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Visual artist Catherine Reinhart comes to the studio today to have a conversation about being makers, mothers, and unpack the conceptual richness of critically and materially engaged caregiving. If you're not driving while listening, plan to have a pen and paper by your side to write down the gems that sneak their way into this conversation
DWELL Walkthrough
Video by Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
Walkthrough of Catherine Reinhart’s Solo Exhibition “DWELL.”
Mar 11, 2024
The Mother RUbbings
By Catherine Reinhart on Emergency Index
“The Mother Rubbings,” a durational performance, took place March through July of 2020. I performed the piece twice weekly at the Ames Municipal Cemetery, which is beside my home. I walked the rows of graves, taking rubbings of every headstone marked “mother.”
Sibling Se[nt|d]iments, Sculpture, Artist: Catherine Reinhart.
Mapping motherhood
Written by Shannon K. Evans.
How do you map motherhood, a path so littered with wreckage? Broken bones and broken egos, broken heirlooms and broken breasts. How do you map a path marked by boundarylessness? There exist no lines around this kind of love, no preparation for this kind of sacrifice, no limit for this kind of fidelity, no prescription for this kind of exhaustion. Perhaps this is why most mothers rarely attempt to map our experience; perhaps it’s why most of us live day to day without marking time or place, without creating larger rituals out of the dozens of tiny ones we move through every hour. Perhaps it’s why we become the women in the grocery store looking longingly at the mother and her son, murmuring to the stranger in aisle 3 about how fast it will all go.
This piece created by my friend and neighbor Catherine Reinhart maps a moment in time in my motherhood. Each of my five children stand tall here, exactly as they are right now, though not exactly as they will always be. I, too, am not as I will always be. In fact, I will not always be. My daughter and sons will be moving and shifting around one another long after they cease to move and shift around me. A family is so much more than a mother, but my children cannot see that now. Now they call me and pull me and whine for me and beg me and sleep near me and seek me and cry for me and tug on me and think the world would stop without me. But it wouldn’t. It won’t. One day they will see that. And one day they will see that the best I could do was to give them each other, to ensure they never walk alone through this world. The best I could do was say, “here, this is how you love” and hope that when I am gone it will have been enough. The only map I can pass on. The only map I can take with me. The only map to lead us home.
More writings from Shannon K. Evans found here.
IG: @shannonkevans
Support for this essay and artwork is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Iowa Arts Council, which exists within the Iowa Economic Development Authority.
ARTiculations Interview - Catherine Reinhart
ARTiculations - March 2023
An interview series focusing on the contributions of local women and non-binary artists.
This program is hosted by Nancy Gebhart as a collaboration between the Margaret Sloss Center for Women and Gender Equity and KHOI Community Radio.
kancan x artist Commission
Commission and Blog Post about commissioned artwork “Leavings” from LA Denim brand Kancan and artist Catherine Reinhart. “Leavings” was made using deconstructed acid-wash denim and a vintage blanket.
2020 Iowa Artist Fellow - Catherine Reinhart
Artist Catherine Reinhart ( Ames, IA) is the proud recipient of a 2020 Iowa Artist Fellowship.
The Artist Fellowship Program provides support to artists who demonstrate exceptional creativity and the capacity to contribute to the innovation and elevation of …
The Brooklyn Rail - Painting at Night Exhibition Review
“You can’t paint at night in your kitchen and hope to be a good artist,” a performance space director once quipped to the New York Times. This became the impetus for the defiant title of Painting at Night, an exhibition of artist/mothers who have, in fact, been making art in their kitchens at night…
Olson-Larsen Galleries - Studio visit: Catherine Reinhart
We are so thrilled to have Ames, Iowa artist, Catherine Reinhart as one of the eight incredible artists in our current exhibition, Women’s Work! We visited Catherine’s studio earlier this summer to see what she was up to and…
Iowa Arts Council - A New Twist for an Ugly Old Quilt
Catherine Reinhart isn’t quite sure how to describe the polyester quilt she received a few years ago, a cast-off from a box of random stuff at an estate sale.
She calls the blocky hodgepodge of 1970s oranges and browns and hot pinks “atrocious” and “garish.” She calls it a “monstrosity.”….
Emerging Artist Spotlight - Surface Design Association
Hope is a tender and elusive state. Often I am surprised to find it lingering amid the stacks of
dishes and hidden with my toddler’s lost shoe. Between the wall and the bed frame, that small
found victory provides what I did not know I needed. I seek these victories inside my studio….