https://www.charlottejuergens.com/about daily 0.75 2024-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7cbbef9f4c69693a25002d/5d771971-d922-4b7c-93ec-fb68043e46ed/Mallorca+BW+Headshot.jpeg About https://www.charlottejuergens.com/home daily 1.0 2020-10-29 https://www.charlottejuergens.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-05-05 https://www.charlottejuergens.com/breathingroom daily 0.75 2025-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7cbbef9f4c69693a25002d/d33bf342-5728-4d3a-a108-aef6696545d6/Photo+1+-+Laura+Taylor.jpg Breathing Room - Laura Taylor Painter & Collage Artist based in NYC Laura was five when she met Tina, a rambunctious six-year-old living in the house next door. The girls became inseparable, and their friendship remained a pillar in Laura’s life for over five decades. We meet Laura in 2021, shortly after COVID takes Tina’s life. Laura decides to commemorate their friendship by creating a memorial. Over two years, Laura’s memorial develops to incorporate fragmented letters, paintings, and deconstructed childhood toys. For Laura, working with these objects becomes a way to probe the complicated story of her lost friendship. She describes the project as a “container for grief.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7cbbef9f4c69693a25002d/1628294496968-NJU5F4KRVFU3E522F57Y/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-06%252Bat%252B2.20.10%252BPM.jpg Breathing Room - Rochelle Riley Director of Arts and Culture for the City of Detroit Faced with the devastation of families unable to gather for funerals, Rochelle begins collaborating with community leaders and bereaved Detroiters to create a Healing Memorial for the city. The Healing Memorial comprises thousands of beaded pouches crafted by individual Detroiters out of fabric from their loved ones’ clothing or donated material. Each pouch contains a hand-written reflection, drawing, or prayer. The act of coming together to create pouches opens the possibility of healing while recognizing the immense trauma, loss, and uncertainty experienced during the pandemic. 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Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”
 September 28 - October 27
 Opening Reception: September 28, 1-3pm GalleryDAAS 
Haven Hall, ground floor, room G648
 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7cbbef9f4c69693a25002d/2239ab6e-4fee-4fe0-9d9d-3e8446806bbd/_DSC1435+-+Charlotte+Juergens.jpg Breathing Room: Remembering a Pandemic - Afterthought A documentary film-in-progress by Charlotte Juergens Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? Currently in production, Afterthought is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, “Afterthought” memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing. Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation. September 29, 6pm Rackham Graduate School East Conference Room 915 E Washington St https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7cbbef9f4c69693a25002d/cbf7022b-93ee-4c1f-afe5-345c0f67ebd3/Graduate+Student+Workshop.jpg Breathing Room: Remembering a Pandemic - Film & Academic Expression An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop 

This workshop invites graduate students to consider film as a modality for presenting research. It explores art as a pathway for resisting the centrality of text in academic expression. “Afterthought" director and University of Michigan Ph.D. student Charlotte Juergens will share clips from three academic film projects, discuss the possibilities and challenges of film as a research methodology, and work with attendees to troubleshoot next steps for integrating film into their academic practices. This event will include a continental breakfast. September 30, 11am
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 915 E Washington St https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7cbbef9f4c69693a25002d/17c4f745-d7b7-49f2-abae-a547d3645625/Untitled1.jpg Breathing Room: Remembering a Pandemic - Careers in Film Featuring Mark Juergens & Lydia Robertson Join Afterthought editor Mark Juergens and technical producer Lydia Robertson for a career talk and coffee hour. Juergens and Robertson each have decades-long careers in film, news, and television, and they invite students to ask questions about their educational and professional pathways. September 30, 1pm
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 915 E Washington St https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7cbbef9f4c69693a25002d/c1142232-d7a2-407c-8640-05f11d12c945/Panel+Conversation.jpg Breathing Room: Remembering a Pandemic - Art & COVID Commemoration Featuring memory workers featured in “Afterthought” Collaborators from the memorials featured in the documentary Afterthought will participate in a panel discussion. Participants include: Laura Taylor (creator of “Half-Built House”), Laura Mott (Chief Curator for the Cranbrook Art Museum and curator for the Detroit Healing Memorial), and Rachel Frierson (Director of Programming for the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy and organizer for the Detroit Healing Memorial). Panelists will discuss the role of art in individual and community healing after mass-trauma events like COVID-19. 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