arts for life
2011 annual report
Spring 2012
2011
Annual Report
2011 was a landmark year for Arts For Life!
We celebrated 10 years of helping children and teens with serious illnesses and disabilities discover the power of their own creativity and imaginations as they confronted the toughest battles of their lives. In recognition of this milestone, we threw parties, we saw news stories appear in various media outlets, we made a CD of songs created with kids’ poetry, we unveiled our new Keepsake site to highlight the work of our kids. Indeed, there was a lot to celebrate! But even amidst the balloons and confetti, we did not forget that there is something quietly heroic about the path these young patients and their families walk. And so in 2011, we remembered with gratitude all the children who have shaped our lives through the years, the ones we’ve lost and the ones and the ones who are still with us. We paid special tribute to them, and to the hundreds of dedicated teaching and community volunteers, interns, artists, musicians, writers, AFL staff and Board members, donors, and friends who have given countless hours to supporting these kids and transforming their healthcare experiences through art, music, and creative writing. In these pages is our Year In Review, a record of 2011 for more than 5,000 young patients and their families, and all of us who have been privileged to know them. Enjoy!
Shea Godwin Executive Director
arts for life by the numbers Across North Carolina, Arts For Life served 5,041 patients, siblings, and family members in 2011. Our teams in Asheville, Charlotte, Durham, and Winston-Salem taught 18,441 lessons in art, music, and creative writing. Each week, Arts For Life brings 257 hours of dynamic, educational art programming to young patients and their families as they battle serious and chronic illnesses.
Arts For Life Arts For Life is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting people facing serious illnesses. By providing educational art programs, we enrich patients’ lives, nurture their minds and spirits, and encourage positive healthcare experiences for children and their families. Arts For Life serves children in four cities across North Carolina: Asheville, Winston-Salem, Charlotte, and Durham.
The arts for life team across North Carolina Staff
Board of Directors
Shea Godwin Executive Director
Doug Michaels Chair
Rachel Zink Assistant Director
John Dickson Treasurer
Annie Rogers Program Director, Asheville
Anne Sessions Secretary
Anna Long Huff Center Coordinator, Asheville
Becky Anderson Karen Fitzgerald
Betsey McLawhorn Program Director, Winston-Salem
Deborah Goeken
Elizabeth Messick Community Coordinator, Winston-Salem
Wes Sugg
Mary Margaret Fulk Program Director, Durham Sarah Pike Alexander Program Director, Charlotte Lucy Snow Community Coordinator, Charlotte Snee Howard Bookkeeper
Melandee Jones
Did You Know? Our educational art programs: • Utilize art stations, art teachers, and art lessons to transform and improve healthcare environments; • Provide hospitalized and seriously ill children access to the arts and education; • Help young patients and their families cope with short and long term effects of illness; • Give patients opportunities to interact with peers (other patients and siblings); • Foster patients’ imaginations, critical thinking skills, and creativity; • Help patients to set and achieve goals; • Guide patients in focusing on positive activities during waiting times and during stressful experiences; • Provide positive educational experiences that add a sense of purpose and accomplishment to children’s lives.
Clockwise from top left:
Annie, Mary Margaret, Lucy, Shea, Betsey, Sarah, Anna, & Rachel
Leading AFL into the future We welcomed three new members to AFL’s Board of Directors in 2011: Wes Sugg of Laurel Wealth Advisors in Charlotte, Melandee Jones of TIAA-CREF in Charlotte, and Deborah Goeken of Cardinal Health in Durham. Wes, Melandee, and Debbie guide Arts For Life in terms of growth and governance in their roles on the Board, but they are also very active in Arts For Life on the ground. Melandee hosted a “Lunch And Learn” featuring AFL for Ally Bank employees to discover more about our work, Wes represented AFL at a Charlotte Checkers game dedicated to the patients we serve at Presbyterian, and Debbie chaired Durham’s Fancy Pants Dance. AFL is fortunate to have these wonderful people advocating for Arts For Life in our community!
on the Cover:
AFL’s
10th
Anniversary Portrait Project
In early 2011, the Program Directors from each chapter put their creative heads together to come up with a special collaborative statewide project, and chose portraits. Self-portraits are a favorite project among AFL patients, famtilies, and teachers; they are a fun and insightful way to learn new artistic skills, express creativity, and tell personal stories. The Program Directors each guided nine patients in creating 5”x5” portraits, which later were “quilted” onto a canvas to create a collaborative art piece. The resulting 36 portraits make up the finished project, shown on the cover of this report. Each chapter’s original artwork was auctioned off at the Fancy Pants Dance in November, with all the proceeds going to benefit our art programs. We thank all the young artists of AFL for contributing to this unique project!
