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.

Timeline/Events

For EarthWeek: Grief, Art & Nature with Mary Ting

April 20 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Greenwood Cemetery 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

To inaugurate Earth Week @ Greenwood Cemetery, Mary Ting will give a presentation on her work and its trajectory from personal grief to environmental research, lectures and projects, with a focus on the Grief Artlab. A walk and discussion follows the talk.

Free, registration is required: https://www.green-wood.com/event/earth-day-artlab-grief-culture-and-the-environment/

SPCUNY Artist

Mary Ting

Mary Ting

Faculty Fellow 2022-2023