Talking Collectively: Mother Artists

With Hettie Judah, Laure Prouvost, Sophia Satchell Baeza, Emeraude Kabeya and Vida Dena. Moderated by Christina Stuhlberger

WE 18.06 13:00 till 15:00 FREE

This roundtable conversation brings together artists, cultural workers, and others to reflect on how parenthood intersects with artistic practices. We will discuss the difficulties, contradictions, structural pressures, moments of joy, and often invisible struggles that come with navigating care and creativity.

Hettie Judah, author of How Not To Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents), will share insights from her long-term engagement with the topic, offering concrete strategies for structural change in the art world alongside reflections on the ongoing tensions between caregiving and cultural work. She will be joined by artist and filmmaker Laure Prouvost, film curator Sophia Satchell Baeza, Kunstenpunt/Flanders Arts Institute’s advisor Emeraude Kabeya, and artist and filmmaker Vida Dena, in a conversation moderated by Christina Stuhlberger from elephy.

The afternoon includes an experimental film screening suitable for children, curated by Sophia Satchell Baeza followed by collaging workshop around motherhood led by Vida Dena.

While the title centers mothers, the conversation tries to be inclusive to all with caregiving responsibilities in the cultural field. At the same time, we acknowledge the deeply gendered realities and long histories of undervalued labor that continue to shape the experience of motherhood.

Free entry. Everyone is welcome, cultural workers with children, without children, unsure if parenting is possible within practice, and children themselves.

Realized as part of Double Voiced, an artistic research project by Christina Stuhlberger at LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven.

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Exploring Motherhood Through Art
Collaging workshop with Vida Dena

WE 18.06 15:15 till 16:30 FREE

In this hands-on workshop, participants are invited to explore the emotional landscapes of motherhood through collage and drawing. Together we will reflect on themes such as transformation, confusion, and the often-overlooked feelings of guilt, loneliness, and disorientation that can accompany the experience of becoming a mother.

Each participant is welcome to reconnect with a part of their own story, whether it is the fear of childbirth, the weight of societal expectations, the isolation of early parenthood, or the frustration of feeling unseen or undervalued.

Through images, textures, and color, we will create space to express what is often difficult to put into words. This is less about artistic skill and more about giving form to the unsaid and doing so together.