Fare-Well: Art & Death Café
Fare-Well: Art & Death Café is a free art education program intended to encourage community conversations about death and mortality through the lens of history, art, and creativity. Death Cafés are a global movement aiming to normalize discussions about death, an often-taboo topic.
With discussion alongside a creative art project, artist and facilitator, Elyse-Krista, will use a new theme each month to show death awareness has historically been integral to art and existence. We’ll learn how to, if not verbally talk about death, while exploring how artists and others use objects, symbolism, and creativity to communicate emotions, thoughts, and practices regarding the passing of time, the truth about vitality, and the reality of mortality. This monthly free program will become gateways for moments of conversation in the art studio, home, and community that will help us to both individually and collectively fare well.
Fare-Well: Art & Death Café hosts two sessions monthly.
The Trout Museum of Art is moving locations! Please continue to join us over the summer 2025 as we host Fare-Well at an alternate location.
WHERE:
Hosted at Wichmann Funeral Home Tri-Cty Chapel
1592 S Oneida St, Menasha
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WHEN:
First Sundays at 10 AM: July 6, Aug 3, Sept 7, Oct 5
Third Wednesday at 6 PM: June 18, July 16, Aug 20, Sept 17
Thank you to our year-round Presenting Sponsor: Kayla Rouse in Memory of her parents, Dr. Michael Rouse and Dr. Janet Armstrong.
Facilitator & Artist: Elyse-Krista Mische
Elyse-Krista Mische is an Appleton, WI based artist, a Creative Thanatologist, and a multifaceted member of the funeral profession. Through multidisciplinary creative practices, Thanatological research, and interactions with people and place, Elyse-Krista explores concepts of time, memory, and mortality. Using her artwork and community engagement practices as change-making tools, Elyse-Krista hopes to expand, normalize, and embrace visual and verbal conversations around personal and collective existential issues.
Elyse-Krista is a Credentialed Thanatologist through the Association for Death Education and Counseling, she holds a MS in Thanatology (Marian University, 2024) and a BA in Studio Art (Lawrence University, 2011), she is a Dementia Specialist Designation (UW-Oshkosh, 2020), and a certified TimeSlips facilitator.
Elyse-Krista is excited to found and facilitate Fare-Well: Art & Death Café in partnership with TMA, on behalf of the Fox Valley community. She looks forward to creating and talking with you about art, life, death, and everything in between!