MUSEUM HOLDS OPENING RECEPTION FOR NEW EXHIBIT

The National Museum of Health and Medicine held an opening reception for "eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopeadics in Art," a traveling art exhibit featuring work by artists whose lives have been touched by an orthopaedic condition and the physicians who treat them. More than 150 people attended the reception, including two local artists whose works are also in the show, Pia of Potomac, Md. and Carmen Trujillo of Washington, D.C. Students of an art class at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Md. and their teacher, Kathleen Fletcher, also attended the reception. The students contributed 13 original artworks to the exhibit. Other attendees included physicians, artists, and staff of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. After welcoming guests to the reception, Adrianne Noe, Ph.D., the museum's director, awarded certificates of appreciation to members of the health community that helped bring the exhibit to the museum. "By bringing the exhibit to the National Museum of Health and Medicine, visitors can gain an understanding and appreciation of the hard work as well as the frustration that goes into treating orthopaedic conditions," said Noe. The exhibit was organized by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Jurors selected 165 pieces for the show from 1,400 slides depicting works of art that were submitted by orthopaedic surgeons and persons with orthopedic conditions. The exhibit will be on display through Aug. 15, 2002.