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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Avra Wing — Stride: How I Walked Away from Trauma Toward Healing
DESCRIPTION:Stride: How I Walked Away from Trauma Toward Healing\nReading and Discussion with Avra Wing\n \nStride: How I Walked Away from Trauma Toward Healing\nA Memoir of Survival\, Love and Healing\nIn her powerful and moving memoir\, Stride: How I Walked Away from Trauma Toward Healing\, novelist Avra Wing tells the story of the moment her life was irrevocably altered—and the courageous journey that followed.\nOn a quiet day in Park Slope\, Brooklyn\, an out-of-control car jumped the curb and struck Wing as she strolled with her three-year-old son\, Eli. In a split second\, she shielded her child from harm\, saving his life. Wing’s own injuries\, however\, were catastrophic: her right leg required amputation above her knee\, and she spent weeks recovering at Bellevue Hospital and then months relearning how to walk at Rusk Institute.\nAt the time\, Wing was a rising literary voice. Her debut novel\, Angie\, had been adapted into a feature film starring Geena Davis and James Gandolfini. After the accident\, everything changed. In the early days of recovery\, she questioned whether she wanted to go on at all\, veering from despair to denial of her changed body. But she was sustained by the fierce love of her husband and their two sons\, and the community she found at Rusk Institute.\nIn Stride\, Wing writes with great honesty about trauma\, identity\, and the long path toward self- acceptance: “Right after my accident\,” she writes\, “I was not thinking about what it meant to be disabled. I was focused on being disfigured … I saw my injury as a manifestation of something interior that was ‘off\,’ wrong\, ugly—a feeling I have had since childhood.”\nYet Stride is also a story of strength passed across generations. Wing recalls her beloved grandmother\, who lost her sight to glaucoma yet lived with independence and dignity after emigrating from Belarus. As a child\, Wing never thought of her as limited: “She was proud\, intelligent\, capable\, caring . . . In fact\, when I was little\, I thought all grandmothers were blind.”\nIn Stride\, Wing shows how she struggled to parent her two young sons and the decision to adopt a child from China years later. Ultimately family love sustained her as did community and creativity.\nFor more than a decade\, Wing has led a writing workshop at Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York City\, where participants with a wide range of disabilities create expressive work each week. Through these connections—and through unexpected sources of joy\, like Zumba classes offered by NYU Langone Health’s Initiative for Women with Disabilities—she began to recognize her body not as broken\, but as capable of movement and expression. Stride is a testament to the human capacity to endure pain and find meaning after terrible loss.\nAbout the Author \nAvra Wing is a novelist and teacher whose debut novel\, Angie\, was adapted into a feature film starring Geena Davis and James Gandolfini. She has led writing workshops for people with disabilities since 2009 and is a passionate advocate for creative expression as a path to healing. She has three adult children and lives with her husband and cats in Brooklyn. \n \n  \nAlt Text:\n\n\nThe Stride book cover features a photo of a nearly-empty street in Brooklyn as the sun sets and glows among the bare trees. A lone figure walks in the center of the road. The sky is a pale blue. The buildings lining the street glow in shades of warm pink\, brown\, and red.\n\n\nPhoto portrait of Author Avra Wing\, who is a white woman with short golden-brown hair. She smiles in front of a brick wall and wears a black shirt.\n\n\nADVANCE PRAISE “Drawing on witness accounts\, police records\, and medical files in addition to Wing’s own memories\, this account of the accident\, the surgery\, and the recovery period is visceral and comprehensive. Psychiatric insights are also used to articulate the extended psychological trauma of losing a limb and Wing’s feelings of shame and disfigurement. The self-aware prose untangles months of denial without sentimentality.” —Michele Sharpe\, Foreword Reviews. “Stride is a thoughtful and candid memoir that examines the aftermath of a sudden\, life-altering injury. Avra Wing resists a conventional ‘overcoming adversity’ narrative . . . Her reflections on embodiment\, identity\, and visibility are particularly compelling . . . a reflective and engaging read\, especially for those interested in the lived experience of illness and recovery.” —Dr. Rana Awdish\, bestselling author of In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope and the forthcoming After Shock. “Stride is . . . layered with hard-won insight\, grace\, and wisdom for the ages—and for the moments right in front of us. . . . Her voice is so engaging that you feel that if you met her\, you could pick up the conversation she has with herself and the reader and talk long into the night.” —Elizabeth Benedict\, author of Rewriting Illness: A View of My Own
URL:https://positiveexposure.org/event/book-talk-with-avra-wing-stride-how-i-walked-away-from-trauma-toward-healing/
LOCATION:Positive Exposure Gallery\, 83 Maiden Lane\, New York\, NY\, 10038
CATEGORIES:PE Gallery
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SUMMARY:Listening to Pain: A Storytelling Workshop for Members of the Medical Community
