Sarah Sentilles

The Mother Artist

Arts & Literature

“Reading The Mother Artist felt like being with the best kind of friend: brilliant and honest and deeply invested in your creativity. Its pages are packed with artists who inspire, challenge, and alter the world by being both mothers and artists. Ricketts is right: rather than impeding artmaking, motherhood has something to add to it, something holy and urgent. She asks, How might the art mothers create change a society so marred by brutality? The Mother Artist is a clarion call. The only reason you'll want to put down Ricketts's lyrical tour de force is to make more art.”