This publication examines a generation of artists who utilized motherhood as a means to directly shape histories of art and activism in Mexico City. These artists worked to interrogate the performative construction of the role of mother and open it to collective transformations through engagement with innovative forms of artistic practice. McCutcheon argues their works form a set of artistic practices that fundamentally transvalued motherhood in Mexican visual culture and society from non-prescriptive feminist and artistic perspectives. Their archive and its analysis in this publication perform a necessary rupture within existing discourses of art and activism in Mexico that asserts the centrality of motherhood and opens space for the role of artist/mother to be possible. This research opens new pathways of thinking about motherhood across the humanities, asserting mothers as pivotal agents in history, engaged with some of the most pressing issues of our time. The Center’s Faculty Research Grant will support the transcription of two performance projects and several interviews conducted with artists in Mexico during McCutcheon’s PhD research so that they can be further analyzed and incorporated into this publication.