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PST ART: Fusing Art & Science
For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability
Season 1
Episode 5
For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability explores how illness and disability have shaped American art since the 1960s, artists like Katherine Sherwood, a stroke survivor. Her work delves into disability, gender, and historical narratives, while her class, Art, Medicine, Disability, pushes boundaries, challenging ideas of access, care, and the body’s resistance to societal expectations.
This video short is a part of the digital series, "PST ART: Fusing Art & Science."
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