Arts For Life
Art Show!
Inspired Artwork from the Young Artists In Arts For Life’s Programs
From top left:“Dog,” by Katherine Grace, age 8; “Elvis,” by Hunter, age 12; “Splendid Sunset,” by Kaylee, age 8; “Sheka,” by Sheka, age 10; “She IS Beautiful,” by Sarah, age 16. From bottom left: Self-portrait by Maddy, age 17; “Sunset,” by Drew, age 13; “Skyscraper,” by Aviyah, age 10; “Clownfish,” by Hailey, age 12; “Crazy Hair Day,” by Benjamin, age 8.
arts for life
at Mission Children’s Hospital: • Zeis Cancer Clinic • Olson Huff Center for Child Development • Reuter’s Outpatient Center • Pediatric Inpatient Unit • Support Groups • Outpatient Events
Annie Rogers
Program Director,
Arts For Life Asheville
ARTIST FELLOW Anna Reeser Long
MUSIC FELLOW
Arts
By
For
life
the
asheville
numbers:
In 2011, Arts For Life brought 5,062 hours of art, music, and creative writing to Western North Carolina’s children and families in need. That’s over 97 hours each week! Our dedicated and creative team of staff, volunteers, and interns taught 9,053 individual lessons to 2,249 young patients, siblings, and family members. That’s more than 24 art lessons every single day of the year.
Melissa Hyman
INTERNS Erin Candelaria Terra Midgett Lauren Sealy
TEACHING
VOLUNTEERS Valerie Poullette Altman Gil Calderwood Ed Drane Laura Elia Diane Hall Monica Malpeli Karen Paly Kris Paradis Mimi Shackelford
COMMUNITY COUNCIL Valerie Poullette Altman Dr. Cindy Brown Gil Calderwood Peggy Drane
Volunteers and Arts For Life’s
2,237 hours of their time to & families at Mission Hospital in 2011!
interns gave kids
Brent Ford Chris Pollak Mary Timmer
Spotlight on: Sydney
music fellow:
There are children for whom art is a solo process; an artistic endeavor that’s internal and very personal. And then there are artists like 7-year-old Sydney, who see making art as a social process: a way of connecting with those around her. Since being diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia last fall, Sydney has found a home at the Arts For Life art table, using art as a means of connecting with other kids like her. An outgoing child by nature, Sydney could easily be Arts For Life Asheville’s ambassador - she welcomes new patients to the table and always invites them to join in the art-making.
Melissa
Sydney’s parents, Karen and Darrell, talk about Arts For Life: “When our
daughter was diagnosed with Leukemia on October 27, 2011, we had no idea what would be ahead of us, but we knew it would be a long journey for Sydney and our family. Since her hospital stay, Arts For Life has been a blessing! Not only is it a distraction during treatments, but it helps her to channel her creativity. She doesn’t dread her clinic visits like she did in the beginning. What an amazing program. Any cancer is hard on a child, but AFL makes that journey a little easier and a little less painful. Thank you so much for all you do each and every day; not only for our child, but all of the children in our community facing serious and chronic illnesses.”
volunteers
and
interns
2011 was an eventful year for Arts For Life Asheville’s Volunteer and Internship Program. In the spring, Arts For Life Intern Anna Long, (the first intern ever to work in all three programming locations of Arts For Life Asheville) finished her internship, but not her service to AFL. She continues on as a paid part-time teacher in both the Olson Huff Center and the Zeis Pediatric Oncology clinic, thanks to support from the Janirve Foundation. The Internship Program continues to help Arts For Life reach more children in need while giving promising young students practical, real-world experience. In 2011, Erin Candelaria from Warren Wilson College and Lauren Sealy from Ole Miss served AFL’s kids and families with enthusiasm, sensitivity, and grace. In 2011, several long-standing teaching volunteers continued their commitment to providing excellent art education: Mimi, Diane, Ed, Valerie, Laura, Kris, and Beth.
