Rx Stigma Relief Workshop

Join PBF artist-in-residence and disability activist Kat Chudy in this art workshop about reframing our relationship to medication. Medication often comes with a stigma, causing many people to avoid or abandon treatment. Sometimes, lifesaving or life-changing medications can come with horrible side effects or a high price tag, complicating a patient's relationship with care. Bring an empty pill bottle (with the personal information crossed out, of course!), and Kat Chudy will show various methods to transform the mundane into a beautiful object. This hands-on meditation will also facilitate an informal discussion around healthcare, aging, disability, and disease - breaking taboos about what is and isn't polite conversation. Through community knowledge sharing and empathy, we can find a way to accept the things we cannot change and change the things we can! This workshop will be held on May 6, 2025 in collaboration with ARE's LGBTQ+ Center. We hope you'll join us! Light refreshments will be provided. 

Thank you to First Bank and the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts for sponsoring this season's events!

About the Artist

Kat Chudy is a multimedia artist living and working in Tallahassee, Florida. They have an extensive educational background in both art and science and seek to find the edge where the two disciplines meet and inform one another through the subject of their work – invisible disability. Kat recently graduated from Florida State University with an MFA in studio art and is currently teaching printmaking at both FSU and Thomasville Center for the Arts in Thomasville, Georgia. Chudy participates yearly in SECAC - the Southeastern College Art Conference, chairing panels and presenting research on access and disability aesthetics. Chudy advocates for disability rights, healthcare rights, and educational reform. Their work is shown both in disabled shows and venues, as well as mainstream exhibitions, something they believe is critical to help bring disability culture to mainstream understanding as part of the larger picture of the human experience.