The Grief Deck

Adriene Jenik (she/they) is an artist, educator, and end-of-life doula who resides in the high desert of California. Jenik is a professor at the School of Art, Arizona State University, affiliate faculty in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and Desert Humanities Center, and a global futures scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. The Artists' Literacies Institute was established in 2018 by artist, teacher, and producer Andrew Freiband, to be a research agency for artists, putting artists' unique ways of knowing to use in building a just, sustainable, post-capitalist and post-colonial world. As a supplement and corrective to contemporary Western art education, and as an agent and advocate for artists in developing meaningful civic and social engagements, ALI helps artists bring forth the knowledge they produce as their primary contribution, circumventing commodity markets and undercutting the exploitative economy within which artists are typically caught. ALI is a partner within the NYC Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, from which The Grief Deck emerged.