“Anxiety and Creation” Photography Exhibit at Fletcher Library

Exhibit: Anxiety and Creation: An applied project photography exhibit by Layne Baumgardner

Available: November 19 – December 3, 2012,  during normal library hours

Location: Fletcher Library, Second Floor

Event:  Exhibit opening on November 19th from 5:00 – 6:00 PM

Description: This project seeks to explain that anxiety can be understood by looking through multiple theoretical lenses; namely sociology, psychology and philosophy, to create a holistic view of the phenomenon.

An astounding 18% of adults 18 and older in the United States suffer from an anxiety disorder. It is a least uncomfortable and at most debilitating, but, where anxiety has the ability to isolate, art has the ability to bring together. Nicolas Bourriaud calls art “a site that produces specific sociability,” and I argue that art has the potential to support exchanges that may not occur in modern daily life.