An Artist and a Mother is a book of visual artworks and essays that speak to the diverse ways artists balance creative life with the demands of mothering. It includes thirty seven essays describing the work of thirty-nine international artists and an art collective, as well as a resource guide with books, journals, magazines, organizations, and other resources. This book seeks to highlight the growing body of artist mothers who are making visually and conceptually interesting artwork not just despite their status as mothers, but often because of the inspiration and challenges that come with motherhood.

Tara Carpenter Estrada is an associate professor of art education at Brigham Young University. Her ceramic and mixed-media work explores feminism, domesticity, and relationship. Her writings have been featured in journals that include Visual Inquiry and Art Education. She has presented at the National Art Education Association Convention and the International Society for Education through the Arts Conference. Estrada is the director of Jumpst(ART), a series of community art workshops for K-12 students.

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Heidi Moller Somsen received an MFA in studio art from the University of Utah (2011). She has been included in: 500 Figures in Clay, Volume 2, Utah Art Utah Artists: 150 Year Survey, and Utah Painting and Sculpture. She teaches at the Waterford School. Although known for her evocative ceramic figures, Somsen experiments with a wide variety of materials and processes. Common themes in her work include anxiety, feminist theology and myth, healing and erosion.

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Kaylan Buteyn is an artist, curator, founder of the Artist/Mother Podcast and founder of Stay Home Gallery & Residency. Her practice focuses on female empowerment, the maternal experience, and community engagement. In 2019, as a social extension of her art practice, Buteyn started the Artist/Mother Podcast, sharing interviews of working artists who are mothers. In 2020 she co-founded Stay Home Gallery with Pam Taylor, which is now a brick and mortar gallery and artist residency space.

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