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Field Trip — Smart Museum Tour of "How Do We Heal?"

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About this event

Artwork from the exhibition How Do We Heal?

Jo Sandman, Untitled (self portrait), ca. 1998–1999, Platinum/palladium print. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago. Gift of the artist, 2025.404 ©Jo Sandman

Join fellow CHPV Members for an Free Private Group Tour of "How Do We Heal?"

Smart Museum of Art
University of Chicago
Wednesday, November 18
10–11am
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Lunch at Roux as a group at your own expense

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Enjoy a 1-hour guided tour of the exhibition led by Smart Museum expert guides. And then join CHPV's DEIA Team and other members for lunch at Roux (an easy walk from the Smart) at your own expense.

Our thanks to Dorothy Strang and others from CHPV's DEIA Team for generously serving as our group leaders and ambassadors for this event.

9:50 — Arrive at Smart Museum
10:00–11:00 — Private Exhibition Tour
11:00 — Walk to Roux for lunch with friends at own expense

What can artworks tell us about how people have sought to heal from past traumas and grief? How can the process of making art become therapeutic? In what ways can objects facilitate healing and protection? This exhibition How Do We Heal? addresses the connections between art and healing. It explores these timely questions as we grapple today with continued societal healing from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, international wars, and reckoning with racial injustices among others.

How Do We Heal? takes an expansive view of healing from different challenges and considers the role of art in these processes through the Smart’s permanent collection. It is organized into six thematic areas spanning the front and back galleries: health, grief, displacement, trauma, mindfulness, and protection. This thematic exhibition brings together artworks from across time, geography, and artistic media to consider the relationship between art and healing both historically and into the present today. As you walk through the galleries, we encourage you to reflect on these questions and find connection to artworks that resonate with your own healing journey.

Read more about the exhibition.

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