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Grief, Money and Dirty Pain

by Sheila Collins | Dec 12, 2024 | Duality, Environment, Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, History, Institutional Loss, Personal Stories, Story-telling, the Big Body

To become resilient and grow from what happens to us, we must choose to face and metabolize the pain of loss. That’s what the art of grieving is. Psychotherapist Resmaa Menakem describes “clean pain’ as that which is faced and transformed while “Dirty Pain” is pain...

The Power of Community Art

by Sheila Collins | Dec 5, 2024 | Art & Life, Family, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Our Children, Personal Stories, Science, Technology and the Environment, Story-telling, the Big Body, Uncategorized

With all the media attention on the incoming president’s appointments, you may not have heard that this week, in honor of World AIDS Day 2024, sections of the AIDS memorial quilt were exhibited for the first time on the White House South Lawn. Our current President...

Craft, Memories and the Art of Grieving

by Sheila Collins | Aug 8, 2024 | Art & Life, Celebrations, Community, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Past Events, Personal Stories, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

Last May, after writing and publishing a book on how art and artmaking help us grieve, I learned of the opening of the Contemporary Craft Museum’s art exhibit, Hereafter. I attended the opening which featured 13 regional artists exploring the themes of grief, mourning...

Art that Inspires Art and the Process of Grieving

by Sheila Collins | Feb 8, 2024 | Art & Life, History, Personal Stories, Spirtuality, Story-telling, Women, Girls & the Feminine

Not being able to find an important citation online, got me into cleaning my art studio, which I hadn’t done for a very long time. I found the document I was looking for that had the information I needed and, a bonus gift alongside it. This rather crumpled yellow...

Grief and the Element of Space

by Sheila Collins | Jan 18, 2024 | Art & Life, Family, Grieving, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, pets, Story-telling

Recently several people I know have had a loved one die in their home. This has caused me to think about grief and its connection to the element of physical space and objects that surround us. When my daughter Corinne was battling breast cancer and losing, she had...

The Gifts of Story, Artmaking and the Connections They Produce

by Sheila Collins | Jan 11, 2024 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, book promotion, Celebrations, Community, History, Personal Stories, Publications, Story-telling, Women, Girls & the Feminine

My writer friend Linda Meadowcroft has just released her compelling and meticulously researched biography, Ghost Eagles: The Spirit Journey of Artist Jan Beaver Gallione. I wish for better skills in what I call, “writing about writing,” to communicate my excitement...

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Learn the Many, Magical Ways Art Transforms Grieving!

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Loss is inevitable, yet too often we bury our grief, pretending we're OK when we're not.

In my new book (COMING SOON), I'll share some uncommon notions about grief and how the arts, and art-making, have transformative powers that take us to the heart of the matter.

Grief, Money and Dirty Pain

The Power of Community Art

Craft, Memories and the Art of Grieving

Art that Inspires Art and the Process of Grieving

Grief and the Element of Space

The Gifts of Story, Artmaking and the Connections They Produce

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