Office of Health Equity

Veteran Health Equity Art Gallery

The Office of Health Equity has asked artists who have connections to the military to help visualize the military experience, social justice, and what health equity for all Veterans might look like.  This gallery grew out of Office of Health Equity’s Health Equity Action Plan efforts to increase awareness of the significance of health disparities, their impact on the nation, and the actions necessary to improve health outcomes for racial, ethnic, and underserved populations.

Current Exhibition: Responding to Social Justice and Equity

Dr. Alicia Christy

Dr. Alicia Christy is the Deputy Director of Reproductive Health in the VA’s Office of Women’s Health and an Army Veteran. She is a watercolor artist whose work is inspired by and responds to social justice issues, such as Black Lives Matter, Veteran advocacy, and homelessness. Dr. Christy is board certified in reproductive endocrinology and infertility and obstetrics and gynecology.  Her work has been published as the cover art for the inaugural issue of Fertility and Sterility Science, and the cover art for Academic Medicine. Her work has also been published in Seminars for Reproductive Medicine, and Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America.

COVID Tears  Details:Watercolor on paper	Black Grief  Details: Watercolor on paper
Climate Justice  Details: Watercolor on paper	Why I Vote: The Ethical Obligation to Promote Voter Engagement to Achieve Health Equity  Details: Watercolor on paper
Response to Caging Babies at the Border  Details: Watercolor on paper	Responses to the War in Ukraine  Details: Watercolor on paper

Maggs Vibo

Maggs Vibo is a writer, scholar, and Veteran who served as a sergeant in the United States Army. She deployed to Iraq in 2003 where her unit (attached to XVIII Airborne Corps) earned a Presidential Unit Citation. Her work has been anthologized in over a dozen print publications including those published by Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, the Veterans Writing Workshop, and the Veterans Writing Project.

Throughout two decades, she’s shared her journey as a military Veteran and Officer’s spouse in print, broadcast, special events, glitch media, and online in 3D exhibitions in many countries throughout the world. You can find her pieces at maggsvibo.com.

Agents of War Details: Photograph, fragmented and burned text, orange Originally published by Berfrois, 2021	A Lifetime of War Details: Color Pencils, fragmented and burned text, ash poetry series Originally shown for Art Rehab, curated by Uniting US, hosted by the Hill Center at the Old Naval Center, Washington, DC, 2021
Snappy Syncs Details: Water color, fragmented and burned text, ash poetry series Originally shown for Poetry and Spoken Word Night, hosted by Tim Marriott of Shell Shock, presented by Army @ The Fringe in association with Summerhall, UK	Scapegoating in the Silver Age Details: Mixed Media, fragmented and burned text, ash poetry series Originally shown for Quarantine Creations Art Exhibition, hosted by the Perkinson Center for Art and Education, Chester, VA, 2021
We The People Details: Found text includes: The Constitution of the United States and Declaration of Independence. Artist used erasure, cut-up, and rearranged text methods, ash poetry series Originally shown at the Veteran Artist Showcase, organized by Uniting US, hosted by the Veterans History Project, Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 2022.

Call for Submissions 

VA’s Office of Health Equity is looking for artists who have connections to the military to help visualize the military experience, social justice, and what health equity for all Veterans might look like. Artists interested in submitting their work should review the Call for Submissions.

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