Ways to Give Back to Kids & Art NOW:
Amaeyzing Visionary Award 2023
Kids & Art is thrilled to announce our first Amaeyzing Visionary Award, recognizing an organization or individuals demonstrating exemplary leadership and innovation toward expanding possibilities for healing through art.
Recipients of the 2023 award are co-authors Ivy Ross (VP Hardware Design, Google) and Susan Magsamen (Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab, John Hopkins University) for their groundbreaking book, "Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us," and their work with NeuroArts Blueprint. Their work is a call-to-arms for the radical integration of the arts with science and technology to design a more humane future. It powerfully aligns with Kids & Art’s mission to ensure that art is included as a prescriptive modality in a patient’s treatment and healing journey.
KIDS & ART GIVING CATALOG
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” - Aesop
Are you looking for a new and meaningful way for you and your family to make a difference this holiday season? Kids & Art has an answer. We have created this exciting Giving Catalog with healing through art in mind. This unique opportunity gives you ways for you to support kids with cancer by providing them with:
A moment of joy
A moment of freedom
A moment of control
A moment of creativity
A moment of peace
A moment of hope
A moment of connection
A moment of Aahhhhh
We hope you will GIVE THE GIFT OF ART. Add COLOR to the life of a child in treatment for cancer.
VIRTUAL BALLOON RELEASE
Honor someone you know who has been touched by cancer with a message and virtual balloon release. Simply click here to make a dedication.
Our Mission
The Kids & Art Foundation uses the power of the arts and creativity to mitigate stress, anxiety and trauma induced from the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric cancer and other critical medical conditions.
We seek to improve well-being during treatment, as survivors, and in bereavement. Together we use art for healing, to empower, encourage, and create memorable experiences.
OUR Research
Check out our Arts in Healthcare Research Report authored by Kids & Art parent and researcher, Dawn Linhardt.
100% of surveyed caregivers report that Kids & Art activities distracted their child from their physical symptoms; 92% say that Kids & Art helped to decrease their child’s anxiety and increased their participation.
VOLUNTEER
Currently, we are looking for volunteers to write thank you cards. We are constantly in need of art supplies to include in our ArtKits that are shipped to care centers acriss the country. For remote teams you can host an art supplies drive.
We feature Amaeyzing Artists in our Online Art Experiences. Reach out to us if you are interested.
SHOP & GIVE
AMAZON WISHLIST
You can provide much-needed supplies for workshops and Amaeyzing ArtKits by sending us items from our Amazon wishlist.
Amaey Shah (Amaeyzing Amaey)
“If people were buildings I would be a brick cottage. My heart would be the fireplace, glowing warm, my feelings would be the family, living inside me.
My nose would be the chimney, bellowing out smoke.
The food the family makes would say I’m always hungry.
My hands would be the bricks, holding up the cottage.
And my eyes would be the two small windows which you look out of.”
Born August 4, 2002. Diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in 2005. Relapsed in 2009. Relapsed again in 2011 with chemo induced Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Passed away on September 25, 2011 after courageously fighting cancer for 6 of his 9 years.