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Opening Reception for the "Creativity in the Time of Covid: The Art of Grieving" Exhibition

Opening Reception for the "Creativity in the Time of Covid: The Art of Grieving" Exhibition In-Person

Join us to celebrate the launch of the final exhibition of a three-year international series! Attend for part of the evening or the full event. 

Light refreshments will be served. 

Countway Library is proud to host “The Art of Grieving,” an exhibition of art and creative work featuring Marked By Covid, 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 lockdown. 

"The Art of Grieving" 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

Learn more about the Countway exhibition at countway.info/creativity
 

Reception Program: 

You are welcome to attend part of the event or stay for the full evening! 
 

4:30pm

 

 

 

Catered Opening Reception

Enjoy light snacks, meet the project organizers, explore the exhibition on the first floor, and interact with the augmented reality National Covid Memorial installation on L1.

5:30pm
 

     
 

 


Art as Medicine and Archives of Pandemic Response

Creativity in the Time of Covid-19: Retrospective Reflections and Future Directions
Speakers: Dr. Natalie Phillips and Dr. Soohyun Cho, Co-curators of the Creativity in the Time of Covid-19: Art as Medicine exhibitions, Michigan State University Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab

6:15pm

 


 

 

     

 


Marked by Covid: Grieving through Creating a National Covid Memorial

The National Covid Memorial is an evolving tribute to those we have lost to Covid-19. Conceived and created by individuals who have personally lost loved ones to the pandemic, this memorial centers the dead, ensuring that their lives and stories remain at the forefront of our collective memory. By refusing to obfuscate the harsh realities of the pandemic, we confront the truth of what it means to lose over one million lives—and counting.
Speakers: Kristin Urquiza, MPA, Co-founder, Executive Director, and Board President of Marked by Covid | Mary Bausch-Jurken, Global Medical Affairs Lead for Covid-19, Moderna

7:15pm 

 

   
 

 

 


Arts-Based Interventions

Jeremy Nobel is the founder and president of The Foundation for Art & Healing, whose signature initiative, Project UnLonely, addresses the personal and public health challenges of loneliness and social isolation, has gained national visibility. 
Speaker: Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH, Primary-care physician, public health practitioner, and award-winning poet with faculty appointments at Harvard T.H. Chan and HMS

 

Please register below, even if you only plan to attend part of the event, so we have a headcount for catering purposes. 

Date:
Friday, November 1, 2024
Time:
4:30pm - 8:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Countway Floor 1: Room 102
Campus Location:
Harvard Longwood Campus
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Event Organizer

Yasmina Kamal

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