September 2007

*Meeting with Hospice of Southern Maine CEO & PR director, and Jean Maginnis- executive director of the Maine Center for Creativity.  Excited about project.  The Hospice of Southern Maine commits to fund opening of THE IRREVERENT WIDOW PROJECT, scheduled for November.

November 2007

*Opening of The Irreverent Widow Project at Silver Crayon Studios, Portland, Maine, Sponsored by Hospice of Southern Maine & The Maine Center for Creativity.  Great success – 200 + people attend.

*MPBN radio interview

January 2008 – December 2008

*Collaboration with The Center for Grieving Children, Portland, Maine -Artist in Residence

*70 page book printed, containing stories from the project, funded by The Center.

*Art Exhibit pieces on rotation throughout the year at The Center

“I admire Sandi’s courage and humor in articulating the varied experiences of loss. Not only in the written word and in the scale of her installations, but in the intimacies of found and private objects that illustrate and complement her stories.  Her personal loss is beautifully articulated and she makes it approachable and understandable in universal terms by clarity of language and in providing an audience with multiple points of entry.

Best of all – there is a tremendous amount of honesty and humor in her work so one moves through the exhibit being touched, educated and amused.  Sandi is doing groundbreaking work that shares a number of themes that resonate with our mission here at The Center.”

Anne Lynch, Executive Director,

The Center for Grieving Children, Portland, Maine

June 2008

CHIME (Chaplaincy Institute of Maine) holds meeting at The Center for Grieving Children and encounters my work.  The participants are so touched by it that Anna Smulowitz Schutz  of CHIME  (playwright and now hospice chaplain) calls me and wants WHAT IS SACRED art exhibit piece to be centerpiece of 4 day conference in October.  The conference is entitled: “Sacred Arts: Personal & Global Transformation through Creative Expression.”   The art exhibit piece is to be placed in a room to be used exclusively for “meditation and contemplation.”  I am also asked to do a presentation and facilitate a workshop entitled:  “Follow Your Bliss…using your creative gifts to transform your life after loss.”

October 2008

“What is Sacred” art exhibit piece installed at WISE conference.  North Andover, MA

2009

* Collaboration with theatre set designer to turn selections from the art exhibit  into  self-contained sculptural pieces for purchase and display in healthcare organizations and corporate settings.

* Creation of Videos to tell stories using a new platform

* Conceptualization & Design of revisions to current web site to expand content

2010

*Assembly of Advisory Board to facilitate growth and forward movement of the project.

*Newly redesigned web site goes live!