Jan 29 2025 60 mins
From bespoke shrouds, to grief memes, to death art, to conceptual art spaces that double as death education spaces, creativity weaves infinitely through death work.
In this episode, Narinder talks with artist and death worker Meghan Johnson about the facet of The Death Healer's Hexagon that is Death Work as Art Form and Medium. Death work and art go together seamlessly. Both artists and death workers reflect onto us our choices, our agreements, and identities. Both artists and death workers can break up status quos, can reshape realities, and can reorient us towards soulfulness.
Death work invites so much creativity into it, and art invites our death work in return.
Meghan Allynn Johnson (she/her) is an artist and death worker specializing in connecting community members to death and grief resources and sharing in the tenderness of life's endings through creative workshops and artworks that she calls 'living portals.'
She is the co-founder of the Madison Death Collective, an online resource for grievers, the dying, and the dead, and her artwork has been exhibited in New York, NY; Johannesburg, South Africa; St. Louis, MO; Chicago, IL; and Madison, WI.
She recently completed the Nine Keys Death Midwifery Apprenticeship, and has a BFA in Studio Art from UW-Madison, and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis Sam Fox School of Art. She has published work with the David Krut Print Workshop in Johannesburg, and her artwork is included in the text, Singular/Serial: Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint (Kernan, Oresman, Einstein). Meghan is based in Madison, WI.
Follow Meghan and the Madison Death Collective on Instagram here:
@meghan.allynn.deathwork | @madison.death.collective
Also featured in this episode:
Artist and death worker Juliarose Triebes: Instagram @juliarosetriebes
Artist Jennifer Bastian: https://www.jenniferbastian.com/about
If you are interested in studying death work with Narinder you can check out the Nine Keys Death Midwifery Apprenticeship at www.narinderbazen.com.
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