Open-Hearted Opening Day: Colorado College Roundtable

Colorado College Roundtable, 4–6 p.m.
Join us for a special event featuring an interdisciplinary group of Colorado College faculty and staff who will reflect on the themes of Open-Hearted, including the limits of neoliberal models of wellness and the need to think of health in a more systemic manner. RSVP required as space is limited.

Open-Hearted examines the history, meaning, and contemporary realities of health care and well-being. Moving beyond the individualistic framework of “self-care,” the exhibition reframes wellness as a collective project—one that necessitates an expansion of public health infrastructures across many levels of society. Featuring works made between 1986 to 2025—a period framed by two significant epidemics, AIDS and COVID-19—the show features a variety of media, including design, weaving, sculpture, video, and installation, that explore our medical system’s forms, objects, spaces, and communication systems. Some works advocate for increased access to vital life-saving information and for an expansion of public health resources led by disability, chronic illness, and neurodiversity activism.

Moderated by Nadia Guesses, Chair of the Feminist and Gender Studies Department and featuring the following speakers: Chantal Figueroa (Sociology), Dot Devota (English), Jordan Lord (Film and Media Studies), Joana Chavez (Feminist and Gender Studies), Aaron Su (Anthropology), Liliana Carrizo (Music), Rushaan Kumar (Feminist and Gender Studies), Jarred Wiehe (College Transitions Program), Jameel Paulin (Art).

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Image: Melissa Cody, Dopamine Dream, 2023. © Melissa Cody. Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York.