Curated by Anna McKeown

Anna McKeown is a fiber artist and curator living in Nashville, TN. In her work she explores her mental health journey and personal relationships using hand-embroidery and quilting techniques.

Anna is the Gallery Director for the educational Marnie Sheridan Gallery at Harpeth Hall School. Here, Anna brings a strong focus to artwork created by contemporary womxn artists and fiber artists. Anna is represented by Roaring Artist Gallery and has shown her work with Art Mums United, Southside Gallery in Oxford, MS, and the Yeiser Art Center in Paducah, KY. She has been featured in Candy Floss Magazine and recently completed a residency with Stay Home Gallery Residency in Paris, TN.

Promotion and Social media:
Every selected artist will have their work featured on our Instagram, our website, and on our partnering curator and/or exhibition partner’s social media and website. Additional programming may occur such as interviews, artists talks, etc.

A few artists from the show will also be selected for a panel conversation and interview on the @artistmotherpodcast with Anna and Kaylan! A few more for a takeover on our IG account

Sale of the artwork:
It is highly preferred that the artwork you submit for this show be for sale. The commission split for this exhibition is 50% / 50%.

Agreement to Participate: Your submission to this show indicates that you agree with the expectations and conditions of this exhibition as outlined.

Free Open Call for Art (Virtual Exhibition)

Call for art closes 6-27-21 at Midnight CDT
Artists will be notified by 7-11-21
Exhibition will open 8-1-21

About Artist Mother Podcast:

What started as a podcast has morphed into a big, bold, beautiful community. In December 2018, Kaylan started recording episodes from her living room…reaching out to the small circle of artists who were mother’s that she knew and asking to hear more about their story. Episodes were released beginning in February of 2019 and within a few weeks artist/mothers from all over started reaching out and connecting. The rest, as they say, is sort of history… a retreat happened, a Crit group was formed and we have grown our community and tweaked our offerings and hope to continue to do this work for many many years to come. As long as there will be people making art there will be mothers making art and we hope there is always a space to uplift and support their art practices and well being.

While our community is rooted in the artist/mother identity, we want to support any female-identifying artist in the world…artists of all backgrounds, mediums and education levels. We don’t believe you have to be a mother, to be a mother-er and we believe every artist in every phase of their career needs community and has something of value. We welcome trans and cis women as well as genderqueer, and non-binary people. Black Lives Matter in this community and we hope our podcast and programming alway represent the underrepresented in our society and provides all of us a place to gather, grow, and share our stories and art practices.