Dr. Mark Gilbert will discuss the challenges and rewards of using the artistic medium of portraiture to explore the experience of patients and their caregivers.
Bio: Mark Gilbert is Associate Professor with The School of Art and Art History at The University of Nebraska, Omaha, where he is participating faculty on UNO’s Medical Humanities program.
As an artist, teacher and researcher, he has worked on a number of high-profile art-based research projects using portraiture to illuminate patient and caregiver experience of illness, recovery and care. These studies include Saving Faces at The Royal London Hospital and Portraits of Care at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. His work has been exhibited widely in venues across Europe and the US, including the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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