PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOGY WAITING ROOM | Rachel Mindrup

Rachel Mindrup is an assistant professor of drawing and painting and the Richard L. Deming, MD Endowed Chair in Medical Humanities at Creighton University. She received her BFA from the University of Nebraska-Kearney and then continued with atelier studies at the Art Academy of Los Angeles. She received her MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design. Her current painting practice is about the study of the figure and portraiture in art and its relation to medicine, healing and identity. Her son's diagnosis has been the motivation behind her series of portraits "Many Faces of Neurofibromatosis (NF).” Mindrup's work has been shown nationally and internationally including the Queens Museum in Queens, NY, Georgia Regents University and Washington University Medical School.

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