Image credit: Madeline Donahue, Sphynx, 2021. Glazed ceramic. 8 x 7 x 12 inches. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Explore Madeline’s work in Designing Motherhood and learn more about her journey as an artist mother. Then, unlock your creativity with drawing exercises to connect to your experiences and emotions around caregiving. Enjoy good company and conversation as you create a self-portrait that expresses your own unique identity as a parent, using art materials like colored pencils, pens, and markers.

Towards the end of the workshop, all drawings will be scanned and turned into a zine that participants will be able to take home with them on the same day!

Note: The workshop takes place in person and inside the HCCC building. Space is limited to a maximum of 15 participants.

REGISTRATION
$25 for HCCC members (Become a member here.)
$30 for Non-members

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This class is for adults aged 18+. No experience is necessary. Pre-registration is required and includes instructor, basic materials, tools, and administration fees. Registration closes at 12 pm on February 21, 2025.

CANCELLATION POLICY
Workshops are subject to cancellation or change due to low enrollment. You will be notified fourteen (14) days in advance if your workshop is canceled. Should you need to cancel your reservation up to fourteen (14) days before your workshop starts, you will receive a full refund. No refunds will be made for cancellations made less than two weeks before the workshop date. Please notify us immediately of any cancellations so that someone on our waiting list can attend the workshop.

Image credit: Madeline Donahue, I miss you when I’m working, I miss work when I’m with you (detail), 2023. Image courtesy of the artist.

While you’re at HCCC, enjoy these other activities during our Day of Clay!
You’ll find artist demonstrations, exhibitions, and unique holiday shopping at this free day of activities celebrating the ceramic arts.

**Hands-on Houston: Clay Ornaments (indoors), 11 AM – 3 PM**
Embrace the holiday spirit by decorating an air-dry clay ornament with metallic embossing powder and unique designs.

**ClayHouston’s Bayou City Clay Crawl (parking lot), 11 AM – 4 PM**
Purchase one-of-a-kind ceramic pieces created by more than 40 ClayHouston member artists and enjoy artist demonstrations.

**Holiday Pop-up Sale (indoors), 10 AM – 5 PM**
Find more great shopping inside HCCC at the Holiday Pop-up Sale.

This event will take place in person and on our Facebook Live page.

Alicia Eggert (American, b. 1981) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice gives material form to language and time across a variety of mediums. Eggert has exhibited at notable institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, Triennale Design Museum in Milan, Everson Museum of Art, and Telfair Museums. Recent solo exhibitions include Galeria Fernando Santos (Porto, Portugal), University of Texas, San Antonio, and Art Museum of Southeast Texas (Beaumont, TX). Her work is held in collections including the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at University of California, Davis, New Holland Island (St. Petersburg, Russia), Light Art Collection, and significant private collections. The artist has received a TED Fellowship, Long Now Foundation Fellowship, Hopper Prize, S&R Foundation Washington Award, Harpo Foundation Direct Artist Grant, Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Microgrant, and Maine Arts Commission Artist Fellowship. Eggert is Associate Professor of Studio Art at the University of North Texas.

Martha Poggioli is an Australian artist based in the United States. Poggioli’s work takes from legacies of design, industry, medicine and technology to create sculpture, new media and installation. Her recent work has investigated the histories and form of reproductive technology as well as research & development in the minimally invasive surgical space. Poggioli has exhibited at; John Michael Kohler Arts Centre (Sheboygan US), Kunstgewerbemuseum (Dresden DE), MassArt Art Museum (Boston US), Australian Tapestry Workshop (Melbourne AU), Mütter Museum (Philadelphia US), Julius Caesar (Chicago US), and SPACES (Cleveland US). Residency/Programs include; Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Kohler Arts/Industry Residency, LeRoy Neiman Foundation Ox-Bow Fellowship, Australian Tapestry Workshop & NEWINC. Poggioli holds a BFA (Fashion Design) from Queensland University of Technology and an MFA (Designed Objects) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colorado College, CO (2023-2025).

