Healing Arts Program at Lifespan
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For adults undergoing cancer treatment, the treatment can be as frustrating,
exhausting and menacing as the disease. While undergoing chemotherapy
treatment, Rhode Island artist and cancer survivor Diane Gregoire discovered
a way to turn chemotherapy bottles into art by decorating them with colorful
polymer clay and filling them with a wish or message of hope.
In her weekly workshops in the Rhode Island Hospital Comprehensive
Cancer Center, Gregoire leads participants in creating these Bottles of
Hope. Finished bottles take the form of robots, dinosaurs, even a chimney
with a birds' nest on top. Each patient/artist may keep the newly created
artwork or place a message of hope inside and give it away. The recipient
will know someone is having good thoughts for their health and wishes
them well. Whether the patient keeps the bottle or gives it away, the
chemotherapy bottles have been reborn as small, but powerful, doses of
hope.
This project has been so popular that hospitals and treatment
centers across the country have adopted it for their cancer patients.
The Alice Boss Altman Health and the Arts Fund and other philanthropic
contributions support this program.
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