Art Exhibit For Dear Life Shows New Perspectives on Disability and Medicine in the US
Aired October 18, 2024
Correspondent Jeffery Brown, of PBS NewsHour’s “Canvas: Arts and Culture” series, interviewed Katherine Sherwood about her paintings in For Dear Life at MCASD at La Jolla, as well as Jill Dawsey, curator of the show, and artist and filmmaker Alison O’Daniel.
“For Dear Life” is the first exhibition to survey the themes of illness and disability in American art from the mid-20th century to the COVID pandemic. It’s part of PST Art, an enormous collaboration of Southern California arts institutions around the theme of art and science. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown visited the exhibition for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.