About the artist

Theresa BrownGold is a painter, performance artist, and songwriter, who uses her art to start dialog around social issues, including access to healthcare, immigration, gun control, and police violence.

BrownGold has painted over 200 portraits. Her work has been written about in many publications including the Journal of the American Medical Association, featured on ZDF German television, WHYY public television and other outlets. The artist received the 2011 PA Health Access Network Georgeanne Koehler Activist of the Year Award for her painting series Healthcare in the United States. She is the recipient of a 2013 Leeway Foundation Art and Change grant and a 2017 Puffin Foundation grant.

BrownGold gives talks about Art as Social Inquiry at conferences, college classrooms, churches, senior centers, and other venues.

Learn more about the artist and her work at Art As Social Inquiry.

Artist Theresa BrownGold stands in her studio. She is wearing a black turtle neck under a paint splattered white apron. One hand is on her hip. A portrait sits on the floor beside her, other portraits and portrait studies fill the wall behind her.

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