Stunning. An image could also be value a thousand phrases, however “stunning” is the easiest way to explain the work unveiled to households for the primary time on the lately opened Portrait of a Soul exhibition.
Portrait of a Soul is a venture commissioned by philanthropists Lee and Sue Schaefer to assist enhance confidence and vanity for kids with craniofacial anomalies. The Schaefer household labored with clinicians and employees within the Division of Plastic Surgical procedure and Craniofacial Heart in choosing 12 Cincinnati Kids’s sufferers to have their portraits painted by elite portrait artists.
These sufferers’ stunning smiling faces now adorn the partitions of Cincinnati’s Eisele Gallery of Tremendous Artwork. The exhibition is on show to the general public by means of Friday, July 3. Portraits shall be given to the youngsters and their households on the conclusion of the exhibition.
Every portrait was painted by a special artist to inform a novel story about its topic. We bought to listen to a number of of those tales in the course of the June unveiling ceremony:
- Ashleigh, whose portrait is pictured above (far left), was painted by artist Carl Samson. At age 21, she is among the oldest sufferers to take part within the venture. Learn Ashleigh’s Cleft Story and a reflection on her experiences at Cincinnati Kids’s on our weblog.
- Twin brothers Grayson and Gaelen had been painted collectively in a single portrait. Artist Jim Effler introduced that the portrait is specifically framed in order that it may be break up in two for when the boys turn into adults. That means, he mentioned, there’ll be no preventing over who will get to maintain the portray.
- Kenton and native artist Richard Luschek shared an particularly significant connection. Richard was born with a cleft lip and equally handled at Cincinnati Kids’s. Upon asking Kenton, who’s deaf, what he’d wish to say in his portray, Kenton responded with the signal for “I really like you.” Learn extra about their bond on Richard Luschek’s weblog.
To view all 11 portraits and extra photographs from the disclosing ceremony, go to Portrait of a Soul on Fb.