SERENITY: Healing Voices - Buzzy’s Bees, Give Grief a Voice Project
SERENITY ART EXHIBIT AT THE UCSF NATIONAL CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN WOMEN’S HEALTH
Buzzy’s Bees and the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health are proud to collaborate on our current SERENITY Art Exhibit in the Women's Health Center starting January 13, 2025. The body of work has been created by Buzzy’s Bees artists for the families who’ve lost children.The exhibit enhances the healing environment of the Women's Health Center, instilling wellbeing and peace, and is engaging and uplifting to visitors, practitioners and staff.
Buzzy’s Bees, curator for the featured art exhibition, is an Oregon based nonprofit. Their mission is to change the grief culture surrounding the unexpected loss of a child (stillborn to 12 years old) through outreach, education, and programs offering emotional and financial support. We are honored to host this exquisitely beautiful art exhibit. The images and stories are inspirational and moving.
About Buzzy’s Bees
Give Grief a Voice Project:
The Give Grief a Voice Project (GGaV) launched in 2019 as a special project through Buzzy's Bees, supporting families who have lost a young child. We provide storytelling and artwork as tools for discussing and processing grief. As of this year we have provided stories and artwork to 64 families from 12 states, Canada, and Australia, with 9 artists, and 6 writers. Families come from diverse backgrounds and each story is personal and unique. For families who are a part of GGaV, a professional writer listens to and records each family's story, then an artist is commissioned to turn their words into a piece of art representing their child's life, which the family keeps. Buzzy’s Bees fundraises to pay the creatives and provide this gift at no cost to the families. Printed reproductions of the artworks are then displayed in a traveling gallery exhibition that has, so far, been displayed at 10 venues, including semi-permanent installations at the Northwest Mothers Milk Bank in Oregon and Good Grief Support Centers in New Jersey.
About the Exhibition:
This exhibit seeks to further the organization's mission to revolutionize grief culture dominant in North America from its tradition of silence and solitude to one of voice and community. The stigma, loneliness, and shame related to the unexpected death of a child impedes our culture's ability to grieve with families affected by this tragedy. The artwork, testimonials, and information panels invite attendees to bear witness to the grief of others in order to confront their own.
View the Art Exhibit:
Photography by NorCal Star Media https://www.norcalstarmedia.com/
Thanks to SF Women Artists https://www.sfwomenartists.org/
Apply and Stay Connected:
To learn more, visit https://www.BuzzysBees.org, join our newsletter list, and follow us on social media.
Bereaved parents wishing to participate may apply on our site: https://www.BuzzysBees.org.
For inquiries about the exhibit, please contact Abraham Schroeder [email protected].
Grief does not discriminate. Buzzy’s Bees is committed to inclusion across identity and experience. We strive to support a broad and diverse community of grieving families.