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1/9/2012 - sometime in June Theresa is bearing witness 10 days/month with her portraits on the sidewalk of the US Supreme Court and the Capitol until the Supreme Court hands down a decision on the constitutionality of certain aspects of the Affordable Care Act. Check out the photo journal on Art As Social Inquiry’s fan page on Facebook.
12/8/2011 Art As Social Inquiry and Occupy New Britain, PA get coverage in the local paper, The Intelligencer.
10/29/2011 Theresa takes Art As Social Inquiry to Coffee Party Rally on West Lawn of Capitol Bldg., Washington DC.
10/25/2011 Samantha Sharf of The Daily Pennsylvanian (University of Pennsylvania’s independent student news organization) covers Art As Social Inquiry at Occupy Eric Cantor the Wharton School. Thank you!
10/25/2011 Theresa serves on a panel at the 2011 PA Women’s Conference Philadelphia, PA. Lu Ann Cahn moderated. Panel also included Liz Lange pioneer designer in maternity wear, and Josefina Bonilla, publisher of Color Magazine. Mady Prowler assistant director of WHYY’s Coming of Age hosted this breakout session about embarking on the next phase of life regardless of age or circumstance.
10/21/2011 Art As Social Inquiry at Occupy Eric Cantor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Theresa talks to the students. ”When somebody explains to me why Speaker Boehner’s life (representing Congress) is more important than this delivery pizza guy’s life (died trying to access healthcare), I’LL STOP.” REAL access to healthcare for all.
10/13/2011 Daniel Putkowski covered “Occupy Doylestown” for his blog, The Bent Page. His thoughtful interview allowed me to express why I “occupy.” Before Occupy, I had never made a sign and stood in the street to be understood and heard by my government. My interview starts at 3:24 in the video.
10/13/2011Friend catches Theresa being interviewed at Occupy Doylestown (Thanks MD!). Little clip says it all.
10/13/2011 JD Mullane covers Occupy Doylestown for the Intelligencer. 10/6/2011 Theresa at Occupy Philadelphia talking about medical bankruptcy. Dillworth Plaza, City Hall (video from FloodtheDrummer‘s YouTube channel)
October 2011 Occupy Philadelphia pictures and videos. Theresa makes appearance with portraits
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9/18/2011 Theresa gives a presentation at the Living Waters Lutheran Church in Flemington, NJ
9/17/2011 Art As Social inquiry portraits on healthcare are displayed at benefit concert for Columbia County Volunteers in Medicine Clinic.
8/3/2011 Theresa BrownGold takes a portrait from her Art As Social Inquiry series on healthcare in the US to a town meeting in Morrisville, PA. Her point is to bear witness for an uninsured woman to her representative in the House of Representatives, Mike Fitzpatrick (PA 8th district)
8/3/2011 Theresa before bearing witness to Congressman Fitzpatrick for the uninsured subject of the painting who could not access healthcare in timely way and lost 85% of her vision in one eye.
7/16/20011 Theresa gives a presentation and talk at the Physicians for a National Health Program at their conference in Los Angeles.
4/26/2011WHYY’s Coming of Age interview and slideshow.This piece does a great job explaining Art As Social Inquiry. See the studio and listen to one of the subjects talk about her portrait.
4/19/2011 PBS’s Independent Lens has named a portrait from Art As Social Inquiry 
as a fialist in their visionary art-making search. Please VOTE for the portrait called Joann. (I call the portrait Grandmother, Widow, age 65, Uninsured for 18 years until eligible for Medicare in 2011.)
3/27/2011 Theresa’s acceptance speech for the Activist of the Year award at the PA Health Access Network conference. (Introduction starts at 28.22 on the video)
3/27/2011 A dozen ASI portraits were exhibited at PA Health Access Network Conference in Harrisburg, PA. 
Theresa receives award for Activist of the Year.
3/24/2011 ASI portraits were exhibited. Celebrations for the one year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act continue at Drexel University’s 11th Street Family Health Services. A roundtable discussion and stories frompeople benefiting from provisions of the ACA were shared.
3/23/2011 On the Affordable Care Act’s first birthday, some gave testimony in Harrisburg about how the act has benefited them. Theresa was able to share Courtney Leigh Huber’s story. Courtney’s portrait is part of Art As Social Inquiry’s health insurance series.