DESCRIPTION:Listening to Pain\n\nA Storytelling Workshop for Members of the Medical Community: Caregivers\, Practitioners\, any kind\nJoin artist and patient advocate Sal Marx for an interactive workshop that explores how visual art can be a tool for understanding someone else’s pain – inside and outside of clinical settings.\nQuantifying pain on binary scales is a routine part of medical practice today. But does it have to be? What is lost when a patient’s lived experience is reduced into the question: Please Rate Your Pain on a Scale of 1-10? Hear how Sal’s art practice came to be central to their health/care. Then\, explore the limitations of traditional clinical assessment methods while learning ways that visual art can help us fill in the gaps. Through guided creative exercise and group work\, everyone will have a chance to create\, share\, and reflect in community: what do you wish was different about the ways we listen to and treat pain? \n \nCHRONIC IS FOREVER is on view November 6 through December 20\, 2026. \nSAL MARX is a visual artist\, creative director\, and chronic illness patient advocate based in Brooklyn\, NY.  They have a M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University\, where they completed a multimedia capstone exploring the intersection between visual co-creation and disability justice. They studied Public Policy\, Psychology\, and Media Studies at Pomona College.  Recently\, they were a panelist at the Graphic Medicine Conference at Johns Hopkins\, speaking about visual projects within chronic illness communities. They have conducted qualitative research culminating in A Graphic Guide to Palliative Care at the Vienna General Hospital\, which is now being adapted for pediatric palliative care use at Akron Children’s Hospital. Sal’s work has been shown in the Lied Art Gallery\, the Royal Alberta Museum\, and has been published on various platforms including Intima\, A Journal of Narrative Medicine; Johns Hopkins University Press\, and WebMD.    \nSal serves on the board of directors of Sick Futures Collective and the advocacy board of the Spondylitis Association of America. \n  \n  \nImage Descriptions:\n1. Art by Sal Marx featuring the text “PAIN SCALE WITH MEANING” and a 3×3 grid of nine abstract line drawings on a black background:m white with blue\, yellow\, and red markings\, that evoke emotions through animated faces including a star\, moon\, cat\, heart\, robot\, and various amorphic shapes.\n2. Positive Exposure Gallery poster with the text “SAL MARX: CHRONIC IS FOREVER” and an image of art featuring two skeletons sitting on a blue bench. The background is black and red\, with a white crescent moon\, and the foreground is golden yellow. The skeletons are drawn in a semi-abstract way\, in thick grey\, white\, black\, yellow\, and red marks. Their hands are holding at the center of the blue bench.
URL:https://positiveexposure.org/event/listening-to-pain-a-storytelling-workshop-for-members-of-the-medical-community/
LOCATION:Positive Exposure Gallery\, 83 Maiden Lane\, New York\, NY\, 10038
CATEGORIES:PE Gallery
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SUMMARY:Narrating Pain with Visual Representation: A Storytelling Workshop for the Narrative Medicine and Health Humanities Community
DESCRIPTION:Narrating Pain with Visual Representation \nA Storytelling Workshop for the Narrative Medicine and Health Humanities Community\nJoin artist and narrative medicine professional Sal Marx for an interactive workshop that explores how visual art can make space for what language and linear scales of sickness and health fail to address.\nIllness doesn’t fit into neat boxes of diagnosis\, data\, or being understood. How do we listen to someone’s story when language itself falls short? Hear how Sal developed their own Pain Scale\, a visual artwork that resists numbers\, words\, and linearity – as a case study in how visual representation can give us new tools for expression and connection. Through guided creative exercise and group work\, we’ll explore how visual art can deepen understanding of complex embodiments\, build new perspectives\, and offer new ways at connecting around invisible conditions. Everyone will have a chance to make something and share. \n \nCHRONIC IS FOREVER is on view November 6 through December 20\, 2026. \nSAL MARX is a visual artist\, creative director\, and chronic illness patient advocate based in Brooklyn\, NY.  They have a M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University\, where they completed a multimedia capstone exploring the intersection between visual co-creation and disability justice. They studied Public Policy\, Psychology\, and Media Studies at Pomona College.  Recently\, they were a panelist at the Graphic Medicine Conference at Johns Hopkins\, speaking about visual projects within chronic illness communities. They have conducted qualitative research culminating in A Graphic Guide to Palliative Care at the Vienna General Hospital\, which is now being adapted for pediatric palliative care use at Akron Children’s Hospital. Sal’s work has been shown in the Lied Art Gallery\, the Royal Alberta Museum\, and has been published on various platforms including Intima\, A Journal of Narrative Medicine; Johns Hopkins University Press\, and WebMD.    \nSal serves on the board of directors of Sick Futures Collective and the advocacy board of the Spondylitis Association of America. \n  \nImage Descriptions:\n1. Art by Sal Marx featuring the text “PAIN SCALE WITH MEANING” and a 3×3 grid of nine abstract line drawings on a black background:m white with blue\, yellow\, and red markings\, that evoke emotions through animated faces including a star\, moon\, cat\, heart\, robot\, and various amorphic shapes.\n2. Positive Exposure Gallery poster with the text “SAL MARX: CHRONIC IS FOREVER” and an image of art featuring two skeletons sitting on a blue bench. The background is black and red\, with a white crescent moon\, and the foreground is golden yellow. The skeletons are drawn in a semi-abstract way\, in thick grey\, white\, black\, yellow\, and red marks. Their hands are holding at the center of the blue bench.
