USF Contemporary Art Museum and Moffitt Cancer Center present "Witnessing Cancer: 

Communicating Illness through Visual Art and Narrative" brings together diverse voices in a 

discussion about how visual art and storytelling can invite audiences to witness cancer with 

empathy and understanding. Hildebrandt will discuss her artwork and its evolution from 

narrative illustrations of her cancer treatment to abstract landscapes that give visual form to 

her experience of fear and physical and psychological endurance. USF English and 

Women s and Gender Studies professor Diane Price Herndl will discuss the way artistic 

images of post-cancer bodies, particularly women s bodies in the aftermath of breast cancer, 

invite viewers to witness cancer and shape public conversation about the disease. A 

discussion will follow with Moffitt oncologists Sarah Hoffe, M.D., and Lodovico Balducci, M.D., 

and Faces of Courage founder and CEO Peggie Sherry. The symposium will be moderated 

by USFCAM associate curator of education Megan Voeller.