Nature Morte is an online death school for artists. This 10-day webinar supports artists as they pursue their curiosity about death and explore and develop their identity as a death-curious artist. The virtual residency focuses on the natural history of death and involves daily live video lectures with international historians, curators and biologists about a range of death related topics, and several short one on one meetings with artists who make art about death around the world.
Built in to the 2 – 3 hours of daily programming are discussions, recommended assignments and show and tell. The program is designed to give insight into death knowledge and ritual from a wide range of perspectives.
Outline
- Animal Psychopomps with the director of Morbid Anatomy
- Wild Death and Feral Women with Prof. of Death and Photography Ashley Czajkowski of the University of Arizona
- Working with Wild Bones: Skeletal articulation and archiving with the Canadian Museum of Nature
- Ecological succession and fire ecology in the pyroscene at Arizona State University
- Wild Death and Mourning Ritual in Contemporary Art with the director of the Biophilium
- Memorials for the More-Than-Human with artist and pet death care worker Alyssa Ellis
- Botanical poisons with Kew Gardens
- How to Talk about Impending Environmental Doom with photographer and documentary film maker Chris Jordan
- The history of Earth's mass extinctions with the University of Ottawa
- Butoh and embodied philosophies of decay with Blue Ceiling Studio
- Crow funerals and how animals grieve with the College of Williams & Mary
- Fungal decay with Cardiff University
- Scrimshaw workshop with Towson University
- Participants are invited to give an artist talk to share your work with the group
Duration of residency
10 days
Accommodation
A comfy seat in front of your computer
Disciplines, work equipment and assistance
all
Fees and support
600$ USD fee
Expectations towards the artist
You are invited to show your work to the group in a 15 – 20 minute artists talk
Application information
Send the following material to ArtLovesScience@gmail.com
- Artist CV
- Artist statement (about 200 words)
- Application form PDF or docx
- Portfolio 5 – 10 examples of your work
We are flexible and forgiving with application formats and deadlines.
Application deadline
2026-11-15
Residency starts
2027-01-04