About the Event

This guided drawing workshop will invite attendees to compose a short graphic memoir depicting a personal or witnessed experience of illness or grief.

This event is part of the event series higlighting the launch of "Creativity in the Time of Covid: The Art of Grieving," the final exhibition of a three-year national tour! 

Light refreshments will be served. 

About the Speaker

Jess Ruliffson is an Eisner-nominated cartoonist whose debut graphic novel, Invisible Wounds, was published by Fantagraphics Books in 2022. She teaches courses on creative writing and the graphic novel at Boston University and comics studio practices at The Sequential Artists Workshop.

About the Exhibition

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.