URL:https://positiveexposure.org/event/narrating-pain-with-visual-representation-a-storytelling-workshop-for-the-narrative-medicine-and-health-humanities-community/
LOCATION:Positive Exposure Gallery\, 83 Maiden Lane\, New York\, NY\, 10038
CATEGORIES:PE Gallery
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SUMMARY:Your Voice Made Visible: A Storytelling Workshop for the Patient Community
DESCRIPTION:Your Voice Made Visible\nA Storytelling Workshop for the Patient Community: All Bodyminds Welcome\nJoin artist and chronic illness patient Sal Marx for an interactive workshop that explores how art can help people narrate pain and tell their stories in expressive ways.\nBeing asked to “Rate” your pain is a routine part of going to the doctor. But have you ever left an appointment feeling that the conversation was inadequate and frustrating to actually convey what your reality feels like? What gets lost in translation by giving your pain a number on a scale? Turning to visual art can be an entry point into helping others understand what you are feeling in your body and mind. Hear how Sal’s visual art practice is both a method for making visible their stories of chronic illness\, and a way to connect with community. Through guided creative exercises\, everyone will have a chance to create and share something of their own. \n \n  \nCHRONIC IS FOREVER is on view November 6 through December 20\, 2026. \nSAL MARX is a visual artist\, creative director\, and chronic illness patient advocate based in Brooklyn\, NY.  They have a M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University\, where they completed a multimedia capstone exploring the intersection between visual co-creation and disability justice. They studied Public Policy\, Psychology\, and Media Studies at Pomona College.  Recently\, they were a panelist at the Graphic Medicine Conference at Johns Hopkins\, speaking about visual projects within chronic illness communities. They have conducted qualitative research culminating in A Graphic Guide to Palliative Care at the Vienna General Hospital\, which is now being adapted for pediatric palliative care use at Akron Children’s Hospital. Sal’s work has been shown in the Lied Art Gallery\, the Royal Alberta Museum\, and has been published on various platforms including Intima\, A Journal of Narrative Medicine; Johns Hopkins University Press\, and WebMD.    \nSal serves on the board of directors of Sick Futures Collective and the advocacy board of the Spondylitis Association of America. \n  \nImage Descriptions:\n1. Art by Sal Marx featuring the text “PAIN SCALE WITH MEANING” and a 3×3 grid of nine abstract line drawings on a black background:m white with blue\, yellow\, and red markings\, that evoke emotions through animated faces including a star\, moon\, cat\, heart\, robot\, and various amorphic shapes.\n2. Positive Exposure Gallery poster with the text “SAL MARX: CHRONIC IS FOREVER” and an image of art featuring two skeletons sitting on a blue bench. The background is black and red\, with a white crescent moon\, and the foreground is golden yellow. The skeletons are drawn in a semi-abstract way\, in thick grey\, white\, black\, yellow\, and red marks. Their hands are holding at the center of the blue bench.
URL:https://positiveexposure.org/event/your-voice-made-visible-a-storytelling-workshop-for-the-patient-community/
LOCATION:Positive Exposure Gallery\, 83 Maiden Lane\, New York\, NY\, 10038
CATEGORIES:PE Gallery
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SUMMARY:Celebrating 30 Years of Positive Exposure!
DESCRIPTION:  \nImage Description: \nGraphic features three Positive Exposure portraits of individuals smiling at the camera. The text reads: “Save the date: April 15 2027. 30 years Positive Exposure. Positive Exposure Gallery. 83 Maiden Lane\, New York\, NY 10038.”
URL:https://positiveexposure.org/event/celebrating-30-years-of-positive-exposure/
LOCATION:Positive Exposure Gallery\, 83 Maiden Lane\, New York\, NY\, 10038
CATEGORIES:PE Gallery
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