"Healing Through the Arts III: Surviving and Thriving," a Breast Cancer Prevention and Awareness Project, is underway at The Lawrence Arts Center this month. This year's events include an Art Exhibition October 6-31 with a reception Friday, October 13 from 5:30 7:30 and two workshops with community groups.
The exhibition is open to artists who are cancer survivors and artists interested in the connections between art and healing. The work is displayed in the Lawrence Arts Center's lobby and main floor hallway. This year's artists come from Baldwin Lawrence, Leavenworth, Oskaloosa, Topeka, and Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Works by Barbara Baeuchle, Samantha Bennett, Carolyn Berry, Sarah Clark, Shelli Cullor, Laura Dalrymple, William R. Grubbs, Shakura Jackson, Kathleen Hird Kostner, Ricardo Kostner, Debbie McGee, Tanya McNeely, Maggie Peil, Mari Russell, Libby Schmanke, Annie Stevens, and Carolyn Young include paintings, pen & ink, digital images on fabric, collage, photography, and sculpture. Each work is accompanied by an artist statement discussing the work and usually the connection from their lives with healing. This powerful and moving exhibition will continue until October 31 with a reception October 13 from 5:30-7:30pm.
Additionally, two encouraging and inspiring workshops are being presented to special community groups this month as part of Healing Through the Arts. Janet Hamburg, MA, CMA, RSMT, and professor of dance at the University of Kansas will present a Motivating Moves workshop for the Lawrence Bosom Buddies Breast Cancer Support Group. Libby Schmanke, MA, board-certified art therapist, state certified substance abuse counselor and owner of Art and Insight, a private art therapy practice, will present a workshop in Healing and Artmaking to the women residents of First Step House.
AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical Company, makers of Tamoxifen and other cancer fighting drugs, has given a donation to support this project.
Please visit our website www.lawrenceartscenter.org for more information.
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