ON DEATH, GRIEF, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ARCHIVE: MONUMENT ETERNAL COMMUNITY DEATHWORK EDUCATIONAL
Saturday, November 22 & Sunday, November 23, 2025
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
A two-day, hands-on, heart-forward workshop led by death doulas aimed at practicing and modeling community deathcare. Learn about the work of death doulas, how this work is already happening all around us, and how you can do it for your people.
Notebooks, writing utensils, and light refreshments will be provided.
ABOUT ‘ON DEATH, GRIEF, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ARCHIVE’
On the occasion of the exhibition Le’Andra LeSeur: Monument Eternal, Le’Andra LeSeur brings together death doulas Resham Mantri and Trishia Frulla to lead a two-day program, On Death, Grief, and the Importance of the Archive, examining the enduring effects of grief. Together, they will explore how grief is embodied and carried through collective memory. They will also highlight the role of the personal archive as a vital act of care that disrupts cycles of violence and systemic erasure.
“In a society where we are living in the shadows of colonialism, slavery, mass violence, and capitalism, our focus and attention has been trained to jump from one violent act to the next. In acknowledging deep, often generational grief, we understand better how to care for ourselves. We begin to slow down. This is the cornerstone. The backbone of love. We aim to bring love, acceptance, honesty, and joy to our grief work. This is how we create new worlds that inherently resist what is no longer serving us.”
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Mala (she/they), also known as Trishia Frulla, is a queer FilAm artist, designer, and death doula rerooting in Luiseño Territory (Escondido, CA). Her art weaves together stories of trauma, ancestry, and becoming—which powerfully informs and is informed by her concurrent practice as a death worker. Guided by curiosity, love, and devotion, Mala tends to life’s thresholds, where loss gives way to renewal, and care becomes ritual. Their practice supports and has been supported by Ulirat Gatherings, Community Deathcare Digest, the School of Liberating Education, Art.Coop, and various activist spaces. Through her studio, HypoFutures, she guides endings and designs beginnings—reflecting purpose, and cultivating networks of care that stretch across time and space. hypofutures.com / @designing.doula
Resham Mantri is a multi-hyphenate heart-forward human. She is a deathworker, herbalist-in-training, writer, artist and single co-parent of two children living with her mother and dog in an intergenerational home in Brooklyn. Resham makes art as a way of exploring grief practices across cultures, how we live together, and the power of loving. She holds in-person and online group spaces around grief, death, and possibilities. She writes personal essays and has had her essays and interviews appear in other publications. She runs a small online shop with vintage textiles from India. Resham holds degrees in and has worked in fields of law and computer science and continues to explore about how we attempt to live together in loving societies. Reshammantri.com / @reshamgram
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Le’Andra LeSeur is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses a range of media, including video, installation, photography, painting, and performance. Her body of work, a celebration of Blackness, queerness, and femininity, seeks to dismantle systems of power and achieve transcendence and liberation through perseverance. Through the insertion of her body and voice into her work, LeSeur provides her audience with an opportunity to contemplate themes such as identity, family, Black grief and joy, the experience of invisibility, and what it means to take up space as a queer Black woman—a rejection of the stereotypes which attempt to push these identities to the margins. The artist has received several notable awards, including the Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2024-2026), Leslie-Lohman Museum Artists Fellowship (2019), the Time-Based Medium Prize, and the Juried Grand Prize at Artprize 10 (2018). LeSeur has appeared in conversation with Marilyn Minter at the Brooklyn Museum, presented by the Tory Burch Foundation, and has lectured at The New School, NY, NY, and the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, among others. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at MFA Boston, Boston, MA; Swivel Gallery, NY, NY; The Shed, New York, NY; Marlborough, New York, NY; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Assembly Room, New York, NY; Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Arnika Dawkins, Atlanta, GA; and others. Residencies include Pioneer Works, iLab at The University of the Arts, Visual Studies Workshop, ArcAthens, NARS Foundation, Marble House Project, and MASS MoCA.
VISITOR EXPERIENCE
Project Space | 205 E. Archer St, Tulsa, OK 74103
The Project Space is designed for easy navigation and accessibility. The venue features flexible seating, designated standing zones, and a family-sized private restroom for caregivers or those who need extra room. Street parking can be managed through the Park Mobile App and is free after 5 PM and on weekends.