2026 Calendar & MoM Membership Cooperative

A new year is unfolding at the Museum of Motherhood—and it’s already full of momentum. 🌱 From board leadership and strategy sessions to festivals, conferences, and community celebrations, 2026 is shaping up to be a year of action, reflection, and collective joy. Our latest blog lays out what’s ahead, why it matters, and how you can be part of it—from January goal-setting to a fall focus on maternal mental health. Take a look, mark your calendar, and step into the year with us.

2026 Scheduled Dates: 

  • January 14th Board Meeting and Kick-off for 2026 New Year Goals & Implementation
  • January 20th Implementation of 6 month strategy
  • February 14th Localtopia
  • March – Women’s History Month
  • April – Q2 Board Meeting
  • March 26 Leadership workshop with dinner for all team
  • March 27-29 MoM Conference 
  • May 3 is MaMaPaLooZa
  • June 2nd Board Building Party – Barbara & Mary B-Day
  • July – Pride & Q3 Board Meeting – vote in new members
  • August – Hang on in The Factory to continue the good work
  • September – Mini-Conference Maternal Mental Health
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MoM Membership Cooperative

We are delighted to invite you to become part of something special at the Museum of Motherhood—our Cooperative Membership Store & Shared Creative Space.

This is more than a retail visibility opportunity. It’s a living, breathing community where artists, educators, healers, organizers, and makers gather to share their talents, connect with the public, and support one another in a values-driven, cooperative environment.

Welcome to MoM’s Cooperative Space

Bring your art, expertise, objects, ideas, and meetings into a shared home where creativity and care are centered. By joining, you’ll collaborate in a vibrant real-world space while engaging with MoM’s audiences during events like Second Saturday Art Walk, Sunday Assembly, and MaMaPaLooZa Festival—as your schedule allows as well as during weekly hours.

What Participation Looks Like

  • Join MoM with a $30 annual membership
  • Sign up for 3-hour (short) or 6-hour (long) shifts—or more—during a 40-hour week
    (See Events & Calendar at MOMmuseum.org)
  • Greet visitors warmly and direct them to MoM’s signup portal
  • Share and sell your work, services, or expertise
    You keep 100% of your sales
  • If selling work by others, simply direct buyers to the item’s QR payment code and log the sale in the receipt book

What MoM Provides

  • One six-foot table, chairs, easels, and working space
  • Storage under tables (bring a labeled tote if you’d like to leave items onsite)
  • The option to leave onsite:
    • An 8 × 10 display with QR code
    • A notebook or portfolio of your work
    • Up to ¼ of a six-foot table of objects and one easel when you’re not present
      (Tables are shared among four cooperators)
  • Promotion of you and your work through MoM social media using graphics and info you provide

Why This Matters

By managing the space while you’re in it, you help keep MoM accessible, welcoming, and alive—while gaining visibility, community, and a meaningful place to share what you do best. If you believe in collaboration over competition, community over isolation, and creativity rooted in care—we would love to welcome you.

Welcome to MoM’s Cooperative Space. Please bring your art, talents, objects, and meetings. By agreeing to join this initiative you can expect:

Collaborate on a shared real estate for exhibiting and meeting clients and be part of our general audience on Second Saturday Art Walk, Sunday Assembly, MaMaPaLooZa Festival as per your availability with your great talents in exchange for a basic level MoM membership and an agreement to manage the space while you are in it.

How To Participate

Fill out online form online to participate in the Cooperative Membership Store [Click Link Left]

Contact Jamika Rollins regarding your participation: Scheduling@MOMmusem.org

877-711-MOMS (6667) (Lv a message and we will call/text you back)

2606 Fairfield Ave S St Petersburg FL Building 7

DOWNLOAD AGREEMENT PDF

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MoM Team with volunteers at the Museum of Motherhood

MoM Needs Volunteers and Docents

The Museum of Motherhood is more than a museum, it’s a gathering space, a conversation starter, and a love letter to motherhood in all its forms. We’re looking for a friendly, curious, people-loving human to help welcome our community into the space.

