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I’m visual! Pratt MFA ‘27
Western MA — Brooklyn
Chronically ill Artist 💯

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Waking up in the ICU after a seven-hour surgery and a collapsed lung, Priscilla Smith faced a realization: her fight with endometriosis was no longer something she could keep private. After having to explain the condition to her own recovery nurse, the artist and welder resolved to turn her pain into purpose.

Seven months later, FLARE (Flourish in Life through Art and Resources for Endometriosis) was born. What started as an idea in a hospital bed became a movement and a powerful three-day exhibition in New York City, bringing together over 30 global artists, doctors, advocates, and patients. Where medical charts document clinical facts, art conveys the lived human experience. Illuminating Endometriosis, the inaugural exhibit this September gave voice, connection, and validation to a community moving out of the shadows.

Full article on Priscilla’s endometriosis journey and why she built FLARE on Well City Guide.

Follow the movement: @flare.endo

Thank you to Priscilla and the FLARE artists, team, and community for the work you are doing to collectively increase visibility and advocacy of endometriosis. We know it’s just beginning.

Read more about each artist in the exhibit: flareendo.org/artists

@priscillapalmieri

Art & Photography:
1. Priscilla Smith, Founder of FLARE — Imani [FilmTripz]
2. Participants at the NYC art exhibit - Alix Rae @thealixrae
3. Priscilla Metalworking — Eric Smalkin @esmalkin
4. Priscilla in the Hospital — Luke Smith
5. Embracing the Community — Emma Wilkinson @endometriosis.emm
6. Top: Exhibitors Gathering, photo by Emma W. | Bottom: Artwork pictured: “Secrets of Flowers” series by Racheli Aye @racheliaye + photo by Eric S.
7. Priscilla speaking & Exhibit chairs — Eric S.
8. Bottom: Collector’s preview dinner —Emma W.
9. Top: Girl viewing exhibit— Alix R. | Bottom: “Metallic Taste of Patience” by Maeve Holmes @mmavviis , photo by Emma W.
10. Top: “I’m glad I exist” by MARGGIE HAZA @mhaza.art. Bottom left: “Shape of My Sorrow” by ALICE BRUNELLO LUISE @alicebrunelloluise_ph. Right: “La Dolores” by LAURA SOLAR @pottery_of_sol
11. Priscilla metalworking — Eric S.

#endometriosis #healingthroughart #FLARE #NYC #NYCart FLARE (Flourish in Life through Art and Resources for Endometriosis). A movement and a powerful three-day exhibition in New York City. Founded by Priscilla Smith.

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a wonderful week of art and new friendships in nyc (and overcoming my fear of mobility aids in public !!)

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Massive thankyou to everyone at @flare.endo for not only providing me with a platform to exhibit my work in internationally but for giving me an excuse to come to New York City and have the privilege of seeing all the wonderful other art and fun things around the place (with shooting at Fashion week shows and MoMa being at the top of that list!)

It was wonderful to meet so many other people with similar experiences to my own and to meet all the other artists from around the globe! An event I’ll never forget!

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so many shows so little time!! thank you to everyone who came the openings :)

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Endometriosis in art. Thank you to the artists at @flare.endo for sharing vulnerable & poignant work that captures just a sliver of the experience with this beast of a disease & other chronic illnesses 💛

For those that don’t know, #endometriosis is a chronic condition in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus. It can affect the ovaries, fallopian tubes, pelvic lining, bowel, bladder, diaphragm, and other structures. If you identify with any of the symptoms in the last slide, please, talk to a medical professional about investigating further.

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FLARE: Illuminating Endometriosis ✨
Inaugural Art Exhibition
New York City

Seven months ago, my life, truth and reality as I knew it were altered forever. Crawling from my spot on the couch I felt compelled to make “The Knowing”, to make sure I never forgot that I wasn’t crazy all along, that it was never in my head, but in my body, deeply infiltrating and wreaking havoc on my insides.

Little did I know that at the same time I was grieving and starting to come to terms with my body’s reality and truth, another visionary artist was also reeling from her own surgery for endometriosis and birthing what would become @flare.endo

To be blunt, these past months have often felt incredibly isolating. I have struggled with how to show back up in my life again in this new reality while honoring what my body needs without taking on the burden of over explaining myself but also feeling like I owe people an explanation. It’s strange and difficult to explain but last night…I didn’t have to.

Everywhere I looked, there was art that reflected this experience back to me in all of its pain, all of its beauty, all of its truth. It was the catharsis and community I didn’t know I so desperately needed.

33 artists from 13 countries. All of us connected by this awful illness but more importantly, all of us connected by our art. What an honor and deeply profound experience I will carry with me forever.

Thank you @priscillapalmieri . Thank you beautiful fellow artists. I am in your corner always. 💛

#endowarriors #artopening #nyc #artist

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Summer at Dock 72 ☀️

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got out of the house and did some things this summer

swipe to see the zorse

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Thank you to the Elemental Effervescence contributing artists and curator Yasmeen Abdallah for providing insight through their work and meaningful discussions.

