Art & Medicine Fair at The Portland Grief House

At The Grief House we're testing the notion that - to be able to rejoice or to grieve (which we suspect are interdependent emotional states) a person needs to learn to interact generously with the world.

That's harder and harder to practice in our isolated, automated, virtual, industrialized lives.

We believe, when we see ourselves as artists, makers, and healers - whether our work directly addresses loss or not - we become medicine for unaccompanied grief; we contribute to a map-making project that leads the way back into bigger, fuller human life.

We suspect everyone makes this medicine. It seems likely each of us offer a particular, needed ingredient. We hope that creating places where we can share our unique gifts will help build communal medicine that's potent and helpful for all of us.

We're grateful for the artists, makers and healers who give themselves to this work whole-heartedly and offer it generously.