Support Michaela Pilar Brown, Artist and Caregiver
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Michaela Pilar Brown is an extraordinary human. She leads with her heart and sharpens her wit at each turn. As an artist, she pushes us. Summons us to examine our interior lives whilst centering the body, the lived experience. Michaela is hard work and intention, personified and she "got it honest" because she comes from a family who takes care of one another. There is no greater testament to this familial bond and commitment than the way Michaela and her four brothers, Vincent, John, Tracy, and Eric bonded together over the past two years to care for their mother, the dynamic Mrs. Marilyn Brown.
If you have ever met Michaela's mother, Mrs. Marilyn Brown, you know that she never met a stranger and her maternal energy extended beyond her own children to include a bunch of us adopted "children." She was often front row, center at Michaela's arts shows and gleamed with pride as her daughter's biggest fan.
In 2018, Michaela's decades of work began to really pay off as she won major awards and gained recognition for her art in breakthrough ways. In July of that same year, Marilyn was rushed to the hospital and doctors reported that "she didn't have much time."
Michaela and her family quickly switched gears and began a quest to give their mother opportunities to travel and soak up family, really experience and cherish the life she had left.
With the love and care from family, Mrs. Brown fought back and defied what doctors believed possible. So many of Mother Marilyn's "children" flocked to her, basked in her joy and optimism despite her condition.
This journey of hills and valleys, crises and triumphs went on for two solid years and every crisis would define a new normal for their family. Michaela and her brothers insisted on their mother being at home, advocated for life sustaining care when doctors were trying to write her off as dead. Given the gravity of the situation, Michaela reduced her workload to only those things she had already committed to, took no new gigs, made very little new work. Her energy, her time, her prayers, were given to the most central tenet in her family: care for one another.
On March 19, 2020, deep in the midst of a global pandemic, Mother Marilyn Brown went onto glory with her children gathered at her bedside. They held a sweet and sacred ceremony bedside to send her off and plan to memorialize her when sanctions for gathering are lifted. Though at peace and thankful the suffering is over, Michaela must face the loss of her mother in relative isolation from her larger community.
We would like to ease her journey a bit by assisting her with funds to supplement her sabbatical from art while caring for her mother and the loss of future gigs because of COVID-19.
If you have ever met Michaela's mother, Mrs. Marilyn Brown, you know that she never met a stranger and her maternal energy extended beyond her own children to include a bunch of us adopted "children." She was often front row, center at Michaela's arts shows and gleamed with pride as her daughter's biggest fan.
In 2018, Michaela's decades of work began to really pay off as she won major awards and gained recognition for her art in breakthrough ways. In July of that same year, Marilyn was rushed to the hospital and doctors reported that "she didn't have much time."
Michaela and her family quickly switched gears and began a quest to give their mother opportunities to travel and soak up family, really experience and cherish the life she had left.
With the love and care from family, Mrs. Brown fought back and defied what doctors believed possible. So many of Mother Marilyn's "children" flocked to her, basked in her joy and optimism despite her condition.
This journey of hills and valleys, crises and triumphs went on for two solid years and every crisis would define a new normal for their family. Michaela and her brothers insisted on their mother being at home, advocated for life sustaining care when doctors were trying to write her off as dead. Given the gravity of the situation, Michaela reduced her workload to only those things she had already committed to, took no new gigs, made very little new work. Her energy, her time, her prayers, were given to the most central tenet in her family: care for one another.
On March 19, 2020, deep in the midst of a global pandemic, Mother Marilyn Brown went onto glory with her children gathered at her bedside. They held a sweet and sacred ceremony bedside to send her off and plan to memorialize her when sanctions for gathering are lifted. Though at peace and thankful the suffering is over, Michaela must face the loss of her mother in relative isolation from her larger community.
We would like to ease her journey a bit by assisting her with funds to supplement her sabbatical from art while caring for her mother and the loss of future gigs because of COVID-19.
Organizer and beneficiary
Roni Nicole
Organizer
Hopkins, SC
Michaela Pilar Brown
Beneficiary