Last weekend I travelled to Stroud with Julie McCalden and Jess Young, to attend a one day symposium ‘It Takes A Village - Models for Mother Artists’, hosted by WAAS at Atelier, as part of SVA’s Site Festival. The event aimed to ‘explore how artists who are mothers can be sustained in their practice’. This blog explores; some reflections on the ‘It Takes A Village’ seminar, alongside a little about the history of feminist art activism, recent conversations I have been having