Regá Richardson Waggett and Gordon Waggett are attorneys who played a key role in the passage of Texas’s first breastfeeding law, Section 165 of the Texas Health Code, in 1995, making Texas the fourth state in the country to enact such legislation. Their advocacy was sparked when a nursing mother was asked to leave a Houston museum, leading Regá to

organize a public rally that gained significant media attention and garnered support from then-Texas State Representative Debra Danburg and then-Senator John Whitmire (now Houston’s Mayor). This momentum led to the drafting and successful passage of HB 359 within one legislative session. Regá and Gordon co-authored a pivotal Law Review article in the Maryland Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues and an Op-Ed piece in the Houston Chronicle, both of which laid the groundwork for the legislation. Their efforts have been widely recognized, with Gordon serving on UNICEF’s Advisory Panel for the U.S. Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative and their work being acknowledged by the Texas Department of Health. The Waggetts remain influential voices in the ongoing fight for breastfeeding rights nationwide, remaining committed to advocating for women, children, and families.

Taeshaun Walters, MPH, CLC, CHT, Doula is a member of the Birthmark Doula Collective, a New Orleans-based organization that provides doula services and education for pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum. Birthmark Doula Collective is an official partner of the New Orleans Breastfeeding Center, stewarding their infant feeding drop-in clinics, virtual, in-clinic, and in-home lactation services, support groups, and education programs. They lead the emergency infant feeding program called Infant Readyᵀᴹ, which was developed to improve infant, maternal, and community health outcomes during and after disasters.

Fran Wang is co-founder and CEO of Yona Care, an early-stage startup redesigning the vaginal speculum that improves reproductive care outcomes by addressing provider painpoints and considering patient experience. Yona’s work is informed through the process of design research, including patients, providers, and the many people involved within the systems of care. Beyond the speculum, Yona strives to change reproductive care for the better, one vagina at a time.

Image credits:
Top right: Aaron McIntosh, Transitional Object #1 (Detail), 2016-2017. Family cloth, vintage cottons, polyester double-knit, cotton batting, thread. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Participating artist images: All courtesy of the artists.

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Designing Motherhood is a first-of-its-kind consideration of the entire arc of human reproduction through the lens of design, including an award-winning book, an Instagram archive, an open-source curriculum, and an exhibition that has traveled to five cities thus far. Since its 2021 premiere in Philadelphia, the exhibition has traveled to Boston (2022), Seattle (2023), Stockholm (2024), and Houston (2024).

About the Designing Motherhood Curatorial Team

Designing Motherhood is curated and organized by design historians and writers Juliana Rowen Barton, Director of the Center for the Arts and Curator of Gallery360 at Northeastern University; Michelle Millar Fisher, Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts within the Contemporary Art Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Zoë Greggs, Executive Assistant at BlackStar Film Projects; Gabriella A. Nelson, Associate Director of the Voices for Health Justice program at Community Catalyst; and Amber Winick, an independent early childhood and design researcher and curator.

About Alison Croney Moses

Alison Croney Moses is a Boston-based artist who creates wooden objects that reach out to your senses—the smell of cedar, the color of honey or the deep blue sea, the round form that signifies safety and warmth, the gentle curve that beckons to be touched. Her artwork, My Belly, was commissioned for the first Designing Motherhood exhibition by the Maternity Care Coalition Advisors. Born and raised in North Carolina by Guyanese parents, making clothing, food, furniture, and art is embedded in her memories of childhood. She carries these values and habits into adulthood and parenting—creating experiences, conversations, and educational programs that cultivate the current and next generation of artists and leaders in art and craft. Her work is in the collections at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She is a recipient of the 2023 Boston Artadia Award, the 2022 USA Fellowship in Craft, and a finalist of the 2024 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize. Her work has been featured in American Craft Magazine and Boston Art Review. She was recently named one of the 2023 WBUR 10 Makers. In the Fall of 2023, Moses’ first solo exhibition was reviewed in the Boston Globe. She holds an MA in Sustainable Business & Communities from Goddard College and a BFA in Furniture Design from Rhode Island School of Design.

