Art@Countway

5:30pm

Art as Medicine and Archives of Pandemic Response

Dr. Natalie Phillips and Dr. Soohyun Cho, Co-curators of the Creativity in the Time of Covid-19: Art as Medicine exhibitions, Michigan State University Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab

Natalie Phillips is an Associate Professor of English at Michigan State and Affiliated Faculty in Cognitive Science. She founded and co-leads an interdisciplinary lab, Digital Humanities & Literary Cognition lab, and does work at the intersection of literature, neuroscience, and the arts. She is is a co-PI on the “Creativity in the Time of Covid-19” grant.

Soohyun Cho is an Assistant Professor of Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State. Her research spans disability studies, global popular culture, digital humanities, and literary cognition. As an affiliate faculty member of the Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition (DHLC) Lab, Cho explores the impact of art and cultural engagement on health, designing accessible art events and developing community-engaged pedagogies.

6:15pm

Marked by Covid: Grieving through Creating a National Covid Memorial

The National Covid Memorial is an evolving tribute to those we have lost to Covid-19. Conceived and created by individuals who personally lost loved ones to the pandemic, Marked By Covid’s memorial centers the dead, ensuring a space in our collective memory for each and every loss. By refusing to obfuscate the harsh realities of the pandemic, we confront the truth of what it means to lose over one million lives—and counting.

7:15pm

Arts-Based Interventions

Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH, Primary-care physician, public health practitioner, and award-winning poet with faculty appointments at Harvard T.H. Chan and HMS

12:00pm

Grieving
in a Pandemic

12:15pm

Yoojin Kim & Jihae Lim of South Korea

Jihae Lim is a collage artist based in Korea. Lim graduated from the College of Communication at Hanyang University and currently runs the "Documentary Art Archiving Project," where she captures every day through newspaper collages. During the pandemic, Jihae focused on two key projects: maintaining her routine of documenting daily news through collage and sharing her work with others. In this talk, she will introduce these two activities that helped her persevere through challenging times and reflect on the joy of both creating and sharing art.

Yoojin Kim is an artist primarily based in South Korea. Specializing in traditional East Asian painting, Kim also works across various fields, including curation, installation, and performance. In this talk, Kim introduces artwork rooted in their experience teaching children at an art institution during the COVID-19.Serving as a record of the times when mask-wearing was mandatory in South Korea, the project conveys Kim's sense of unfamiliarity upon seeing people's faces uncovered in daily life. For more information visit Kim Yoojin.

1:00pm

Break

2:15pm

Graphic Medicine Workshop

Jess Ruliffson

This guided drawing workshop will invite attendees to compose a short graphic memoir depicting a personal or witnessed experience of illness or grief.

Jess Ruliffson is an Eisner-nominated cartoonist whose debut graphic novel, Invisible Wounds, was published by Fantagraphics Books in 2022. She teaches courses on creative writing and the graphic novel at Boston University and comics studio practices at The Sequential Artists Workshop.

3:00pm

Break

3:15pm

Narrative Medicine Workshop

Craig Pearson, MD, PhD, MFA

Can writing haiku keep us grounded? This guided writing workshop will include a basic history of haiku poetry; we will read examples of famous poems; and attendees will be invited to compose haiku of their own, as a means of achieving mindfulness and connectedness, particularly in environments–such as healthcare spaces–that may at times be distracting or destabilizing.

11am-12pm

Narrative Medicine Workshop

5:30-6:30pm

Death Café