PES Summer Story Lab

Artists: Amy Khoshbin, Aimee Gilmore, Christen Clifford, and ArtistMother Studio

The summer of 2019 at PES was about sharing stories. The PES gallery transformed into a space for collaboration and sharing personal narratives. It became a creative hub for a series of books and zines created by our Artists in Residence and members of the Feminist Incubator program.

Artists in Residence Kambui Olujimi, Amy Khoshbin, and Victoria-Idongesit Udondian each created one of a kind works coinciding with their exhibitions taking place in Fall 2019. Learn more about the PES Artist in Residence Program here.

The Feminist Incubator expanded its programming to collaborate with artists and arts organizations releasing printed matter centered around themes of motherhood, womxn’s narratives, and abortion rights. Projects included the ArtistMother Studio’s Maternal Journal, a publication that compiled submissions from folks engaged in both caregiving and art as a way to elevate their voices;  Aimee Gilmore’s lullaby project, an ongoing work around motherhood paying homage to the often unacknowledged labor of labor, and the complexity of new motherhood; FemPower Narratives, a toolkit that provided women resources to cultivate and share their stories; and Reproductive Radio, a podcast that collected oral histories from women that have had abortions, spanning from before Roe v. Wade to present.