a welcoming source of rejuvenation for the whole mother artist: hand, heart, mind, and soul.
wellspring: A Mother Artist Project seeks to support women as they answer their calling as mother & artist.
To do so we provide generous, hospitable environments of rest and creative invitation where the exploration of creativity, faith, and motherhood are supported. A place where one’s creative life and spiritual life can intertwine, to feed the mind and soul, as well as the motherly heart and artistic hand.
We believe that to flourish creatively, mother artists need moments of rest, contemplation, community, and freedom, supported within their process. Our desire is to make these things possible for mother artists of any age and stage who are taking their unique call seriously and into the wider world, whether they have newborns, toddlers, teenagers, or grandchildren, and whether their medium be words, paint, fiber, or clay.
Our project seeks to support and elevate the work of mother artists through nurturing retreats, annual art exhibitions, workshops, and a community in which we can share and support one another’s artistic process, spiritual life, and motherhood journey.
Our hope is that Wellspring will support women of faith, making space for them as mothers and artists, offering a yearly rhythm of life & work to tap into (retreats, exhibitions, workshops) but also a community of fellow makers to share their struggles and frustrations, as well as their joys and triumphs.
We will do so in community, with the flame of faith alive, and as part of a line of mother artists throughout the ages; from Dorothy Day to Artemisia Gentileschi, Sigrid Undset and Madeleine L’Engle and Rachel Ruysch and Julia Warhola. All these women and more, as well as so many living examples, offer inspiration for mothers and artists of all ages and stages. And ultimately, these women exemplify the reminder that we hope Wellspring will also offer, the encouragement that “all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.”
(painting in header by Dori Spector, used with permission)
