writing through 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 …
Photography by Danielle Hark Read More
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 …
Judy Suite (Six Visual Poems) by Chris Gavaler Read More
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 …
Artwork by Devon Roberts Read More
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 …
Art by Eris Gentle Read More
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 …
Anatomy of the Writer by Kristin LaFollette Read More
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 …
Art by Daniel Weinberg Read More
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 …
Paintings by Roopa Dudley Read More
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 …
Four Paintings by Fiona Hsu Read More
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.
Art by David Weinholtz Read More
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 …
Three Paintings by K. Carlton Johnson Read More