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Tag Archives: Death and Dying Art
The Breast Cancer Awareness Body Painting Project
Michael Colanero’s digital art helps breast cancer survivors heal
Since 2009, digital artist and photographer Michael Colanero has been working with breast cancer survivors on a project that transforms their physical and emotional scars through body art. With the help of body painters Keegan Hitchcock and Georgette Pressler, Colanero converts his digital designs … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged "Ribbon in the Sky", "Warrior", Art, BCABPP, breast cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness Body Painting Project, Breast cancer survivors, Cancer, Conditions and Diseases, Death and Dying, Death and Dying Art, Georgette Pressler, Michael Colanero, SevenPonds, Soulful Expressions, UNCOMMON gallery
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Can A Handmade Softie Toy Be Of Therapeutic Benefit During The Grieving Process? An Interview with Wendy Tsao, Part Two
How one artist used a sewing machine and ingenuity to bring children's drawings to life
Today is part two of a two-part interview with Wendy Tsao, the artist who founded the home-based business Child’s Own Studio in 2007. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Child’s Own Studio was born when Wendy decided to make a softie toy … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Advice
Tagged art and grief, Art and Healing, Child's Own Studio, Childhood cancer, Children and Grieving, Death and Dying, Death and Dying Art, Death of a Child, grieving father, Grieving Mother, Professional Advice, SevenPonds, SevenPonds Interviews, softies, Wendy Tsao
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The Tombs of the Basilica di Santa Croce
The world's largest Franciscan church is also a mausoleum
The Basilica di Santa Croce (Basilica of the Holy Cross), also known as the Temple of the Italian Glories, is the principal Franciscan church in Florence, Italy and the largest Franciscan church in the world. Construction of the church began in … Continue reading
Frida Kahlo: In Conversation with Death
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's relationship with death and dying in her work and personal life
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was an artist whose work spoke to the emotional and intellectual identity of its subject matter – no easy feat for a woman who was, first and foremost, a self-portrait artist. She created portraits of the human … Continue reading