Volunteerism is the heartbeat of the Museum of Motherhood. 💛 Our work is powered by people who give their time, skills, care, and creativity to help preserve stories, spark dialogue, and build a more humane future for families. From greeting visitors and supporting events to research, archiving, and advocacy, volunteers make it possible for MoM to keep its doors open, its programs vibrant, and its mission alive. Simply put: we keep going because our community shows up.

What you’ll do:

  1. Greet visitors with warmth and make them feel at home the moment they arrive
  2. Move through the museum, offering gentle, engaging introductions to exhibits and artworks
  3. Spark curiosity, conversation, and connection throughout the space
  4. Support our Mom Shop by sharing the stories behind our merchandise and assisting with sales
  5. Invite visitors to deepen their relationship with the museum through memberships and events
  6. Educate clients about available programs and assist with application processes when necessary
  7. Maintain accurate records of client interactions and service provision in accordance with privacy policies

You might be perfect for this role if you:

  • Love art, culture, storytelling, and community spaces
  • Enjoy talking with people and making them feel seen and welcomed
  • Are comfortable engaging visitors in a relaxed, authentic way
  • Believe in honoring motherhood, caregiving, and lived experience as powerful cultural forces
  • Bring positive energy and openness into shared spaces
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail for record keeping and coordination tasks

This is a role for someone who loves people, ideas, and meaningful work and wants to be part of a mission-driven, creative environment.

If you are interested in being part of our team but are not in a financial situation where you can volunteer, then we have some funds available for onsite docents in-space to greet people during our regular shifts.

✨ Volunteer (we’re grateful if you can) or $17/hour
✨ Flexible, community-centered work
✨ A chance to be part of something special

Job Type: Part-time.

Interested? We’d love to hear from you. CONTACT: Scheduling@MOMmuseum.org

Meet the Future at MoM

STAY IN THE LIGHT

You might not always feel like it, but the future is looking bright. “How so?” you might wonder? Well, the truth is that light is everywhere—even in the darkness. Now that the season of light is upon us, we are pleased to welcome new initiatives, new interns, new solvency strategies, and the same ole sense of love and compassion that MoM musters in every circumstance.

At the Museum of Motherhood, we do not measure brightness by ease or comfort. We measure it by resilience, by care, and by the quiet, radical persistence of families who keep showing up for one another—even when systems fall short. And there are real reasons to believe the future of health, wellness, and education for families in America is bending toward something more humane.

Across the country, we are seeing renewed attention to maternal mental health, long overlooked and underfunded, now finally entering public conversation, clinical practice, and community-based solutions. Peer support models, trauma-informed care, and culturally responsive services are gaining traction—not because they are trendy, but because families have demanded better. Knowledge is catching up to lived experience.

In education, learning is expanding beyond classrooms and credentials. Intergenerational education, museum-based learning, and community storytelling are increasingly recognized as legitimate, powerful ways people grow and heal. Families are reclaiming learning as something that happens through curiosity, creativity, and connection—not just compliance. Museums like MoM are uniquely positioned to hold this work: part classroom, part commons, part sanctuary.

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MoM Shop Open in December for Thank You Gifts for all museum memberships

Health and wellness, too, are being redefined. More families are questioning productivity-at-all-costs culture and returning to basics: rest, touch, creativity, food, movement, and meaning. Caregiving—once invisible—is becoming a subject of research, advocacy, and art. While this shift is far from complete, the cracks in the old model are letting light in.

At MoM, we see hope in the next generation. Our interns arrive not just with skills, but with clarity: they understand that care is infrastructure, that history shapes health, and that equity is not optional. They are asking better questions—and insisting on better answers.

We also see hope in sustainability: in new funding models, shared resources, and collaborative strategies that allow cultural institutions to survive without abandoning their values. Solvency, when grounded in ethics, becomes a form of care itself—ensuring that spaces for truth, tenderness, and transformation remain open.

The future will not be bright because it is easy. It will be bright because people continue to choose love, compassion, and responsibility for one another—especially in hard times. That is the work of m/otherhood. That is the work of this museum. And that is the light we are committed to tending, together.

