Grief Art & Hope blog seeking stories/artwork about healing with artwork

[Nancy Gershman]

I'm Nancy Gershman, Editor of the soon to launch Grief Art & Hope blog on The Open to Hope Foundation. I'm very interested in what kinds of memorial artwork (made by you, friends and relatives, or by an artist) has helped you face your fears, and cope with loss and regrets. For those of you who already do art-making as therapy, I'd love to hear what mediums are helping you feel joy again since the funeral.

Please consider emailing your stories and/or artwork (captioned, with byline) for consideration to [e-mail]. We can already see by the responses how much this blog is filling a void for folks at all stages of grieving …

Warm regards,

Nancy Gershman
Editor, Grief Art & Hope Blog
OPEN TO HOPE FOUNDATION
[e-mail]
http://opentohope.com/network/grief-art-and-hope

[Attached: wishful reality]:
A prescriptive photomontage for a nurse celebrating all the "gifts" she gained from loved ones who've since passed away. In this positive visualization created by a digital artist, the nurse's personal photographs were repurposed to make everyone look as if they were on an adventure in Boundary Waters and she just snapped the picture.