What do Voting, Dirty Laundry and Drug Formularies have in Common?

The exhibit Prescriptions for Change: Value Voting in Healthcare rotates one work per month in the West Virginia University Health Sciences Library in Morgantown during the 2024-25 academic year. Organized by WVU Art in the Libraries Curator Sally Brown, each piece is accompanied by a brief written response from a member of the WVU community. "Dirty Laundry: Drug Formulary Exclusions" is on display in November. This mixed-media piece was previously published in AMA Journal of Ethics.

Prescriptions for Change relates to a larger initiative on campus for value voting. The exhibit Our Votes, Our Values runs from September 6-December 15, 2024 at the Art Museum of WVU. This exhibit is co-curated by Erik Herron, Professor of Political Science and 2023 Art Museum Faculty Fellow, Robert Bridges, Curator, Art Museum of WV and Heather Harris, Curator of Education, Art Museum of WVU. The works explore how the values we maintain influence our voting.

"Dirty Laundry: Drug Formulary Exclusions," Katy Giebenhain, 2017, mixed media (pastel, laser print, waxed linen thread, graphite) 36 x 27.25 inches framed

Detail from "Dirty Laundry: Drug Formulary Exclusions," Katy Giebenhain, 2017, mixed media (pastel, laser print, waxed linen thread, graphite) 36 x 27.25 inches framed

Panel design by Sally Brown, text by Renée K. Nicholson.