YEAR END FUNDRAISING INITIATIVE

As our team celebrates the season of gratitude – I am thankful for a great year, awesome accomplishments, & for you!

MoM reaches people where they live, work and play through our family-friendly exhibits and education. We are Tampa Bay’s first and only women’s museum, devoted to the art, science and herstory of American women, mothers and families.

If you haven’t visited us yet, please do. We are virtual and in real time offering tours, exhibits, conversations, education, friendship, community, cultural connections and more since 2003~!

Martha JOY Rose, Founding Director

2025 MoM HIGHLIGHTS

  • Welcomed new board members: Amy Collins, Libby Hopkins, Meagan Welch, Regan Moss, and Tracie Williams to the MoM Executive Board.
  • Expanded our program team to include Jamika Rollins, Karimah Henry, Rachael Somerman, Dre Marie, LouAnne Hardtke, Amanda Bartles, Darlene Ceron, Lizzie Zacharis, and Susie Beltran.
  • Offered weekly free lactation consultations with Baby Café for breastfeeding support, advice, tools and conversation.
  • Partnered with Tampa Bay Period Pantry and Mutual Aid Choices Pantry to make products available to those seeking information, education, and free accessible items related to periods, birth control, and women’s health.
  • Produced Black Maternal Health mini-conference, addressing Black maternal health disparities and bringing together over 60 providers, birth workers, and funders to rally around community-led solutions.
  • Rocked out at Mamapalooza Family Festival with over 500 attendees and performances by local woman-founded and woman fronted bands.
  • Convened over 70 academics, artist, and students at the 20th Anniversary Academic & Arts Conference, hosted at USF St. Pete.
  • Implemented two photography and sculptural exhibits by local artists and welcomed two international artists, Julienne Doko and Raisa Nosova, for performances and mural works. (Huge gratitude to both amazing women) as well as student exhibits about ‘Caring St Pete’.
  • Secured over $50,000 in NEW grant funding through Community Foundation of Tampa Bay, Foundation for Healthy St. Pete, and the City of St. Pete.
  • See more about our programs via our updated online calendar.

MoM is celebrating a highly successful 2025, and we are on track to reach an annual fundraising goal of $100,000. This fundraising goal not only supports the ongoing work of MoM but makes it possible for our team to secure a permanent home in Tampa Bay and bring on paid staff members to expand our footprint as the one and only international destination museum devoted to the art, science, and history of women, m/others & families.

I hope you will consider making a tax-deductible year-end gift. 100% of your gift supports the longevity of the first and only museum of motherhood in the world. Our year-end giving campaign builds on all the success of 2025, see our donations and progress in real-time here.

SUPPORT MOM – YEAR END TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION – CLICK HERE!

WAYS TO SUPPORT MoM

Make a tax-deductible donation online, via check, Donor Advised Fund, or wire transfer

Mailing Address: MoM Art Annex, 538 28th St. N. St. Petersburg, Florida 33713

Make checks payable to “Museum of Motherhood”

Email mary@mommuseum.org for DAF and wire transfer details

Forward this email to a family member or friend to make a donation to MoM

Pledge a corporate sponsorship for one of MoM’s events

Renew your membership to MoM

Secure an employer matching gift when donating to MoM

Host a fundraiser to benefit MoM

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Caring St Pete Exhibit

WELCOME Zixin Shang (Cassie)

This project focuses on the intersection of reproductive technology and cross-cultural perspectives, exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping future experiences of “procreation” and “motherhood.”

As an artist and curator from East Asia now living in the United States, I aim to reflect on the different understandings of the female body and reproduction in Eastern and Western societies .And I will consider whether the intervention of AI technology may shift these cultural differences.

Through collaborations with artists of diverse nationalities, I will explore how humanity’s understanding of “motherhood” and “identity” evolves artistically when technology intervenes in the creation of life and the construction of identity. These artworks will employ varied materials and techniques to depict artists’ visions of future reproduction, presenting abstract perspectives on the possibilities of human evolution. They will amplify the reproductive relationship between motherhood and living organisms for the audience.

