Artist's Notebook: My Adventures With Heart Failure
In 2008, after recovering from breast cancer, New York artist Victoria Behm contracted what seemed to be a bad flu. But symptoms persisted beyond the usual time. She eventually found herself in an ER, gasping for breath. Then she was diagnosed with a disease she had barely heard of.
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Vicki Behm, 58, is a New York City artist. Her paintings and prints involve geometric designs influenced by her mother's quilts, which were made in St. Louis. Behm has filled nearly 200 sketchbooks with drawings and has spent seven summers in Mexico making art. She teaches part-time for Studio in a School and at Brooklyn Friends School. Her husband, Glenn Coleman, is editor of Financial Week.
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