“FLARE is not a traditional art show or a typical health initiative. It is a cultural platform where art becomes infrastructure for awareness, dialogue, and lasting change.”
— Priscilla Palmieri Smith, Founder
FLARE is the world's first art initiative and media platform created to give voice to the endometriosis experience. It is a space for artists, writers, and individuals living with chronic illness to express, document, and reinterpret what is so often left unseen.
Chronic illness informs perception, identity, and lived experience in ways that go unacknowledged in conventional discourse. Rather than framing this only through a clinical lens, FLARE positions it within creative and cultural space — where it can be explored, witnessed, and translated into form.
This is more than a diagnosis. This is a movement.
A NYC showcase amplifying the lived experiences of endometriosis through art. This exhibit celebrates the stories, struggles, and resilience of women navigating chronic pain, reproductive health challenges, and the journey toward proper diagnosis.
A NYC art showcase amplifying the lived experiences of endometriosis.
The editorial heart of FLARE — art, research, lived experience, and advocacy.
Conversations from inside the experience — artists, advocates, and individuals in their own words.
An invitation into both healing and the art world — a contemporary creative wellness publication that combines personal reflection, visual literacy, and emotional storytelling to help people affected by endometriosis build a deeper relationship with themselves through art. Launching soon.
Voices that were dismissed, now in their own words.
Artists, advocates, and individuals living with endometriosis speak openly — on creativity, the body, being unseen, and what it means to keep making anyway.
The true editorial of FLARE — a living publication where art, research, lived experience, and advocacy meet. Essays, interviews, and visual stories for those navigating chronic illness, and for everyone who wants to understand it.
Priscilla Smith is an artist, storyteller, and endometriosis advocate whose own experience with chronic illness inspired the creation of FLARE. After years of navigating pain, delayed diagnosis, and the emotional realities of living with endometriosis, she turned to art as a way to process, communicate, and connect.
She founded FLARE to create the kind of community she wished existed — one where stories are seen, voices are amplified, and no one feels alone.
Meet the founder ↗FLARE is building a creative home for the endometriosis community. Through art, storytelling, education, and connection, we aim to transform awareness into action — and create a future where those impacted by endometriosis feel supported, represented, and empowered.