Grief Artlab

In this time of continual loss, Grief Artlab seeks to provide a forum for participants to gather, mourn, share stories, make art, write, build alliances, and the possibility to transform grief into societal actions and tools for resiliency. With the rise of pandemics-zoonotic diseases, gun violence, hate groups, widening economic disparity, war, tyranny, corporate greed, attacks on human rights, journalism, education and the notion of science and facts, coinciding with the climate crisis, mass extinction, bio-cultural diversity loss, resource depletion and modern-day human slavery and the word “unprecedented” continues with unprecedented usage – exhaustion and anxiety are real. We need deeper reflection, generosity, creative thinking, and community.

Grief Artlab expands on the artists’ earlier project, Daffodil Ashes: Grief and Artmaking Community Project, first held at the Rubin Museum in 2012 and her talks on Grief, Art, and Ecological Loss. Participants from varying backgrounds and experiences are encouraged.