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Exhibition Guide

La Kerry Dawson with Her Daughter Angel Crowder and Her Personal Supports Specialist. 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

La Kerry Dawson

  • Audio

    Listen to excerpts of the testimony featured alongside La Kerry Dawson's portrait, providing an opportunity to hear about their life and experiences as a community health worker. This story addresses traumatic childbirth. Please listen with care.  

    Selections from La Kerry Dawson's Testimony

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Image courtesy of La Kerry Dawson.

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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.

Three African American women stand in the grassy and fenced backyard of a tan two-story home with a large deck. The central woman, a mother, sits in a swing and holds onto the supporting chains as the woman on the left, her daughter, embraces her and kisses her right cheek. The woman in the swing smiles broadly with eyes closed and chin upturned. The woman on the right, a personal caregiver, stands close to the pair, holding the swing’s right chain with her left hand. She smiles at the camera with closed lips.

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.

Three African American women stand in the grassy and fenced backyard of a tan two-story home with a large deck. The central woman, a mother, sits in a swing and holds onto the supporting chains as the woman on the left, her daughter, embraces her and kisses her right cheek. The woman in the swing smiles broadly with eyes closed and chin upturned. The woman on the right, a personal caregiver, stands close to the pair, holding the swing’s right chain with her left hand. She smiles at the camera with closed lips.

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