AIM paintings and community art are available on blank notecards in packages of 10 for $10.
Please contact Anne Higdon at (318) 813-1423 to order.
All proceeds benefit cancer research in our community.
Arts in Medicine Events
Patients paint great works of art 
The AIM signature event is recreation of Master paintings by adult cancer patients while they receive treatment at Feist-Weiller Cancer Center. Painting transports patients to a whole new dimension of comfort while they receive treatment. Patients experience the history of the painting and the artist from program director Jane Crandell-Glass. The Adult Art Gallery shows the collection of historic Master paintings recreated by adult cancer patients at Feist-Weiller Cancer Center.
Patient reproduction of American Gothic, pictured on the right, was completed by several different patients in the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center outpatient chemotherapy clinic. The original painting was created by American artist Grant Wood in 1930. The man holding a pitchfork is symbolic of physical labor in the early 20th century, and the model's faces reflect somber attitudes during the Great Depression.
“Painting makes it fun to come here and it helps to pass the time. I like seeing the paintings hanging when I come. I tease my family that I’m working on masterpieces.”
- Vicki Smith, cancer patient at Feist-Weiller Cancer Center and AIM participant
St. Jude Affiliate Clinic patients produce whimsical paintings
Youth hematology/oncology patients treated at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Affiliate Clinic have an opportunity to paint fun, whimsical pictures of cartoons and objects familiar to them.
Youth self portraits
Patients at the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Affiliate Clinic, located in the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center outpatient treatment building, have the opportunity to create self-portraits. The coordinating artist takes a photograph of the child and sketches it onto illustration board. The child chooses the colors he or she would like to paint his or her skin, hair and shirt. When completed, the unique portraits are hung on the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Affiliate Clinic "Wall of Fame."
“My daughter Shelbi has had the opportunity to paint on several occasions through the AIM program. What a phenomenal program! This therapeutic program takes away the nervousness and anxiety of the visit and instead replaces it with laughter and smiles as she paints.”
- Emily Wingfield, mother of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Affiliate Clinic patient Shelbi Wingfield
Community art reception 
Feist-Weiller Cancer Center works with the Shreveport Regional Arts Council (SRAC), the Caddo and Bossier Parish School Boards, and other organizations to acquire art created by young people in our community. One such avenue is ArtBreak, the South's biggest student art festival, hosted by SRAC in late spring to celebrate local art programs and artists' achievements.
Feist-Weiller Cancer Center's own Gary Von Burton, MD judges Caddo/Bossier Parish student paintings displayed at ArtBreak each spring. Forty to fifty works of art are chosen to be framed to hang in the hospital rooms of cancer patients and in the hallways of the Hematology/Oncology unit at LSU Hospital. In late August, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center hosts a reception to honor young artists whose work was juried in. The following year, framed art work is returned to student artists.