“To turn from everything to one face is to find oneself face to face with everything,” wrote the novelist Elizabeth Bowen. How does the often limiting work of caregiving open our eyes to the drama of the human condition and the dignity of the human person? Catherine Ricketts, author of The Mother Artist, discusses the ways motherhood changes the artistic vision of contemporary women artists and writers. She invites us to consider how caregiving—be it parenthood, professional care work, elder care, or the dozens of small gestures of care we share each day—might change the way we see and thus the culture we make. 

Catherine Ricketts is Director of Operations for Villanova’s Honors Program and author of The Mother Artist.

This event is open to all members of the Yale community. Lunch will be served.