UPCOMING EVENTS
Tickets are now on sale for our fundraising event, A Fine HeART Experience, taking place on Friday, April 22 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall. The event will feature a concert by Them Vibes, food catered by TacoLU, exciting auction and raffle items, and stories from patients and their families.
Click here to read more and buy your tickets today!
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UPDATES
AWAHIH is back in the hematology/oncology waiting room at Nemours Children's Health providing visual art, caricatures, and jewelry-making sessions with patients. Artist-in-Residence, Bob (pictured here with Steven, Nemours' Music Therapist) is thrilled to be back creating caricatures for patients and their families.
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PARTNERSHIPS
AWAHIH partnered with Dreams Come True Jacksonville to help fulfill Jordan's dream of delivering 300 “Jordan’s Joy" bags filled with art supplies for children in the hospital. Jordan chose this as her dream because she knows firsthand how much art helps kids like her to find joy while in the hospital.
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AWAHIH collaborated with Douglas Anderson School of the Arts high school students in the Cinematic Arts department under the leadership of Art Director and Chair for the Department of Cinematic Arts, Corey Thayer, to create a short film conveying AWAHIH’s mission. Stay tuned for the film's premiere! | | |
AWAHIH now has extended our jewelry-making program to Mayo Clinic Cancer Center at St. Vincent's Riverside. Artist-in-Residence Heidi provides weekly jewelry-making sessions for patients while they receive treatment. Together they create bracelets, necklaces, rings, and more! | |
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DONATIONS
Thank you Episcopal School of Jacksonville St Mark’s campus for your generous donation of art supplies and beautiful artwork for Wolfson Children's Hospital patients. We love to see kids helping kids!
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Will you help us to give the gift of art to hospitalized children? Please consider purchasing art supplies from our Amazon Wishlist. These items will help us to provide patients with quality art materials to use in the hospital and at home.
Be sure to shop on Amazon Smile so that proceeds from your purchase can benefit AWAHIH.
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HIGHLIGHTING
OUR TEAM
Thank you to our fundraising committee for volunteering their time to plan our upcoming fundraising event, A Fine HeART Experience. (Left to Right: Dru Jones, Christy Ponder, Lisa Ullmann, Teresa Graham, Kacey Roache, and Hillary Whitaker; Not pictured: Toni Boudreaux and Matt Richards)
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We would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest Board of Director member, Meredith Matthews! A Florida native, Meredith has extensive experience in design, art direction, and publication. She has served as the assistant publisher of Arbus Magazine for ten years and has even written several articles in Arbus about AWAHIH!
Click here to learn more about Meredith.
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EXHIBITIONS
Behind the Mask, AWAHIH's patient art exhibition, is being displayed at numerous locations around Jacksonville after its initial debut at MOCA Jacksonville in 2021. Its next stop will be at Word Revolt Gallery from May 17-24 with an opening reception taking place on Saturday, May 21 from 5-8 pm. Then, the exhibition will make its way to St. Augustine Main Library and Jacksonville International Airport.
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BE A PART OF
OUR STORY
Foundations, corporations, partners, sponsors, and individual donors who through their generous funding ensure that the children, adults and families we serve have the best staff, volunteers, and art supplies available.
Click here to make a tax-deductible donation today!
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