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

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