ARTISTS HELPING CHILDREN FOUNDATION JUST LAUNCHED

Written by Rachel Goldstein


ARTISTS HELPING CHILDREN FOUNDATION JUST LAUNCHED By Rachel Goldstein

Remember when you were a kid and you had to go torepparttar hospital? Rememberrepparttar 111070 strange sights,repparttar 111071 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 withrepparttar 111072 children, we create enriching and happy places to easerepparttar 111073 children's fear and pain, to take their minds and their hearts out ofrepparttar 111074 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 torepparttar 111075 lives of ill, mistreated, and needy children in communities everywhere. Throughrepparttar 111076 generosity of artists, patients and community members, Artists Helping Children helps create murals, pieces of art, and provides arts and crafts supplies forrepparttar 111077 kids we serve.

HERE ARE A FEW WAYS WE BRING JOY TO ILL AND NEEDY CHILDREN

(1) Professional Muralists - Our muralists changerepparttar 111078 look of hospitals forrepparttar 111079 better. A team will visit a site to meet withrepparttar 111080 facilities' staff. With their help, we plan out a theme,repparttar 111081 colors, and images that we will use withinrepparttar 111082 mural. Then, we present sketches of designs appropriate torepparttar 111083 space. Oncerepparttar 111084 designs are approved, we begin recruiting volunteers and budgeting forrepparttar 111085 project.

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