In 2011, Melissa brought over 600 guitar, percussion, and songwriting lessons to young patients and families on the Inpatient Unit of Mission Children’s Hospital. Melissa tells us: “Music has always been about connections for me. I grew up in a musical family, and my fondest childhood memories are of my dad singing with me and my brother every night before bed, big family sing-alongs, and holiday parties where there were almost as many guitars as people. My work with AFL has been a natural extension of what made me fall in love with music in the first place: the way it crosses boundaries, knits people together, unites many voices and experiences into one.”
This year, Melissa crafted a special interactive musical coloring book for kids on the Inpatient Unit. Inspired by the song “Down By the Bay,” each page is made up of a silly line of lyrics dreamt up by kids singing along with Melissa. Arts For Life provides 6 hours of music lessons to patients and family members each week. The Janirve Foundation, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the City of Asheville Parks, Recreation & Cultural Department made Asheville’s Music Fellowship Program possible in 2011.
Arts For Life at the NEW SECU Cancer Center It has been an endeavor many years in the making - the construction of the Mission Hospital SECU Cancer Center. Arts For Life was there every step of the way, looking at plans and giving input.
AFL’s new art tables at the SECU Cancer Center’s Zeis Children’s Cancer Center Image Credit: Mission Hospital
All that time and effort came to fruition in December 2011, as we made the move into the new Zeis Children’s Cancer Center. The result is a customdesigned space with five art tables, ample cabinets for storage, and even our very own sink! We’ve come a long way since the days of lugging supplies in Tupperware bins and teaching art in the corners of waiting rooms.
arts for life at Presbyterian Hospital • Hemby Children’s Hospital Inpatient Unit • Blume Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Clinic • Support Groups • Outpatient Events Sarah Pike Alexander Program Director,
Arts For Life Charlotte
MUSIC FELLOWS Grey Brewster Kevin Gill
INTERNS Megan Howard Sarah Ness Heather Bouknight Angela Lozowski
TEACHING VOLUNTEERS Jacki Summey Elyse Frederick Gemini Patel Lisa Underwood Holt McLean Carin DeRosa Kimberly Healy Amy Permenter Vanessa Page
Arts For Life Charlotte
By
the
numbers:
In 2011, Arts For Life brought 1,511 hours of art, music, and creative writing to Charlotte’s children and families in need. Our dedicated and creative team of staff, volunteers, and interns taught 2,124 individual lessons to 1,003 young patients, siblings, and family members.
JUNIOR LEAGUE
VOLUNTEERS Jean Brown Collins Byers Kendra Campbell Kristen Clements Sarah Coles Kimberly Delp Stephanie Flury Shanley-Anne Gaither Ashleigh Kehl Lesley Mills Allison Roane Heather Shaw Rachel Stoy
“Arts for Life gives patients an outlet for expression and a break from the stressors of medical equipment, procedures, and the role of “being a patient.” When kids are creating art, the hospital disappears for a few hours and they are just a kid again. Arts for Life improves and quickens a patient’s ability to feel comfortable and be themselves in the healthcare environment. AFL teachers are a vital part of our interdisciplinary team and our ability to provide effective family-centered care.” Katy Field, Child Life Specialist at Blume Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Clinic
The Sweet Sounds of Music at Arts For Life Charlotte
Two years ago, Music Fellows Kevin Gill and Grey Brewster began bringing music to the halls of Presbyterian Hospital and Blume Clinic. Last year, Kevin and Grey taught over 450 guitar, percussion, and songwriting lessons to young patients and families on the Inpatient Unit and Hematology/Oncology Cancer Clinic of Presbyterian Hemby Children’s Hospital. The Fellows travel from room to room with their cart of drums, shakers, and noisemakers, guitar slung across their shoulder, enticing even the most listless patient to perk up and make some music. Brothers, sisters, parents, and grandparents join in the musical fun and create special memories.
“Phineus,” by Carlos
spotlight on:
Carlos Fourteen-year-old Carlos comes in to the Blume Pediatric Clinic in Charlotte every two weeks for a CBC, or complete blood count, a test that helps his doctors manage his Adrenoleukodystrophy. Each time, he can’t imagine that there is an art project that he has not already made.
