Heather Blumenfeld remembers how her late brother, Teddy Dalton, always made everyone laugh. So, when an artist was drawing his portrait, she asked them to redo it a few times.

“You just want to be able to look at it and see, like, that little glimmer in their eye,” Blumenfeld said.

The artist was patient, she said, asking questions about her brother’s life in an effort to get to know him as best as they could.

The hand drawn graphite portrait of Blumenfeld’s brother is now part of the Into Light Project , a national initiative that features graphite portraits of people who died in some relation to substance use disorder.

New Hampshire’s exhibition opens on Monday, Aug. 25 at Plymouth State University, and will feature 33 portraits of Granite Staters.

The program connects particip

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