Flowers on a Table is an offering for artists who feel the ache of what capitalism, criticism, and invisibility have taken from their work. In the company of artists - living and dead, trained and untrained, remembered and forgotten - we tell the truth about what making asks of us, what it gives back, and how we might relate differently from here.

Begins April 9, 2026 | 7pm eastern

About Flowers on a Table

  • Flowers on a Table is a six-gathering healing container for artists tending grief, injury, and resilience as artists within a colonized and capitalist culture.

  • The series unfolds in two three-meeting modules, held in springtime - the season when what has been working underground cracks the surface and rises.

  • Module one is titled Ringing Bells. Module two is titled Rising Tables.

  • Each module includes guided worksheets, specific art-making prompts, and shared preparation before our gatherings. This is not a spectator experience - participants are asked to arrive engaged, responsive, and willing to participate.

  • The series is shaped by a collective ethic: all hands in. Like the spiritualist tables of old, we understand that what rises does so through shared attention, participation, and trust.

Throughout the series, we will study carefully chosen outsider artists, artists who lived with poverty, marginalization, disability, institutional violence, or cultural exile.

  • We honor these artists not by placing them safely in art history, but by inviting them into relationship - summoning them to the table with respect, care, and attentiveness to the conditions they lived and worked within.

  • Flowers on a Table is a healing space designed by death-work artists for artists - one that centers slowness, truth-telling, and collective presence rather than productivity or optimization.

  • This is a place for artists who are ready to participate fully: to make, to heal, to share, to witness others, and to let something rise together.

 

A signed limited edition print by Meghan and Narinder, published by Night House Press, is sent via mail to each participant of this experience - as a memento of remembrance of their place at the table and an honoring of our art ancestors.

Save your seat at the table here.

There are only 20 spaces at the table.

Registration is now open and closes March 31.
Get $25 off when you register by Feb 28th using code “FLOWERS”

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Note about Scholarship Spaces:
Two scholarship spaces are available for Flowers on a Table for artists with disabilities. Scholarships are awarded by lottery.

To be entered, please email care@narinderbazen.com a brief request by February 21. Lottery recipients will be notified by February 23rd. If you are not selected, you are still warmly welcome to register for the gathering.

Who is the table for?

Flowers on a Table is for artists who want to participate, not observe. This space is meant for those willing to make work, share it, and sit in tender conversation with others. It may not be a good fit for those looking for quick techniques, productivity boosts, or a hands-off experience.

Participation ethics - group rise.

This is a collective container held with intention. Meghan and Narinder are the facilitators and space holders, tending the structure, pacing, and care of the group. Participants are invited to arrive prepared, present, and willing to engage - knowing that what rises here does so through attention, honesty, and shared participation: all hands on the table.

The spaces between…

Between gatherings, participants will be invited into gentle preparation. This includes short worksheets, brief artist study, and specific art prompts designed to orient your attention and support your process. You’ll arrive at each meeting having already entered the work, ready to contribute and be in dialogue.

What’s included in the program?

Every 2nd and 4th Thursday, from 7 PM to 9 PM ET, April-June gather for an intimate exploration of art, artists’ grief, Outsider-Artist study, and group tenderness.

Module One: Ringing Bells

  • Three gatherings centered in the injury and the call for help.

  • We stay with the grief artists carry from erasure, precarity, criticism, and harm - letting it ring clearly rather than rushing toward resolution.

Module Two: Rising Tables

  • Three gatherings devoted to illumination and resilience.

  • Each module culminates in a gallery night (the third gathering), where participants share work made in response to the prompts - offering witness, resonance, and thoughtful reflection rather than critique.

Participants receive a limited edition collaberative print in their mail by Meghan and Narinder.

Bi-weekly Sessions / Two Modules

Flowers on a Table starts April 9th

Registration closes on March 31st.
Early bird discount ends February 28th.

20 spaces available - to keep it cozy

Register here - if you need $25 off
*use code FLOWERS at checkout by Feb 28

    • 2x/month meetings

    • Grief Support for Artists

    • Commune with Dead Artists

    • Revive Creative Inspiration

  • Two Modules
    3 meetings each
    One module for honoring the grief and one module for tending and community.
    A gallery night at the end of each module.

  • If there’s one thing we’ve seen time & again - it’s that community amplifies magic and impact. So let’s gather regularly to share about our creative processes and possibly form relationships with other artists for collaborative art making reasons!

About the Facilitators

Narinder Bazen is a conceptual artist, illustrator, death midwife, and spiritual guide, with a BA in Performance Studies. She is the creator of the Nine Keys School of Death Arts.

Her practice moves across art, death, ritual, and culture - drawn to ghosts, misfits, and work that doesn’t behave or explain itself easily.

“Flowers on a Table was born from my own grief as an artist in a world that kept telling me to get a “real job.” It carries the quiet injuries of criticism, alienation, and being asked—again and again—to make art that sells.

Alongside this grief, I carry the lived experience of watching artists come back to their work. Through the Nine Keys School of Death Arts, I have helped reawaken artists whose creativity had gone dormant under pressure, shame, or survival. This work is my refusal to abandon what has kept me alive, honor what I can’t control, commune with the dead artists, and an invitation to sit together in the truth that our art is essential.”

Meghan Allynn Johnson (she/her) is an artist and death worker whose practice centers on building community-based grief and death resources through shared creative practice and engagement with art history.

She is the co-founder of Madison Death Studio, an artist-run project exploring folk and fringe wisdom in community-based death care. Her artwork has been exhibited in the US and internationally, and is included in Singular/Serial: Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint (Kernan, Oresman, Einstein).

Meghan completed the Nine Keys School of Death Arts program with Narinder in 2024. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis’s Sam Fox School of Art. She is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

After years in institutional and market-driven art worlds, Meghan began to reckon with the grief of being an artist in a deeply capitalistic culture - losing touch with her voice, her people, and the quiet magic of making. Leaving those structures opened a return to slower practices, collective care, and deeper ways of seeing. Through an artist’s lens, art is not capital or object, but spellwork - a charged form of attention that cuts through the noise of this way of life. Her teaching invites artists back to this way of looking, where making becomes an act of devotion, power, and shared meaning.

Follow Meghan and the Madison Death Studio on Instagram here: @madison.death.studio

Program Meeting Dates

  • APRIL

    4/9 @ 7-9PM ET

    4/23 @ 7-9PM ET

  • MAY

    5/14 @ 7-9PM ET

    5/28 @ 7-9PM ET

  • JUNE

    6/11 @ 7-9PM ET

    6/25 @ 7-9PM ET

notes from the ancestors of our art / those who are supporting Flowers on a Table:

“We made what we could with what we had. Do the same. No one called our art important at the time. That didn’t stop us. We were poor. We were dismissed. The work outlived that. We saved you a seat.”

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FAQs

  • Flowers on a Table meets 2x/month on the 2nd + 4th Thursday of the month from April - June.

  • This 3 month program is an investment of $375.

    If you register before Feb 28th, you get $25 off! coupon code FLOWERS

  • Due to the nature of our work and Narinder's petite business, there will be no cancellations and no refunds for past sessions/payments.

  • The nature of this particular group is meant to build & encourage consistency. Through consistency we develop intimacy and connection with others. Therefore registration will close on March 31st.

  • If you can't make it to all meetings, that is okay, though consistent participation is highly suggested.
    There will not be any recordings for missed events. Magic lives inside that present moment togetherness.