Mother Artist Salon at Life Is Art Is Motherhood Is Art at Tenri Cultural Institute

Join us for the closing reception for Life Is Art Is Motherhood Is Art, featuring live music and conversation with the artists. Refreshments will be served.

Following the music and conversation, Vietnamese mother artist and author / peacemaker / philanthropist L Le Ly Hayslip will share her thoughts and weave them into a larger conversation about the lessons not learned from the American War in Vietnam — this year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the war as well as the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII — and the need to envision a society where the value of inspiration, creation, mutual care, and unconditional love is recognized and integrated into every aspect of life, without discrimination....

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Join us for the closing reception for Life Is Art Is Motherhood Is Art, featuring live music and conversation with the artists. Refreshments will be served.

Following the music and conversation, Vietnamese mother artist and author / peacemaker / philanthropist L Le Ly Hayslip will share her thoughts and weave them into a larger conversation about the lessons not learned from the American War in Vietnam — this year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the war as well as the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII — and the need to envision a society where the value of inspiration, creation, mutual care, and unconditional love is recognized and integrated into every aspect of life, without discrimination.

Life Is Art Is Motherhood Is Art is an exhibition of five artists who are mothers — Daniela Kostova (Bulgaria), Aline Müller (Brazil), Quynh “Alex” Nguyễn (Vietnam), Katie Heller Saltoun (USA), and Satomi Shirai (Japan). Curated by CRS co-founder Christopher Pelham, the exhibition will be on view at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York from July 21 – 26, 2025.

This exhibition highlights the inspiring works being created worldwide by mother artists and examines the multifaceted relationship between motherhood and art-making. Through their diverse photography and 2D works, we invite you to consider the challenges that working mother artists face and reflect on motherhood and child-rearing as fundamentally creative acts, inseparably intertwined with art-making, deserving of our loving attention, respect, and support.

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