Treat yourself to a reflective moment and say hello to Do We Say Goodbye? Grief, Loss, and Mourning. Not only a universal human experience, Do We Say Goodbye? explores grief as a collective act of resilience, remembrance, and transformation. In photography, painting, video, and installation, the featured artists—Peter Bruun, Bethany Collins, Jordan Douglas, Mariam Ghani, Lydia Kern, John Killacky, Nirmal Raja, and Jamel Robinson—offer meditations on memory, endurance, transition, and empowerment. Inviting us to find hope and beauty in loss, this exhibition offers a space for us to gather and engage with grief as a universal yet profoundly personal journey.
image: Lydia Kern, Double Sorrow Double Joy, 2023, Mixed media
Do We Say Goodbye? Grief, Loss, and Mourning is supported in part by the Maslow Family Foundation, Bill Gottesman and Debra Lopez Gottesman, and Ernie Pomerleau. Programmatic Partners: Vermont Association of Psychoanalytic Studies (VAPS) and Middlebury College. Hospitality sponsor, Lake Champlain Chocolates. Burlington City Arts is supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council & the National Endowment for the Arts.