Mothers who Make: Birmingham and Coventry Hub

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A relaxed social gathering with an exhibition tour. Mothers Who Make is an international grassroots movement, dedicated to supporting the dual role of mothers and maker/artist/creative. Children welcome but must be booked in advance.

Stryx is a Birmingham Hub that strives to connect and support local mothers, birth-givers, and care-givers who are also creators, through various means such as peer support meetings, workshops, events, discussions, artist talks, exhibitions, and more. The hub is located at Stryx, managed by two female artists and mothers Karolina Wakefield-Korupczynska and Anna Katarzyna Domejko, committed to making space for local mother/nonbinary parent creatives.

The Coventry Hub is facilitated by artist Adele Mary Reed. It was originally founded in 2019 by Adele and Jessica Timmis at The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. Since 2021, the Hub has been part of Coventry Biennial as well as regularly partnering with other local organisations. Their current project Mothers Who Make a Garden was commissioned in 2023 with gatherings taking place at a collaborative city-centre garden space welcoming mothers, children, women and non-binary people with any kind of connection to care and creativity.

Organised in connection to Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood.

Photo credit: Marcin Sz