Grace Athena Flott’s Portraits Celebrate Burn Survivors

When Grace Athena Flott was first searching for a venue to exhibit her portraits of burn survivors, she received the same response over and over.

 “Oh, that would look good in a hospital,” people told her.

Flott understood where these comments came from. A burn survivor herself, she’d spent quite a bit of time in recovery spaces over the years.

But the art world was her world, too. The Capitol Hill resident had shown work in galleries around the city and country. She didn’t want these portraits, directly and indirectly depicting burn scars, stashed away in the bowels of drab medical facilities, far from the

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