Talks & Seminars
The Art Working Parent Alliance
Come and meet like-mind creative art professionals and artists who are navigating the creative industry as parents.
Join The Art Working Parents Alliance (AWP) with ‘a space’ arts at God’s House Tower in Southampton, to discuss and share ideas on how to improve working conditions for parents in the art world. Hosted by AWP founders Jo Harrison and Hettie Judah, the event focuses on the work they have been doing to give visibility to parents’ working conditions in the arts sector, followed by a conversation with the audience. This event is open to anyone working in the arts (artists and art workers) and it is a child-friendly event.
About the facilitators:
Jo Harrison is a curator and arts worker based in London whose practice focuses on gender, work and economies of care. She is Director at The Approach, London and runs ‘Repronomics’, a research project exploring social reproduction and cultural reproduction as invisible and exploitable ‘labours of love’ under capitalism; she also hosts an ongoing itinerant reading group with a focus on feminism, social reproduction, labour and economics, most recently hosted at May Day Rooms in Spring 2024. Jo was previously Curator at Almanac Projects, London, has been a visiting lecturer at Birth Rites Collection, Central Saint Martins and Slade School of Art (UCL), she provides mentoring for artists and art workers. In October 2022, she co-founded The Arts Working Parents Alliance with Hettie Judah.
Hettie Judah is a writer and curator. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Frieze and The Times Literary Supplement, and writes a monthly column for Apollo magazine. Her writing on art can also be found in Art Quarterly, Art Monthly, ArtReview and other publications with ‘art’ in the title. Hettie is curator of the Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood which opened at the Arnolfini in Bristol on 9 March 2024, and tours to MAC in Birmingham, Millennium Gallery in Sheffield and DCA Dundee during 2024/2025. Her standalone book Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood is published globally by Thames & Hudson.
Art Working Parents Website: https://artworkingparents.wordpress.com/
About the facilitators:
Jo Harrison is a curator and arts worker based in London whose practice focuses on gender, work and economies of care. She is Director at The Approach, London and runs ‘Repronomics’, a research project exploring social reproduction and cultural reproduction as invisible and exploitable ‘labours of love’ under capitalism; she also hosts an ongoing itinerant reading group with a focus on feminism, social reproduction, labour and economics, most recently hosted at May Day Rooms in Spring 2024. Jo was previously Curator at Almanac Projects, London, has been a visiting lecturer at Birth Rites Collection, Central Saint Martins and Slade School of Art (UCL), she provides mentoring for artists and art workers. In October 2022, she co-founded The Arts Working Parents Alliance with Hettie Judah.
Hettie Judah is a writer and curator. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Frieze and The Times Literary Supplement, and writes a monthly column for Apollo magazine. Her writing on art can also be found in Art Quarterly, Art Monthly, ArtReview and other publications with ‘art’ in the title. Hettie is curator of the Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood which opened at the Arnolfini in Bristol on 9 March 2024, and tours to MAC in Birmingham, Millennium Gallery in Sheffield and DCA Dundee during 2024/2025. Her standalone book Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood is published globally by Thames & Hudson.
Art Working Parents Website: https://artworkingparents.wordpress.com/
