Her Strength, Our Strength

An Online Art and Discussion Series on Motherhood
September – December 2025

What This Series Is About

Her Strength, Our Strength is a participatory series that uses art as a starting point for reflection on motherhood. People nominate artwork that speaks to their experience of motherhood, whether as mothers themselves or as those touched by its care. Then they join small-group discussions and online sharing to explore how a mother’s strength becomes our shared strength.

Motherhood carries both strength and strain. Health, identity, recovery, and loss are all part of its story. Yet woven through every experience is the way mothers create bonds that extend outward into families and communities.

Painting of mother and infant

Ways To Participate

Nominate Art at WithCommunity

Open Call For Community Art Submissions

Anyone can submit a piece of art, and artists are encouraged to submit their own work. It can be visual, musical, written, or performed — as long as it’s viewable online and sparks discussion on motherhood.

  1. Create a WithCommunity account
  2. Fill out the art nomination form on the WithCommunity Dashboard.
  3. Share the nominated artwork entry page on social media and use the prompts we email you to engage in online discussion.
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WithCommunity will promote the nominations and invite discussion about each work.
Join a Salon Conversation
Once nominations begin, we’ll host small-group Zoom salons where participants can explore:
  • What the nominated art evokes
  • What belonging feels like—and how we find it
  • How connection can be nurtured in a disconnected world

These are not debates or performances. They’re spaces of human dialogue, grounded in curiosity and care.

Register here and we'll invite you to join a Salon meeting.

Reflection and Recognition
Rather than traditional voting, we’ll invite participants to engage, reflect, and lift up the pieces that resonate most—through conversation, sharing, and social signals. We’ll review insights from the salon conversations, social sharing, and written reflections to select featured pieces.

This kind of response allows us to track not just popularity, but meaningful engagement. Selections will be based on:

  • Emotional resonance
  • Depth of conversation sparked
  • Thoughtful engagement across platforms

Cash and in-kind prizes will be awarded.

Why this matters

Her Strength, Our Strength invites us to experience motherhood together.

Through art and conversation, we listen, reflect, and build new ties of connection. Her strength becomes our strength.

Whether you're a mother, a caregiver, a friend, or simply someone who cares: Nominate artwork. Join a salon. Share what has carried you.

This is how community heals us.

Participate
Painting of mother and children