Join us on Sunday, February 8, for a conversation with artist Rebecca Weisman, writer Elizabeth Wiet, and artist and co-founder of Artists & Mothers, Maria De Victoria, in conjunction with Weisman's exhibition Mother Island: Act 1. The conversation will consider how we can move beyond treating children as mere subjects in art, and instead actively engage with their minds and imaginations to reshape how art is made. We will think together about how art and motherhood intersect in ways that challenge how we understand creativity, labor, care, and the feminist subject. The discussion will highlight how caregiving and the lived experience of motherhood can drive both artistic and professional growth, shaping form, process, and meaning in contemporary art, while opening new possibilities for representation, care, and creative practice.
Rebecca Weisman is currently a National Member at A.I.R. Gallery. Recent exhibitions and screenings include phantom charges, A.I.R. National Members Show; So It Goes at Wassaic Projects; Atelier 11, Paris; Sunview Luncheonette, NY; Cine Salon Film Festival; Toronto Women's Film Festival; and a solo exhibition at Burlington City Arts. She was recently an artist-in-residence at L'AiR Arts, Paris, and the Vermont Studio Center and has published articles on art and philosophy and taught courses in video art, installation, and conceptual art. Weisman holds a B.A. from Reed College and an M.F.A. from Goddard and currently lives and works in Vermont, USA.
Elizabeth Wiet is a writer, editor, and curator based in New York. She is Part-Time Faculty at Parsons School of Design; Editor-at-Large at Topical Cream; and Contributing Editor at Bidoun. From 2022–2025, she served as Director of Exhibitions & Fellowship at A.I.R. Gallery. Her writing has appeared in frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, Elephant, Momus, The Quietus, The Los Angeles Review of Books, IMPULSE, Public Books, TDR, and elsewhere. She is currently completing her first book manuscript, Maximalism: An Art of the Minor, and with Bidoun, is editing the first monograph on Lebanese-Egyptian artist Nicolas Moufarrege. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Yale University.
Maria De Victoria is a filmmaker, performance artist and co-founded Artists & Mothers in 2024. She was born in 1980 in Lima, Peru, and immigrated to Miami in the early ’90s. Her work, which critiques politics and comments on the marginalized, primarily revolves around her own experiences of immigration, migration, and cultural differences. Through this personal lens and using conceptual projects and performances that often directly involve the audience, she addresses larger themes of migration, labor, and the conditions of contemporary art. She currently lives and works in New York City. https://www.mariadevictoria.com
