Ongoing (March 2023) 

Threshold Collective is honored to be hosting our first annual Grief and Loss Residency artist Kaz K Sherman. We feel fortunate to have a home in the Maas building where the infrastructure exists to support artistic exploration of death and grief. In addition to this annual grief residency, we will have ongoing artistic programming related to these themes, as we build community and conversation around exploration of death, loss and grief. 

About Kaz:

Kaz K Sherman's work incorporates her background in dance, writing, theater, music, and the handyman arts. She choreographs and performs, builds sets and props, designs sound and video, and writes text. Her investigations in craft and visual art, including glassblowing, woodworking, drawing, and sculpture, illuminate how the body extends to and through other materials, culminating in an interdependent world where objects elucidate bodies, choreography is language, and words become tools. She's been a freelance stage technician, technical director, and production manager for over 25 years. In conjunction with her show Soft Goods (2016), which explored work, death, loss, and the occupational self-obliteration of stagehands, she partnered with Behind the Scenes to create a mental health/chemical dependency counseling fund specifically for technical production workers, the first of its kind in the nation. Since 2020, she's been working in COVID healthcare support, helping to run testing and vaccinations sites across Minnesota. She's currently working on a project exploring transplants, hospital workplace culture, and the hospicing of people, animals, and careers.