June 17, 2022 | By Snee Howard
Arts For Life has been providing creative programming to pediatric patients and their families since 2001. Our Founding Executive Director recognized the importance and the power of creativity for her sister while she was being treated in the hospital. Since then, tens of thousands of kids have been handed a paintbrush or encouraged to strum […]
July 1, 2019 | By Rachel Zink
Reese just turned nine years old, and he spends at least 21 days in the hospital each time he comes to receive his chemo treatments. By the end of the first week his walls, IV pole, and ceiling are covered in artwork. He has even started selling some of the art to his nurses, doctors, […]
December 21, 2018 | By Rachel Zink
Highland and Mia don’t know each other, but they sure both know the Arts For Life art table. Highland, who is four, has been visiting the art table at the pediatric oncology clinic since she was diagnosed with Leukemia over two years ago. She is done with treatment now. Mia, who is eight, has been […]
January 12, 2018 | By Annie Rogers
I think art is important because without art, I would be so sad. A lot of children like to do art so if there’s no art no children would be able to have art, do art, and be happy.
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. […]
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 […]
| 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 […]
October 31, 2016 | 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 […]
July 27, 2016 | By Annie Rogers
For most of us, summer, with its long sunny days and laid-back schedule, is the time of relaxation, exploration, travel and adventure. For many of the kids and families at our hospital art tables, however, a summertime vacation is not always possible. That’s why in July and August, we are bringing exploration and adventure to […]
| By Annie Rogers
One day not very long ago, I was teaching at the art table in the Zeis Pediatric Hematology/Oncology clinic at Mission Hospital, and a family came in for their son’s yearly off-treatment follow-up appointment. I had known this family for a long time, and had really gotten to know them during the three years Ryan […]