Exhibit Opening: MOTHER @ The Bear Gallery
Fri, Sep 01
|Fairbanks
Seven Alaskan Artist Mothers will be displaying a variety of new contemporary works in the second iteration (Bunnell Street Arts Center 2022) of MOTHER at the Bear Gallery in September 2023 – exhibition programming includes performances and workshops.
Time & Location
Sep 01, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Fairbanks, 3rd Floor, Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts, Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way, Fairbanks, AK 99701, USA
About the event
Seven Alaskan Artist Mothers will be displaying a variety of new contemporary works in the second iteration (Bunnell Street Arts Center 2022) of MOTHER at the Bear Gallery in September 2023 – exhibition programming includes performances and workshops. Artists included in this group are:
- Brianna Allen, Homer
- Carla Klinker Cope, Homer
- Myesha Callahan Freet, Chugiak
- Somer Hahm, Fairbanks
- Lily Hope, Juneau
- Amy Komar, Homer
- Amy Meissner, Anchorage
About this exhibition, from Alaskan Artist Mothers:
MOTHER A position, an act, a summoning, an expletive, a transition, an irreversibility. The word conjures comfort, expectation, humility, defiance, entanglement, lineage, disappointment, rage, and bliss. The state is simultaneously verdant and mundane, a vein of generational knowledge and deep intuition tempered by unknowing and unlearning.
MOTHER is created from within our mothering experience, but also in response to our relationships with one another – sustenance, balm, commitment, and reckoning.
We do this work to contextualize, remember, and honor all stages of mothering. By couching our questions in reprieve and tenderness, we reinforce connections to mothers who came before, to those seen everyday, and to others who have yet to become.