ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Dr. Bertrand Boddie decided to pursue a career in medicine at a time when doing so as a Black man was nearly impossible. According to his daughter, Lydia Boddie-Rice, around 1950, the University of Rochester only allowed one Black person a year into their medical program. Boddie was one of them and became the second to graduate from it. On Thursday, February 13, the University Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics will host a lecture and panel discussion after which there will be a plaque dedication to Dr. Boddie. Accompanying that dedication will be an exhibition displaying the artwork of Boddie's daughter, Lydia Boddie-Rice. Boddie-Rice's work often blends her love of graphic design, fabric and stories. This week, as part of News 8's coverage of Black History Month, she sat down with Adam Chodak to talk about her art and its link to her father's life and legacy. Here's part of the interview that took place at Boddie-Rice's studio in the Cumberland Building. Adam Chodak: Looking around, you appear to be lifting up the voices of people of color and it seems like that is intentional. Lydia Boddice-Rice: I'd like to think that my artwork reflects an inclusivity and humanity that really speaks to the heart so that has a lot to do with my own upbringing... but, yes, because I really like paint and I really like to create my textures and I just think that color is beautiful so for me lifting up Black and brown people is certainly part of me reflecting my heritage, but it's also a way for me to express myself artistically.Adam Chodak: Speaking of your heritage, your father, the second African-American to become a doctor through the University of Rochester. Lydia Boddice-Rice: It's quite sobering, it's amazing. He's been gone 35 years and people remember him so compassionately. Everything from how he was quite the jokester to how he was a social activist so, you know, the inclusivity also comes from that.Adam Chodak: Was it difficult, his experience, doing that? Lydia Boddice-Rice: He never spoke of it, he really didn't. Although according to the historian who I've been working with at URMC, it was a very challenging time for my father to be in school. Only one Black man was accepted per year per policy and dad was one of them … This will be celebrated with the plaque dedication on Feb. 13. What I'm very excited about is that the career of my father, his legacy and my artwork is harmonically converging. Having my artwork that will be prominently installed in the halls of the medical school and those are not prints that are random, they are of his children, his grand-children, it's really going to be a corridor, speaks to I hope the students and connects them with him, not only the physician but also the human.