Elemental Effervescence brings together fifteen Pratt alumni and students exploring materiality, place, existentialism, and our shared experience of the present moment, creating space for reflection, connection, and collective consciousness.

Contributing artists: Q Ayodele, Lucia Bautista, Phoebe Kalm Choi, Jack Catlett, Elendë Connor, Madison Dominguez-Norris, Susan Luss, Farrell Mason-Brown, Violet Middlebrook, Morgan O’Connell, Claire Parker, Lo Smith, Jaden Story, Nessa Yang, and Ryan Zogheb.

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NOW OPEN through Sept. 18! The 2026 School of Art Exhibition, 𝐀𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲: 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭, is on view at Steuben Gallery on the Pratt Brooklyn Campus. Please join us on 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟓-𝟕 𝐩.𝐦.

Co-curated by Pratt alum, Rachel Vera Steinberg (BFA Fine Arts, Drawing ‘08) and artist and writer, Avram Finkelstein.

Pratt’s School of Art Dean, Jorge Oliver, invites you to 𝐀𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲: 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭, an exhibition of the work of School of Art and School of Architecture students and recent alumni that engages with the many forms of disability and presents expansive approaches to the meaning of access. This is the fifth collective School of Art exhibition to showcase the work of students and alumni exploring identity in their work.

🎉CONGRATS TO ALL THE ARTISTS🎉

Maxwell Ansel (BFA Fine Arts Sculpture and Integrated Practices ‘27)
Elendë Connor (MFA Fine Arts, Printmaking ‘27)
Hannah Estrin (BFA Fine Arts Painting ‘26)
Nawon Kim (MFA Fine Arts Sculpture ‘26)
Suzanne Khalil (MPS Creative Arts Therapy ‘29)
Youmee Lee (ADV CRT Art and Design Education ‘27)
Serrana Mattiauda Vazquez (MLA Landscape Architecture ‘28)
Tiffany Marie Miller (MFA Fine Arts Integrated Practices ‘26)
Himani Nahata (BArch Architecture ‘29)
Nora Nucullaj (MFA Fine Arts Printmaking ‘27)
Kianaz Shaterian (BFA Fine Arts Painting ‘27)

Location: Pratt Institute, Steuben Gallery, Steuben Street, 1st Floor, 200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205.

GALLERY HOURS:
Monday–Friday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturdays, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

EXHIBITION RECEPTION: Thursday, September 10, 5 –7 p.m

Thank you to our partners
@prattexhibits @prattfineart @pratt.ecc @pratt

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Point to the face that shows how much it hurts. Choose a number between one and ten. We have been asked to do this our whole lives and it has never once been enough.

@flare.endo is so proud to introduce @elendefinn, a Brooklyn-based printmaker and multidisciplinary artist currently completing her MFA at Pratt Institute whose work takes one of the most inadequate tools in chronic illness medicine and turns it into something that finally tells the truth.

Elendë has lived with chronic illness since childhood. Vision loss, chronic pain, inflammation, and the particular exhaustion of trying to explain to doctors what your body is doing when the language available to you is a row of cartoon faces and a scale of one to ten. Her piece "Pain Chart" begins there, with that impossible ask, and refuses to simplify it the way the medical system always has.

Because the reality is that chronically ill people become experts at performing fine. At smiling through it. At showing up to appointments and being told their numbers do not match their symptoms. "Pain Chart" does not resolve that contradiction. It holds it, prints it, makes it permanent and visible and impossible to dismiss.

Elendë makes work that speaks from her own experience and opens wide enough that anyone who has ever been failed by a pain scale can walk inside it.

The Sixth Floor Loft NYC | September 17 to 19
Tickets: https://flareendo.org/schedule
Code ARTF10 for 10% off

#FLAREendo #Endo #nyart #Printmaking

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ELENDË CONNOR
Pain Education
Paper, colored pencil, pushpins
8.5 x 11 inches

Elendë Connor is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA in printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and she is currently pursuing her MFA with a focus in printmaking from Pratt Institute. Elendë grew up in Western Massachusetts and returned there after getting her BFA and worked as an early childhood educator. At this time she also worked as a curator and events coordinator at Waterway Arts in Turners Falls, MA. Elendë is chronically ill & she creates art in response to her own complex reality as someone who faces chronic pain, vision loss, & inflammation. My art synthesizes experiences, memories, and feelings in order to translate reality into something tangible. I pull content from my existence in order to express the physical and emotional complexities of inhabiting my body. I have been chronically ill my entire life, dealing with vision loss, chronic pain, cognitive issues, loss of mobility, and medical trauma. My prints, drawings, collages, and fiber work all grapple with coping, processing, mourning, celebrating, and understanding my own identity as a chronically ill person.

Artist Statement:

When creating my work, I depict eye anatomy, medical ephemera, vision, and recollections from my childhood. Within different parts of my imagery there is loose, almost threadlike linework that is drawn or printed onto paper while only seeing through my left eye, which has very low vision. My unique way of seeing is a tool I utilize often in my work. In the past my body has felt like an obstacle within my art practice, but I find that my art truly benefits when I can react to what's going on within my body through the art that I make. My art examines my existence and aims to speak to a universal one.

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