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 and events.
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.
To learn more about Ellie's work and to purchase prints and select orginals of her collages, visit her website: Art of Transitions.
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
To learn more about Ellie's work and to purchase prints and select orginals of her collages, visit her website: Art of Transitions.
Moonbeam Gardebring on weaving casketry
Ellie Douglass on interweaving life and death
EVENTS
Interwoven Community Vigil
Friday September 25 | 5pm
to
Monday September 28 | 5pm
view the vigil and programs on the livestream: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82096306912
A continuous 3-day vigil is being help Sept. 25-28 as a closing ritual to bear witness to the community offerings and our collective grief. We invite members and groups from the community to sign up for a block of time to hold vigil in whatever way you choose during the course of the 72 hours. Up to 6 people may be in the space at one time with Covid-19 precautions.
>> go to the interwoven community vigil event page for more details and to sign up to participate.
Vigil Programs include:
- Friday 9/25 7pm-10pm | Mis Hijos : outdoor video projection by multidisciplinary artist Alejandra Abad
- Saturday 9/26 4pm-6pm | Fergus Stone Banjo Vigil : hymns, spirituals, folk songs
- Sunday 9/27 8am-12pm | Seated and Walking Meditation with Eon Zen Sangha with Zen Buddhist Service at 9am.
- Sunday 9/27 5pm-10pm | Reading of the names of extinct or dying species of plants and animals
Weaving Art and Community :
A Night of Open Grief
Saturday Sept 19 | 6-8pm
Six Colorado artists and artivists will share their expressions and experiences with grief and healing in this moving virtual “performance in the round” weaving music, poetry, community, and ritual. The event will be live-streamed from the Arbor Institute.
Artists and Performers
Jasmine Abena Colgan
Ájené Robinson-Figuereo
Leila Browne
Alejandra Abad
Gwendalynn Roebke
Constance Harris
Click on images for artist bios.
Weaving Art and Community :
A Night of Open Grief
Saturday Sept 19 | 6-8pm
Six Colorado artists and artivists will share their expressions and experiences with grief and healing in this moving virtual “performance in the round” weaving ritual, music, poetry, and community. The event will be live-streamed from the Arbor Institute.
Click on images for artist bios.
Death Cafe
Sunday Sept 13 | 2-3:30pm
A Death Cafe is a group-led discussion and safe place to come together and talk about death. It will be held in the park outside of the Arbor Institute with social distancing precautions and led by artist and Spiritual Chaplain Ellie Douglass.
attendance is limited and registration is required.
VIRTUAL GALLERY
and
OFFERINGS
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
