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Non-profit hosts exhibit to bring awareness to substance abuse


Non-profit hosts exhibit to bring awareness to substance abuse
The national non-profit INTO LIGHT, will be displaying an exhibit of 32 portraits in downtown Lancaster to bring awareness to addiction and erase its stigma.
Author: Victoria Lucas (WPMT)
Updated: 10:50 PM EST March 4, 2021
LANCASTER, Pa. Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, another crisis that continues to plague the United States is the epidemic of substance abuse.
Thousands of people across the country have suffered and have even lost their lives due to addiction.
Theresa Clower has seen this first hand as she lost her son Devin to an accidental overdose of fentanyl. 
Clower began to draw portraits of people that she lost.  ....

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Bright, outgoing, athletic, generous, fearless, caring, sensitive, happy. That’s how those who knew them describe them. They are smiling. Their eyes seem almost alive with intelligence and hope. But all of the subjects of Theresa Clower’s 160 graphite portraits are dead from substance abuse disorder.
Clower, a North Carolina-based artist, founded the Into Light, a national nonprofit dedicated to erasing the stigma of substance abuse disorder, after she lost her son Devin Bearden in 2018. The project pairs portraits and narratives of people that have lost their lives to substance abuse disorder.
Into Light runs at The Ware Center in Lancaster from March 5-26. The building itself is closed to the public, but the portraits will be available to see from the street. Visitors can scan a QR code that will take them to YouTube videos of a student actor reading from the narratives that go with the portraits. Lancaster’s show will be the fourth Into Light exhibit; Clo ....

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