In 2013, Christoper C. Calvey, the funeral director and supervisor of the Jennings-Calvey Funeral Home and Cremation Services in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, was having a conversation with artist Marylou Chibirka.
[By Stan Goldstein]“I serve on the board of the Abington Senior Center in Clarks Summit and seniors have quite a few losses throughout the years,” Calvey said. “I was talking to Marylou about what we could do and that’s where I came up with an idea.”
That idea was to start the program, “Good Grief Art: Learn to Paint Through Your Loss” at the senior center. The semiannual 10-week oil painting class, now entering its seventh year, is aimed at adults who have experienced the loss of a loved one or pet. The mourners paint someone or something lost.