Building on the exciting energy of the inaugural Raw Emotion exhibit in 2022, Raw Emotion 2023 brings together 48 artists who identify as mothers, and whose creative visions are informed by this aspect of their lives. Drawing from literature and music along with the visual arts, this interdisciplinary exhibit illuminates motherhood refracted through a range of lenses: the artists’ own journeys raising children, their reflections on their relationships with their own mothers, and their interpretations of what it means to engage in the work of mothering. The result is a kaleidoscopic collaboration probing the intellectual, emotional, and political complexities of contemporary motherhood.