MOTHER LODE 2026
Mother Lode means "a very large amount of something valuable".
This show explored what it means to have this reproductive system (or have lost it) and the unending responsibility it is to live with it. What it means to keep fighting for body autonomy. To keep fighting for people to research our bodies to understand more the meeting of the mind and its physical form. What it means to be a "mother". Or our relationships to our "mother", What it's like to be a caregiver, an aunty, a steward of the earth or a connector in a community, and the connection to our feminine ancestral lines. The generations of secrets and shame. And the moments of joy that go hand in hand with the heaviness as well.
MOther Lode participating artists
Deb Achak
Jennifer Ament
Jordan Becker
Cara Brebner
Sarah Close
Kelly Connelly
Dope Girl Movement
The Fold Magazine
Madison Frambes
Stephanie Gailing
Angela Garbes
Rachel Grunig x Joy Jackson Griffith
Giselle Hadeed
Una Harris
Colette Hellenkamp
The Leslie Sisters
Jenne Hsien Patrick
Manuela Insixiegmy
Jenny Jimenez
LeLeita McKill
Annie Marie Musselman
Gillian Nordlund
Naomi Parker
DJ Play Pranks
Elizabeth Rudge
Serrah Russell
Adair Rutledge
Hilary Schumer
Zoe Sherman
Shout Your Abortion
Valeria Spring
Meg Stacker
Katie Stock
Kristin Tollefson
Lauren Williams
Theresa Wingert
Drew Zandonella-Stannard
Darcey Zoller
*event photos by Hilary Northcraft
What the people said