The Behnke Family Gallery at Cornish College of the Arts is proud to present our second exhibition of our 2026-2027 season featuring Mothership Photography Collective.
Opening Reception: Nov 13 from 4:30-7pm
Catalogue Release Reception and Panel Discussion: Dec 11 from 4:30-7pm
Exhibition Run: Nov 13 – Dec 18, 2026
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday from 12 – 5 pm
The Mothership is an exhibition by the eponymous collective, whose invitational membership is composed of 15 working mother artists, educators, and curators. The Mothership Photography Collective harnesses the cumulative power of mothers working in Seattle’s fine art photography space. Celebrating the visionary impact of motherhood on artmaking, the community also provides support for the specific challenges facing a mother artist. Since their inaugural formation of the group in October 2025, this show marks their first gallery exhibition as a collective.
The Mothership features diverse practices and photographic applications in a wide range of works by 13 member artists of the group. Piercing and threading through over 50 works in the exhibition is a sense of unyielding strength and devotion, a creative persistence, in the face of personal, familial, and societal demands.
