Creating (in) Community Day

Join us for Creating (in) Community Day! Research shows all sorts of beautiful benefits to making art in community: combating loneliness, building trust and empathy, and supporting health aging. With that in mind, we are excited to launch an annual community making day where we invite our neighbors to join us on the meadow for a group activity. This year’s event will be led by artist and our Longform Mentor, kg gnatowski.

Participants will create a large collective weaving along the lagoon and are encouraged to bring materials from home to contribute. The day will provide opportunities for rich conversations and the kindling of new friendships across generations and experiences. Registration is free but required. Lunch is included for all participants. The final weaving will be on display through to the fall, weather permitting.

This program is inspired by the book Project Unlonely by Jeremy Nobel. Ox-Bow House will have copies of the book available for purchase. 

Jeremy Nobel, M.D., MPH, is a primary-care physician, public health practitioner, and award-winning poet with faculty appointments at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Medical School. He is the founder and president of The Foundation for Art & Healing, whose signature initiative, Project UnLonely, addressing the personal and public health challenges of loneliness and social isolation, has gained national visibility.

To learn more about Ox-Bow and this Community Day event, please visit our website at www.ox-bow.org.

Funded in part by The Wellness Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in partnership with the Foundation for Art and Healing.