While traveling through Portugal to research her country’s display of dead bodies, Rafaela Ferraz develops a unique connection to a pickled head in a jar, prompting her to consider our society’s fascination with, and even adoration, of serial killers.
July 25, 2018 | Blog
Artist Abby Rocha curated a death positive art show in an effort to create a space where both artists and the public could come together and explore the subjects of death and mortality. Here are some of her favorite pieces.
July 18, 2018 | Blog
Leila collects art that’s made of human hair and displays it to the public at a museum bearing her name in Independence, Missouri.
July 11, 2018 | Blog
The Monongah Mine Disaster is recognized as the worst industrial disaster in U.S. history– and you’ve likely never heard about it. The disaster occurred in my hometown of Monongah, West Virginia. On…
June 16, 2018 | Blog
No other epidemic or pandemic has claimed as many lives as the Spanish Flu, not even the Black Death in the 14th century or AIDS in the 20th century — 100 years later, why have we forgotten the deadliest pandemic in history?
May 30, 2018 | Blog
Waxwork artist Sigrid Sarda’s work explores the intersections of sex, death, and mortality. Here, our own Sarah Chavez talks to Sigrid about her new series The Unrequited, which is about loss, grief, and redemption.
May 23, 2018 | Blog
What was so powerful about these Aztec mothers that their corpses had to be guarded from warriors?
May 13, 2018 | Blog
These little stone statues resembling plump-cheeked children belie a mournful purpose.
May 13, 2018 | Blog
It is because of my grave gardener mom that I’ve grown to become a death-positive woman. I’m a woman who considers death a part of life.
April 18, 2018 | Blog
We hope you enjoy our new series, Cabinet of Curiosities, that looks at the objects that have helped us prepare for dying, ritualize death, and mourn the dead.
March 25, 2018 | Blog
“Sonny was a very ordinary man and his life passed unnoticed by a wider world. But Sonny did have one advantage over most of us; he knew how to die. And he knew how to do that because his fathers and mothers on the island, wake after wake, had shown him how.”
March 17, 2018 | Blog
Writer and cemetery tour guide, Allison Meier spoke to Anthony Pisciotta, a man who frequently passed by a deteriorating cemetery in his community and decided to take action.
March 1, 2018 | Blog