Eco Art for Grieving
Join us for a special one evening showing, focusing on nature-centered and liberatory approaches to grief and the end of life, through visual art and installation.
$5.00 requested donation but no one turned away for lack of funds.
Dee is an eco artist who paints simple designs onto eco cremation urns and caskets using natural pigments. She is the founder of Thimble and Stone and Resilient Willow Healing, organizations supporting folks who are struggling with loss, grief and mourning. Dee is an artist and professional counselor with over a decade of local and international experience supporting mental health, trauma recovery and wellness. She has also worked in nonprofits, education and academia, climate science, food, and farming. All along the way she has been a mover with an interest in somatics and embodiment.
Bebo designs, crafts, and modifies things so that beings can more easily thrive. A thing could be a seasonal donut, or the path to citizenship, or a community grocery store, or the way humanity understands right and wrong. He studied Mannerism in Italy, but prefers the indigenous art of Turtle Island. Bebo is an immigrant, born in Guadalajara and raised on the Dune Sea, with two graduate degrees and the recipe to his late grandmother’s hot sauce.
Miller uses metal, fabric, words, wax, photography, and things they find to narrate and negotiate living in one body in this time. He draws on his own experiences of a living, hurting, changing body to find belonging and purpose in a living, hurting, changing world. Reporting on their experiences with addiction, gender-fluidity, kink, and PMDD, his work explores themes of chronic pain, eroticism, recovery, queerness, and anti-capitalism to inspire the viewer to reflect on the value of their own contributions in community.
Luc has an MS in ecology from Colorado State University. As an entrepreneur, he has been involved in a number of green startups, including EVolve Electrics, Boulder Hybrids, and Nature’s Casket. He has been building sustainable caskets and urns for over 15 years. He is the co-founder of The Cooperative Society Project, which seeks both to understand the degree to which society is becoming more cooperative and make recommendations to promote this shift. He has had a photography show at the Longmont Museum featuring Longmont’s parks (with a subsequent book), produced a feature-length film about death and climate change (Carve The Runes), and illustrated and co-authored the children’s book Journey of a Monarch Butterfly. He lives with his wife and two kids in Old Town Longmont.