This project aims to connect individual memories with global shifts, inviting audiences to reconsider: In an era of rapid globalization and artificial intelligence advancement, are the identity and meaning of motherhood also undergoing transformation? How do people confront the long- standing biological relationships of life being overturned amidst the relentless march of evolutionary progress?

Conference Submissions Extended to Sunday 12/7, Conference Keynote, Call for Art & Year End Fundraising for MoM

Conference Submissions Extended to Sunday 12/7

This year’s conference Reproductive Identities & Resistance: Mothers and Others in Culture, Community & Collaboration March 27, 28 (in-person) & 29 (online), 2026 is hosted in partnership with The University of South Florida, St Pete. Submissions Deadline Extended to 12/7/25 for papers, projects, art and research. Students welcome to submit! Submit at JourMS.org

Conference poster for the Museum of Motherhood featuring the title 'Reproductive Identities & Resistance' with images of diverse women, event details, and submission information.
Annual Call for Papers MoM Conference 2026

Deadline for Submissions Extended to Dec. 7th 2025

SUBMIT TO CONFERENCE

This year, we are pleased to welcome Dr. Aurelie Athan as our keynote speaker. Dr. Aurelie Athan is a clinical psychologist and faculty member at Teacher’s College, Columbia University. This year’s conference theme is grounded in her concept of reproductive identity as a lifelong meaning. Learn more about Dr. Aurelie Athan and her work here.

#GivingTuesday – YEAR END FUNDRAISER

DONATE TO OUR YEAR END CAMPAIGN

MoM exists because you keep us going through your great efforts, interest, volunteerism, donations and interest! Our annual fundraising goal is $82,000. We aim to reach 75% of this goal by December 31, 2025, and 100% of this goal by April 30, 2026. Please consider supporting MoM through a direct donation, or one of the following initiatives: Ongoing – MoM Membership Drive and click on the picture below or the link above to be part of this legacy production!

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· Membership levels and purchase link: https://mommuseum.org/membership/ 

Conference Planning Committee- Gratitude and More

This Annual Academic Conference Committee meets weekly to plan and organize MoM’s Annual International Academic & Arts Conference. Committee members volunteer their time, skill set, and knowledge to create and disseminate the Call for Papers, organize presenter submissions into an event schedule which is unique each and every year, prioritize bringing in new keynote speakers relative to the event’s theme, write and secure grant funding to bring the event to fruition. We are so mighty! These amazing humans create opportunities for all and help increase the knowledge base of Mother Studies as a discipline. THANK YOU COMMITTEE MEMBERS for all your diligent labor! You are rock stars!

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Meet the 2026 conference planning committee members!

Committee Chair: Brittany “Britt” DeNucci, MA (She/Her/Hers)

Committee Member: Meagan Welch, MEd, PhD (ABD) (She/Her/Hers). Editor ; Journal of Mother Studies (JourMS), 2025

Committee Member: Courtney Kessler, MFA, PhD Candidate (She/Her/Hers)

Committee Member: Shamella “Mel” Joy (She/Her/Hers)

Committee Member: Elizabeth Charles, MFA (She/Her/Hers)

Committee Member: Hannah Brockbank, PhD, MSc Econ (She/Her/Hers)

Committee Member: Sonia Meerai, MSW, RSW, PhD Candidate (She/Her/Elle)

Committee Member: Jill M. Wood, PhD (She/Her/Hers)

Committee Member: Regan Moss, Doctoral Student at Tulane University University & Fellow with the Newcomb Institute & Predoctoral Fellow with the Khora Lab (She/Her/Hers)

Committee Member: Batya Weinbaum, PhD (She/Her/Hers)

Welcome Team Members

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Lizzie Zacharias at MoM
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Darlene Ceron at MoM

We are so pleased to welcome Lizzie and Darlene to our team! Their areas of expertise are vast and they are bringing all their best-skilled talents to MoM. Come meet them weekends at the Museum of Motherhood.

