Community
Well-being as shown in these artists’ imagined communities encompasses interactions between strangers and friends alike. The interconnectedness of a community, whether a neighborhood, small town, or big city, requires that people share a sense of well-being. The artwork in this section explores and expands what community means. We invite you to consider the ways that the construction of community in pictures might impact the well-being of its members, and how the members’ own well-being is reflected in that shared image. A community’s welfare is related to individual and familial well-being, as those two components constitute the fabric of a community. But a community’s well-being as seen in these works also includes political and economic elements; understanding of well-being is tied to its sense of equality. The social and economic inequalities touched on in this section threaten a community’s well-being. Finally, too, community and environment go hand-in-hand since a community can only exist within a built or natural environment. This section on community shows how the themes that run throughout this exhibition on art and well-being are interwoven; community properly understood embraces them all.
Isabella Chalfant '22
June Hodge '21
Kristen Lauritzen '21
Savannah Singleton '21
KENOJUAK ASHEVAK, Women Speak of Spring Fishing, 1991omen Speak of Spring Fishing, c.