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Tag Archives: New York
New York Bill Would Provide Bereaved Workers Three Months Paid Family Leave
The new bill is on its way to Governor Cuomo
A new bill in New York is seeking to add paid family leave for employees who have recently lost a loved one. Currently in New York people can take paid family leave time following the birth of a child or … Continue reading
How Can a “Dreamscape” Help Grieving Families Heal?
An interview with Nancy Gershman, Part One
Today SevenPonds speaks with Nancy Gershman, a memory artist who creates “Dreamscapes” for people in hospice and their families. A Dreamscape is a photo collage that serves as a physical image of a memory or something the ill/deceased person wanted … Continue reading
New Laws Loosen Restrictions on Food and Drinks Served in Funeral Homes
Lawmakers pass measures allowing families to eat during memorial services
For decades, it was illegal for funeral homes in most states to serve food of any kind on the property, even if families requested this service. At the time, lawmakers were concerned about the spread of food-borne illness, believing that … Continue reading
A High School Class Called “Hospice”
The Harley School in Rochester, New York, runs a hospice volunteer class for its high school seniors
In 2002, Bob Kane created an award-winning hospice volunteer program for high school students at Rochester, New York’s Norman Howard School. He then moved on to The Harley School in Rochester, where he created a class for high school seniors … Continue reading
A Story Lately Told by Anjelica Huston
Part one of Huston's autobiography reveals a fascinating childhood, difficult father-daughter relationship and the death of Huston's mother
It’s easy to understand why actress, model and 70s “It Girl” Anjelica Huston has divided her memoir in two. The first half, A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in London, Ireland and New York (Scribner, 2013) primarily chronicles her … Continue reading
Transforming a View of Kazimir Malevich’s Deathbed from a Famous Photograph into a Painting
James Sheehan’s postage stamp-sized watercolor, “Death of Malevich,” uses distance and scale to toy with how viewers’ interpretations and experiences of loss and grief can easily turn from clear to blurry and vice versa
New York artist James Sheehan’s “Death of Malevich (2013),” a postage stamp-sized watercolor based on the famous 1935 photograph of Malevich on his deathbed, has recently been installed at New York’s The Drawing Center. As The Drawing Center’s website states, … Continue reading
