Sweeping the Graves: Photo-based Rituals with Dawn Surratt

Written By Susan Patrice
 

Dawn Surratt

 

Sweeping the Graves: Photo-based Rituals with Dawn Surratt

Join us for this online event January, 18th @ 7 PM ET via Zoom

For more than 20 years, Dawn Surrat has been bearing witness to end-of-life journies. Her collaborative work with patients and their families in hospice settings is the backbone of her photographic practice. Using materials and artifacts that have long held importance in the grieving process, she pairs her images with quotes from patients and their families. Her site-specific installations become places of memory and comfort that invite viewers to contemplate grief, transition, and healing by directly engaging with the photographs through participatory rituals.

Please join us as we explore how community collaboration can enhance our photographic practice and the quiet and tender ways that creative rituals contribute to community healing.

Dawn Surratt earned a B.A. in Studio Arts from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro and a Bachelor and Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Georgia.

Her work has been widely published for book covers and publications such as Time, Bloomberg Business Week, Lenscratch, SHOTS, Diffusion and The Hand. She has exhibited in galleries across the United States, including The Center for Fine Art Photography, Southeast Center for Photography, A.Smith Gallery, Photoplace Gallery and the Griffin Museum of Photography. She was a 2016 and 2020 Critical Mass Finalist and her work is in collections across the United States, including the Peabody Essex Museum and the Rubinstein Library at Duke University, Archive of Documentary Arts. She is a 2018 nominee for the Royal Photography Society’s 100 Heroines.

Dawn is a full-time artist living in rural North Carolina and teaches multi-media process and photography object work through Maine Media Workshops and College. You can find her roaming the countryside with her camera, her husband, and their Pembroke Welsh Corgi Winston, who doubles as their photography assistant.  

 

Dawn Surratt

 

Dawn Surratt

Dawn Surratt

Dawn Surratt

Susan Patrice

As the founder and director of Makers Circle, Susan Patrice designs and implements arts-informed community initiatives in partnership with non-arts organizations who want to expand their reach and impact through innovative cross-sector collaboration. Makers Circle has a deep passion for the power of the creative process to encourage adaptive change, expand awareness, and open up new ways of seeing and relating. We believe that the arts and artists should play a major role in community regeneration and non-profit advancement. Web design and digital storytelling are foundational to the work we do with non-profits.

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