1/21/2011 Thank you to WHYY TV for a story about Art As Social Inquiry (Go to 15:15 on video). If you have a story to tell, please contact me. t@artassocialinquiry.org.
1/21/2011 Take a listen to the radio interview about ASI by Taunya English of WHYY (local public radio station). Click the audio link the hear the interview.
1/9/2011 Thank you to California Health Professional Student Alliance for inviting me to speak at their Lobby Day Event in Sacramento this past weekend. I enjoyed sharing thoughts about Art As Social Inquiry. Thank you to all who shared their health insurance stories with me. I hope to be “painting” some of those stories. BTW, the Sacramento airport is awesome.
9/21/2010 The Philadelphia Inquirer covered my short talk at a PA Health Access Network (PHAN) event. article
9/21/2010 Thanks once more to PA Health Access Network (PHAN) for inviting me to participate in the conference call today with Sen. Casey, Rep. Schwartz, Joanne Grossi of US Dept. of Health & Human Services, Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, Pres. of National Physician’s Alliance, Antoinette Krauss of PHAN and Ron Pollack of Families USA. (My mouth hurts from dropping all the names…LOL…my part was very, very small, trust me.) I told the story of how one of my subjects, now 24 years old is being added back on to his family’s group plan because of a provision in the Affordable Care Act allowing adult children under 26 to be covered on their parents’ plans.
9/20/2010 Thank you to the PA Health Access Network for the opportunity to speak at their event in Philadelphia.
9/13/2010 Blog started AND New Category of social inquiry posted: WAR. The first blog is about the War painting, “Nam, Can We Stop Now?” Yeah, the blog is way too long…hey, it’s how the piece unfolded.
Along with continuing to paint health care, I am starting a NEW PROJECT for Art As Social Inquiry. I am painting the story of how we die. I am interested in painting people and cultures from all over the world. How do we die as inhabitants of this planet? From dignified, ritualistic death processes to gruesome murders or deaths from war. Perhaps we can understand ourselves better as living beings if we understand how we die. Send me your thoughts and stores. t@artassocialinquiry.org
3/23/2010 As President Obama signs the health care reform bill (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act), I will continue to paint portraits about the issue. I will paint the before/after coverage (or lack of it) of individuals. The purpose of this project is to document this health care issue until the problems surrounding it are a distant memory. That may take some time. The Democrats like me now. As I continue painting the effects of government policy on real people, the Republicans might start to like me. My only point is to stay on the subject until it is resolved. The message of the project is for all parties to stay on health care reform until we get it right.
3/11/2010 ART AS SOCIAL INQUIRY gets a mention on Sirius 114 radio show called Dr. Radio. Cindy Mercer Jones Wynne tells her story. Her 23 yr. old uninsured, employed daughter, Courtney Leigh Huber tried to save money by cutting back on her diabetes medicine at night. She fell into a coma and died in Jan. 2010. Cindy has allowed me to paint a portrait (not yet posted) of her daughter for Art As Social Inquiry. The Julie Love Diabetics Assistance Foundation posted a memorial to Courtney. The family has a Facebook page called In Memory of Courtney Leigh Huber.
8/5/2009 ART AS SOCIAL INQUIRY GETS PRESS in the Bucks County Herald Click here to read the piece. What’s coming: a blog, press room. Invite everyone you know to become a “fan” of Art As Social Inquiry on Facebook. (Log in or sign up)
6/22/2008 The portrait, The Immigrant, launches the project, ART AS SOCIAL INQUIRY I encourage you to participate and forward the site to anyone and everyone.
6/22/2008 CURRENT PROJECT: I am painting portraits of people and how the access (or not) the health care system in the US. While the topic of illegal immigration has just one portrait, my health insurance series should have about 100 paintings. My goal is to ask, What does the American health insurance system look like in the faces of real people? I’ll post the paintings as I finish them. My dream is to include in this series a portrait of President Obama or Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton or Senator Mitch McConnell or anyone who has the very best health insurance coverage a government job has to offer.
It also occurs to me that the portraits can be instruments of social change. The portraits are pictures of real people, and they might sensitize us to the fact that all opinions affect real people. Aiming our opinions at real people may, in turn, alter our opinions. But this is just me thinking outloud.
Let’s have fun with this.
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