Art Making

Art Making is connected to well-being through an artist’s creative act or the reflection it inspires. The works in this section of the exhibition were chosen to prompt the viewer to reflect on an artist’s art-making as an informed mediation that considers the creative act and her or his own response. Viewing art attentively requires being aware of an artist’s self-conscious technique. Noting her or his way of putting pen to paper, stroking a paint-soaked brush across a canvas, carving flesh from a block of wood—all encourage an understanding of the creative process. The viewer literally follows the tracks of the artist and perhaps comes closer not only to the work of art but to the culture of the maker. Importantly, this intellectual re-creation of an artist’s work also provides an outlet for one’s own creative expression. In creating a work the artist reimagines his or her world, and ours. The works in this exhibit, from closely observed self-portraits to expressive abstractions, share with us their creative well-being, through craftsmanship and creative intelligence, by means of color, figural expression, form or other elements of art making. We hope that the works in this section inspire you to reconsider the role of craft and technique in the works throughout this exhibition. At the same time we hope they suggest ways of thinking about your own well-being and that of the world we all share.

Emma Capaldi '23

Hannah London '21

Katherine Welch '21