MoM Shop Open Through December

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MoM Shop Open in December for Thank You Gifts for all museum memberships

For Your Ongoing Interest

This exhibit wishes to gratefully acknowledge The Factory LLC organization for the use of wall space in Building 7 to explore archived photos from her personal collection. Exploring the compelling idea of a ‘Mess House’ is a somewhat universal theme. As humans we seek to create order (oftentimes ineffectually), confront our wildness and occasionally find acceptance and peace within the chaos of daily life and family. Through December, 2025.

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Mess House Exhibit at the Museum of Motherhood Opening ongoing

Add Your Voice Here!

Join this student project by helping us to push back on ‘Bad Mother Myths’! We can’t wait to hear from you.

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Bad Mother Myth Busting Project

This Week’s Events at MoM are Here

There are always amazing things going on at the Museum of Motherhood. Come visit us today!

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Mess House at MoM

The Mess We Live In: What Clutter, Kids, and Culture Wars Reveal About Family Life

The notion of a “messy home” might conjure up images of toys strewn across the living room, dishes piling up in the sink, or laundry spilling out of baskets especially at times of duress. But the reality of mess is deeply tied to the internal worlds of families, to stress, identity, and even to the cultural divides that shape our society. At the Museum of Motherhood, exploring the messy intersections of parenting, culture, and mental health can be a powerful lens into what family life really feels like.

Mess Isn’t Just Physical — It’s Psychological, Social and Cultural


Evidence that women experience chronic stress not because the home is messy, but because society holds them responsible for preventing mess is a recognized truth.

  • Mess House – Courtesy Batya Weinbaum & Demeter Press
  • The Founder’s Bed – 2025
  • Tara Blackwell – MoM Residency 2019
  • Museum of Motherhood – NYC 2012
  • Martha Joy Rose – Grad School Mother Studies CUNY circa 2014
  • Debra Knox – TV Collage, CA circa 2008
  • Museum of Motherhood, NYC 2012
  • Spilt Milk – USF WGS Exhibit 2020
  • Emily at MoM, NYC 2013
  • Arlene’s Grocery, NYC 2008

Personal values — about lifestyle, morality, and behavior — can become battlegrounds for the debate about parenting styles and what constitutes a “good home”. This can be tricky territory. These debates can reflect broader cultural divides: who is responsible for domestic labor, how children should be raised, and what order or rituals define a “proper” family.

In a sense, the cluttered living room isn’t just a mess — it’s a battleground of values. Who gets to decide what “clean” means? Whose routines are prioritized? And how do power and labor dynamics play out in the seemingly mundane fights over tidying up?

Who cleans, who organizes, and who nags about mess often isn’t neutral territory. There’s emotional labor involved in maintaining a home, and that labor frequently falls disproportionately on women. For some, the answer is to simplify. For others the answer may lie in leaving the mess for another day.

What’s most important is feeling loved, safe and protected. Does your environment do that for you and how much control do ‘we’ actually have? What are the implications when we free ourselves from the mess or conversely embrace the mess?

At its heart, the reality of mess is a story about family, vulnerability, and power. Clutter isn’t just junk — it’s emotional freight, a signal of how we live, what we value, and how we struggle to balance the competing demands of parenting, culture, and self. In exploring mess through a psychological and cultural lens, the Museum of Motherhood can invite deeper conversations: not about being “better” mothers, but about being more honest, more human, and more connected to the complexities of our lived lives.

About the Exhibit

Mess House: A New Photo Exhibition by Martha Joy Rose MA Mother Studies. This exhibit wishes to gratefully acknowledge The Factory LLC organization for the use of wall space in Building 7 to explore archived photos from her personal collection. Exploring the compelling idea of a ‘Mess House’ is a somewhat universal theme. As humans we seek to create order (oftentimes ineffectually), confront our wildness and occasionally find acceptance and peace within the chaos of daily life and family.

Batya Weinbaum received her doctorate in English at University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She founded and edits the journal Femspec available at femspec.org.  She was an artist in residence at the Art Annex of the Museum of Motherhood in St. Pete FL where she installed a mural of a fertility goddess, and she volunteers for the Museum in the winter. She is the mother of one and stays in Gulfport, FL several months in the winter where she shows her art.

