The Artist Parent Index is a searchable index of artists making work about their experience as a parent.

Special Project in partnership with Melanie Duveault of EducArt at the MMFA (2015)
The relationship between art and wellness is the mission of innovative programming initiated by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts & developed in partnership with Faculty of Fine Arts researchers

In collaboration with Dr. Loren Lerner, Professor of Art History, Concordia University, I designed a project for students in my FBRS 260/3 textiles course (Print & Dye I), whereby they were asked to respond to an artwork in the museum’s permanent collection that related to the thematic of the family and produce a piece that responded to it. A reading on human space and the idea of the home in its largest definition was given in conjunction with the said assignment.

Each student was paired with one in Dr. Lerner’s ARTH 450/2 class (Picturing Children, Envisioning Childhood). These art history students were then asked to write about the said works. A selection of artworks and text have been selected to be included in the MMFA’s unique new EducArt website that is part of their art education department. Family Works focuses primarily on a selection of images from the MMFA to highlight unexpected meanings about the family, children and childhood identity. In providing a close study of the evolution of images of the family, as evidence of social attitudes, cultural symbols, religious beliefs and creative invention, the website will be of interest to students of social studies, history, visual culture, religion and studio arts.

The Family Works multi-vitrine Exhibition is on from October 20-December 5, 2016. 2200 Crescent Street, Montreal

Video of Dr. Loren Lerner & Laura Endacott presenting the Family Works project

This site offers connections between researchers and their specialized areas of study. You may add a name in the search box or navigate through a myriad of key words to discover research clusters that link various individuals through an interdisciplinary relationship. My work can be found under the key words of identity, memory, history and contemporary textiles to name a few.

Washington D.C. artist Kate Kretz presented a talk at the National Textile Society Symposium on September 20th, 2012 entitled "The Last Art Taboo: Identity Politics of Motherhood". She presented a number of artists whose research spoke to the theme of motherhood, among them, Laura Endacott.

A photo-based essay written by Laura Endacott was included in this online specialized journal of performance studies that boasts 1,000,000 hits a year. This special issue (Vol.12, Issue 3) speaks to resistance and stillness. It was release in the spring of 2016.