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THE LENAWEE VOICE
ADRIAN, MICHIGAN
FREE FEBRUARY 2025
LOCAL NEWS FOR ADRIAN AND LENAWEE COUNTY
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From left to right are doors made by Pi Benio in honor of Jim Feeney, Taina Mantey in honor of Peter Fisher, and Duane Bastian in honor of Roger and David Leik, who were father and son, as part of the Power of Passage project.
A partnership between Hospice of Lenawee and the Adrian Center for the Arts offers a unique way for people to remember loved ones who have been lost By Arlene Bachanov The Lenawee Voice
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ADRIAN — Doors — both actual and metaphorical — can mean many different things. For those who have lost someone to death, doors can represent the portal to the journey their loved one has taken to the other side. Giving families who’ve experienced such a loss a way to honor their loved one is the impetus behind Power of Passage, a program pairing families from Hospice of Lenawee’s bereavement program with artists from the Adrian Center for the Arts. The second edition of Power of Passage takes place this year. Power of Passage was the brainchild of Adrian artist Pi Benio back in 2020. It was still relatively early in the ACA’s life and Benio wanted to raise its visibility in the local community. One day, she
decided that partnering with another nonprofit would be a great idea. “I woke up the next morning and the plan was fully formed in my head,” she said. And with that, Power of Passage was born. More than two dozen families, each matched with an ACA artist, participated in that first program. This year, 24 families and a corresponding number of artists are taking part. Artists use full-sized doors, representing the idea of “passage,” as the basis of an art piece capturing the important elements of the life of each family’s late loved one. The families answer a questionnaire, create a collage made out of magazine pictures showing things about their late loved one and what that person liked to do, and meet with the artist with whom they are paired. Then the artist goes to work.
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“The idea isn’t to do portraits,” Benio said. “It’s to show what they loved in life.” Families get to see their doors at a private gathering before the art goes on exhibit at the ACA, which is at 1375 N. Main St. on the campus of PlaneWave Instruments. This year’s exhibit takes place Sept. 15-28. After the exhibit closes, the families can take their doors home. To capture the essence of each loved one, the artists might use all sorts of media, from paint to collage to clay, or might even turn their door into something else completely. “The sky is the limit,” Benio said. One of the doors in the 2020 exhibit came from Benio herself, who created one to honor the late Dr. James Feeney. The door she created depicts his love of birdwatching, golf, and Ireland.
See POWER OF PASSAGE, page A15
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