https://www.artmamas.org/home daily 1.0 2024-01-07 https://www.artmamas.org/about daily 0.75 2025-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1ed1b1d1030f0eb0ead623/1600366911094-CLSJIJPGGN40UUI2PY2H/Helen+%26+Harry+at+STONELEAF+RETREAT+copy.jpg About Helen Toomer is a recognized leader in the arts, with over fifteen years’ experience organizing events, exhibitions and residencies. She is dedicated to uplifting women in the arts. Toomer is Co-Founder of STONELEAF RETREAT, an artists’ residency and connective space in the Catskill Mountains of New York focused on supporting women and families. She is the Founder of UPSTATE ART WEEKEND and the Co-Founder of Art Mamas Alliance. Formerly, Toomer was Executive Director of Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) and Director of the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, Collective Design Fair and PULSE Contemporary Art Fairs. She lectures on art fairs and professional development at universities and arts organizations in the US and the UK and was an adjunct professor at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology. Toomer co-founded and managed a contemporary art gallery, toomer labzda in New York and graduated with Bachelors in Fine Arts from the Arts Institute of Bournemouth, England. She serves on the Board of AIRIE and Advisory Committees for ProjectArt, Foundwork and the Baxter St Camera Club of New York. @helentoomer Helen is Harry’s Mummy. Harry is two and confused about what ‘proper football’ is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1ed1b1d1030f0eb0ead623/1602207630497-94YZLM7N1IL94NBYY1J1/Katy%252B%252526%252BRoyal.jpg About Katy Donoghue is a graduate of New York University's Journalism School and has been with Whitewall since 2006. As the Editor-in-Chief of Whitewall Magazine, Whitewall.art, and Whitewaller, she manages an international team of contributing writers and photographers and has profiled artists and creatives like Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cai Guo-Qiang, Lorna Simpson, Amy Sherald, Catherine Opie, Maria Grazia Chiuri, David Adjaye, Judy Chicago, among many others. In 2013, she helped to launch the print publication of Whitewall China in Beijing. She co-founded Art Mamas Alliance, a community of parents in the arts, in 2019. @katydonoghuehw Katy is mom to 18-month-old Royal, a HUGE fan of trucks. https://www.artmamas.org/events-public daily 0.75 2021-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1ed1b1d1030f0eb0ead623/1614109989100-JFZ6VCDWKN05Q05YS7DR/FDC+x+Art+Mamas Events Public - Art Mamas x Female Design Council: Creating Community Thursday, March 18th, 2021 | Join Female Design Council's Lora Appleton and Art Mamas Alliance's Katy Donoghue and Helen Toomer for a discussion on creating supportive, creative communities and what's in store for 2021 and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1ed1b1d1030f0eb0ead623/1606774656984-YPLYN4CNZ7AG0KHHCW7K/how+we+do+both.jpg Events Public - Tuesday, December 8th, 2020 | Join Art Mamas for a special reading of 'How We Do Both. Art and Motherhood' by the editors Michi Jigarjian and Qiana Mestrich. Art Mamas: Helen Toomer, Tiana Webb Evans, Katy Donoghue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1ed1b1d1030f0eb0ead623/1601941311890-8VEULLBQUH0NMRPKVAOM/AWC+Art+Mamas.jpeg Events Public https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1ed1b1d1030f0eb0ead623/1606774937202-30QNQI88LKF22O27RLH6/UNTITLED+Art+Mamas.png Events Public - Friday, December 4th, 2020 | Bring your drink/s and join Art Mamas for a get together to discuss what we've seen at UNTITLED, ART, how we are missing the Miami sunshine, and how we are all feeling on week four hundred and eighty two of parenting in a pandemic! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1ed1b1d1030f0eb0ead623/1600367324472-1QVKESYRCBXDNV33GQNQ/Hello+Art+Mamas.jpeg Events Public Art Mamas: Helen Toomer, Tiana Webb Evans, Katy Donoghue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1ed1b1d1030f0eb0ead623/1611255164825-JEEFKFOB3BPSJS4QB4G4/POWarts+and+Art+Mamas.png Events Public Monday, February 15th, 2021 | In the fall of 2020, 865,000 American women left the workforce - four times more than men. Forging a career in the arts has always been a challenge, and with the increased demands of childcare, family responsibilities, a lack of social and societal support, and the physical and mental stressors of this uncertain climate, many women in the sector are finding themselves stretched beyond their limits this year. POWarts and Art Mamas Alliance present an informal discussion led by artist Sophie Kahn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1ed1b1d1030f0eb0ead623/1624479101091-G9W95INWP109L18YK3BR/Designing+Motherhood+Book.jpeg Events Public - Art Mamas x Designing Motherhood Thursday, June 17, 2021 | Art Mamas' Co-Founder Katy Donoghue speaks with Designing Motherhood's Amber Winick & Michelle Millar Fisher (both Art Mamas members!), associate curator Juliana Rowen Barton, as well as Gabriella Nelson and Zoë Greggs of Maternity Care Coalition. Their brilliant project you probably already follow on Instagram was just written up in the New York Times! You can view the first part of their exhibition now at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. It's also a beautiful book. What do the pregnancy test, the pessary, the at-home abortion kit, the state of family leave, and postpartum mesh undies have in common, and why do designs that matter so much often go so unremarked? The designed objects and systems that surround us when it comes to menstruation, birth control, (contra)conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum vary as oddly, messily, and dramatically as the stereotypes suggest. Designing Motherhood unfolds the compelling design histories and real-world uses of the designs that shape our reproductive experiences. In a book, two-part exhibition, design curriculum, storybanking, and public programming series, this project unfolds the iconic, conceptual, archaic, titillating, emotionally charged, or just plain strange designs that have defined the relationships between people and babies during the past century. Watch here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1ed1b1d1030f0eb0ead623/1624478890383-4ZBYAE7OAXTR3O826KDQ/Najja+Moon+%26+her+Mom+at+The+Bass.png Events Public - Art Mamas & The Bass present a conversation with Najja Moon Thursday, April 22, 2021 | Join Najja Moon and Art Mamas Founders Katy Donoghue and Helen Toomer for a conversation about the artist's public project, Your Mommas Voice in the Back of Your Head, currently on view at The Bass in Miami Beach through January 2022. 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