After losing 14 sisters to COVID-19, the Adrian Dominican Sisters in Adrian, Mich., processed their grief by hosting an art exhibit, titled,During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the community of Adrian Dominican Sisters was a microcosm of the suffering and loss inflicted by the coronavirus. Of the 219 residents at the sisters’ motherhouse in Adrian, 14 passed away from COVID-19 in the pandemic’s first year.
“It was an effort to both process the COVID reality and the pandemic and all that was going on and a lot of the loss that was happening, and the illness and death that was happening and the uncertainties, plus to give expression to our own creative selves,” said Adrian Dominican Sister Suzanne Schreiber, coordinator for the sisters’ gallery space, INAI: A Space Apart.
For one of the artists, Adrian Dominican Sister Nancyann Turner, the exhibit was a way to process the grief of losing friends. “I made three quilts — the first one was a quilt of hope back when we thought COVID would be over in six months,” she said. The second quilt was called ‘Lament,’ made with darker colors but with a sliver of light to show “there is always a glimmer of new light and resurrection hope.”
The exhibit also included photographs of two other projects Sister Turner worked on, including a memorial garden she created in memory of her own sister, who died before COVID-19. As she made it, it extended into a memorial of everyone she knew who had died.
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