The Integrated Care Toolkit is designed as a printable open resource, a place to explore, adapt, and apply principles of Integrated Care within cultural and creative infrastructures. 

What, How and Why

Artists who are mothers and primary caregivers have long been facing systemic bias and barriers in the art world. They account for barely a third of artists represented in major galleries, an inequity compounded by the lack of infrastructures that drive many out during the crucial years of pregnancy and parental labour.

This is not a database. Whether you are creating online workshops, social platforms, exhibitions, residencies or community projects, this Toolkit offers resources, examples, and practical guidance to re-shape and create spaces, politics and practices that centre and support people with caring responsibilities. It aims to engage individuals and organisations to adopt inclusive, non-tokenistic practices within the arts and culture following the principles of Integrated Care contained herein.

Integrated Care is a systematic approach to embedding care in artistic and cultural spaces and initiatives. It goes beyond implementing ‘mainstream childcare’ provisions within these settings, it is about reimagining spaces, politics and practices to be more inclusive, adaptable, and supportive of the needs of those caring for others, as well as a plurality of other needs and experiences.

This Toolkit is not just a service offer or a neutral set of guidelines. This Toolkit is not just a service offer or a neutral set of guidelines without examples of applications. This Toolkit responds to the limits of “uninterrupted time” as a dominant reference for artistic practice. It offers alternative models that can be shared, supported, and referenced collectively.

It is a political platform that exists because something fundamental is missing from cultural infrastructures. Care is not a one-size-fits-all solution, nor something that can be standardised or applied universally. It is relational, situated, and shaped by time, space, resources, and collective conditions. This toolkit offers actionable, tested, and scalable examples that can support artists, organisations, and institutions to implement meaningful and inclusive change across different contexts; yet remaining adaptable and open to translation, questioning, and reworked in response to different spaces and resources available.

We have envisaged this Toolkit and website both as an archival project, preserving the legacy of twelve first-hand grassroots work through Procreate Project that underpins its principles and resources; and as a platform for continued activations, sustaining decentralised, interconnected networks and intergenerational threads. We hope it will inspire fellow artists with caregiving responsibilities, as well as organisations and institutions, to implement care-based practices in their realities.

When & Who(s)

The Integrated Care Toolkit was created and launched in 2025 by Dyana Gravina founder of Procreate Project (PCP) – a pioneering grassroots arts organisation born in 2013 as an intersectional feminist proposition aimed at creating systemic change and equity for artists who are *mothers and primary care-givers. 

It is grounded in 12 years of hands-on experience and experimentation through organising, facilitating, exhibiting, and commissioning, as well as Dyana’s own personal journey as an artist, parent, and migrant in the UK. Far from an individual process, the resources contained in this Toolkit are also shaped by the collective efforts and presence of all the artists and organisations that form part of Procreate Project’s history. Over the last two years, the Toolkit has further been supported by conversations with researchers and practitioners including Maddalena Fragnito, Katie Deepwell, FRANK with Fatos Ustek and Celina Loh (FRANK artist fair pay), Ama Josephine Budge, Alex Martinis Roe, Elisa Fontana, Hettie Judah and Jo Harrison (Art Working Parents Alliance), Sylvie Gormezano, and former PCP director Paola Lucente.

Contents are further rooted in Procreate Project’s continued practice and legacy with the Mother House Studios (MHS), an artists’ studio model with integrated childcare, as well as the ongoing MHS satellite project in Lewisham, London, now self-organised by the resident artists’ collective.

For a closer look at Procreate’s projects please refer to the Our Projects page of this website. Additionally, a dedicated History page gives more insight into how Dyana’s experiences shaped this Toolkit, where you can read more about their work as an artist, facilitator, and organiser in the Consultations page.

Toolkit as a Constellation

This Toolkit is structured around 13 Principles which provide suggested real-life applications. These suggested applications are further expanded into the 6 Resource areas. 

We believe that the materials offered do not function in isolation. Rather, they form a relational ecosystem where Principles and Resources often interconnect and overlap. 

Therefore, key principles, practices, and language appear across multiple areas, allowing for different access points that reinforce the ethos of integrated care. This repetition is not accidental, it mirrors the complexity of lived experiences and opens up multiple entry points through which change can happen. 

Readers are invited to begin their journey by reading through the principles, and then dive into each resource. All contents presented on this website can be downloaded by clicking ‘Download’ on the left-side menu of each Principle and Resource sections. Resource PDFs will also include additional materials and an ‘Easy-to-read Summary’. For further guidance on how to navigate and make the most of this website please check the How it Works page as well as the Download page, where all contents available for download are clearly mapped.