User:Bruin236/Alyssa Bermudez

Alyssa Bermudez is a born Nuyorican (New York and Puerto Rican) that currently resides in Tasmania, Australia. https://www.alyssabermudezart.com/about

Graphic Novel and 9/11
Big Apple Diaries, August 2021, written and illustrated by Alyssa Bermudez


 * The graphic novel, Big Apple Diaries, discusses Bermudez’s experience as a 12 year old middle schooler. Bermudez speaks on topics such as having to live one day with her Puerto Rican dad and another day with her white mom. In addition, Bermudez gives us an insight to her younger self by retelling her experiences as a middle schooler. However, the most important topic in her graphic novel is the fact that she experienced the tragic 9/11 which leaves her to question how she will ever be a kid again because of the uncertainty left of how to rebuild her life. I found this graphic novel useful because it paves the way on how she got into being an illustrator as this was her debut graphic novel.

Women in the Pink Exhibition
'''Bermudez, Alyssa. “Art Nu-Group.” Nolan Art & School of Art’s - Women in the Pink, July 9, 2022. https://www.nolanart.com.au/portfolio-items/54_art-nu/?portfolioCats=23 .'''


 * In this exhibited work in Nolan Gallery & School of Art’s “Art Nu,”  Bermudez presents Women in the Pink which is a celebration of the female body as viewed by a woman’s perspective. Women in Pink is exhibited in the Nolan Art as a limited edition print which is placed on grade cotton rag. Women in the Pink was Bermudez’s way to experience with patterns such that she can portray the everyday body of a pregnant women in order to empower it. I found this exhibited work useful because Bermudez is a very versatile artists such that when doing such artwork, she was also writing and editing a graphic novel, which shows her dedication to her field in being able to handle being an illustrator and a author.

Tribute Artwork Changing Patient Lives
'''Art and music changing the lives of hospital patients; Blackwood, Fiona. “'I'll Think about This All Day': Art and Music Changing Patient Lives in Hospitals.” ABC News. ABC News, May 4, 2019. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-05/art-therapy-trial-helping-hospital-patients/11077120 .'''


 * In this ABC news article by Fiona Blackwood, she discusses the the impact that Alyssa Bermudez has left though her participation on the Life-Scapes art and music program of Inscape at the Royal Hobart Hospital. Blackwood discusses how Bermudez does tribute artwork such that she listens to patients stories in order to create a piece of artwork out of it that holds significant importance in the patients heart. Bermudez and the other artist/musicians of this program are improving the lives of patients by acknowledging that the patients are people and should be treated as one, which the program has discovered that patients significantly improve their health by participating in such programs. I found this news article very useful because it speaks on the advocacy that Bermudez has done in order for others to view patients suffering from diseases as people through her tribute artwork that has left an important impact on the patients and herself in allowing her to expand her artistic gifts to help her community.