I got the People's Vaccine, Montreal
Laura Holzman has occasionally found herself at the intersection of art and medicine in her career as an academic and public scholar. In her book Contested Image, she highlighted the fight to keep the painting âThe Gross Clinicâ by Thomas Eakins â depicting 19th century surgeon Samuel Gross â in Philadelphia. Last year she created an exhibit, together with Meredith Brickell, that was part of
Fix, Heartbreak and Hope inside our Opioid Crisis at the Indiana State Museum.Â
This time around Holzman, an associate professor of art history and museum studies at IUPUI, is confronting global inequities in healthcare with art. Â