By The Creative Center, Robin Glazer, Karen Furth, and Geraldine Herb Essays by Carrie McGee and Francesca Rosenberg, Community and Access Programs, Department of Education at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Margaret Krug, Senior Lecturer, The Whitney Museum of American Art This inspiring journey into healing art charts twenty-five cancer survivors ranging in age, sex, and race. With little experience in the medium, they learned the artistic and technical skills to create beautiful works, conveying their experiences in survivorship. Rather than submitting to the difficulties of cancer, these artists have fought to illuminate the true significance of not only what we see, but how we perceive it, in the universally human process of finding a new way to view the world around us when confronted with hardship. The Creative Center is a community of artists, cancer patients, survivors, and friends dedicated to bringing creative arts to people living with cancer through workshops and an acclaimed Artist-in-Residence Program in hospitals and hospices throughout the U.S. Contains a guide to setting up your own community-based art program. Accompanied by a traveling photography exhibition. Accompanied by a traveling photography exhibition going to the following locations: Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN; Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, NY, and Harvard in Cambridge, MA, to name a few. About the Authors: The Creative Center is a community of artists, cancer patients and survivors, trustees, donors, and friends dedicated to bringing arts to people living with cancer. Through a New York-based workshop program and an acclaimed Artist-in-Residence Program in hospitals and hospices throughout the U.S., they bring the world of art to tens of thousands of patients. Robin Glazer has been The Creative Center`s Art Director since 1994 when she met co-founder Adrienne Assail and brainstormed about a place where women with cancer could come and make art. A cancer survivor and mother of five, Robin is a painter, printmaker and art teacher. Her idea of a successful day is getting people to "see like an artist." Karen Furth is a photographer and arts educator living in New York City. In conjunction with The Creative Center, she helped to create the Still Life program and Exhibition. Geraldine Herbert is The Creative Center`s Director and co-founder. Her work at Memorial Sloan-Kettering as a social worker with adults and children on the bone marrow transplant service, and later in a private psychotherapy practice led to her belief that "Medicine may cure the body, but art heals the spirit." Softcover / $29.95 USD 8.5" x 11” / 80 pages 100 full-color and b&w scans April 2007 ISBN: 978-1-884167-65-2 Website price: $10

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