Compound Art for All Workshop

Healing Through Collage

Art for All is a series of free hands-on workshops at Compound that teach various artistic mediums and encourages new ways of making art that’s fun and engaging for the family.

Art supplies are provided. No previous art-making experience necessary.

We live in tumultuous times and are often pushed forward without a chance to make space for our experiences of grief and loss. Through meditation, multi-media collage, and a one-word prompt, this workshop is an opportunity to hold space for our most precious truths and tender experiences.

Madison Girifalco and Elizabeth Garcia will guide discussion and sharing circles throughout the workshop.

Please join us as we set aside this time as a community to honor the things and people we may be grieving.

About Madison Girifalco: Madison Girifalco a Los Angeles-based puppet fabricator, immersive artist, and the founder of Holding Space. Holding Space is an art installation designed to acknowledge joy and grief through immersive arts and puppetry. Along with her artistic works, she has written two illustrated books including Dead Pen, a collection of drawings and stories inspired by one-word prompts.

About Elizabeth Garcia: Elizabeth Garcia is a Colombian-American herbalist, INELDA-trained end-of-life doula, and graduate of the School of the Sacred Wild. Rooted in Earth-based healing, she weaves together herbal medicine, ancestral wisdom, and spiritual care to offer safe, grounded spaces for those moving through loss, transition, and transformation.

Her work is deeply informed by lived experience—becoming the fertile ground for her initiation into grief work. Through her own journey, she discovered the profound medicine that lives in community circles and collective healing. These personal rites of passage, along with her formal training and mentorship in the wise woman tradition, have shaped her into a compassionate, steady, and intuitive grief holder.