Luckily, he is always surprised and is given a new art project that gives him something to focus on instead of worry about how much blood they might take from him today, or what kind of medicine he will receive. Instead, he sits intently, working diligently on his project of the day and only puts it down when the nurses need him to stay still. On days when Carlos works with Arts For Life at the clinic, his visits pass by quickly and with less anxiety.
Arts For Life provides five hours of music lessons to patients and family members each week. We have the Arts & Science Council, North Carolina Arts Council, and Speedway Childrens Charities to thank for sustaining AFL’s Music Fellowship Program in 2011.
Many
Thanks
to
our
Junior League Volunteers!
introducing: Lucy AFL Charlotte’s newest
The Junior League of Charlotte continues to support Arts For Life, for the 5th year in a row! Thanks to their investment in volunteer time and funding, AFL is able to offer programming on evenings and weekends when other support services are typically unavailable - and patients’ needs unmet. The Junior League also continue to help Arts For Life by hosting an art exhibition every spring. We always look forward to seeing AFL kids’ art hanging on the walls!
Team
member
Lucy Snow, Charlotte’s new Community Coordinator, joined Arts For Life in the summer of 2011 - just in time to spearhead Charlotte’s Fancy Pants Dance in November. Under Lucy’s guidance, the Fancy Pants Dance raised $4,000 for our programs at Presbyterian Hospital and provided a unique opportunity for our supporters in Charlotte to gather and celebrate Arts For Life’s 10th Anniversary in 2011. Lucy continues promoting awareness of Arts For Life in the Charlotte region through outreach, special events, and public relations. If you are interested in learning more about community volunteering, please contact Lucy at lucy@aflnc.org
arts for life
at Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center: • • • • • •
Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit Valvano Day Hospital 4th Floor Clinics Inpatient Units Support Groups Outpatient Events
Mary Margaret Fulk Program Director,
Arts For Life Durham
INTERNS
Arts For life DURham
By
the
numbers
In 2011, Arts For Life brought 2,404 hours of art and creative writing to the Triangle’s children and families in need. That’s over 46 hours each week!
Emily Simpson Mackenzie Calligar
TEACHING VOLUNTEERS Carol Mitchell Jan Cumberworth Leigh Thomason
Our dedicated and creative team of staff, volunteers, and interns taught 3,145 individual lessons to 636 young patients, siblings, and family members.
The Carolina Mixed Media Art Guild The Carolina Mixed Media Art Guild, led by Penny Arrowood, supported Arts For Life in many ways in 2011. Some of AFL Durham’s most dedicated and talented volunteers came to us from the CMMAG, and in the fall of 2011, the Guild spearheaded a 2012 Calendar Project. The calendar, featuring artwork from kids in AFL Durham’s program, was designed and printed by the Guild, and Guild members sold the calendar all over town and donated the proceeds to AFL. We thank these talented artists for believing in the healing power of art and supporting our work with young patients and families!
Katie Aiello
“The Arts For Life volunteers at Duke are so wonderful with our family. We try to keep all of our kids with us while our son, Nathan, has cancer treatment each week. Our kids so look forward to seeing Ms. Carol in the waiting room and the new projects she has for them each week. From the first time she met our family, she memorized all of our kids’ names and interests and makes a point to ask about things that are important to them. “ ~Dawn Norman, mother of Nathan
Spotlight on: Kaylin and Julia Written by Program Director Mary Margaret Fulk
Every now and then, as teachers we get to witness something that makes us take a step back and say, “Yes - this is why we’re here. This is why we do what we do.” For me, that moment happened in November of 2011, as two girls sat together and created artwork at the art table in the Valvano Day Hospital at Duke University Medical Center.
Parents
Say it best Just when I can’t distract my child any longer from the reality of chemotherapy, Arts For Life comes along and invites us into their magical world. It is a world full of light, color, texture, sparkles, and love. The Arts for Life program gives our child and our family an opportunity to focus on creating something instead of always concentrating on destroying something (the tumor). We can’t imagine our clinic life without it.”
