Give and Take:: Motherhood and Creative Practice

Hilary Wolfley, assistant teaching professor in the ballet area at Brigham Young University, is a dancer, a choreographer, an educator, and a mother. She has danced and choreographed for professional and collegiate companies. Hilary attended the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet Teacher Training and the Stott Pilates Mat Training and is certified in Progressing Ballet Technique and American Ballet Theatre National Training Curriculum Levels Pre-Primary to Level 5. Her work can be found on Instagram @hilarywolfley. Katie Palfreyman is a writing teacher, and writer. She taught middle school language arts full-time for eleven years and now teaches freshman writing part-time at Brigham Young University, Utah. She teaches more than she writes, and she is working on changing that. Tara Carpenter Estrada is an associate professor of art education at Brigham Young University, Utah. Her artistic and written research focuses on how artists, teachers, and mothers navigate the intersections between overlapping but separate roles and responsibilities. She coedited An Artist and a Mother with Kaylan Buteyn and Heid Moller Somsen. Carpenter Estrada's recent art and research may be found on her Instagram @/taracarpenterestrada. She can be contacted via email at taracarpenter@byu.edu.