We are living in a time of collective, complicated, and unresolved grief.
Interwoven was a community sanctuary for our global sorrow. 

In the center, a casket made of willow, handwoven on site with weaver Moonbeam Marie Gardebring, dedicated to our collective loss, uncertainty, and interconnected humanity. On the surrounding walls, collages interweaving life and death created by artist and spiritual chaplain Ellie Douglass.

Hundreds of community members spent time in reflection and join in events throughout the exhibition sharing expressions of grief, from mourning to celebration, through poetry, music, movement, and ritual.

Thank you to all who joined in and shared your reflections and offerings throughout the month.

Join in the Interwoven Vigil livestream
online Sept. 25-28:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82096306912

EXHIBITION

september 1st – 30th

 

Interwoven was on view Sept 1-30, 2020

Enjoy this virtual online gallery of the exhibition.

Artists
Moonbeam Marie Gardebring – weaving
Ellie Douglass
 – collage

Collaborators
Ross Taylor,
Howard Peller, Brian Svoboda,
Kevin Kinnamon, Blaine Alward,
David Levitt, Sam Randall

Mouse over images for artist bios.

Community members were invited to visit as long and as often as they would like to Sit. Reflect. Journal. Light a candle. Join in an artist-led origami ritual. Create or bring an offering for the casket or candle altar. Offerings may be made online below as well.

All emotions are welcome — from despair to compassion, anger to hope — whether for illness and death, racial or gender violence, coronavirus, environmental crisis, political oppression, or other personal loss or difficulty.

We are interwoven with dignity, beauty, and sacredness. 

Through community, may greater compassion, awareness, and healing arise. 

Handcut collages in the exhibition are by Ellie Douglass. See below for the full virtual gallery. To learn more about her work and to purchase prints and select originals, visit artoftransitions.com
go to artoftransitions.com
Moonbeam Marie Gardebring devotes her days to breathing and weaving beauty. Her experience with a rare, life-threatening autoimmune condition feeds her life with embodied living, artistry, and purposeful dying. She believes in casket weaving as a restorative way to embrace love, grief, truth, and the threshold of death in community. Rooted in Moonbeam’s personal journey with dying, Interwoven offers a new shared grief ritual and safe space for communal grieving and healing during the Covid-19 pandemic, and a brave space to confront the systemic injustices that fracture our communities. To connect with Moonbeam, visit weave&wimble.
go to weaveandwimble.com
Ellie Douglass is a contemplative artist, poet, and interfaith hospice chaplain. Inspired by her work in hospice, she is dedicated to using art and poetry to work with fear, grief, and uncertainty around death and dying. Through hand-cut collages and short verse poems, she aims to reveal the interconnection between life and death. By invoking the intuitive, cyclical mind, Ellie believes art has the potential to lessen suffering by revealing the beauty and sacredness of transition.

To learn more about Ellie's work and to purchase prints and select orginals of her collages, visit her website: Art of Transitions.
go to artoftransitions.com

Open Hours
Tuesday        12-4pm
Wednesday   4-8pm
Thursday        4-8pm
Friday             12-4pm
Saturday       10-3pm
Sunday           12-4pm
> or click to schedule a private visit.

Visitation is free. Masks are required. Social distancing and capacity limits are being observed for public health precautions.


We invite you to visit as long and as often as you would like. Sit. Reflect. Journal. Light a candle. Join in an artist-led origami ritual. Create or bring an offering for the casket or candle altar. Offerings may be made online below as well.

All emotions are welcome — from despair to compassion, anger to hope — whether for illness and death, racial or gender violence, coronavirus, environmental crisis, political oppression, or other personal loss or difficulty.

We are interwoven with dignity, beauty, and sacredness. 

Through community,
may greater compassion, awareness, and healing arise.


Artists
Moonbeam Marie Gardebring – weaving
Ellie Douglass
 – collage

Collaborators
Ross Taylor,
Howard Peller, Brian Svoboda, Kevin Kinnamon, Blaine Alward, David Levitt, Sam Randall

Click on images for artist bios

Handcut collages in the exhibition are by Ellie Douglass. See below for the full virtual gallery. To learn more about her work and to purchase prints and select originals, visit artoftransitions.com
go to artoftransitions.com
Moonbeam Marie Gardebring devotes her days to breathing and weaving beauty. Her experience with a rare, life-threatening autoimmune condition feeds her life with embodied living, artistry, and purposeful dying. She believes in casket weaving as a restorative way to embrace love, grief, truth, and the threshold of death in community. Rooted in Moonbeam’s personal journey with dying, Interwoven offers a new shared grief ritual and safe space for communal grieving and healing during the Covid-19 pandemic, and a brave space to confront the systemic injustices that fracture our communities. To connect with Moonbeam, visit weave&wimble.
go to weaveandwimble.com
Ellie Douglass is a contemplative artist, poet, and interfaith hospice chaplain. Inspired by her work in hospice, she is dedicated to using art and poetry to work with fear, grief, and uncertainty around death and dying. Through hand-cut collages and short verse poems, she aims to reveal the interconnection between life and death. By invoking the intuitive, cyclical mind, Ellie believes art has the potential to lessen suffering by revealing the beauty and sacredness of transition.

To learn more about Ellie's work and to purchase prints and select orginals of her collages, visit her website: Art of Transitions.
go to artoftransitions.com

Moonbeam Gardebring on weaving casketry

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Ellie Douglass on interweaving life and death

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VIRTUAL GALLERY
and
OFFERINGS

in honor of those who have died
and our collective grief
we offer these names and reflections
shared by the community with the deepest respect

Enter your offering here if you wish. It will be uploaded to this page later and added into the casket.

EXHIBITION LIBRARY

When death is viewed
from the intuitive, cyclical mind
the mind sees life and death
as interwoven

– Ellie Douglass