Art as Witness: A living exposition of Lyme & tick-borne disease
A disease that's been invisible for too long is getting a room of its own.
An exposition of the lives of chronic Lyme and tick-borne disease, LymeLnk invites you to a one-night-only show in New York City. The exhibit features Nowhere Land, a photography series by Jiatong Lu, with vignettes from award-winning documentary, The Quiet Epidemic.
Join us for an evening where art meets advocacy and education meets human experience. Over wine, mocktails, and small bites, understand this growing epidemic through multimedia art, then hear from a panel of a leading journalist, artist, and clinician in the field.
The Evening
7:30 PM — Doors open. Mingle, take in the art, grab a drink.
8:15 PM — Hear from LymeLnk founder Eva Scarano before a panel conversation featuring Jiatong Lu (photographer), Shannon Delaney, MD (Psychiatrist specializing in Lyme & tick-borne disease), and Mary Beth Pfeiffer (award-winning journalist & author), moderated by Lindsay Keys (filmmaker, The Quiet Epidemic).
8:45 PM — Keep the conversation going.
About the Host: LymeLnk & Eva Scarano
LymeLnk is a nonprofit combating Lyme & tick-borne disease (Lyme+) through community storytelling and education. Making this epidemic visible through universal languages—art and the voices of people affected. Telling stories so Lyme+ doesn't become part of yours.
About the Panelists:
Jiatong Lu, Photographer, Nowhere Land
Originally from Northwest China and now based in New York, Jiatong Lu is a mixed-media artist and photographer with an MFA in Photography, Video & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts. After contracting Lyme disease in 2021, her case became chronic. She turned her camera to the community she'd found online, invisible to the public while enduring mistreatment for decades. Winner of CPW's 2025 Portfolio Review Prize, her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in a solo exhibition at the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
Shannon Delaney, Director, Child and Adolescent Evaluation, Lyme & Tick-borne Disease Research Center, Columbia University Medical Center
Dr. Delaney is a New York City-based neuropsychiatrist in private practice, formerly of Columbia University Medical Center. She completed her NIH-sponsored research fellowship at Columbia University in 2017. Her clinical research has focused on immune and infectious contributions to psychiatric disease, especially psychosis in children and young adults. She specializes in seeing children and adults with complex neuropsychiatric presentations, especially those with suspected Lyme disease or other tick-borne diseases, as well as those with Pediatric Acute onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS).
Mary Beth Pfeiffer, Journalist, Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change
Mary Beth Pfeiffer, author of Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change, has been an investigative journalist for three decades. Specializing in social justice, environmental, and health reporting, she is also author of Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill. For her Lyme disease work, Pfeiffer was honored with a half-dozen awards, including the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi award in 2013 from the Society for Professional Journalists, one of her two. For other reports, she has been honored by the Scripps Howard Foundation, National Headliner Awards, Inter America Press Association, and Associated Press Managing Editors, among others.
Moderated by Lindsay Keys, Filmmaker, The Quiet Epidemic
Lindsay Keys is a filmmaker and photographer based in the Hudson Valley. She co-directed and produced The Quiet Epidemic, a feature documentary that premiered at Hot Docs in 2022, now available on Apple TV and Amazon. The film won multiple best feature awards, including the NYWIFT Award for Excellence in Documentary Directing, and was featured in Variety, TIME, and NPR. The Quiet Epidemic grew from her own battle with Lyme disease and led to a decade-long journey that culminated in a presentation at the U.S. Capitol. Her photography has been exhibited internationally, at the Aperture Foundation, and in The New York Times and Interview Magazine.