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Exhibition Guide

Latish Walker Leading Her Community Walking Tour. 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

Latish Walker

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    Listen to excerpts of the testimony featured alongside Latish Walker's portrait, providing an opportunity to hear about their life and experiences as a community health worker.

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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 group of five adults are gathered outside two rowhomes in East Baltimore. The rowhome to the left is red stone with white window frames. The rowhome to the right, labeled with the numbers 1742, has a gray stone façade with arched windows and a white door. A 46-year-old Black woman wearing a brown t-shirt and black athletic pants and sneakers stands with her right arm outstretched at the top of the gray rowhome’s front steps. She is leading a tour for a group of medical interns who wear casual clothing and stand on the sidewalk below her.

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.

A group of five adults are gathered outside two rowhomes in East Baltimore. The rowhome to the left is red stone with white window frames. The rowhome to the right, labeled with the numbers 1742, has a gray stone façade with arched windows and a white door. A 46-year-old Black woman wearing a brown t-shirt and black athletic pants and sneakers stands with her right arm outstretched at the top of the gray rowhome’s front steps. She is leading a tour for a group of medical interns who wear casual clothing and stand on the sidewalk below her.

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