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Grieving in a Pandemic: Opening Remarks In-Person
About the Speakers
Dr. Sara Press
Dr. Sara Press is a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellow in Harvard’s Department of the History of Science. She completed her PhD in English Literature and Science and Technology Studies at the University of British Columbia, where she remains a UBC Public Scholar. Her work sits at the intersection of Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, History of Medicine, Science and Technology Studies, Postcolonial Theory, and Literary Theory. Her articles have been published in Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, and Humanities. She has been a contributing writer at Columbia University’s online health humanities journal, Synapsis, since 2019.
Yoojin Kim & Jihae Lim
Yoojin Kim & Jihae Lim are visiting artists from South Korea. Yoojin Kim contributed a series of watercolor paintings entitled "Mask Portraits" (including the image to the left). Kim wrote about her series "This made me realize how easily the brain fills in gaps and makes assumptions about others—and I felt that this was something many people might experience.” Jihae Lim, who contributed a selection of collages entitled "Newsletter: COVID-19 (2020-2023)," reflected “I witnessed the raw reality of the world through the worst headlines in daily newspapers.”
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.