A wonderful resource that's come up on the podcast is the Artist Residency in Motherhood organization, which artist and mother, Lenka Clayton started in 2012. Kaitlin didn't know much about the organization until last year(2021) when a fellow writer and mother, Amanda Montei mentioned it in a class of hers Kaitlin was taking, and then alerted the class of a Facebook group that was spawned out of this residency.

Kaitlin joined the group and was linked up with a Bay Area group of caregiver artists whose work runs in and around topics of motherhood and art in the modern era. 

In an attempt to capture some of the zeitgest of one of their most recent residency gatherings, Kaitlin set up a recording space so each participant could weigh in on their experiences and thoughts of the collective residency in real-time.

Amanda Montei, Cindy DiTiberio, Patti Maciesz and Minna Dubin were the participants; and this episode is the result of these collective voices, which feels like a dreamscape of the artist-mother mind of what residencies afford those of us privileged enough to build the time and space into our lives, to devote ourselves solely to our artistic and creative pursuit.

Find out more about them in the show notes here.

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