The Artists’ Grief Deck
What is it?
Covid-19 presents a unique challenge to human culture. Loss is experienced on numerous levels, and it is ongoing. The Artists’ Grief Deck is a set of 60 medium format ‘flashcards’ that are individually designed by artists, sometimes in collaboration with grief workers. One side displys an orginal artwork, on the reverse is a ‘grieving prompt’. These are memorial and processual actions that give the individual something to do – a gesture, a tiny performance, a movement, an act of mindfulness – in memoriam for someone or something whose loss they are grieving.
Covid-19 presents a unique challenge to human culture. Loss is experienced on numerous levels, and it is ongoing. The Artists’ Grief Deck is a set of 60 medium format ‘flashcards’ that are individually designed by artists, sometimes in collaboration with grief workers. One side displys an orginal artwork, on the reverse is a ‘grieving prompt’. These are memorial and processual actions that give the individual something to do – a gesture, a tiny performance, a movement, an act of mindfulness – in memoriam for someone or something whose loss they are grieving.
Who is it for?
Everyone.
Everyone.
What can it do?
As a toolkit, the decks have been disbursed for free to grief workers and community organizations, and can be purchased here.
The project website - in addition to serving as an archive of the printed deck - also serves an expanding repository for grief-inspired artwork and healing. You can use it for free.
As a toolkit, the decks have been disbursed for free to grief workers and community organizations, and can be purchased here.
The project website - in addition to serving as an archive of the printed deck - also serves an expanding repository for grief-inspired artwork and healing. You can use it for free.
The Artists’ Grief Deck (2021). Guide. Retrieved from https://griefdeck.com/guide/ (accessed 27 August 2021).
The Artists’ Grief Deck (2021). Home. Retrieved from
https://griefdeck.com
(accessed 27 August 2021).