Watch your garden grow!
Needs some inspiration? Check out the beautiful Hope Spring artwork created by Ishita Banerjee, Brushes with Cancer Artist. This free download is available for all. Enjoy!
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Love Our Twistshops? Thank Jackie Carmody
Jackie Carmody says she’s been an artist since the day she was born. Her mom influenced her creativity, letting her explore and draw on the walls in their home. It was only natural for Carmody to find career success in the art world as an art therapist. “I was always someone who uses art
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Jenna’s Guide for Enduring Loneliness and Isolation When Faced with a Health Crisis
For many cancer survivors in and out of treatment, the Coronavirus has been triggering. Some of us are immunosuppressed and are considered to be high risk, while others are years out of treatment but feel uncertain about the state of our body and mind. The fear, loneliness and isolation that accompanies a cancer diagnosis is
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Stories Through Song: Jenny and Tiffany’s Brushes with Cancer Experience
In 2011, Jenny Conlee-Drizos received information that would change her life forever: she had breast cancer. After going into remission that same year, the Decemberists multi-instrumentalist wanted to use her experience to help give back. As she worked with different people and organizations within the cancer sphere, she was introduced to Twist Out Cancer and
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Twist Out Cancer’s Signature Program – Brushes With Cancer – Returns to Austin in 2020
Background Twist Out Cancer is an international non-profit charitable organization that provides psychosocial support to individuals touched by cancer through creative arts programming. What started in 2012 as a small grass roots online community movement has evolved into an international non-profit organization that has touched over 130,000 people around the world. Brushes With Cancer is
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Twist Out Cancer’s Signature Program – Brushes With Cancer – Returns to Chicago in 2020 For its Eighth Annual Event in the City
Background Twist Out Cancer is an international non-profit charitable organization that provides psychosocial support to individuals touched by cancer through creative arts programming. What started in Chicago in 2012 as a small grass roots movement has evolved into an international non-profit organization that has touched over 130,000 people around the world. Brushes With Cancer is
Brushes with Cancer Artist Sujata Gazder Reflects on Her Powerful Experience
Sujata Gazder didn’t originally plan to be a fashion designer. While growing up in India, Gazder focused on music and moved to the United States to study piano performance and receive her certification in music. When she got pregnant with her twins in grad school, she had to make a career decision. Gazder chose
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Health Hero 2019
This Cancer Survivor Turned to Art for Solace During Treatment. Now She Runs a Program That Offers Creative Outlets for Those Affected by Cancer. Read more at PhillyMag.
Meet Dana Phipps, Artist, Caregiver and Chicagoland Area Influencer.
An avid artist from the age of three, Dana Phipps works with acrylics to produce beautiful and moving paintings. Though she discovered her passion in her art classes in high school, one of the most integral points in her development as an artist hit when Phipps lost her mother to breast cancer. Through her period
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August Spree Reflects on Her Experience with Brushes with Cancer
It was a breezy April evening, and I happened to get a ticket from a co-worker to an event called “Brushes with Cancer” that started right after work. Without having any idea what to expect, I walked the six blocks or so to the event. It had been 10 years since my first cancer diagnosis
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