talking loudly about chronic illness
Artist’s Statement: My work comes from my lived experience with bipolar disorder, psychiatric hospitalization, migraines, and PTSD. Poetry and art have been important therapeutic tools throughout my healing journey. I …
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Artistic statement: “Judy Suite” is a sequence of graphic requiems recounting my mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s. Chris Gavaler is an associate professor of English at W&L University, where he serves …
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Artist statement: I have fibromyalgia, migraines, depression, anxiety, and PTSD. “Invisible” illnesses. As a transgender person with a psychiatric history, this often leads to doctors suggesting the pain is all …
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Artist statement: As a survivor of mental illness in my childhood and young adult life, I like to think that it was Nature that reached in and gave me a …
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Artist statement: This series of artwork (titled Anatomy of the Writer) was created as a way to help process my experiences with traumatic injury, recovery, and adapting to life with …
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Daniel Staub Weinberg is a pen & ink and colored pencil word artist who sometimes does collaborations with musician Chico Feinstein. He has had a number of group shows and …
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Artist statement: My paintings depict various forms of mental disorders–from depression to obsessive-compulsive disorder to borderline personality disorder to anxiety. I paint with much empathy and support for those who …
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This series is called Garden of Wounds. Artist’s statement: In my paintings of my “Garden of Wounds” series, I illustrate the steep emotional and physical fall of the victims battling …
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Artist’s statement: Much of my art work, whether directly or indirectly, addresses my experiences with anxiety, depression and the always tempting but dangerous dance with various chemical dependencies.
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Artist statement: I deal with the elderly and the dying. There is little to convey the suffering and loneliness of these patients, but I have tried to make a visual composite …
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