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Art as Release: Finding Home, a 4-part workshop series

Wed, Jan 07

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The Portland Grief House

Finding Home is a 4-part series that invites you to explore ideas of origin, belonging, and identity through creative expression. We’ll use drawing, painting, writing, collage, and simple crafts to create personal “home maps” that tell our stories.

Art as Release: Finding Home, a 4-part workshop series
Art as Release: Finding Home, a 4-part workshop series

When & Where

3 more dates

Jan 07, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM PST

The Portland Grief House, 7906 N Fessenden St, Portland, OR 97203, USA

Who

What

What does “home” mean when the places and people we come from have changed — or when we’ve had to start over? Some of us have never felt at home anywhere. Sometimes grief displaces our sense of home. Many of us have multiple cultural and ethnic backgrounds that reach back many generations.


Finding Home invites you to explore ideas of origin, belonging, and identity through creative expression. We’ll use drawing, painting, writing, collage, and simple crafts to create personal “home maps” that tell our stories.


Each session offers space for reflection, connection, and gentle making as we look at how displacement, memory, and heritage shape our sense of home — and how we can begin to build it again, wherever we are.


Week 1: Lost and Unmoored: Exploring displacement, disconnection and the feeling of being between places.

Week 2: Tentative Roots: Recognizing the small, mycelial moments of belonging, connection or…


Tickets

  • Art as Release Ticket

    From $25.00 to $40.00

    • $40.00

      +$1.00 ticket service fee

    • $35.00

      +$0.88 ticket service fee

    • $25.00

      +$0.63 ticket service fee

    Total

    $0.00

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    All grief is welcome here.

    All are welcome here.

    This is an LGBTQ+ and BIPOC-affirming place.

    The Grief House is not a replacement for skilled mental health care. We cannot provide acute crisis intervention. If you’re struggling to find the help you need, we are happy to offer referrals and suggest resources. If you feel like you might hurt yourself or someone else, help is available 24 hours a day from the National Suicide Hotline (1-800-273-8255) or by dialing or texting 988. If you are having a medical emergency, please dial 911.

    Finding Us

    Our spaces are open for gatherings & designated open house hours. 

    The Atlanta Grief House Nickerson Cottage at Legacy Park Decatur 500 S. Columbia Dr, Decatur, GA 30030 Notes on finding us: GPS will take you to the center of Legacy Park. The Nickerson Cottage is a stone building with raised bed gardens on the south side of Legacy Park's campus. If you enter campus through the south entrance it will be the first cottage you come to. You can park in any of the surrounding lots. If coming in the evening you will see the string lights on our front porch. Nickerson Cottage is largely wheelchair accessible.

    The Portland Grief House 7906 N Fessenden St, Portland, OR 97203 Notes on finding us: We are the green house on the corner of N Fessenden & N Allegheny Ave. Enter through the gate at the corner.

    Wilderings, operating as The Grief House, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN  84-4336786) and all donations are tax deductible. 

    The Grief House works on and serves communities on land that is the unceeded territory of the Muskogee, Cherokee and Creek peoples in Georgia and the Clackamas, Stl’pulmsh, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla and Siletz peoples in Oregon.

     

    We honor them as we live, work and serve grievers on these unceeded lands. 

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