In Exhibit, Artist Lynda Cutrell Challenges What We Think We Know About Mental Illness

20/02/2019 22 min
In Exhibit, Artist Lynda Cutrell Challenges What We Think We Know About Mental Illness

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Episode Synopsis

Artist Lynda Cutrell wants to change how people look at mental illness. In an exhibit on display at Tufts, she uses photography, painting, sculpture and video to challenge what we think we know about people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder while highlighting what scientists have actually discovered about these illnesses. It’s a subject close to her heart. In this episode of Tell Me More, Cutrell, a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, talks about how her own family’s struggles with mental illness pushed her to make art that was not just beautiful, but meaningful.