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URMC artist in residence fights stigmas with portraits

Rebecca Rafferty

April 04, 2018 |

City Newspaper (Rochester) |

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Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

Painter and performance artist Charmaine Wheatley creates portraits with the goal of humanizing people with parts of their life that are misunderstood or stigmatized by others. For the “Humanizing is Destigmatizing” project, Wheatley is an artist in residence at the University of Rochester Medical Center creating portraits of people with HIV and mental health diagnoses.

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