Mother Tongue, the magazine known for disrupting the motherhood media landscape, expands into book publishing with the release of its first book, EXTREME PAIN, EXTREME JOY. Shannon’s award-winning photo series began as documentation of midwife-led home births after much of the US went into lockdown in early March, 2020. This body of work has been recontextualized in book form, complete with a foreword by renowned author Angela Garbes (Essential Labor, Like a Mother), an artist Q&A with critic Gem Fletcher, and a slew of never-before-seen images that together create a timeless meditation on this fundamental human experience.

About Maggie Shannon
Maggie Shannon is a photographer specializing in portrait and documentary work. She tells stories of small communities and their social rituals in order to elevate marginalized voices and build a more inclusive world. Her approach is rooted in honesty, empathy, and endless curiosity.

Hailing from Martha’s Vineyard, Shannon received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in Photography, Video and Related Media. Shannon was selected as a 2018 PDN Emerging Photographer and was named one of Magnum’s 30 under 30 (2015). She is a member of Women Photograph and her work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, Die Zeit, Wall Street Journal, Time, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, People and The New Yorker. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Roy and their daughter Charlotte.

About Angela Garbes
Angela Garbes is the author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, called “a landmark and a lightning storm” by The New Yorker. Her first book, Like a Mother, was an NPR “Best Book of the Year” and a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, Washington Post, and has been featured on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and NPR’s Fresh Air. She lives with her family in Seattle.

About Mother Tongue
Mother Tongue was founded by co-editors Melissa Goldstein and Natalia Rachlin in 2021 and is designed by its Creative Director, Vanessa Saba. In its pages, the magazine has explored everything from America’s fear of aging women to the sci-fi future of birth and featured in-depth conversations with cultural figures including Kim Gordon, Catherine Opie, Erica Chidi and Miranda July, among others. It has published the work of leading writers including Kate Baer, Samantha Irby, Kimberly Harrington, Salamishah Tillet and poet Maggie Smith, as well as photographers such as Magdalena Wosinska, Victoria Hely-Hutchinson, Bethany Mollenkof, and Michelle Groskopf.

This event will take place in person and on our Facebook Live page.

Image credit: Liss LaFleur and Katherine Sobering, “Queer Birth Project Collection 1: on bodies (detail),” 2022. Photo by HCCC.

Thanks to our program partner, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. The mission of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast is to ensure the right and ability of all individuals to manage their sexual and reproductive health by providing health services, education, and advocacy.

Inspired by La Fuente del Deseo, a solo exhibition by Georgina Treviño that transports viewers to the vibrant norteño culture of the Mexico-U.S. border, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is pleased to present a special one-night concert with Las Fenix. Las Fenix is an all-female norteño band featuring five sisters from Houston, Texas. The group has made their mark on a traditionally male-dominated genre with high-energy live performances and a singular sound that brings a contemporary pop valence to traditional Mexican cumbia and norteño sounds. The band has toured extensively in Mexico and the U.S., performing at venues including Los Angeles Dodgers Stadium and acting as musical representatives of the “Don’t Mess With Texas” campaign.

From creating custom jewelry for celebrities like Rosalía, Karol G, and Lady Gaga to nameplate necklace-inspired swings emblazoned with norteño song lyrics, Georgina Treviño makes music an integral part of her artistic practice. Experience her exhibition through the lens of music in this special program, which is generously supported by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and Advocates of a Latino Museum of Cultural and Visual Arts & Archive Complex in Houston, Harris County (ALMAAHH).

Reception in the garden begins at 6:15 PM, and the performance begins at 7 PM. Before the show, refreshments will be available, with beer generously sponsored by Equal Parts Brewing, and visitors will have the opportunity to meet Georgina Treviño in person and buy customized exhibition merchandise. Limited seating will be available during the concert.

FREE ADMISSION
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Those who previously purchased tickets are eligible for a refund.  Please email lbispo@crafthouston.org for more information.