Mourning Hope

Mourning Hope

The International Quilt Museum is pleased to showcase the important work of Mourning Hope Grief Center, a Lincoln-based organization that supports and comforts youth and their families in times of grief. Since 1994, Mourning Hope has provided free support groups, community education, grief resources, and referrals to grieving children, teens, young adults, and families who have lost someone. 

Following a death, children often lack the developmental abilities to articulate overwhelming emotions. Mourning Hope introduces a variety of activities, including quiltmaking, which stimulate creative expression, communication, and healing. Children and teens makes quilt blocks that honor their loved ones, and the resulting memorials—pieced and quilted by volunteers—represent the uniqueness of individual journeys through grief.

About Mourning Hope

About Mourning Hope
About Mourning Hope

Mourning Hope companions grieving children, teens, young adults and their families when someone significant in their lives has a serious illness or has died. Mourning Hope provides support groups, community education, grief resources and referrals. 

Click here to visit the organization's website.

Gallery Photos

Gallery Photos
Gallery Photos
This exhibition was made possible through funding from Friends of the International Quilt Museum and the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. The Nebraska Arts Council, a state agency, has supported this exhibition through its matching grants program funded by the Nebraska Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. Visit www.artscouncil.nebraska.gov for more information.
Event Date
Wednesday, August 7, 2019 to Wednesday, November 20, 2019