Gallery

Narratives in the Arts & Nature 

December 6

Saturday, December 6

Noon–1:30 p.m.

Free and open to the public.

Drawing on physician and writer Rita Charon’s principles of Narrative Medicine, participants will practice close reading with excerpts from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and body awareness techniques prior to walking through the All Four Seasons in Equal Measure exhibition. After this embodied exploration of the featured artworks, participants will be led by guest facilitator, Dani Clark, through a reflective writing experience.

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Dani Clark

All Four Seasons in Equal Measure brings together six artists, all of whom live and work in Kentucky, whose works highlight their intimate relationship with place and the natural world. Their creative output celebrates the beauty of the environment and demonstrates their concern for its precarities through painting, works on paper, sculpture, video, and installation.

The exhibition continues on the second floor along with an activation that points to the history of this building as a library. A transitory space at the top of the rear stairs has been transformed into a reading room, populated with books recommended by the artists and copies of Walden.

All Four Seasons in Equal Measure was curated by guest curator Monique Long in collaboration with The Carnegie.

Artists: Britany Baker, Kiah Celeste, Shohei Katayama, Gibbs Rounsavall, Rachel Singel, Roy Taylor

Dani Clark is a research coordinator and narrative medicine facilitator at the Cincinnati Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center. She works closely with medical professionals, community members, and artists to strengthen communication and care practices. Her research interests include interdisciplinary team dynamics, patient priorities-based care, and arts-based medical education. She currently collaborates with interdisciplinary colleagues to design arts-based programming within medical and community environments.