Exhibition Guide

Reverend Debra Hickman Standing At The Doorway To Sisters Together And Reaching, Inc. (STAR). 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

Reverend Debra Hickman

  • Audio

    Listen to excerpts of the testimony featured alongside Reverend Debra Hickman's portrait, providing an opportunity to hear about their life and experiences as a community health advocate. This story addresses HIV and AIDS. Please listen with care.

    Selections from Reverend Debra Hickman's Testimony

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Art Object Info

Visual Description:

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

Pictured at an angle and from below, a 67-year-old Black woman with red hair stands on a staircase outside a brick building with green-trimmed windows. She wears a voluminous dress with a red, green, and yellow repeating pattern and black heels. Her legs are crossed at her ankles, left over right, and she holds onto the stair railing with her right hand. The sign above her reads “901 N. Milton Ave,” the address for Sisters Together and Reaching (STARS) in Baltimore. She smiles softly as she looks off to the right and into the distance.

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

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Art Object Info

Visual Description:

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

Pictured at an angle and from below, a 67-year-old Black woman with red hair stands on a staircase outside a brick building with green-trimmed windows. She wears a voluminous dress with a red, green, and yellow repeating pattern and black heels. Her legs are crossed at her ankles, left over right, and she holds onto the stair railing with her right hand. The sign above her reads “901 N. Milton Ave,” the address for Sisters Together and Reaching (STARS) in Baltimore. She smiles softly as she looks off to the right and into the distance.

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