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Dr. Eric Avery and Adam DelMarcelle: Making Art from Trauma

These artist activists will share their work mining the depth of grief and trauma through artistic expression. Including a the making of paper from the clothing of overdose victims.

To reserve a spot in this conversation make a no-cost reservation HERE. You will receive an email within 24 hours of the event with a Zoom link and instructions to log into the event.

About the Speakers

Eric Avery is an artist/printmaker who became a physician during the Vietnam War in the 1970's. In 1974, he received his medical degree from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas and then in 1978 completed his psychiatry training at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City. For forty years he has worked at the intersection of visual art and medicine, leaving the practice of medicine several times to concentrate on his art career. His social content prints explore issues such as Human Rights Abuses, and Social Responses to Disease (specifically HIV and Emerging Infectious Diseases), DeathSexuality and the Body. His body of work is more thoroughly represented at www.docart.com

Adam DelMarcelle’s work focuses on design activism and the role of the graphic witness to expose and document societal injustice. His work for the What Heroin Sounds Like campaign garnered national attention, allowing DelMarcelle to travel widely and spread awareness of the heroin and opioid crisis ravaging our communities. The campaign is featured in Designing Activism; 31 Designers Fighting For A Better World, published by What Design Can Do in the Netherlands.

His work is in the permanent collections of The Cushing Whitney Medical Library at Yale University as well as the Library of Congress in Washington DC.

DelMarcelle holds a BFA from Pennsylvania College of Art and Design and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is an adjunct professor at York College of Pennsylvania, Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design and Kutztown University teaching courses in graphic design, printmaking and Visual Communication.

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