Submissions

The Artists’ Grief Deck is a living archive and toolkit. We encourage artists and grief workers of all traditions, disciplines, and backgrounds to contribute new images and grief prompts to support people in processing loss on an ongoing basis.

Send us your original artwork and/or a short text-based ‘grief prompt’ for inclusion in this growing collection.

The subject of your artwork does not need to be explicitly themed on grief and loss, but artwork that invites reflection, meditation, mindfulness, close inspection, or time-taking. Grief prompts should explicitly reference grief; though they may reference not just the grieving of individual people, but ecological grief, grief related to ongoing state-sanctioned violence, or grief over the loss of a job, partner, etc.

Artwork submitted must be a JPEG, 1200 px by 1600 px (landscape) or 1600 px by 1200 px (portrait)—this equals a 4”x 6” image scanned at 300 DPI.

Grief prompts should be a simple action described in 10-140 words, that can serve as a process by which an individual can be guided through their grief. Making something, writing something, moving with deliberation, meditation, or any of a number of other memorial actions are helpful. Those prompts which derive from specific cultural traditions or rituals are welcome—the Artists’ Grief Deck exists in part to fill a gap left by the absence of traditional communal grieving rituals caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Name

Social Media Handle/Website

Your Grief prompt (optional)

Title of Work

Name Credited (if different from artist name)

Orientation (with area for description of upper left)

By submitting artwork for inclusion in the Grief Deck, I agree to allow printing and re-use of the image and text for Grief Deck-related promotion, additional editions of the Grief Deck, and online usage of the work on behalf of the Grief Deck Project. I grant to ALI license to include my artwork on griefdeck.com, and for related promotions of the project and directly derivative Grief-Deck related projects. This license includes the condition that my artwork will always be presented in the context of grief care; that the image will be of reasonable and non-degraded quality (based on the original files provided to the Artists’ Literacies Institute); and that I will be credited as the creator with a link to my professional website or professional social media account of choice. I specifically include license for ALI to provide my artwork included in the Artists’ Grief Deck project to a Grief Deck-derivative mobile application (app) under development with National Hospice Cooperative (NHC), for use in nonprofit hospice and palliative caregiving. This license includes all related print and digital promotional materials. I understand this license is royalty-free and, as I maintain rights to my artwork, I may withdraw my consent for inclusion of that work in writing to ALI and NHC at any time, (via email sent to info@artistsliteracies.org), I understand that in the event that a future iteration of this app becomes revenue-earning or is used beyond the scope described herein, a new license with ALI and NHC will be negotiated.