“I’m tired of being sick.” “Me, too!” This was the start of the conversation between Julia and Kaylin as they met each other for the first time. The first few minutes of their encounter were filled with silence, as each girl was focused on the painting project at hand. Then slowly, the girls began to chat. They discovered that they were both the same age, both from Virginia, both loved art and both were about to receive a Bone Marrow Transplant within a week or so of each other on the Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant unit at Duke University Medical Center. Spending time at the art table isn’t really about turning kids into the next Picasso. For Julia and Kaylin, time at the art table was a chance to connect with a new friend. Every day, we see how creating art and having a space that is completely safe and open is good for the soul. Sometimes, patients chat while they make art, sometimes they don’t; but just sitting beside another person who is going through the same experience makes you feel connected. Giving patients a creative outlet is a conversation starter, a relationship builder, and at the end of the day, it’s what truly makes them smile. Those are the “aha!” moments, and watching those moments unfold between Julia, Kaylin, and their families makes me proud to walk alongside them in their journey.
- Cheryl Kilpatrick, mother of Maggie
AFL
Durham’s
volunteers
and
interns
Arts For Life volunteers and interns are teachers who excite, inspire and uplift the patients they encounter on a daily basis. The skills we teach and the art that patients and families create goes way beyond something that they can take home or display in their hospital rooms. Arts For Life teachers build relationships that, in the midst of stress, fear, and anxiety, bring great joy to patients. Every day, stories of hope and courage are painted onto canvases, folded into origami boxes, and sculpted into superheroes. Every day, a child feels just a little better about coming to the hospital to get medicine, because they know their favorite AFL teacher - or teachers - will be there waiting for them with art and open arms.
Sandhana and intern Emily
Carol, Nathan (L) and his siblings, Sarah, Tabitha, and Matthew
Volunteer Leigh with Fantaisa
arts for life
Betsey McLawhorn Program Director,
Arts For Life Winston-Salem
MUSIC FELLOWS Colin Allured Mike Chamis
at Brenner Children’s Hospital:
9th Floor Pediatric Hematology/Oncology • Outpatient Clinic and • Inpatient Unit • Support Groups
INTERNS Natalie Alkiere Molly Bolton Megan Callahan Teradee Hagan Sarah Kumin Mary Alyce McCullough Leigh Ann White
VOLUNTEERS Kitty Amos Mary Beth Blackwell Chapman
Georgia Carson Linda Hinshaw Katie Hoge Ali Kapps Lauren Ling Jill Monroe Deb Nolan Joanie Oliphant Tiffany Parris Lauren Porter Leah Shaw Laura Statham Holly Thomas Lisa Timberlake Casi Williams
Arts For life Winston-Salem
By
the
numbers:
In 2011, Arts For Life brought 4,373 hours of art, music, and creative writing to Winston-Salem’s children and families in need. That’s over 84 hours each week! Our dedicated and creative team of staff, volunteers, and interns taught 4,119 individual lessons to 1,153 young patients, siblings, and family members.
COMMUNITY COUNCIL Carolyn Bailey Karen Fitzgerald Amy Garland Anne Sessions Mary Craig Tennille Jeff Ungetheim Susan Wiles
In 2011,
twenty-four volunteers
&
2,326 hours of their time to children and families in need at Arts For Life Winston-Salem. interns gave
m u s i c fellows:
colin and
mike
spotlight on:
Carrie
Ten-year-old Carrie has been fighting Ewings Sarcoma for five years. She discovered the art table at Brenner Children’s Hospital when she started her treatment in 2007, and looks forward to creating art with Arts For Life’s teachers as she continues her treatments today. Carrie carefully considers the daily project and creates each one with care. She was first drawn to pastels, but has recently discovered the joy of printmaking. Each of Carrie’s signature pieces bring a smile to those who see them – they are full of bold colors and her bright imagination shines in each piece. Even Carrie’s teachers are giddy when they see her name on the list because she loves to learn about art, engages in fun and silly conversations, and has a contagious giggle.
This year, we welcomed a second Music Fellow, Mike Chamis, to the Arts For Life team! With his incredible skill in guitar, voice, and percussion and his warm, friendly, approachable teaching style, Mike Chamis and his guitar are welcomed into hospital rooms with open arms on the 9th Floor Hematology/Oncology Clinic.
volunteers
and
interns
No mention of the Arts For Life team would be complete without honoring our dedicated, hard-working, compassionate volunteers and interns. It takes a special person to volunteer on AFL’s teaching team. It takes a deep well of creativity, an emotional maturity and a sense of empathy, but most all, it takes an enduring love of children. All of our volunteers and interns have those qualities in common, and without them, we would not be able to sustain our work.
