Sunday, February 8 at 2 PM

A.I.R. Gallery

Join us on Sunday, February 8, for a conversation with artist Rebecca Weisman, writer Elizabeth Wiet, and artist and co-founder of Artists & Mothers, Maria De Victoria, in conjunction with Weisman's exhibition Mother Island: Act 1. The conversation will consider how we can move beyond treating children as mere subjects in art, and instead actively engage with their minds and imaginations to reshape how art is made. We will think together about how art and motherhood intersect in ways that challenge how we understand creativity, labor, care, and the feminist subject. The discussion will highlight how caregiving and the lived experience of motherhood can drive both artistic and professional growth, shaping form, process, and meaning in contemporary art, while opening new possibilities for representation, care, and creative practice.

We are pleased to offer free on-site childcare to make the event accessible to parents and caregivers. To reserve a spot, please email info@airgallery.org by DATE .

Mother Island: Act 1 is generously supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Rebecca Weisman is currently a National Member at A.I.R. Gallery. Recent exhibitions and screenings include phantom charges, A.I.R. National Members Show; So It Goes at Wassaic Projects; Atelier 11, Paris; Sunview Luncheonette, NY; Cine Salon Film Festival; Toronto Women's Film Festival; and a solo exhibition at Burlington City Arts. She was recently an artist-in-residence at L'AiR Arts, Paris, and the Vermont Studio Center and has published articles on art and philosophy and taught courses in video art, installation, and conceptual art. Weisman holds a B.A. from Reed College and an M.F.A. from Goddard and currently lives and works in Vermont, USA.

Elizabeth Wiet is a writer, editor, and curator based in New York. She is currently Part-Time Faculty at Parsons School of Design; Editor-at-Large at Topical Cream; and Contributing Editor at Bidoun. From 2022–2025, she served as Director of Exhibitions & Fellowship at A.I.R. Gallery. Her writing has appeared in frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, Elephant, Momus, The Quietus, The Los Angeles Review of Books, IMPULSE, Public Books, TDR, and other publications. Her first book project, Maximalism: An Art of the Minor, moves across performance, sculpture, painting, literature, and film to theorize maximalism as a specifically minoritarian aesthetic by foregrounding feminist, queer, Black, Middle Eastern, and Latinx artists who have used accumulation and ornamentation as strategies for pushing back against the forces of social minimization. Committed to preserving artist legacies in print, she provided key editorial support to Bidoun’s 2021 monograph on Iranian-American theater director Reza Abdoh, and with Bidoun, is now editing the first monograph on Lebanese-Egyptian artist Nicolas Moufarrege. In 2025, she edited Mending Body/Mending Mind, a mid-career survey of San Francisco fiber artist Holly Wong. She holds a Ph.D, M.Phil, and MA in English from Yale University and a BA (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in English and Women’s & Gender Studies from Dartmouth College.

Maria De Victoria is a filmmaker, performance artist and co-founded Artists & Mothers in 2024. She was born in 1980 in Lima, Peru, and immigrated to Miami in the early ’90s. Her work, which critiques politics and comments on the marginalized, primarily revolves around her own experiences of immigration, migration, and cultural differences. Through this personal lens and using conceptual projects and performances that often directly involve the audience, she addresses larger themes of migration, labor, and the conditions of contemporary art. She currently lives and works in New York City. https://www.mariadevictoria.com