THE FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT PROUDLY ANNOUNCES Avery beleives that "Art Can Save Lives"
|
|
Since 2017 the FL3TCH3R Exhibit has offered the HEALTHCARE & THE ARTS AWARD FOR ARTISTS THAT ARE MEDICALLY CONNECTED. The FL3TCH3R Exhibit will present a cash award annually to a juror selected artwork by Medical and/or Health Professional Students and Faculty from worldwide venues (including ETSU). Those who enter and whose works are selected by the juror to participate in the exhibit will be eligible for the awards. (Healthcare Professions include- Medicine, Health Sciences including mental health, Nursing, Public Health, Pharmacy, Psychology, and Physical Therapy, etc. To be eligible, artists' work must be accepted to exhibit by juror, and upon entry, artist must designate "Healthcare" after their name on entry site and on forms.) |
Dr. Eric Avery , served as FL3TCH3R Exhibit's 2016 internationally reknowed juror and is the founder and supporter of this Award. Avery beleives that " Art can save lives." Dr. Avery is a celebrated printmaker and recently retired physician who for decades has practiced medicine and art in tandem. His complexly layered work connects issues of printmaking and art history with social concerns of public health, human rights abuse and responses to HIV/AIDS, death, sexuality and the body. Creating powerful historical records of experience with patients, he changes the ordinary role of a doctor into an artist inspired by healing, fusing the space between art and medicine. Before his retirement, he was clinical associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and member of the Institute for Medical Humanities, The University of Texas Medical Branch, specializing in issues related to HIV/AIDS. In addition to being the subject of numerous gallery exhibitions, Avery’s work is found in many prestigious permanent collections including the British Museum, London; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. |
|
|
|
|
|
