Part 1 - Making Space for Art: How Katherine Duclos Transforms Everyday Objects of Motherhood into Artistic Practice

Postpartum Production

In this episode, Kaitlin talks with Katherine Duclos. A New England native that Kaitlin has known since their high-school days, Katherine is a prolific artist who received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute - Brooklyn, NY in 2012. She then moved with her family from New York City to Vancouver, BC where she maintains an active multi-media studio practice delving into concepts of motherhood, identity, neurodivergence, materiality, and more.

Episode 3 is a 2-part installation, and in this first part, Katherine and Kaitlin talk about:

• How Katherine has navigated her growth as an artist through the different phases of her life, especially the stark contrast between her life before and after motherhood.
• What drove Katherine to start her Low Supply project, for which she made art using what she referred to as artifacts of breastfeeding. (Did you know breast pumps cannot be resold on Facebook? We didn’t!)
• Katherine’s shifting art practice as her personal relationship to breastfeeding changes.
• Capitalist society and the expectations on mothers to produce something meaningful, as well as the critical importance larger communities have on breastfeeding and early caregiving support.

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Related resources:

• Check out Katherine’s Low Supply Project:https://www.katherineduclos.com/lowsupply
• The Low Supply Project Statement:https://www.katherineduclos.com/lowsupplystatement
• The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, La Leche League https://www.llli.org/resources/womanly-art-breastfeeding/
• To The New Mum Quietly Suffering From Breastfeeding Grief - Marternal Mental Health Awareness, HuffPost https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/holly-leppard/to-the-new-mum-quietly-su_b_16512266.html

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Find out more about Katherine and her art through:

Her website: https://www.katherineduclos.com/sculpture-2022

Her instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katherine_duclos_rose/

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