Alia El-Bermani, Echo/Departed diptych, Oil, 2019

Pop Box Gallery, in collaboration with The Art Chose Me and Queen Street Magic Boat, presents Death Planted a Garden, our third curatorial residency, located at Queen Street Magic Boat in Durham, NC, September 6 - October 20, 2024.

Events

  • Friday, September 6, 6-8pm: Opening Reception

  • Sunday, September 15, 2-5pm, Creative and Legal Psychiatric Advance Directives

  • Friday, September 20, 6-8pm: Third Friday Durham

  • Saturday, September 21, 1-3pm: Artful Endings: Funeral and Estate Planning Through Craft and Reflection

  • Thursday, October 3, 6:30pm: Slow Art Tour

  • Saturday, October 5, 2-4pm: Artists’ Talk (rescheduled from September 27)

  • Friday, October 11, 6-8pm: Artists’ Talk

  • Saturday, October 12, 1-3pm: Artful Endings: Funeral and Estate Planning Through Craft and Reflection

  • Friday, October 18, 6-8pm: Closing Reception

  • Sunday, October 20, 1-3pm: The Repast

More event details below.

Death Planted a Garden

September 6 - October 20, 2024

About The Exhibit 

Twenty-two Triangle-based artists traverse seascapes, dreamscapes, space-scapes, and soundscapes that span—out, up, inward, and underground—from the moment of a death. Visual, sound, literary, and multidisciplinary creators explore their lived experiences of loss: loss of a loved one, a culture, an identity, a pet, a neighborhood, a potted fern, a coral reef. How do these deaths connect us to rage, to echo, to breath, to hauntology, to the yellow Dollar General Sign on a hill once-wooded?

Featured Artists

Catherine Edgerton, Peach Stone, Oil, 2024

Featured
Death Planted A Garden
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Death Planted A Garden

Jim Lee, Ossuary for the Agile One, Photography, 2019

Twenty-two Triangle-based artists traverse seascapes, dreamscapes, space-scapes, and soundscapes that span—out, up, inward, and underground—from the moment of a death.

Visual, sound, literary, and multidisciplinary creators explore their lived experiences of loss: loss of a loved one, a culture, an identity, a pet, a neighborhood, a potted fern, a coral reef. How do these deaths connect us to rage, to echo, to breath, to hauntology, to the yellow Dollar General Sign on a hill once-wooded?

Death Planted A Garden

Exhibits

Events

Featured
The Repast
Oct 20
The Repast

Funeral traditions vary around the world, but food is always involved.

Wake, Karamu, Funeral Luncheon, Kich’vo, Mercy Meal, Repast…

Sign up required for this event.

Closing Reception for Death Planted A Garden
Oct 18
Closing Reception for Death Planted A Garden

Alia El-Bermani, Echo/Departed diptych, Oil, 2019

Closing reception for Death Planted A Garden. Free and open to the public.

Artful Endings: Funeral and Estate Planning Through Craft and Reflection
Oct 12
Artful Endings: Funeral and Estate Planning Through Craft and Reflection

Teddy Devereux, Mother Nature's Daughters

This creative, hands-on workshop will guide participants through the fundamentals of estate planning and funeral planning...

Registration required.

Artists’ Talk for Death Planted A Garden
Oct 11
Artists’ Talk for Death Planted A Garden

Teddy Devereux, My Memory Palace, Glass, 2015

Meet the artists. Free and open to the public.

Artists’ Talk for Death Planted A Garden
Oct 5
Artists’ Talk for Death Planted A Garden

echo hower, wait(weight), Homemade watercolor and mixed media on paper, 2024

Meet the artists. Free and open to the public.

Slow Art Tour with Gail Belvett for Death Planted A Garden
Oct 3
Slow Art Tour with Gail Belvett for Death Planted A Garden

Slow Art Tour: A group of people gather to slowly savor a single object, looking closely while engaging multiple senses. Facilitated by Gail Belvett. Free and open to the public.

Artful Endings: Funeral and Estate Planning Through Craft and Reflection
Sep 21
Artful Endings: Funeral and Estate Planning Through Craft and Reflection

Gadisse Lee, The Yawning Grave

This creative, hands-on workshop will guide participants through the fundamentals of estate planning and funeral planning...

Registration required.

Third Friday Durham for Death Planted A Garden
Sep 20
Third Friday Durham for Death Planted A Garden

Catherine Edgerton, Peach Stone, Illustration, Stop Motion GIF by Jax

Third Friday Durham. Free and open to the public.

Creative and Legal Psychiatric Advance Directives
Sep 15
Creative and Legal Psychiatric Advance Directives

Patrizia Ferreira, A Crevice in the Garden of Eden, Fiber Art, 2023 (Detail)

Durham Art Asylum presents a workspace to learn about Creative and Legal Psychiatric Advance Directives. An advance directive articulates care you wish to receive (or not receive) if you become unable to advocate for yourself due to mental health challenges.

The Durham Art Asylum is a web of artists living with and loving through mental health challenges. We create and share resources we need to be well and make magic. Join us to work on a psychiatric advance directive that includes poetry, art, spaciousness, and prompts about safety, music, food, and systems of support that make and keep us well.

$10-$20 Suggested donation to the Durham Art Asylum; nobody turned away!

www.durhammentalhealth.wordpress.com

Opening Reception for Death Planted A Garden
Sep 6
Opening Reception for Death Planted A Garden

Saba Taj, Everything is Embarrassing, Mixed Media, Oil, 2024

Free and open to the public.

Meet the Artist with Mavis Gragg
Jun 29
Meet the Artist with Mavis Gragg

Meet artist Jim Lee. Image by Jim Lee. Free and open to the public.

Slow Art Tour with Gail Belvett For upstART Gallery: A Jim Lee Project
Jun 22
Slow Art Tour with Gail Belvett For upstART Gallery: A Jim Lee Project

Slow Art Tour: A group of people gather to slowly savor a single object, looking closely while engaging multiple senses. Facilitated by Gail Belvett. Free and open to the public.

 

Visit Us

Dates
9/6 - 10/20/2024

Hours
Wednesday 12-3pm
Thursday 5-8pm
Friday 5-8pm
Saturday 11-5pm
Sunday 10-12pm
And during events

Location
Queen Street Magic Boat
406 North Queen Street
Durham, NC 27701

Parking
Free street parking is available on Queen Street and adjoining streets. This is a residential area. Please be mindful of our neighbors.

Contact
popboxgallery@gmail.com