Traci Molloy is a Brooklyn-based artist, collaborator, public speaker, and education advocate. For over 25 years, she’s been facilitating large-scale, multimedia, collaborative art projects with trauma survivors. Her projects have been exhibited nationwide, in venues including the United Nations, National September 11th Memorial and Museum, Pentagon, Norman Rockwell Museum, and the CDC’s Global Health Odyssey Museum. 

Molloy is curious about the ways humans process trauma and grief, and about the impact life-altering traumas can have on individuals, communities, and society. Her collaborations provide trauma survivors with an artistic platform to share their truths, process, and heal. They are complex tributes to the difficulties we encounter, and walk alongside with, in life. Her goal as an artist is to make hope manifest visually.

For more information, visit: www.cultivating-empathy.com or @tracimolloy on Instagram.

Jen McDermott is a Maine-based artist and educator whose work centers on community, memory, and the restorative potential of collective artmaking. Forget ME Not reminds us of what we have in common, of our shared humanity, that we all struggle, dream, and hope for something better. Through her practice, McDermott creates spaces where art becomes a mechanism for processing loss, holding onto memories, and reflecting on the experiences that shape us. She has designed and led a wide variety of programs for diverse communities, all focused on creating moments of recognition where participants are seen, valued, and connected through shared creative experience.