Listening to Grief’s first workshop outside of Seattle! I’ll be joining my friend, artist, Korean culture bearer, and papermaker, Aimee Lee, in Cleveland, Ohio, for this collaborative Grief & Joomchi workshop. The button below the bios will take you directly to the registration page.
Instructors: Certified Grief Educator, Tamara Kubacki & Artist, Aimee Lee
Thursday June 12th | 10am–1pm
Cleveland, Ohio
Grief touches everyone in some form at some point in their life. In this workshop, we will use writing, sharing, and working with hanji—Korean handmade paper—to process grief. Starting with writing prompts, we’ll transfer our words to pieces of hanji, which will then be transformed into a soft cloth-like fabric using the traditional method of joomchi. The act of crumpling, pounding, and flattening the paper gives us a physical outlet for the grief we carry in our bodies. After a sharing session, we’ll transform the joomchi again into small envelopes to house affirmations and other words of comfort.
Instructor Bios:
Certified Grief Educator Tamara Kubacki founded Listening to Grief to provide empathetic one-on-one grief coaching, with storytelling and deep-listening as the foundation for coping with loss. Tamara also creates and collaborates on public events that encourage communal grieving through ceremony, movement, and sharing. Her popular grief walks bring people together to grieve in a natural setting. The Seattle Times interviewed Tamara for an article on grief during the holidays. Tamara collaborates with artists, yoga instructors, herbalists, and others to destigmatize grief and to make grieving less lonely.
Aimee Lee is an artist who makes paper, writes, and advocates for Korean papermaking practices as an Ohio Arts Council Heritage Fellow and Midwest Culture Bearer Awardee. Her initial Fulbright research led her to establish the first hanji studio in North America, write an award-winning book, Hanji Unfurled (The Legacy Press, 2012), and create an active studio practice that includes jiseung, joomchi, paper textile, botanical paper, and natural dyeing techniques. Based east of Cleveland, her artwork is collected internationally in public and private collections and she travels the world to teach, exhibit, and serve as a resident artist. She is devoted to increasing capacity for papermaking worldwide, especially for hanji and East Asian methods, and to raising awareness of toolmaking in the field.