Labor and Love

On May 8, at 1:30 PM, Gallery Aferro studio residency alumna ‪Norene Leddy invites museum visitors to participate in Labor and Love: An Ongoing Conversation about Mothers, Children, Housework and Wages. Focusing on the visible and invisible labor of mothers, the conversation will start with Lilly Martin Spencer’s painting Four Children of Marcus L. Ward, from 1858-1860, and then move to the historic Ballantine dining room. Woven into the conversation will be personal stories, a chain email excerpt from The Invisible Woman: When Only God Sees – A Special Story for Mothers by Nicole Johnson (which was sent to Leddy by her own mother), and the Wages for Housework campaign. The conversation will continue online here at www.laborandlove.net.

Labor and Love: An Ongoing Conversation about Mothers, Children, Housework and Wages was commissioned as part of “Newark Museum Through the Eyes of Gallery Aferro Artists,” a collaboration between Gallery Aferro and the Newark Museum.