A.R.
K e i n e r
is a visual artist working in drawing, painting, text, and sculpture. Using work from years gone by as material for new work, A.R. Keiner forces a conversation between past, present, future. A presentation of their work at the 2021 Health Humanities in Times of Crisis Symposium, University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art can be seen here.
Advocacy for recently bereaved families is at the forefront of A.R.’s social practice. In 2017 Liza Bernstein invited A.R. to speak at Stanford University School of Medicine’s Medicine X. The panel Death and Bereavement in the Digital Age can be seen here.
Since 2012 A.R. Keiner has worked with over a dozen families and their communities after the death of a child or parent. This work includes direct and indirect peer support, information on mutual aid, facilitation or commission of cremation container adornment, and the assembly of grief teams. All of this work is pro bono and contingent on availability. If you or someone you know is trying to contact A.R. regarding the recent death of a loved one, hospice drawings, or assistance setting up a grief team for a family in your community, please email the below address with the subject URGENT- GRIEF TEAM.
alexis.roberts.keiner@gmail.com
A.R. Keiner is based Los Angeles.