ARTISTS HELPING CHILDREN FOUNDATION JUST LAUNCHED By Rachel GoldsteinRemember when you were a kid and you had to go to
hospital? Remember strange sights, sounds, unpleasant smells, and strangers entering your hospital room? You had no idea what was happening to you and no one could explain in a way you understood. You waited a lot with nothing to do except worry about what was going to happen next.
Artists Helping Children Foundation (http://www.artistshelpingchildren.org) is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing comfort to children in hospitals, clinics, and shelters by brightening their environment with murals and other art. By painting murals and creating other art for and with children, we create enriching and happy places to ease children's fear and pain, to take their minds and their hearts out of cold and into warm and wonderful places. It is amazing how a piece of paper and crayons can divert his attention away from pain. This is because children respond to and use artwork as tools for coping.
The people who work with Artists Helping Children provide art that brings joy and happiness to lives of ill, mistreated, and needy children in communities everywhere. Through generosity of artists, patients and community members, Artists Helping Children helps create murals, pieces of art, and provides arts and crafts supplies for kids we serve.
HERE ARE A FEW WAYS WE BRING JOY TO ILL AND NEEDY CHILDREN
(1) Professional Muralists - Our muralists change look of hospitals for better. A team will visit a site to meet with facilities' staff. With their help, we plan out a theme, colors, and images that we will use within mural. Then, we present sketches of designs appropriate to space. Once designs are approved, we begin recruiting volunteers and budgeting for project.
