Compassion: What Moves You?

Compassion: What Moves You? is running at the Michael C. Carlos Museum through November 1, 2026. It's part of Emory University's Year of Compassion, a yearlong focus on empathy, healing, and human connection anchored by the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics, which leads the university's global contributions to compassion-based learning and research in partnership with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

The exhibition stretches across three galleries of installations. It pairs Youth Voices — hand-drawn reflections by pre-K through college students in the SEE Learning program — with pieces from the museum's permanent Works on Paper collection. The lineup includes Shingo Kanagawa, ARu, Inc. (Kosuke Matsushima, Masashi Fujimoto, Ryoji Yukino, and Sui Nacazima), and Ota Shogo, alongside Emory students from the SEE Learning program. From the museum's collection, you'll see works on paper by Danny Lyon, Manjari Sharma, Kristin Capp, and José Ibarra Rizo.

The final room houses the Compassion Lab, a lounge designed by students from Brendan Ozawa-de Silva's Social Empathy Lab. There, you can draw or write your own answer to the show's central question: What moves you?

Behind the scenes, the exhibition was co-curated by the Center's Brendan Ozawa-de Silva, Carlos Museum facilitating curator Andi McKenzie, and Jennifer Knox, director of character education at Atlanta's Woodward Academy. It runs through November 1, 2026, at the Michael C. Carlos Museum on Emory's Atlanta campus.