Arts For Life Blog

For Cordelia, Uriah, Jesse, and so many more…

May 22, 2017 | By Rachel Zink

              Thank you for making a gift to our Inspiration Fund, and filling so many children’s worlds with COLOR! Your donation will be put right to work, bringing creativity, discovery and joy into children’s hospitals and clinics to help kids and families along their medical journeys.       […]

October is the time to IMAGINE

November 1, 2016 | By Annie Rogers

“Imagination will take you everywhere.”  -Albert Einstein Fall is upon us, and with it, the final leg of our 2016 Artist’s Journey. We spent the first part of the year REFLECTing in the cozy winter months, then CONNECTing with our peers and communities in the Spring. All summer long, we  EXPLOREd, and now we’re using […]

American Masterpieces Meet Bedside Studios

| By Annie Rogers

Have you ever left an art museum brimming with excitement, inspiration, and an overwhelming since of creative urgency? THAT is the feeling that inspired Museum on the Move, a collaboration between Arts For Life Winston Salem and the Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Beginning this spring, Arts For Life students and their families staying […]

Lesson: Metallic Marbleized Masks

October 31, 2016 | By Annie Rogers

This lesson involves one of our all-time favorite art processes here at Arts For Life — marbleizing with shaving cream.  From our youngest artists to our teenagers, this lesson engages them all. Best of all, the supply list is easy on the wallet. So dig out the food coloring and that old cheap bottle of […]

Creative Tools to Last a Lifetime

| By Annie Rogers

Just about five years ago, I made one of the clearest memories I have ever made at Arts For Life. I was in a hospital room with Sydney, then 7 years old. I was sitting on the end of her bed. The hospital –  the doctors, the nurses, the pokes, the tests, the tension, the […]

“Made In House” Art Show and Opening Reception

October 28, 2016 | By Annie Rogers

What: “Made In House” Opening Reception to celebrate newly installed permanent artwork on display at Mission Children’s Reuter Outpatient Center. Who: Mission patients, family members, volunteers, and staff; Open to the Public Where: Reuter Outpatient Center, 11 Vanderbilt Park Drive, Asheville, NC 28803 Arts For Life invites patients, family members, Mission staff and volunteers, as […]

Season’s Greeting (Cards) from Arts For Life!

October 14, 2016 | By Rachel Zink

Celebrate the giving season by supporting young artists in hospitals across North Carolina with our special holiday cards This year, one artist from each of our four chapters contributed a design for our cards: Their bird-inspired winter scenes are colorful, whimsical, and sure to bring a smile to the faces of your clients, colleagues, friends […]