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Big Art in Small Spaces
EC is providing photography classes to kids with cancer (ages 4 -18) at the LAC+USC Medical Center. As a county hospital, there isn’t a lot of available space, but we are making things work. Our “Shooting the Light” photography course is actually being held in a treatment room, and the results are out of this world. Check […]
Why Creativity Matters?
“Cancer patients are increasingly turning to alternative and complementary therapies to reduce symptoms, improve quality of life and boost their ability to cope with stress. Art therapy provides a distraction that allows patients to focus on something positive instead of their health for a time, and it gives patients something they can control.” -Director of […]
EC Writing Class Excerpt by Dominique
“One of the women described herself as a short haired old lady. Not so. The woman is mod, hip but doesn’t know it. She seems to carry a secret. The kind cats hold in their stretched limbs. It is as if she has the solution to a riddle she isn’t ready to solve. She would […]
Palette
What does your palette look like? You might get a pleasant surprise. Palette: “a thin board or slab on which an artist lays and mixes colors”
A Poem for EC
The following poem was submitted to me by a friend and I think it’s awesome! Not only is it beautiful, but it does a great job of summarizing the intent of Elizabeth’s Canvas. If you have any written works or poems about your battles with cancer, we would love to read them and share them […]