Colin recorded a special Arts For Life CD of his own this year. “Like a Diamond” was inspired by patients who would ask for Colin around the clock! This CD, made up of classics and several of Colin’s originals, is available to any child on the 9th floor who requests Colin when he’s not there.
With support and leadership from committed volunteers like Laura Statham, Arts For Life has renewed ‘Sickle Cell Connections,’ a support group for teens suffering from the blood disease, as well as other regular gatherings for special populations at Brenner. Volunteers like Mary Beth Blackwell-Chapman, Kitty Amos, and Holly Thomas share their artistic skill, time, and energy to these special groups, bringing art and healing to kids and families outside the environment of their regular hospital visits.
With funding from grants and Brenner Children’s Hospital, Arts For Life provides 12 hours of music lessons to patients and family members each week.
The Charity Chicks are a group of women of all ages and backgrounds in the greater Winston Salem area with one thing in common: they are committed to making a difference in their community - and having a great time doing it!
the Charity Chicks For 2011, Arts For Life was the beneficiary of the Chicks’ charitable endeavors. They hosted a number of fundraising events to benefit AFL, like Concert for a Cause and Groovin’ and Givin’, and were instrumental in planning and pulling off the Fancy Pants Dance in November. They also helped assemble art kits, held art supply drives, and volunteered at numerous Arts For Life community events throughout the year. In addition to raising $11,300 for Arts For Life, the Charity Chicks gave hundreds of hours of volunteer time as well as their love and support throughout 2011. We thank the Chicks for their friendship and generosity of spirit.
2011 Financial Snapshot
where the money comes from
where the money goes
Fancy Pants Dance! Partygoers across North Carolina were decked out in their fanciest pants in November of 2011, on their way to a Fancy Pants Dance in one of AFL’s four chapters. The Fancy Pants Dances each featured dinner, drinks, dancing, Live and Silent Auctions, a special 10-year anniversary video debut, the launch of the ‘My Life Is Bold’ CD project, and, of course, a Most Fanciful Pants contest! “We were excited to share Arts For Life with members of the Asheville, Charlotte, Durham, and Winston-Salem communities, old friends and new” says Arts For Life Executive Director Shea Godwin. “The Fancy Pants Dance was a fun, whimsical way to raise funds that support and enrich the minds, hearts and spirits of thousands of young patients struggling with serious illnesses and disabilities. More than 500 community members statewide came to see the kids’ artwork, hear the stories, and be part of bringing top-notch educational art and music programs to these special children and families.” The Fancy Pants Dances across NC raised over $49,000 for our educational programs. Many thanks to all who contributed, sponsored, and partied!
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the arts
A Poetry-to-Music project Music is an integral part of the support services Arts For Life offers to young patients and families. Arts For Life Music Fellow Colin Allured describes his job as “growing happy cells where cancer cells used to be.” In 2009, Becca Stevens sang at an AFL fundraiser and she and her father, William Stevens, had the idea to set some of the childrens’ poetry to music for the event. The idea for a CD of songs created from AFL kids’ poetry was born. The resulting CD is a compilation of fourteen incredible songs: some sweet and poignant, some happy and silly, all genuine and heartfelt. Arts For Life could not have accomplished this small miracle without the generosity of the Stevens family, arvato Bertelsmann, Shorewood Packaging, Ovation Sound, and countless musicians and community members.
In The Loop
NEW in 2011
‘My Life Is Bold’
If you are interesting in purchasing a CD (100% of the proceeds benefit Arts For Life’s programs), please visit: keepsake.aflnc.org
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keepsake collection
In gratitude for a donation you make on our Keepsake site, we’ll send you a token of thanks, designed and created by the young artists in our programs:
art prints
notecards
cds and more!
