Mini-Workshop
Motherhood and Photography
In this one-hour workshop we explore the unique intersection of motherhood and photography by uncovering its history and probing our own personal practice. People have often looked to photography to witness the messy multitude of life, but how specifically has the camera been used as a tool in the ongoing gaze of our own motherhood? This workshop will center on lecture and discussion, featuring photographers, writers, and other visual artists who use motherhood as a subject, motif, or vehicle for transformation.
Kat Shannon is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator working in photography, text, and video, currently based between São Paulo, Brazil, and Orlando, Florida. Her work examines notions of intimacy, human connection, gender, community, and culture. She holds degrees in photography from Savannah College of Art and Design (BFA) as well as Bard College (MFA).
Kat has held teaching positions at Yeshiva University, Brookdale College, Stetson University, Middlesex College, and ICP, and previously worked for three years as the head curator at an art consultancy in New York. In 2017 Kat co-founded the collaborative artist collective Memory Foam through which she curates exhibitions, publishes and collects artists' books and zines, and produces an artist interview series called “Artists Eat Ice Cream.”
Kat teaches Ways of Seeing, Photography as Pilgrimage, and other personal vision classes for StrudelmediaLive.
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