RACHEL MINDRUP

RACHEL MINDRUP

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    • Bibliography
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  • Many Faces of Neurofibromatosis (NF)
    • NF1 ~ Portraits
      • Statement
      • Oil Portraits NF1 (United States)
      • Oil Portraits NF1 (Worldwide)
      • Watercolor Portraits of NF
    • NF2-SWN ~ Portraits
      • Oil Portraits NF2-SWN (United States)
      • Oil Portraits NF2-SWN (Worldwide)
      • Watercolor Portraits
    • NF ~ State Show Collections
      • NF ~ Arizona
      • NF ~ Missouri
      • NF ~ Nebraska
        • Drawings from Life
        • Paintings
      • NF ~ Tennessee
    • NF ~ In Memoriam
      • NF1 Memorials
      • NF2 Memorials
    • NF ~ Marriage
    • NF ~ Kids' Oil Portraits
    • Ashok Shrestha's NF Transformation
      • Drawings
      • Paintings
      • Monotypes
      • Ashok's Visits
  • The Art of Medicine
    • Painting / Drawing
    • Printmaking / Intaglio
  • The Boys
    • Together
    • Henry
    • Fred
  • Solo Exhibitions
    • 2026
      • CHI Bergan Mercy Hospital - Worldwide #2
      • The Highlander at Creighton University
    • 2025
      • International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago
      • Blanden Memorial Art Museum
      • Gallery 92 West
      • CHI Bergan Mercy Hospital - Worldwide #1
    • 2024
      • Permission to Stare - Mayo Clinic - Scottsdale
    • 2023
      • See Me: Portraits of NF, Rockhurst University
      • Portraits of NF2 - Deming Gallery, Creighton
      • Murfree Gallery
      • Many Faces of NF: Positive Exposure - NYC
    • 2022
      • Scanxiety: Life Between the Scans - Hot Shops Art Gallery
      • NF Tennessee - Vanderbilt University
      • Permission to Stare: Living with Neurofibromatosis - Creighton University Phoenix
    • 2021
      • Many Faces of NF: Good Samaritan Hospital
      • NF: Kansas and Missouri
      • Neurofibromatosis: A Portrait of Nebraska - Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
      • Many Faces of NF: Stocksdale Gallery
    • 2020
      • Neurofibromatosis and a Portrait of 1 in 3000 - Creighton University
    • 2019
      • Neurofibromatosis: The People, Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art
      • Many Faces of NF - Hibbing Community College
      • Many Faces of NF: Carnegie Arts Center
    • 2018
      • Many Faces of NF: Norfolk Arts Center
      • Washington University School of Medicine
      • Governor's Mansion - Lincoln, Nebraska
    • 2017
      • Bryan Medical Center
      • Portrait of a Disorder: Neurofibromatosis - KCAC
    • 2016
      • Portrait of a Disorder: Neurofibromatosis - Creighton University
    • 2015
      • Many Faces of NF - Portraits of Neurofibromatosis - UNO
    • 2014
      • Rachel Mindrup: Many Faces of NF - Northwestern College
      • Many Faces of NF - UNK
      • Many Faces of NF - UNL
    • 2013
      • Neuro Art Culture - UNL
  • Paintings / Drawings
    • Oil Paintings
      • Figurative Works
      • Still Lifes
    • Drawings
      • 5 Hour Portraits
      • The Body
  • Airport Sketching
  • Children's Books
  • Blog
  • Contact
Keith Thinking About Life
Phoenix, Arizona ~ 2021
Oil on Canvas
30" x 24"
Keith graduated in 1988 and worked in a warehouse for years before he got his commercial driver's license. He has been an over the road driver for more than twenty years now. He has three children, two boys and a girl. The two boys, now teenagers, both have NF and the daughter seems to have signs, but no formal diagnosis. Over the years he has had a few fibromas removed and has most of them concentrated in his trunk area and back. Keith receives his care at Thunderbird Family Medicine and Valley Wise Health. Even with some of the minor surgeries, Keith feels fortunate to not have had many surgeries nor the bullying that others with NF have endured. He considers himself blessed.

Keith is looking to be more active in the NF community in Phoenix. In Keith's words, "I don't live with NF. NF lives with me it is what makes me stronger & more compassion towards other elements of life."