Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.1.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Creative Push ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://creativepush.org/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Pages - [About the Project](https://creativepush.org/about-the-project/) - Creative Push is a multimedia visual art and oral history project that focuses on the most formative of human experiences: birth. Personal, intimate storytelling is the central method by which birth stories are usually communicated, and though those stories rarely take concrete form, they are often very visual. Creative Push establishes a forum through which birth narratives - [Biographies](https://creativepush.org/about-the-project/biographies/) - [Rose Weitz](https://creativepush.org/rose-weitz/) - Rose Weitz is Professor of Women and Gender Studies within ASU’s School of Social Transformation. Her research centers on issues related to women, health, sexuality, and the body. She is co-author of the book Labor Pains: Modern Midwives and Home Birth, author of the book Rapunzel’s Daughters: What Women’s Hair Tells Us About Women’s Lives, and editor - [In the Press](https://creativepush.org/about-the-project/in-the-press/) - Creative Push: L+D, An Exhibition/Installation by Forrest Solis ASU Now: Deliverance from Stigma State Press: Step Gallery's 'Creative Push' puts mothers back into the childbearing experience Downtown Devil: Artist and ASU professor tackles tough side of birth with ‘Creative Push’ exhibition Phoenix New Times: 15 Free Art Shows to See During February First Friday in - [Podcast](https://creativepush.org/podcast/) - LISTEN TODAY The Creative Push Podcast delivers a specially selected birth story to your mobile device every two weeks. Hosted by artist and new mother Rosalind Shipley, the Podcast extends the mission of Creative Push by broadcasting birth stories to an expanding audience of on-demand radio fans around the world. Listen anytime, anywhere: the Podcast is - [Artwork Guidelines](https://creativepush.org/participate/artwork-guidelines/) - The Creative Push is an oral history archive and visual repository of artwork about childbirth. It is a collaborative platform for sharing and accessing all types of birth experiences without judgment. Creative Push pairs women’s birth narratives with visual translations of those stories in the form of art. The stories and the artwork converge on - [Participate](https://creativepush.org/participate/) - [Events](https://creativepush.org/events/) ## Works - [L&D Day](https://creativepush.org/work/ld-day/) - [Heartstrings](https://creativepush.org/work/heartstrings/) - [Blood Flow](https://creativepush.org/work/blood-flow/) - [18 Hours and Counting](https://creativepush.org/work/18-hours-and-counting/) - [Metamorphosis](https://creativepush.org/work/metamorphosis/) - [The Geometry of Belief](https://creativepush.org/work/the-geometry-of-belief/) - [Miracle](https://creativepush.org/work/miracle/) - [By the Light of the Silvery Moon](https://creativepush.org/work/by-the-light-of-the-silvery-moon/) - [Musings on an Attempt at Natural Childbirth in an Artificial State of Affairs (Installation of Adit's Ode: A Modest Revolt)](https://creativepush.org/work/musings-on-an-attempt-at-natural-childbirth-in-an-artificial-state-of-affairs-installation-of-adits-ode-a-modest-revolt/) - [Origin of the World](https://creativepush.org/work/origin-of-the-world/) - [Family Tree, Lowe Oak](https://creativepush.org/work/family-tree-lowe-oak/) - [Śakti, samānārthī (The Strength)](https://creativepush.org/work/sakti-samanarthi-the-strength/) - [Mesopotamia](https://creativepush.org/work/mesopotamia/) - [Nipple Confusion](https://creativepush.org/work/nipple-confusion/) - [Writing Red](https://creativepush.org/work/writing-red/) - [Mutation](https://creativepush.org/work/mutation/) - [Reluctant Expulsion](https://creativepush.org/work/reluctant-expulsion/) - [Birth](https://creativepush.org/work/birth/) - [Thin Partitions](https://creativepush.org/work/thin-partitions/) - [Untitled](https://creativepush.org/work/untitled/) - [Big Bed, Small Room](https://creativepush.org/work/big-bed-small-room/) - [I will not allow any fear](https://creativepush.org/work/i-will-not-allow-any-fear/) - [Golden Age of Physics](https://creativepush.org/work/golden-age-of-physics/) ## Events - [OUR CREATION STORIES: The Changing History, Culture and Traditions of Birth](https://creativepush.org/event/our-creation-stories-the-changing-history-culture-and-traditions-of-birth/) - https://vimeo.com/210834065 In commemoration of Mother’s Day, the Heard Museum is pleased to partner with Creative Push. Forrest Solis will share a short film featuring five Native women from across the Southwest sharing their stories of the changing history, culture, and traditions of birth. A moderated panel discussion will follow with Nicolle Gonzales, founder of - [L+D, a solo exhibition/installation by Forrest Solis](https://creativepush.org/event/ld-a-solo-exhibitioninstallation-by-forrest-solis/) - Opening Reception: Friday, April 1, 2016, 6–9p.m. Open Tuesday and Friday evenings until April 29th. Location: ASU Community Services Bldg. 200 East Curry Rd. 2nd Floor, Suite 200C - [Creative Push Group Exhibition](https://creativepush.org/event/creative-push-exhibition/) - Location Step Gallery Arizona State University 605 E Grant St. Phoenix AZ, 85004 Hours Thursday – Friday noon-7pm Closing Reception Friday, February 12th 6-9pm Catered by Green Vegetarian http://greenvegetarian.com, dance performance at 7:30 “Thinking herself back...” Dance Performance by Angeline Young, First Friday, February 5th 7:30pm “I was at home, it was raining in the desert. - [Creative Push: Changing the way women see and talk about birth.](https://creativepush.org/event/creative-push-changing-the-way-women-see-and-talk-about-birth/) - Location Arizona State University Tempe Campus Social Sciences Building, Rm. 109 Description ASU Humanities at Work Brown Bag Lunch with Forrest, Creative Push Founder - [THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES film screening](https://creativepush.org/event/the-motherhood-archives-film-screening/) - Date First Friday February 5th 4–6pm Irene Lusztig will be present to introduce her film and answer questions afterward. http://motherhoodarchives.net ## Themes - [Trauma](https://creativepush.org/theme/trauma/) - The experience of emotionally or physically traumatic events that dramatically impacted the storyteller. - [Connection](https://creativepush.org/theme/connection/) - A feeling of being connected to a specific person (or persons), a community of people or the universe and its celestial bodies. - [Sensory](https://creativepush.org/theme/sensory/) - The experience of being alert and tuned in to the sensual and corporeal experience of maternity. - [Faith](https://creativepush.org/theme/faith/) - Having faith or questioning faith in one’s self or an outside entity.