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Exhibition Guide

Donnie Missouri Standing In Patterson Park. LaToya Ruby Frazier: More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022 (Detail). 2022. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Gift of Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, BMA 2023.114

Donnie Missouri

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    Listen to excerpts of the testimony featured alongside Donnie Missouri's portrait, providing an opportunity to hear about their life and experiences as a community health worker. This story addresses substance abuse. Please listen with care. 

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Art Object Info

Visual Description:

This visual description uses language that reflects how the CHW described themselves during discussions with BMA staff. 

Photograph of a tall, slender Black man with gray facial hair poses in partial shade under large trees in Baltimore’s Patterson Park. He looks away from the camera over his right shoulder and into the distant sky. He wears sunglasses, a pink Black Lives Matter shirt with an image of a pierced heart, blue jeans, and white sneakers and holds a blue surgical mask at his side in his right hand.

Medium:
18 stainless steel IV poles; 66 inkjet prints, pigment-based
Size:
Date:
2022
Gift of Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland BMA 2023.114

Art Object Info

Visual Description:

This visual description uses language that reflects how the CHW described themselves during discussions with BMA staff. 

Photograph of a tall, slender Black man with gray facial hair poses in partial shade under large trees in Baltimore’s Patterson Park. He looks away from the camera over his right shoulder and into the distant sky. He wears sunglasses, a pink Black Lives Matter shirt with an image of a pierced heart, blue jeans, and white sneakers and holds a blue surgical mask at his side in his right hand.

Medium:
18 stainless steel IV poles; 66 inkjet prints, pigment-based
Size:
Date:
2022
Gift of Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland BMA 2023.114