The Mother Artist Architecture & Design Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) first

Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) first left Japan at the age of 28

a massive Amazonian fish

fleecy pup will sit still if you ask

Use the felt and knitted fabric to create a face

or markers

The Mother Artist Architecture & Design Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) firstFew women artists feature prominently in the history of art, and even fewer who are mothers. How are motherhood and artmaking at play and at odds in the lives of women? What can we learn about ambition, limitation, and creativity from women who persist in doing both? Forged in the stress of early motherhood, The Mother Artist explores the fraught yet generative ties between caregiving and creative practice. As a young mother working at a museum,