Hundred-Year-Old Medical Slides Form the Basis of Cleveland Print Room’s Next Show

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Fri 1/20 @ 5-9PM

Sat 1/21 @ 1PM

 And now for something completely different ….

The show opening this month at the Cleveland Print Room isn’t like anything it’s done before. It features a collection early 20th century lantern slides originally from the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital.

The collection came into the hands of vernacular photo collector Stacy Waldman after being owned by Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, who was involved in the development of psychosomatic medicine and the promotion of psychoanalysis. Inside Outside: Dr. Jelliffe’s Slides touches on his legacy as well as the history of mental health treatment, lantern slides and outsider art (patients’ art is the subject of some of the slides).

The show opens with a reception Fri 1/20 @ 5-9PM. The following day, Sat 1/21 @ 1pm, the Transformer Station’s gallery manager, Caitie Moore, will moderate a discussion with panelists James Edmonson from Case’s Dittrick Medical History Center, Dr. Ewald Horwath, chair of MetroHealth’s Department of Psychiatry, Cleveland Museum of Art photography curator Barbara Tannenbaum and Maggie Goddard, who curated Inside Outside. They’ll talk about the variety of issues raised by these slides.

The exhibit runs through Sat 3/18.

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