In early June 2021, the Coleman Center welcomed Brandi Shah, M.D., MPH, an artist and family medicine physician who specializes in adolescent and young adult health. Shah is a lifelong creative writer and poet; she is developing tools to help medical practitioners recognize their patients as storytellers, center patients as experts about their own lives, and arm those seeking care with tools they can trust in any medical encounter.
During our public brown-bag lunch event, Shah shared three of her digital storytelling works with guests in Pop Start. Refreshments were provided by Abadir’s of Greensboro, AL; Abadir’s proprietor, Sarah Cole will be featured on the forthcoming, collaborative Southern Foodways Alliance, Alabama Folklife Association, and Coleman Center five-episode series for the former’s Gravy podcast.
Shah will return to the Black Belt region this fall and again in Spring 2022. Shah along with key community partners will co-organize activities focused on rapport-building, interviewing skills, self-reflection, mutual exchange of knowledge, and cultivating space for sharing and documenting stories. Anyone interested please reach out to us at the Coleman Center for the Arts (info@colemanarts.org).
This program was supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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- Installation image from Sawubona/Sala Kahle exhibition at Vinegar Birmingham. Image courtesy of the artist.