The Creative Perks of Motherhood Course

Motherhood is often framed as a professional liability, personal sacrifice, or even an impossible choice for those living a creative life—but what if caregiving actually strengthens creativity? What if birth helps you bloom, not wilt?

In this interactive workshop, participants will explore how caregiving—and especially matrescence—can transform your life and creative practice. While hope is the outlook, this workshop will employ candor and humor, not rose-colored glasses.

Through artist examples, interactive prompts, reflection exercises, and storytelling, we’ll explore the surprising creative perks of choosing to mother.*

Ultimately, participants will reframe caregiving not as an interruption to creative life, but as a profound transformation of creative practice—and an opportunity to help shape a more maternally welcoming world.

This experience is designed for anyone considering parenthood—especially those concerned about how mothering might rock their creative world and who want to keep rocking (with a baby) without becoming beige.

You’ll leave with:

• vocabulary for understanding the changes brought on by birth and caregiving

• fresh perspectives on the intersection of creativity and motherhood

• deeper connection through shared storytelling and reflection

• a detailed resource syllabus/toolkit for mother-artists

• renewed hope around the importance of the maternal gaze in art and the world