LifeLine: The Ultimate Bond
Through the intersecting pillars of storytelling, artwork and historical data, Versiti’s innovative exhibit LifeLine: The Ultimate Bond serves as a much-needed catalyst for authentic dialogue and increased organ and tissue donor registration within Milwaukee’s African American community.
Educational in nature, this groundbreaking exhibition presents inspiring personal testimonies of organ and tissue donation by Milwaukee Divine Nine members. These encouraging accounts of survival are enriched through a powerful presentation of multimedia artwork by Wisconsin-based, African American creatives.
Supplemental facts and statistics surrounding organ and tissue donation aim to contextualize this exhibition, including a digitally interactive map of Wisconsin highlighting the community need for organ transplants by county.
Generously supported by Donate Life Wisconsin, the exhibition is a collaboration with local artists, United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS), Mapbox, America’s Black Holocaust Museum, and members of the nine prominent Black Greek-lettered fraternity and sorority organizations with ties to organ and tissue donation.
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Join Versiti during Donate Life month for the virtual launch of the innovative exhibition LifeLine: The Ultimate Bond.
Year over year, the need for organ donation intensifies.
More than 100,000 individuals across the nation are waiting for a transplant and 20 die every day because the organ needed is not available.
One organ donor has the potential to save eight lives while enhancing up to 75 more through tissue donation.
More than 220,000 African Americans call Milwaukee home, but only 25% of the population are registered organ and tissue donors.
Community Collaboration for Life-saving Benefits.
Divine Nine Members
Kobena-Marcus J. Collins
National Transplant Waitlisted for Kidney
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
Stacy Crouther
Kidney Recipient from Living Donor
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Theo Gilbert
Kidney Recipient
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
Darlena Johnson
Kidney Recipient
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority
Richard Lewis
Two-Time Kidney Recipient
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity
Ken Little
Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
Representative LaKeshia Myers
Kidney Recipient
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
Patricia Lewis and son Ray
Kidney Recipient
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority
Featured Artists
Brad Bernard, Acrylic, mixed media
Kierston Ghaznavi, Marker/pen on paper
Jerry Jordan, Oil
Rosy Petri, Fabric & stitch
Sherman Pitts, Digital
Terrance Sims, Photography
Allison Ssali, Acrylic, mixed media
Allison Westbrook, Digital
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