Artist Ariel Tavares will lead this workshop held in partnership with the Jamestown Art Center.

To connect with and honor the history of God’s Little Acre and the Spirit Bundle found at Newport Historical Society, participants will create a piece of art to hold memory.

Memory is a fickle thing. How do we grieve yet honor a loved one, a memory, a place, a world we were born into? How can we live afterwards? This experience will begin with an open roundtable discussion on who is allowed to be honored and remembered throughout history, and the ways the living and the dead are honored. After the discussion, paper, pictures, words & poetry and other secondhand materials will be used to create a mixed-media collage.

Participants will leave the session with either a collaged urn of flowers, a poem and/or an engraving. Students are able to bring photos, poems, or scraps of material to use for the experience.

Tools and materials for collaging & poetry writing will be provided.