Community art

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 that celebrates 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.

See the Community Art Gallery