Portraits of Care exhibit opens today









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Mark Gilbert

Mark Gilbert’s “Here I Am and Nowhere Else: Portraits of Care” exhibit opens today at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.

The exhibit is composed of images Gilbert created while serving as UNMC’s artist-in-residence for two years.

During his time at UNMC, Gilbert drew portraits of many different patients and their caregivers.

The patients, who included children and adults, faced a variety of health promotion and illness situations such as AIDS, head and neck cancer and organ transplantation.

Most of the collection will be on display at the Bemis Center through Feb. 21.

The Bemis Center sits on the northwest corner of 12th and Leavenworth streets in Omaha and is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Admission to the center is free.