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PAST EXHIBITION

A TWO-PART EXHIBITION: PICTURING WELLNESS

Picturing Wellness is a two-part exhibition with complementary education programming that focuses on a medical humanities perspective as the bridge between understanding resilience through treatment, care and social action.

Picturing Wellness I:  From Adversity to Resilience

Coordinated by Nicole Knibb, Education Coordinator, MMA, and Christine Wekerle, Associate Professor, Pediatrics, McMaster University

A didactic exhibition which examines how visual literacy skills may be  employed by health professionals in order to develop their observational and empathetic skills as well as various self-care practices.  The exhibition includes works from the McMaster collection by: David BlackwoodBlake DebassigeBetty GoodwinTadashi KawamataTony Scherman and Michael Thompson.

This exhibition sprang from two collaborative programs developed by McMaster Museum of Art and the McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences: Engaging and Educating in Child Maltreatment and The Art of Seeing™.

Picturing Wellness II: Museums and Social Engagement

Michelle Bellemare (Toronto)
Rebecca Belmore (Montréal)
Nancy Kembry (Toronto)
Catherine Heard (Toronto)
Yvonne Singer (Toronto)

Picturing Wellness Part II is not meant to be a didactic illustration of Part I. Rather, it presents artworks that ponder, in broad scope, issues related to trauma, the body, memory, history, medicine, health and the museum. What is consistent, throughout all of the works, is a consciousness of an “impact” on the individual and on the role that art can play in interpretation, processing, or healing. The impact could be either physical or mental, individual or societal. The project examines the museum at the crossroads of healthcare and personal well-being.

PANEL DISCUSSION

Thursday February 25 at 6 PM
Wellness on Campus: The University, the Museum and the Health Sciences

Moderator:
Christine Wekerle

Panel:
Catherine Heard, Artist, Instructor, OCADU
Olaf Kraus de Camargo, Associate Professor. Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University
Anne Niec, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University
Blake Oliver, McMaster SRA Rep / Bachelor of Health Sciences Program
Joyce Zazulak, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University

Curated by: McMaster Museum of Art

January 05, 2016 – March 26, 2016

Back view of a stuffed bear stitched together with metal brackets
VIEW ARCHIVE
Link to Exhibitions Archive for a complete list of past exhibitions

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SUBMISSIONS & ASSISTANCE

SUBMISSIONS:

The McMaster Museum of Art is presently not accepting artists’ submissions for exhibitions at this time of leadership change at the museum.  Our Interim Director will be undertaking a review of the museum’s forward exhibition schedule, as well as our policies and procedures, in the coming months.  Our present focus is the ongoing maintenance of our permanent collection and storage needs for future collection activities.

The museum remains committed to our collecting priority in the continued support of early career, mid-career and established Indigenous artists, artists of the Black diaspora and racialized artists through purchases and commissions. Donations will be welcomed and reviewed at a future date which will be posted on our website.

ASSISTANCE:

The McMaster Museum of Art is a third party recommender for Ontario Arts Council (OAC) Exhibition Assistance Grants.

Please note that there has been a delay in the OAC opening the 2024-2025 program. This webpage will be updated with our deadlines as soon as possible.

Priorities:
Artists who demonstrate an interest and consideration of art as a medium for social change and action.

Please follow the guidelines established by the Ontario Arts Council, apply directly through their website, and submit the following with your applications:

Brief artist statement
Confirmation letter from the gallery/museum/venue
Budget
CV
Digital images of work