Art of Grieving at Countway
Countway Library is proud to host “The Art of Grieving,” an exhibition of art and creative work featuring Marked By Covid and the National Covid Memorial, in partnership with the Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 research collective. The library will feature a collection of works created during – or inspired by – a period marked by collective grief, including a sculpture made of surgical masks and a needlework series depicting the slogans written on highway signs in the early days of shelter-in-place orders.
“The Art of Grieving” at Countway Library is the culminating exhibition in a nationwide series that has included Buffalo, New York; US Air Force Academy, Colorado; St. Louis, MO; Detroit and Lansing, MI (“Creativity in the Time of Covid 19: Art as Medicine“) and presented from Phoenix and Chicago to Seoul, South Korea. We are proud to host the final, fantastic moment of this nationwide tour.
To launch this final show, the public is invited to join us for special events on November 1-2, 2024, including a catered opening reception, themed talks by a roster of international specialists, and free interactive workshops. Speakers will touch on topics such as grief in the digital era and the loneliness epidemic, and workshops will invite attendees to engage in creative writing and drawing as a means of documenting experiences of illness, grief, and witnessing. We hope you will join us to learn, explore, and celebrate!
The Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 collective is supported by the Mellon Foundation and centered at the Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition lab (DHLC) at Michigan State University. The works used in the exhibition are drawn from a collection from over 2,000 examples of pandemic stories and art, with a digital archive in beta emerging for researchers and communities in January 2025.
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