The Aspen Art Museum plans to hold a series of talks this year looking at empathy.
Kaywin Feldman, the first speaker in the series, helped launch the Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. She says people can learn compassion, and art can teach it.
"What better place than an art museum that’s filled with works of art that are expressions of the human lived experience to really focus on empathy?" she said.
Feldman will take on two new roles this year. Starting in March, she’ll step in as director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. She’s the first woman to hold that post in the institution’s nearly 80-year history.
She also will serve as the Aspen Art Museum’s director-in-residence this year. She says she’s inspired by the museum’s innovation.
"Aspen Art Museum is really so well known across the field for their great programs and challenging dynamic exhibitions," she said.
“Art and Empathy” starts at 5 p.m. on Thursday.