see the entire collection:
in 3 sizes, ready to frame
keepsake.aflc.org
Thank You! To the Friends & Community Partners Who Made Our Work Possible In 2011
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Presbyterian Hospital and Novant Health Jerome S. & Grace H. Murray Foundation Fleshman Pratt Foundation Christopher Chapman Mission Healthcare Foundation Marie Gillette and Janet Martin Martha Depp Dr. Michael and Mardene Morykwas City of Asheville Grassroots Art Program North Carolina Arts Council Robert and Frances Seehausen Sessions Specialty Co. Franklin Academy Joan and John Dickson Karen and Buster Brown The Brown Family Foundation Augsburg Lutheran Church Efird & Maria Hine Fund
Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center Mission Children’s Hospital
Janirve Foundation Visual & Performing Arts Committee at WFUBMC Dr. Marcia Wofford Kids Care Grant at Duke Hospital Ms. Edith Rosenblatt The Owen and Cecil Families St. Eugene’s Church Thompson Rotary Club of WS Debbie and Albert Goeken All American Athletic Association Striving For More Dr. Benjamin and Jeanne Powell Winston-Salem Foundation Charity Chicks Grovewood Gallery Ten Thousand Villages
Molly Hawkins House Lindy and Larry Koralik The Vogler Family The Clear Light Fund Cardinal Health Foundation Wells Fargo Arts & Science Council New York Community Foundation Karen and Michael Fitzgerald Valerie and Stewart Altman Highwater Clays Anne and Bruce Babcock Carol Mitchell Becky Anderson Anna Jarrell Krankies Coffee Lynn and Steve Forbes deSoule
We also give our deepest gratitude to friends and supporters: Bob and Polly Voegele Jerrilyn Smith Kevin and Amy McMullen Twin City Kiwanis Foundation Caleb and Jody Depp Dr. Doug and Bonnie Scothorn Robert and Carole Nowak Jan Assimo Arts For Life Endowment Fund Forrest and Gene Vogler Arts For Life Endowment Samuel and Gina Fornecker Walter and Elaine Greiner John and Lora Sessions Rebecca Manske & Weaverville Handmade Holidays Dickson Art Fellowship Fund Song Miller Tony Griffin BlueCross BlueShield of NC Southern Community Bank Kerr Cares for Kids Foundation Dills Entertainment Sunland Fire Protection Greensboro Auto Auction Anne Sessions Steve Sessions Allegra Printing Winston-Salem Dr. Sam Chang Bill Stevens and Family
Irene Eisenberg Mimi Shackelford Louise Glickman Randy Norris Leslie White The Green Foundation Mary Beth Blackwell-Chapman Philip Kinken Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bell, Jr. Suzanne Case Joyce and Chris Bettini Feye and Steven Conlin Happy Body Asheville DeeDee and Jeff Ungetheim Jen Noble Carolina Day School 5th Graders Eva J. Mettrey Charles D. Owen, Jr. Monica Malpeli Amber and William Scavo Doug Michaels and Mariano Garrido-Lopez Joe Miller & Cheap Joe’s William Sugg Happy Rentz, Inc. Laura Statham and David Faber Woman’s Civic Club of Asheville North Davidson High School Technology Project Management Auxiliary to AANC
Jewelsmith Carolina Mixed Media Art Guild Morrisville Rotary Five Loaves Catering Dean and Kathy Chennell Sandra Sully Nancy and Chris Pollak Pegi and Bob Pike Elizabeth Messick Mullen Marilyn Green Dean Green Julianna Ball Debra and Demetrio Orden Laurel Wealth Advisors Lori Pope Montreat Ladies Volleyball Team Eva Rodtwitt Rachel and Adam Hollowell TILT Works Kiwanis Club of Charlotte Edgar and Elisabeth Timberlake Peter and Cynthia Walker Margaret Newell Weston Hatfield Thomas and Ann Anderson Barbara M. Wilkerson Deloris Gallagher Ronnie Lee Willard Jerry Swicegood
Amy Pope and Michael Stinnet Myrt McNeely Hedy Fischer Peter E. Gumaer Kelly and Davian Robinson John DeLaat Brooke Hofsess The Hop Ice Cream Cafe Melanie Diamont R. Wade Rogers Global Spectrum Pauline and David Lilley Melandee Jones Elizabeth and James Gledhill Stewart Griffin and Ray O’Neill Kelly and Jonathan Keane Gratzi’s Walter Robbs Callahan & Pierce Yvonne and Clayton Treska Deborah and Michael Snow Gil and Joe Calderwood Peggy and Ed Drane Dr. Krystal and David Bottom Shane McCormick Corn Products Int’l. Patti Fulk Karin and Felix Blanchard Mason and Sidney Nichols and many more