Bring your family to customize your own advocacy postcard, screenprinted and designed by Artist-in-Residence, Aimee Koran. Speak with the artist about the process of creating her work MSS (an acronym for Mama Space Suit) made with the FWM Studio. Draw, color, write, and contribute to the long history of printmaking in protest!
Koran’s practice is centered around the idea of invisible labor, specific to mothers, pregnancy, and birth. Her piece MSS positions the work of motherhood as vital, brave, and worthy of our reverence. Inspired by her work with national organization Moms Rising and local organization Maternity Care Coalition, Koran hopes to remind us all that the art of creating is a form of advocacy and radical change can come from the simplest of actions.
Aimee Koran is a multi-disciplinary artist whose works across the mediums of sculpture, photography, and installation explores the overlooked experiences of motherhood. Her work has been shown around the globe in venues such as the Richard Saulton Gallery, London, UK; Mutter Museum, Philadelphia, PA; and The Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA. In addition to FWM, Koran has completed residencies at The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; and Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ. Her solo and group exhibitions have been featured in publications like The New York Times, Vogue, Whitewall, Artslant, Artnet News, and A Woman’s Thing. Koran’s work is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA. Koran holds a graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelors degree from Moore College of Art & Design, both in Philadelphia, PA.