i am a gravedigger’s daughter.

i am from the land and am shaped by the land.

i am a preserver of memory and stillness.

About Gravedigger’s Daughter 

Founded in 2021, Gravedigger’s Daughter is a contemporary art gallery in Waldoboro, ME, run by Maine native Jen Barrows, a Gravedigger’s Daughter.

The gallery is open seasonally from Memorial Day to Veterans Day.

Gravedigger’s Daughter is a harbor for what is lost but not gone. It stands in the space between memory and soil, between the breath held and the exhale. Here, the land speaks—through weathered liminality, through the quiet ache of the forgotten, through the sky’s endless arc.

The gallery exists as an offering: a place to gather the fragments of what was, and what could be, stitching them into something that holds space for both grief and wild, pulsing life. 

The works presented are moments suspended in amber—each one a call to pause, to look again. What does it mean to belong? What does it mean to remember? And in the end, what do we owe the land that has carried us and the people who shape us? 

Gravedigger’s Daughter is a place where the personal and the collective blur, where viewers are invited to step into the gap between the past and the future and linger, if only for a moment, in the soft unraveling. 

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Contact us: office@gravediggersdaughter.org

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Jen Barrows

Jen is a Maine native and a Gravedigger’s Daughter. She received her MFA in Studio Art from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at Tufts University. Personal research interests include the built environment and the commercial vernacular, craft, popular culture, and the socio-economics of urban and rural forms in North America. 

She has fabricated permanent large scale public art pieces installed across the United States. Her solo artwork has been exhibited internationally.