December 1, 2017 | By Annie Rogers
The Heartbeat Sessions are a growing collection of musical recordings, highlighting the collaboration between young patients and music professionals in the Asheville community. Each session involves incorporating a digital recording of a pediatric patient’s heartbeat into a song selected or created by the patient and their family. The song and the heartbeat are recorded together, […]
September 22, 2017 | By Rachel Zink
Calling All Movers, Shakers, Makers & Creatives! WHAT: #getcreative #givecreative 2017 Campaign WHEN: Nov. 2-3, 2017 WHY: To amplify Arts For Life’s mission through social media and raise much-needed funds HOW: With your help! At Arts For Life, we believe that ART IS FOR EVERYONE. Art is for the patients and families in our hospitals. […]
September 12, 2017 | By Annie Rogers
Danna, age 7, and Tanya, age 10, Arts For Life Artists (and sisters!) What’s your favorite kind of art to make? Danna: Drawing projects. I loved making the “Willow’s Creative Cat” project! Drawing all the patterns on the big cat was silly and fun! Sharpies are my favorite material. Tanya: 3D art! I had fun […]
Thursday, July 6 5:30-8 pm
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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 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 […]
August 31, 2016 | By Annie Rogers
Have you noticed that “coloring” is having a moment? These days, you can buy coloring books everywhere – even in the grocery store line! This lesson offers the same mind-quieting, free-flowing benefits of coloring, with some added challenge and dimension. You can use that 1980’s atlas gathering dust on your highest bookshelf or – if […]
| By Annie Rogers
…except when they’re making art! That’s what the kids at the art table at the Valvano Day Hospital at Duke Children’s all agreed as they sat together transforming old black and white maps into colorful works of art using this Local Map Doodles lesson last week. The lesson is just one of sixteen different lessons […]
May 27, 2016 | By Annie Rogers
With our December theme, Gifts, Giving, and Holiday Celebrations, and lessons like this one, our Arts For Life teachers are helping kids and families celebrate the generosity, hope, and joy they see around them in the hospital, and spread it through their wider communities.
May 19, 2016 | By Rachel Zink
We’re delighted to announce that Arts For Life has been awarded a $25,000 Ribbon of Hope Grant from the NC GlaxoSmithKline Foundation! This grant will help expand Arts For Life’s educational arts programs for patients and families at Duke Children’s Hospital & Health Center. With help from the Ribbon of Hope Grant, this year, 1,000 […]