Talia's Voice: Projects for Patient Safety

Hello, everyone!  We've been busy since Mike Baker's feature on Talia, "A Lost Voice," came out in February, 2017, on the third anniversary of Talia's surgery and subsequent death.  He did a beautiful job telling a terrible story, and managed to make Talia come alive.  That article changed the trajectory of our lives, and we have recently started a non-profit in Talia's memory, called Talia's Voice: Projects for Patient Safety.  We hope you'll check out the website and follow us on our journey.  We hope to change the culture in medicine so that nobody else loses a loved one the way we did! 

Here are links:

taliavoice.org

Seattle Times Story about Talia

Talia's mom, Naomi's op-ed in the Seattle Times

"A Lost Voice" - Mike Baker of the Seattle Times writes about Talia

Read this powerful, heart-wrenching story about Talia.  Mike Baker's series, "Quantity of Care," uncovers ugly things at Swedish Cherry Hill Hospital in Seattle.  Mike writes honestly and sensitively about Talia, and The Seattle Times visual team did an incredible job using Talia's art to depict the story.  It's remarkable to us that Talia illustrated her own demise from the grave. Please read and share!  Naomi, Talia's mom, also weighed in on the subject in her op-ed, in which she gave a scathing review of the medical system that killed Talia.  Subsequent Investigations by the Washington State DOH revealed the dreadful "care" Talia received. 

Here are the links:

A Lost Voice

The O.R. Factory

A Mother Speaks for Her Daughter:  Doctors, Listen to Your Patients / Op-Ed

Investigators Find 'Numerous' Issues Related to Patient Safety at Swedish Cherry Hill

We're back!

We have finally revamped Talia’s website and it is now possible to purchase high quality reprints of Talia’s art work—we’ve had numerous requests to do so over the past three years.  Look to this section for photos, blog posts, and other news relating to Talia, her art, and this website.

New Images in Gallery

We have been going through Talia's various work and projects, and will now start to post some of the art that Talia produced, but never posted.  Look in the gallery for "Posthumously Posted". We will begin with some of her watercolor and ink  pieces, but hope to include other sketches, prints, and metal sculptures over time.  High quality digital reproductions of Talia's two-dimensional work will be available for purchase soon.

Updating. Please check back soon!!

Talia died on February 20, 2014.

We (Talia's family) are in the process of updating and adding images of other work of Talia's.

There will be new content soon and we will be making prints available for sale.

PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON

Now selling prints!

Interested in buying a piece of my artwork?  Prints (as well as originals) are now for sale!  Each reproduction is part of a limited edition of 11, so contact me if there's something you have your eye on :)

Show Take-Down

As Winter approaches, it's almost time to take down the show.  It's been really fun having my work in a public space, so it'll be bitter-sweet to take it down.  Thanks again to everyone who supported me and helped make the show happen, and to all those who stopped by to check it out!  For those of you who couldn't make it, here are a few snapshots of the space, so you can get a sense of what it looked like!

Art Opening at Noisette!

My first art opening is happening on Friday, September 6 from 5-7 during the First Friday ArtWalk!  Come join me at Noisette Pastry Kitchen for yummy treats, fun music, and good art :)  I'll be displaying my metal sculptures for the opening night, and my 2-dimensional work will remain on the walls for a little while.  Come check it out!