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
The Process of Creation
The coordinating artist sketches an outline copy of a picture. The sketch then is divided into nine to twenty 10-inch square grids, which are color-coded. AIM Volunteers take the squares and paints into hospital rooms and into the chemotherapy out-patient clinics. Patients are provided with paint brushes and paints to complete the grid while they receive treatment. Completed squares are combined to form the finished work, which is matted and framed with a plaque listing the names of those who participated. |
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The Results
The final products are hung in the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center chemo clinics and hallways; in the Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation/Leukemia units on the sixth floor of LSUHSC-Shreveport hospital; and in the hospital lobby.
Throughout the AIM program, art coordinators found that cancer patients doing art feel less stress, and for the moment they are relieved of the pressures of their disease. This unexpected result of the project has been the quality of the finished products, as well as the joy the patients experience as they proudly point out "their" squares. See the beautiful results
“I find that as I paint I am removed from the world of worry, sadness, pain, cancer, chemotherapy, needles, etc., and transported to a worry-free world of bright colors and pleasure.”
- Margaret, cancer patient at Feist-Weiller Cancer Center and AIM participant