An 8 week Online Making Group, led by Morbid Anatomy Founder Joanna Ebenstein

8 Saturdays, May 14 - July 2, 1-3 pm ET
1-3 pm EST (6-8 pm British Time, 7 pm-19 am Amsterdam Time, 10-12 pm California Time)
$125 (Patreon Members) / $145 (Regular Admission)

PLEASE NOTE: All classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Taught via Zoom by Morbid Anatomy Founder Joanna Ebenstein

This intimate studio, limited to only 10 students, is designed for graduates of Make Your Own Memento Mori who wish to take a deeper dive into making. It will provide an opportunity to develop (and, if you wish, complete!) a death, mourning, mortally, or memento-mori-themed project over an eight-week ongoing discussion and critique and discussion with a group of like-minded creatives and makers.

Students are welcome to work in any medium they wish—from visual art to writing to puppetry to music to film, to anything else you can image.

This will be a loosely structured class, built around the themes that organically emerge from student work and inquiries. Based on this, the instructor will suggest readings and other media, and share artworks meant to inspire and expand ideas.

Opportunities will be available each week to show and discuss works in progress, allowing students to workshop their ideas drawing on the insights and comments of the Memento Mori Community and the instructor.

Joanna Ebenstein is a Brooklyn-based writer, award winning curator, photographer and graphic designer. She is the creator of the Morbid Anatomy blog, library and event series, and was cofounder (with Tracy Hurley Martin) and creative director of the recently shuttered Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn. Her books include Death: A Graveside Companion, The Anatomical Venus and The Morbid Anatomy Anthology (with Colin Dickey). Her work has been covered by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Wired, National Geographic, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and more. You can see her Tedx talk—Death as You've Never Seen it Before—here.

Images:

1. Skeleton Painter in his Studio, James Ensor, 1896

2. Thinking about death, Frida Kahlo, 1943

3. Skeleton Sculptors, unknown artist, 19th century

4. Detail from Cycle of Scenes fo Living Skeletons, Vincenzo Bonomini, early 19th century

5. Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle, Arnold Böcklin, 1872

6. Half-title page to Trattato di anatomia pittorica, 1839

7. Goodbye Letter, novelty postcard, early 20th century?