A Group Exhibition Exploring Motherhood, Identity, and Creative Practice
September 12 – 26, 2026 | Parker Street Gallery, Vancouver BC
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12, 1-4pm with live harp performance
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday 11am – 3pm + Saturday by appointment
#102 – 1000 Parker St, Vancouver BC
Maker + Mother is an annual group exhibition curated by Felicia Fraser and Emiko Mizukami, bringing together a selection of artists working across a range of styles and mediums.Motherhood is a powerful force that can shape identity, relationships, and daily life, but its meaning is different for everyone. Through deeply personal perspectives, the artists explore the many ways motherhood intersects with womanhood and creative practice, including the experience of raising children, the desire or decision to become a mother, the choice not to have children, caregiving, family, memory, and the expectations placed on women.Maker + Mother does not present motherhood as a singular experience, but as an expansive and sometimes complicated part of the larger conversation about who we are and how we create.
2026 Artists
Jocelyn Andress
Tamar Haytayan
Angie Heintz
Jean Huang
Laura Jane Klassen
Fiona Moes Pel
Monique Motut-Firth
Amberlie Perkin
Daryn Wright
Ali Wyld
Shalom Wiebe
Maker + Mother Curators
Felicia Fraser
Felicia Fraser is a Vancouver-based painter and mother of two whose work explores memory, nostalgia, and the meaningful objects of everyday life. Working in oil, she creates intimate scenes drawn from childhood and domestic experience, with a focus on colour, reflection, and small moments that carry emotional weight. She studied graphic design and illustration at Capilano University, bringing a strong sense of composition and visual storytelling to her practice. Her work has been exhibited in galleries across Vancouver, and she has participated in numerous curated group exhibitions.Her daily life as a mother shapes both the rhythm of her studio work and the subjects she chooses to paint. Felicia lives in Vancouver with her family and continues to explore how lived experience, routine, and care inform creative practice.
Emiko Mizukami
Emiko Mizukami is a North Vancouver-based painter and mother of two working in oil and acrylic. She creates intimate interior and tabletop scenes filled with books, flowers, vintage treasures, and objects that carry personal meaning. Born in Fukui, Japan, her early connection to Japanese crafts and family traditions taught her to see the quiet beauty and ritual in daily life. Her experience as a mother shapes both her routines and her work, inspiring the focus on domestic spaces, everyday objects, and the rhythms of home. She seeks to capture the small, tender moments that often go unnoticed but hold deep emotional resonance.Her paintings invite viewers into memory, imagination, and the gentle magic of the heart, capturing objects and moments that mark the chapters of our lives. Emiko’s work has been shown in Vancouver and Mexico, and she was a featured muralist for Vancouver Mural Festival 2022.
Maker + Mother: 2025
Maker + Mother 2025 was held at Parker Street Gallery in Vancouver from August 16 to 30, 2025 and featured works by Laura Clark, Lisa Farrell, Felicia Fraser, Alex Maertz, Emiko Mizukami, Marisa Myrah, Shannon Pawliw, Laura Rosengren, Shari‑Anne Vis, and Dominique Walker, each exploring the role of motherhood in their creative journeys.
Maker + Mother celebrates artists inspired by motherhood. All styles and mediums welcome. If motherhood informs your work, share it with us and join this dynamic, inspiring group exhibition.
September 12 – 26, 2026 | Parker Street Gallery, #102 – 1000 Parker St, Vancouver BC
stay tuned for 2027 applications
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