Curating Grief Through Art and Design
Recorded: October 2024
Our September webinar is open to all INELDA members as part of membership benefits.
Webinar Moderator:
Omni Kitts Ferrara | INELDA Director of Education
Webinar Guest(s):
Charlene Lam | Certified Grief Coach, Speaker & Founder of The Grief Gallery
Recorded: October 2024
Our September webinar is open to all INELDA members as part of membership benefits.
Webinar Moderator:
Omni Kitts Ferrara | INELDA Director of Education
Webinar Guest(s):
Charlene Lam | Certified Grief Coach, Speaker & Founder of The Grief Gallery
How we respond to loss can look different for each person navigating their grief. When Charlene Lam’s mother died suddenly in 2013, she leaned into her creativity and instincts as a curator to guide herself through this period. At the time, she was working as an independent curator in London, producing exhibitions featuring the work of designers, makers, and artists. As she cleaned out her mother’s home and belongings, she asked herself, “If I were to curate an exhibition about my mother, which 100 objects would I choose?”. This profound question inspired an exploration of these objects and the meaning they held. A little over a year later, Charlene held an exhibition featuring her mother’s objects in London.
Objects hold deep importance, and whether sacred or profane, the things we carry can be powerful vehicles for awareness, understanding, and connection. Art offers us a way to contextualize a life and establishes a connection between the person who has died and the grieving. During our time together, we discovered how each of us can be curators and work through grief by bringing meaning through the inherent life that lives within the objects that remain after someone dies.
Anyone can use the lens of curating, whether your loss was recent or years ago, and whether or not you have any belongings from the person who has died. You don’t need to be an artist or consider yourself creative!
Attendees were invited to bring a meaningful object that belonged to a loved one—or a story or image about an object.
INELDA’s director of education Omni Kitts Ferrara invites you to explore how art can support our grief journeys and how curating a collection of objects can create a space to explore loss and letting go.
Guest Speaker Bio:
Charlene Lam is a certified grief coach, speaker, and the founder of The Grief Gallery.
After her mother died suddenly in 2013, Charlene leaned into her creativity and instincts as a curator to guide herself through grief. Charlene believes we are ALL curators and developed the Curating Grief coaching framework to help people process grief in a creative, accessible way.
In addition to working individually with grief coaching clients, as curator of The Grief Gallery®, Charlene presents international exhibitions featuring the belongings of loved ones, including installations and events in New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto and London. She’s the star of the new short film Curating Grief: Loss and Objects.
Charlene speaks about the power of creativity and storytelling for healthy grieving and post-traumatic growth.
Originally from NYC, she’s currently based in Lisbon, Portugal, and works with clients worldwide.
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