HeyJaredThe Weaver with Joanna Wolfarth
An art historian exploring the intersections of art, motherhood, social and cultural history, and the feminine. Offering a space for creative reflection and the unfolding of self.
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FINAL CALL: Picturing Mothers (opens the original)
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Just a quick note to say there are two places left on my Picturing Mothers online workshop. Saturday 26th September, 10am–1pm, live online.I won’t be running the workshop again for a while, certainly not before next summer at the earliest, so if you’ve been thinking about it, this is the moment to join!Babies, children, interruptions are welcome! Participants join alongside other care-giving duties. Tickets from £45. Link & all details can be found via this link:<a class="button primary" href="h
An Untold Modern Love Story: My monstrous mother-in-law? (opens the original)
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This week I ran a three-hour workshop on Picturing Mothers, where together we looked at visual representations of the feminine/maternal/caregiver throughout history. We talked about wet nurses and childcare practitioners, mothers divine and mundane. We talked about ambivalence & rebelliousness, unruly bodies & absent fathers.Here’s some feedback from a couple of the attendees:I absolutely loved it! It was a brilliant overview of representations of the mother/feminine in art history, drawing out
Confusion, guilt, and the battle to breastfeed (opens the original)
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I’m working away on several writing projects at the moment, all of which are rather different from my work on babies and motherhood. But, I’m often invited to speak about feeding babies at events, often with other academics working across the medical humanities. And I love it. I love learning about the science and the latest medical research. I’m speaking at one next month and they asked me to share some of my words with the wider group. In preparing the texts, I revisited the very first thing I
I Feel Safer in Dangerous Water Than on Land (opens the original)
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In May we went camping with two other families. Or, to be more precise, six adults, eight children, three stand-up paddleboards, and one dog. Cornwall treated us very kindly and there was an ease to everything. More than once someone would pause, look up, and say something like: ‘this is how parenting should be’. The older children kept the younger ones busy and safe. We shared the cooking and the food (and wine) supplies. It was idyllic in the way that bougie camping trips are when the weather
New term planning (opens the original)
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