Procreate Project is Hiring for Mother House studio Dagenham
PROCREATE PROJECT IS HIRING Part-time Early Years Educator for the Mother House studio in Dagenham
Vacancy: Artist Educator for Integrated Childcare
Days: 3x days a week (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday)
Hours: 10am to 4pm
Salary: £60 day rate
Reports to: Mother House manager
Based at: The White House, 884 Green Lane, Dagenham, RM8 1BX
The Mother House is the first artist studio with integrated childcare, where children are welcomed into the workspace. The Mother House is now opening at The White House in Dagenham three days per week from 15th January 2018. The model promotes attachment and inclusion, bringing the child’s development closer to the mother’s art practice. Children learn about women’s roles outside the domestic environment.
The selected candidate will be trained to implement the Mother House Educational policy, and will provide an emotionally secure, warm, stimulating and safe environment, appropriate to the needs of individual children and their mothers, within the White House. They will lead arts based educational sessions for the children at the house.
Duties
- Creative an inspiring setting for child led activities
- To set up play areas, materials and equipment.
- To plan a stimulating range of age-appropriate activities, ensuring the childcare area is well resourced and creatively set-up.
- To act as a key person for a group of children as allocated by the management team, ensuring attachment bonds are respected and enhanced.
- To build relationships with the children’s mothers or carers.
- To encourage children’s independence and self-esteem.
- To encourage fair and caring behaviour among the children through role modelling.
- To ensure your specific duties regarding Health and Safety and fire procedures are understood and respected.
- Giving out refreshments according to specific needs in collaboration with the mothers.
- Dealing with injuries and emergencies in collaboration with the mothers
- Oversee the play area at all times also during free play time frames
- Report to the Mother House management if any issues are occurring.
What you are NOT expected to do
- Change nappies
- Feed babies
- Accompany children in the artist’s studio space
Necessary experience:
- 3 years in a role that required care of children aged 1 to 5 years’ old
- Running creative activities for children
- Familiar with child protection and safeguarding procedures
Person specification:
- Friendly and caring
- Passionate about high quality arts experiences for children
- Registered as self employed
NB this role has been created in partnership between Procreate Project and The White House specifically to create more jobs for arts educators in the borough of Barking & Dagenham. So we will only be considering candidates living locally.
This selected candidate will require an advanced DBS check – organized if necessary by Mother House.
Please send a cover letter no longer than 300 words to motherhouse@procreateproject.com and a CV with recent and relevant experience by the 4th of December at 5pm. Interviews will take place on the 7th of December at The White House.
M.A.M.A. Issue n.24: Elisabeth Schön and Judy Swann
The ProCreate Project, the Museum of Motherhood and the Mom Egg Review are pleased to announce the 24th edition of this scholarly discourse intersects with the artistic to explore the wonder and the challenges of motherhood. Using words and art to connect new pathways between the academic, the para-academic, the digital, and the real, as well as the everyday: wherever you live, work, and play, the Art of Motherhood is made manifest. #JoinMAMA
October, 2017 Art by Elisabeth Schön Words by Judy Swann
Art by Elisabeth Schön
The postpartum period is a surreal time and space that can hurt or heal a woman but either way she’ll never forget it with her in body in flux and a human being that just came through her and is utterly dependent on her for survival. Their meeting binds them as she’s confronted with her biology and its vulnerability.
ZMOTHERINE
Words by Judy Swann
Fool
I threw rose petals on the ground
and her pink slippers slid on that silky surface,
the Muse, when she came just now.
Her small hooves have worn every fabric, every skin,
every color, my kids
try them on when she slips them off.
Her little goat horns wobbled and she scolded,
“Why am I not connecting? Why so many
dreams and so little in my basket, Fool?”
By ‘Fool’ she meant ‘Innocent Child.’
She said, and I could see her beard,
she said, “Tell me that you love me.”
“I am,” I said, “not sleeping alone.”
She said, “Tell me that you love me.”
I said she was always on my mind, I called
As often as I could. She said,
“Tell me that you love me.” I said “I’ve spent twenty years,
two husbands, and all my thrift on those roses.”
Judy Swann is a poet, essayist, translator, mom, blogger, and bicycle commuter, whose work has been published in many venues both in print and online, including the Mom Egg Review. Her son is (always) on his way home. Her book, We Are All Well: The Letters of Nora Hall has given her great joy. She loves. She lives in Ithaca, NY.
Mother Art Prize Winner and Left Overs Selected Artists
The first Procreate Project ‘Mother Art’ Prize is a new prize in the contemporary art world, available to win for artists who are mothers, to support and provide them with a platform to showcase and evaluate their work.
Artists participating in the Mother Art Prize competition responded to the theme ‘Left Overs’: What is left of our sanity, bodies, sexuality, time and identities when mothering? What remains unused or unconsumed? How do left overs feed creativity?
The Mother Art Prize 2017 winner is the ‘The Divide’ by Mary Martins.
The Divide is an Animated Documentary that looks at one of the many ways in which love can exist in challenging circumstances. These are a higher level of intellectual abstraction that combine non-representational images with narrative. In the wider scope, unraveling interesting ways to relate these to current non-salient social issues, political issues and our human rights. The first film is about the separation of both parents resulting in single motherhood.
As a non-conformist Animator, I am currently exploring transcultural abstract art in its various manifestations in order to achieve creative harmony. I create movement and visuals in non-literal wilderness, challenging the negative connotations that often conceals the beauty behind truth, meaning and reality. I apply the medium of Animation to capture the zeitgeist of our modern times, concurrently addressing several existentialist ideals.
The films plays around a series of paintings produced by a baby at nursery during the breakdown of the relationship between his Mother and Father. The film rejoices the child’s creativity which leads to the mother’s acceptance of a new life. This causes her to experience moments of happiness and profound beauty.
“The non-representational becomes the non-judgmental and objective projection of life. This will enable me to deconstruct stereotypes, giving rise to the empowerment of the under-represented.”
Shot on B&W 16mm Film
Colour Digital
Oil Paints on Glass
Spray Paint and Pastel
Sand on glass
Animated glass paint on 16mm film
The Award Winner received:
- 1 Month residency at the next Mother House’s opening 2018 (this covers Childcare and Art Studio for 1 artist and 1 child) wwww.motherhousestudios.com
- £200 cash prize
- Up to 5 pieces of work exhibited at the Left Overs Show, within Filia Conference 2017
- 1 year online Membership with Procreate Project
- 1 free mentoring session with Sylvie Gormezano, Director at Picture this productions and Chair of the Association of Women Art Dealers (AWAD)
- 1 free ticket to Oxytocin: Mothering the World 2018 (dates TBC)
Mary Martins is a London based documentary Animator and Ethnologist. Her ideas are often of a philosophical nature as it enables her to work with a great degree of autonomy. She will be progressing onto an MA at the Royal College of Art where she endeavours to produce a series of philosophical essay films ‘a treatise’ as an exploration of transcultural art in its various manifestations in order to make sense of how we inhabit the world beyond sense-perception and appearance. With a strong interest in aesthetics she hopes to link her research around phenomenology with animism, theosophy, humanism and social constructions.
In an attempt to push boundaries within her work, she juxtaposes various traditional film making techniques retaining the rich elements of our past.
University of East London
BA Animation & Moving Image
University of the Arts London, LCC
Foundation in Animation
University of Birmingham
BA Philosophy
