We are volcanoes.
When we women offer our experience as our truth,
as human truth, all the maps change.
- Ursula Le Guin

The Gypsy Mamas, founded in 2001, is a performance and installation group nurturing interdisciplinary collaboration between women artists in the development of new and original work. Our focus is on exploratory creative process, presentation, and performance. The Gypsy Mamas is dedicated to seeking and giving voice to female creativity and discovering a female aesthetic. Our curiosity is whetted by work that does not necessarily follow a linear path but is nourished within a female sense of time—cyclical and connected to the rhythms of nature.
A sense of time that breathes…

Mama…mother…that which is the origin, source, or nurturer of something.

The Gypsy Mamas are

Laura Lanfranchi & Elaine Vaan Hogue (Artistic Directors)

Christina Bechstein
Sarah Brown
Lee Sunday Evans
Danielle Kellermann
Lacey Langston
Taco Matthews
Susan Main
Pamela Mills
Nina Pleasants
Beverly Ramstrom-Manning