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The Art of Motherhood: Creativity, Ambition and Identity with Madeline Donahue
What if motherhood doesn’t diminish creativity, but gives it new urgency, meaning and material?
Brooklyn painter Madeline Donahue joins Melissa and Esther to explore how becoming a mother helped her find her artistic voice in her mid-30s, and why the everyday realities of caregiving deserve to be treated as seriously as any other subject in art.
Through Madeline’s vivid, playful paintings, they explore the contradictions of motherhood and creative work: missing your children while you work and missing your work when you’re with them; finding joy inside exhaustion; and trying to remain an…
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