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Dr. Antje Petershagen’s Unbreakable Relationship with Art

A Search for Connection Leads to Brushes with Cancer

Colors of SM: Expressions of Life with Systemic Mastocytosis

18 Artist Grants, Residencies and Fellowships with No Entry Fees

Facilitator Lindsey Taucher to provide in-person Twistshops for Austin Community

Creating more connections through licensed programming

Meet 2023 Brushes with Cancer Honoree Jenny Indig

Twist Out Cancer’s 2024 updates

Henry Ford Cancer Center at Night

Wayne State University’s Brushes with Cancer art now on display at Henry Ford Cancer

You Never Know What’s Around the Corner

It Inspired Me to Be More Me

The Dinner That Changed These Brushes Artists’ Lives

Wayne State Students Participate in Licensed Brushes with Cancer Program

Inspiration Marianne Sarcich Shares the Power of Being Heard

Twist Out Cancer Supports Social Enterprise Through HHP Lift

21 Cancer Resources for Women and Nonbinary Individuals

Artist Michele Kellner’s Room Full of Angels

The Cheerleaders Behind the Beginning of Twist Out Cancer

16 Grant, Residency and Fellowship Opportunities for BIPOC Artists

How Artist Kathryn Tubbs sees beauty in disease

An Old Connection Helps Jenny Indig Honor Her Mother in a Big Way

The Jacqueline Carmody Creative Artist Award Makes Its Debut

Announcing the 2022 Brushes with Cancer Honorees

Coming Full Circle with Alex Perry

Inspiration Mary Jenkins and Artist Kate Van Doren Talk Faith and Sisterhood

Twist Out Cancer Celebrates 10 Years of Sharing, Connecting and Healing with Special Exhibit and Brushes with Cancer Gala at WNDR Museum

Giorgia Lupi and Pentagram Turn Brushes with Cancer Intersections into a Visual Story

Evanston Pour’s Twist On Gathering

From Breast Cancer to Beading

Behind Our Efforts for More Accessible Programming

Artist Sara Zielinski Sees Power in Collaboration

Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green’s Cancer-curing Technology

How Artist Erin Harris Preserves the Memories

Twist Out Cancer Celebrates 10 Years

Inspiration Rena Williams Finds Community

Artist SaulPaul is Changing the World

A Brush With Cancer

After Two Years, Brushes with Cancer is Back in Person

Inspiration Pam Oliver’s Home Sanctuary

The 2022 Southern Brushes with Cancer Program Gives Attendees a Hybrid Option

Artist Holly Carton’s Secret Language

Life with Tragedy is a Dance

Helping People Honor Those Lost

Sharing, Connecting and Healing in Berlin

Capturing Beginning, Middle and Now

Twist Out Cancer Celebrates 10th Anniversary at Midwest Brushes with Cancer Event

Brushes with Cancer’s International Reach

Attend the 2021 Northeast Brushes with Cancer Art Exhibition and Virtual Celebration

Thad Wong and Emily Sachs Wong Selected as the 2021 BWC Honorees

A Safe Space for Athletes Fighting Cancer

Meet Book Club Author Dr. Michael Weiner

Soraya Fata’s Life After Cancer

A Mother’s Fight for Normalcy

A Caregiver’s Amazing Journey

An Artist Finds Strength Through Her Inspiration

Twist Out Cancer’s First Book Club

How to Talk to Children About Cancer

7 Modern Black Artists You Should Know

Audre Lorde’s Twist On Cancer

8 Significant Black Artists

A Two-Sided Brushes with Cancer Experience

An Artist and Inspiration Connect Through Rebirth

College Roommates Strengthen Their 42-Year Bond

Sharon Arffa

Combining Art and Psychology

Will You Help Challenge Platitudes?

Healing Through Collaboration

Perfectly Capturing “That Good JuJu Power”

Capturing a Bedazzled Personality

Finding Beauty in a Downpour

Gifts That Give Back: The Twist Out Cancer Gift Guide

Twist Out Cancer to Hold a Virtual Brushes with Cancer Program in Chicago

Using Fashion to Heal

Danny Glick

Danny Glick Honored at Brushes with Cancer Chicago

The message that kicked off Danny Glick’s connection to Twist Out Cancer involved him offering our founder, Jenna Benn Shersher, something rather unusual and personal: his blood. Danny and Jenna […]

How to Create Your “Art Therapy” Tool-Kit

Experiencing the Power of Connection

Sarah Tonkin Gives Herself the Gift to Heal

Erin

Brushes Co-Chair Hopes to Recreate Magic

Honoring a Let’s-Get-To-It Approach to Life

Dave

Deepening Their Collaboration

Julie Pelaez

When Art Finds You

TWIST OUT CANCER’S 2020 BRUSHES WITH CANCER PROGRAM TO BE HELD AT GM DESIGN CENTER IN WARREN, MICHIGAN

Fayruz Benyousef

Healing After Multiple Cancer Journeys

Val Newberg

How Val Newberg Embraces Silver Linings

We Got This

A Best Friend’s Gift of Healing

Badge of Honor

Kara Thomas Helps Launch GM Partnership

Dan Hindin, Brushes with Cancer Participant

Dan Hindin’s Story of Resilience

Resilient Masks

How Becky Galvez Got Her Resilience

COVID-19

TWIST OUT CANCER LAUNCHES RESILIENCE CAMPAIGN TO PROVIDE HOPE TO THOSE FACING ISOLATION AND LONELINESS

Hope Springs by Ishita Banerjee

Watch your garden grow!

Jacqueline Carmody, Licensed Clinical Art Therapist

Love Our Twistshops? Thank Jackie Carmody

Jenna Benn Shersher, Founder and CEO of Twist Out Cancer

Jenna’s Guide for Enduring Loneliness and Isolation When Faced with a Health Crisis

jenny Conlee Drizos

Stories Through Song: Jenny and Tiffany’s Brushes with Cancer Experience

Kimberly Kass, Brushes with Cancer Austin Participant

Twist Out Cancer’s Signature Program – Brushes With Cancer – Returns to Austin in 2020

Brushes with Cancer Philadelphia Attendees

Twist Out Cancer’s Signature Program – Brushes With Cancer – Returns to Chicago in 2020 For its Eighth Annual Event in the City

Brushes with Cancer Artist Sujata Gazder Reflects on Her Powerful Experience

Health Hero 2019

Meet Dana Phipps, Artist, Caregiver and Chicagoland Area Influencer.

August Spree Reflects on Her Experience with Brushes with Cancer

Twist Out Cancer presents a Brushes with Cancer Artist Profile: Igal Fedida