Arts for Healing uses the healing power of art

to support people coping with cancer.

In our free, painting support groups cancer patients create wild and wonderful art while they share a lifeline of camaraderie and caring with each other.

Our art exhibits and public sculptures express powerful messages of encouragement and hope from (and to!) people touched by cancer.

Recent studies show that programs like these improve physical and mental health for cancer patients. But we knew that - we see it happen!.

Therapy dog, Rincon, saves the day!

He's dancing for donations.

Arts for Healing gives strength and resilience to people coping with cancer.

But our grant for our free Healing through Painting support groups disappeared due to the economy. Always ready to serve, our therapy dog Rincon is wagging his tail, tapping his toes, and dancing for donations!

If you're a dog lover (or even a dog liker) click here to see how fast his video clip makes you smile!

Please consider donating to the painting support groups. We need your help to keep this wonderful project going. You can donate online: 

Or send a check to:   

Arts for Healing/SRMH,  PO Box 1932, Sebastopol, CA  95473

Your gift means the world to us.

Thank you for helping.

PAINTING GROUP MEMBERS SAY: Girl with a Pearl © Copyright Toni Winter "When I'm painting, I don't feel pain."   "The painting group is something positive in the middle of a terrible health crisis. "     "Four years ago I was diagnosed with cancer. It wasn't until I found Arts for Healing that I finally felt someone understood what I was living with."

Arts for Healing is sponsored by Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Foundation,

a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization,  tax ID #  94-12331005.

NEED 3 MINUTES

OF PURE BEAUTY?

Click on the painting below - you'll love it!

LETTY'S STORY

A dental hygienist by day, confined to the tiny, careful, and regimented tasks she accomplished in people’s mouths, Letty became a painting superhero once a week in our painting class. No stroke was too bold, no canvas too tall, no emotion too deep for Letty. Her super power was Expressing Herself without Holding Back. Click Letty's painting to read her story!

Rincon working his magic

at the painting support group.

Arts for Healing provides free art support services to help individuals and families cope with cancer.

  See our services. 

The Heart of Healing public sculptures project has completed two cancer empowerment sculptures.

"I wish Arts for Healing had been here twenty years ago for my mother. She went through cancer treatment feeling isolated. If she had been able to visit the Objects page of this website to see the sculpture objects and read the vignettes of empowerment told by the objects' donors, she would have felt less alone."        

   --Martia Nelson, Director

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Sculpture #2: "Wall Quilt"

THE HEART OF HEALING

PUBLIC SCULPTURES