Using art to honor COVID-19 victims
According to the CDC, 554,420 Americans have died from COVID-related issues since last year. A woman from Schuylkill County is putting a face to the numbers. Author: Elizabeth Worthington Updated: 5:09 PM EDT April 6, 2021
TAMAQUA, Pa. Kathleen Cantrell served in the Navy as a nurse in the 1960s. She was a mother, wife, and sister. She passed away from COVID-19 in November. Her portrait is now on display at the Tamaqua Community Arts Center along with dozens of others, all drawn by Kathleen s niece Andrea Perno from Auburn. For me, it was kind of a way to process it. A lot of people process grief in different ways, and I ve just always kind of channeled that into artwork or, you know, sometimes people just bottle it up, and that s kind of my way of getting through it, Perno said.
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