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Sal Brownfield: A Celebration of Healing

Presented in Partnership
with the Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation

The "Sal Brownfield" exhibition
features 16 extraordinary portrait paintings by Brownfield accompanied by stories about the subjects, all breast
cancer survivors.  



A Peachtree Corners resident, Brownfield began
with a series of paintings of breast cancer survivors, but as he worked with
his subjects to create the paintings, he came to know the individuals and their
powerful stories, and realized that their stories needed to be captured. Writer
Eve Hoffman was brought in to interview each individual and began writing their
stories, and the idea for a book, "A Celebration of Healing," was
born.

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The exhibit at the Hudgens will include the stories alongside the
featured paintings, and the book will be available for purchase in the gift
shop. As described by Hoffman, the book "is neither a cancer 'how to'
guide nor a Hallmark card - rather a book giving permission to laugh, to cry,
rage and to know one is not alone."


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