Grief Is a Verb

Art may help facilitate your bereavement

Use your hands and mind to create something that expresses your loss, in a small way, and honors the loved one you lost. Make a pin, magnet or bracelet that recalls the core of your affection and love for someone who is gone. Use words, colors, felt, buttons or beads to memorialize your special person. Use fabric pieces stitched onto a T-shirt or upcycled shirt to celebrate the qualities and strengths of your loved one(s).

Join me for hands-on artmaking to focus on the part of your bereavement that is expressed VISUALLY. Touch and manipulate beads and wire to create a bracelet--cut and hand stitch scraps of fabric on a shirt that you can wear--glue bits or alphabet beads on a felt base to make a magnet reminding your person's nature or character.

Utilize words, dates, shapes, colors and textures to create a tangible reminder that both channels and expresses deepest feelings. Show your grief on a different level by creating a picture to honor and remember. Each participant in a workshop will take home at least one complete memento.