s Latino community. Their Postpartum Depression Program is the only community-based PPD treatment program in the state of Illinois

Visual Art
Seeley Cardone
Christa Donner
Aimee Gilmore
Katrina Majkut
Michelle Kendrick Hartney

Music
Amalea Tshilds
Angela James Martins Watkins
She Speaks In Tongues

Dance
-Mary Sue Reese

Performance
“Kimberly Said No” –Michelle Hartney

Readings
“How We Do Both: Art and Motherhood” edited by Qiana Mestrich Michi Matter Jigarjian

“BABY LOVE-How My Infant Son Became The Other Man” by Christen Clifford

 

 

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