A smudge stick and a good omen for GP4H: Lucinda Yrene’s WALLTHERAPY mural at 1112 East Main Street.
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Film explores impact of when a rape results in motherhood
For all of our debates over the right for women to terminate unwanted pregnancies, there’s less conversation about women who decide to keep children conceived through rape. Filmmaker and Flower City Arts Center Artist-In-Residence Nicholle La Vann is creating a documentary about her own assault and her broken relationship with her daughter, in the effort […]
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THEATER REVIEW: “Motherhood the Musical”
There are certain theater shows that you decide to see because you want to learn, to be challenged, or surprised or moved in some way. Other shows you see because you need a pleasant, inoffensive entertainment to which you can take your grandmother that won’t rile her up too much. The forgettable “Motherhood the Musical,” […]
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A promise of post-partum diversity
Group shows are rarely just about the artwork. They’re mostly about some overarching idea that the work helps to illustrate. Of course, the work itself plays a role as viewers decide what they like or what they don’t like. There is also the matter of how objects work together as a cohesive whole. Is […]
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The XX files
It’s fitting that Mother’s Day occurs in the spring, but not because life is bursting out all over. It’s fitting because spring is when daycare centers and kindergartens need to know your plans for next fall. Will you stay at home with your kids (if you’re lucky enough to have choices)? Start working or increase […]
