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Artwork featured in How Do We Heal? at the Smart Museum of Art

Smart Museum of ArtHyde Park

How Do We Heal?

Now showing22 September 2026 – 11 July 2027Free

A thematic draw from the Smart's permanent collection exploring art and healing across six strands: health, grief, displacement, trauma, mindfulness and protection.

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Cosmo Campoli's Birth of Death, a cast bronze about 80 cm tall from 1950 to 1951, gets its own half-hour talk inside this show on 30 October, led by a public health professor and an abolitionist.

Everything here comes from the Smart's own collection, spread across four galleries at the front and back of the museum and sorted into six themes: health, grief, displacement, trauma, mindfulness and protection. The museum ties it to the pandemic, wars and the reckoning with racial injustice, and its page leads with a Jo Sandman platinum and palladium self-portrait and Hollis Sigler's 1985 print There is Healing to be Done. You are asked to walk through looking for the works that speak to your own healing.

Entry is free, Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 4:30pm. On Sundays this autumn a free 75-minute yoga class in the lobby works through the same six themes and ends with contemplative viewing in the galleries. RSVP is encouraged and mats are limited.

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