About Us
The Call Me Mother Experience
The Call Me Mother Experience (CMM) is an interactive, immersive installation and experience that combines digital storytelling, text-based art, spoken word, film, and live performance, as a platform to examine Black folks and the profound ways they and their communities navigate the birthing journey.
We offer community dialogues and programming, collaborative art pop ups and a culminating art exhibit that celebrates out collective voices in the fight for maternal equity.
"There are hands plastered in a place only I can measure, and no one will CALL ME MOTHER for this."
Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton
Our Approach
Titled after a poem crafted during the middle of her miscarriage, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton created a cohort of national artists to create an immersive art installation to highlight the growing disparities in maternal care. Flanked by community art activations and programming, Call Me Mother invites reflection, empathy, and deep-rooted examination of what it means to be Black and Pregnant.
Our Why
With death rates three to four times higher than the national average, Black womxn suffer higher complications due to systematic racism and implicit biases across the healthcare field. In Harris County, TX, these staggering rates contribute to mothers and their newborn children’s deaths. These incidents, labeled “deaths of disparity” by the Health and Resource Service Administration, have been deemed completely preventable. This art raises the question, “Who is deserving of life and legacy in the eyes of our healthcare system?”
Our Who
By offering opportunities for diverse audiences to interact, connect, and reflect on their own life experiences, CMM seeks to humanize often ignored data and push for conversations and policy solutions for more equitable births and care in all communities. This work tells the stories of real people who have hoped, lost, loved, and believed in a future birthed out of the fire and the families and communities that are equally affected .
This project is fiscally sponsored through Fresh Arts and plans to open at the Health Museum in October 2026.
