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Karen Dunston Standing In The Garden At Arlington Elementary School. 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

Karen Dunston

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    Listen to excerpts of the testimony featured alongside Karen Dunston's portrait, providing an opportunity to hear about their life and experiences as a community health worker. This story addresses substance abuse and homelessness. 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.

A 55-year-old Black Muslim woman stands in a fenced garden under a clear blue sky at her childhood elementary school. She wears sunglasses and a dark hijab with a long white button-down shirt and light brown pants or a skirt, which are partially obscured by overgrown grass and wildflowers. The plants within the garden are contained in rows of metal planters, and there is a white building surrounded by trees outside the garden’s fence in the background.

Medium:
18 stainless steel IV poles; 66 inkjet prints, pigment-based
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.

A 55-year-old Black Muslim woman stands in a fenced garden under a clear blue sky at her childhood elementary school. She wears sunglasses and a dark hijab with a long white button-down shirt and light brown pants or a skirt, which are partially obscured by overgrown grass and wildflowers. The plants within the garden are contained in rows of metal planters, and there is a white building surrounded by trees outside the garden’s fence in the background.

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