DENMARK — The line-up for June at the Denmark Arts Center includes:
Friday, June 19 at 7 p.m., Amy Stacey Curtis. Amy Stacey Curtis was a practicing installation artist widely recognized and awarded for an 18-year project presented throughout nine abandoned Maine mills. Soon after completing this ambitious opus, her brain was attacked. For 22 months, Amy would experience a nonstop psychosis soon accompanied by a debilitating head-to-toe loss of muscle control, requiring the use of a wheelchair, severely impacting her speech, and cutting her off from her community. After two psychiatric wards, eight antipsychotic drugs, and 15 months of misdiagnosing doctors, it was finally determined that Amy’s brain was injured by past Lyme disease she never knew she had.
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