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Losing eyesight sharpens vision for artist Chloé Duplessis

Her work focuses on creating art and immersive experiences that center around history, ancestors, accessibility and fostering healing

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Artist Chloé Duplessis poses for a portrait in front of her mural entitled Holding Hope near Denver Central Market in RiNo on Sept. 15, 2023, in Denver. The mural was a collaboration between Duplessis and Valerie Rose, a half-deaf artist out of California. Duplessis says the mural was an effort by two women “navigating disability together, representing marginalized communities and making history together with their mural because they were the first such creative collaboration and team to create public art of this scale in the city of Denver.” (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
Artist Chloé Duplessis poses for a portrait in front of her mural entitled Holding Hope near Denver Central Market in RiNo on Sept. 15, 2023, in Denver. The mural was a collaboration between Duplessis and Valerie Rose, a half-deaf artist out of California. Duplessis says the mural was an effort by two women “navigating disability together, representing marginalized communities and making history together with their mural because they were the first such creative collaboration and team to create public art of this scale in the city of Denver.” (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

When a digital artist, muralist, photographer and oral historian was faced with losing her sight, “as an artist, I thought, how can I go on when the very thing I do is visual?”

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