Programs for Care centers

Kids & Art Foundation provides free, ongoing art experiences to support families with children and youth in treatment for cancer and other critical medical conditions. Our understanding that participation in artmaking helps ease the stress, anxiety, and trauma endured children in treatment — while also allowing for joy, creativity, and self-expression — is at the core of all we do.

Amaeyzing artKits @ Care Centers

Amaeyzing ArtKits created by the Kids & Art Foundation are a collection of art projects designed to offer independent art experiences to pediatric patients as creative arts support during treatment. Each ArtKit contains all information and supplies needed to engage in the art project experience, as well as access to a pre-recorded instructional video. 

GIFT OF ARTKITS - Giving PROGRAM

Each year Kids & Art Foundation provides monthly deliveries of Amaeyzing ArtKits to a select number of Care Centers nationwide, free of charge, through our Gift of ArtKits giving program. This allows Care Centers facilities to receive up to 40 ArtKits per month for pediatric patients in treatment for cancer and other critical medical conditions. In addition, up to 20 specially assembled ArtKits can be provided for BMT patients. Should a Care Centers need additional Amaeyzing ArtKits, those can be made available at a reduced facility rate. Amaeyzing ArtKits awards are for the calendar year, beginning January 2023

To be considered for the Gift of ArtKits program in 2023, Care Centers must:

Reapplying - 2022 Care Center recipients:

New Care Center applicants for 2023:

2023 Gift of ArtKits Care Center Recipients:

  • Baystate Children's Hospital (Springfield, MA)

  • Beacon Children’s Hospital (South Bend, IN)

  • Broward Health Salah Foundation Children's Hospital (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

  • Carilion Children's Hospital (Roanoke, VA)

  • Children's Hospital New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City (Kansas City, MO)

  • Children's of Mississippi (Jackson, MS)

  • El Paso Children's Hospital (El Paso, TX)

  • George Mark Children's House (San Leandro, CA)

  • John Muir Health, Walnut Creek Medical Center (Walnut Creek, CA)

  • Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center (Oakland, CA)

  • Kaiser Santa Clara Hospital (Santa Clara, CA)

  • LAC + USC Medical Center (Los Angeles, CA)

  • Logan Health (Kalispell, MT), 

  • Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford (Palo Alto, CA)

  • MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital (Charleston, SC)

  • Palm Beach Children's Hospital (Palm Beach, FL)

  • Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at Ascension St Vincent (Indianapolis, IN)

  • St. Luke's Children's Hospital (Boise, ID)

  • The Melodies Center at Albany Med (Albany, NY), 

  • UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital (San Francisco, CA)

  • Valley Children’s Hospital (Madera, CA)

SPECIALIZED amaeyzing ARTKITS - AYA, HOSPICE, LEGACY

Kids & Art can also provide specialized ArtKits for AYA patients, as well as hospice and legacy projects at a reduced facility rate. Should your Care Centers be interested, contact programs@kidsandart.org

Additional support for Care center PATIENTS

Kids & Art provides ongoing art experiences for pediatric patient families touched by cancer or other critical medical conditions. Care Centers are welcome to share details of our programs with inpatients and outpatients as part of their whole-child support at diagnosis, during treatment, and in survivorship.

ONLINE ART EXPERIENCES

Kids & Art hosts ongoing art workshops on Zoom. Led by one of our lead artists, each online art experience features a different theme and focus and allows participants to engage in creative projects specially designed for them. All materials required for each project are free and mailed to registrants ahead of the workshop. Details on upcoming workshops.

AMAEYZING ARTKITS™ @HOME

Amaeyzing ArtKits @ Home is a free monthly subscription to our Amaeyzing ArtKits delivered directly to pediatric patient homes. Patient participation in this program allows us to provide continued support, healing, and community through art when the children you serve are outpatients. As part of the @Home program, participants also have access to the Drop-In Artroom, allowing them to relax and enjoy an informal hour of artmaking with a Kids & Art artists and other children in treatment. Details and patient family sign-up

Care centers - mailing list

Sign up to receive information about upcoming art experiences that might be of interest to the patients you support.

NOTE: We do not share our list or contact details with anyone. This list is only for email updates from our Program Manager regarding upcoming art experiences.

Why “Amaeyzing?” - Kids & Art Foundation is the legacy of our founder’s son, Amaey. He was always called Amazing Amaey by his friends, and that is how we coined the term “Amaeyzing” for many of the Kids & Art Programs. More about the Kids & Art story.

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