From the Chapter Mess House, by Batya Weinbaum- Demeter Press 2025

When are we feral, self-expressive, and untamed to the degree that we throw out the baby with the bathwater so to speak in our revolt against traditional concepts of femininity and motherhood represented in conventional markers and paradigms of domestication—the swept, mopped floor, the uncluttered shining feng shui of spaces, the organized linen cabinets, the bare countertops in the spotless kitchens?

Those born into female bodies get the most pressure from society to meet unrealistic expectations of physical beauty. These unrealistic expectations of their bodies are parallel to the unrealistic expectations women are encouraged to have about their domestic space.[1]

Flo Kennedy noted, in her essay on “Institutionalized Oppression of the Female,” that “Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth…” being “eradicating rings on collars and tables” (442). In doing so, and maintaining organization, they are keeping wildness at bay. (1. According to Women and Naturism: The Naturist Living Show (Mar 17 2010)

Resources:

Aviv, E., Waizman, Y., Kim, E., Liu, J., Rodsky, E., & Saxbe, D. (2024). Cognitive household labor: gender disparities and consequences for maternal mental health and wellbeing. Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 28(1), 5–14.

  • This study empirically measures the “cognitive labor” (planning, delegating, anticipating) that mothers do, and finds that mothers bear significantly more cognitive labor than their partners (~72% of it) even after controlling for physical tasks.
  • Importantly, the authors show that this disproportionate cognitive labor is strongly associated with higher stress, burnout, depression, and worse overall mental health in women.
  • Relevance: This offers direct evidence for your claim: the stress comes not just from “doing the cleaning,” but from being responsible for organizing and thinking about the household — and society (or their partners) expects women to carry that burden.

Ciciolla, L., & Luthar, S. S. (2019). Invisible Household Labor and Ramifications for Adjustment: Mothers as Captains of Households. Sex Roles, 81(7–8), 467–486.

  • This paper examines how the “invisible labor” (mental, emotional) related to managing the household is disproportionately carried by mothers.
  • They find that mothers who feel solely responsible for organizing schedules, maintaining order, and keeping family routines report role overload, lower life satisfaction, and strain in their relationships.
  • Relevance: Demonstrates that the expectation that women “manage the mess” — not just physical cleanliness but mental oversight — has measurable negative effects on their wellbeing.

Systematic Review: Gendered Mental Labor

  • Review article: Gendered Mental Labor: A Systematic Literature Review on the Cognitive Dimension of Unpaid Work Within the Household and Childcare.
  • This review analyzed 31 peer-reviewed studies and found a consistent pattern: women perform a significantly larger share of mental labor (planning, scheduling, organizing) and this labor is associated with stress, lower life satisfaction, and negative career impacts.
  • Relevance: Supports the broader claim that this kind of labor is well-recognized in academic literature as gendered, burdensome, and harmful — not just “messy house, messy brain.”

Applied Research in Quality of Life:

  • Study: Is Paid Inflexible Work Better than Unpaid Housework for Women’s Mental Health? (2022)
  • The authors argue and provide evidence that unpaid housework (which includes domestic tasks and more than just physical chores) is negatively linked to women’s mental health, partly because these efforts are culturally undervalued and invisible.
  • Relevance: This supports the idea that society often fails to recognize or reward invisible domestic labor — reinforcing that the stress women feel is not just from physical mess but from societal expectations.

Offer, S. (via summary in Smithsonian article).

Relevance: Demonstrates that the stress is not about amount of time thinking about family, but about how that thinking is gendered and emotionally taxing for women.

According to research by Shira Offer (Bar-Ilan University) reported in the Smithsonian, women and men spend equal time thinking about family matters, but women report significantly more negative emotional effects (stress, depression) from that cognitive labor.

How Do You Identify? Passion, Protest, Reproductive Identity, Mess & More? Submit Your Ideas, project, paper, art, proposal, research now thru 12/1/25. Don’t Be Afraid – Put Your Ideas Into the World w/MoM at USF.

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