Monuments to Motherhood
Monuments to Motherhood is a salon-style podcast series exploring the interconnected themes of motherhood, caregiving, artmaking, and monumentalization. Serving as a companion to artist Molly Gochman’s large-scale installation pieces of the same name, the podcast uses the sculpture series as a springboard for exploration. Much like the work, which celebrates the enduring support of caregivers across generations, host Molly Gochman expands our understanding of intimacy, care, play, and community through conversations with artists, activists, and caregivers.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 8
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Bonus Episode: Community is a Verb
Just before the unveiling of her 15-foot Monuments to Motherhood sculpture near Grand Army Plaza, Molly takes a walk through Prospect Park with Morgan Monaco, President of the Prospect Park Alliance.…
Bonus Episode: Continuum of Care
In the first of two bonus episodes, Molly travels to Memphis to unveil the first sculptures of the Monuments to Motherhood series at the newly renamed Medical District Park, formerly the site of a Co…
Episode 1: Men, Men, and More Men
On a stroll through Central Park, Molly Gochman and her friend and fellow artist Eve Biddle observe and discuss the (primarily male) monuments on the Literary Walk and consider what a better kind of …
Episode 2: Monumentalization
Our inherited monumental landscape in the United States is bleak. Molly speaks to two people changing that: Paul Farber, the executive director of the Philly-based Monument Lab, which is helping birt…
Episode 3: Your First God
What do we expect caregiving to look like, and what does it actually look like? Molly talks to singer-songwriter, journalist, activist, and Executive Director of Black Trans Women Inc. Diamond ‘Stylz…
Episode 4: Value & Care
Molly and her guests discuss how care work is valued differently depending on the race, class, and gender of who’s putting in the work. Author and Philosophy Professor Dr. Alexandra Bradner elucidate…
Episode 5: In Private, In Public
Artist and activist Michelle Browder gives Molly’s friend Lawanna Kimbro a tour of the monument Browder created, Mothers of Gynecology, and the surrounding historic communities in Montgomery, Alabama…
Episode 6: Faith Made Flesh
In this final episode, Molly's conversation with transgender rights activist and co-founder of House of Tulip, Mariah Moore, introduces the concept of a possibility model. As they delve deeper into t…