“This fundraiser supports a lot of worthy causes,” says Olga Kaczmar, president. “Santa Clarita Artists’ Association (SCAA) makes fine art available to healthcare facilities to provide a pleasant distraction to those who are normally under stress when visiting a doctor’s office.”
“We are grateful for the generosity of the Santa Clarita Artists’ Association in lending their beautiful and uplifting artwork for our newest Health Center located in Newhall. It helps provide the kind of pleasant, patient-oriented atmosphere that Samuel Dixon Family Health Centers, Inc. is noted for. Last year, SDFHC provided over 11,000 patient visits for people in need of primary health care that would otherwise not have been available. The SCAA helped make those visits a beneficial experience for our friends and neighbors who visited the Health Center,” says Cheryl Laymon, Executive Director.
Providence Holy Cross has a wonderful array of SCAA member art on the walls of their cancer treatment rooms. “Our patients enjoy the paintings so much and have been inspired to draw themselves. We’ve given them art supplies to occupy themselves during the treatments. This art has been a wonderful addition to our Art of Healing program,” says Lateia Taylor, program coordinator.
SCAA artists began face painting at Concerts in the Park, ETI Corral 86 Heads-up fundraiser and other local events, to raise funds for their adopted Art School in Tanzania, where impoverished children get free art lessons and a daily meal.
The dental offices of Dr. Rocio Jones D.D.S. and Elite Smiles feature SCAA fine art on all their walls so patients can focus on vivid paintings instead of fretting over fillings. Artwork at all venues is changed out every few months.
Canvas of Squares — The canvas, with 144 blank four-inch by four-inch squares, displayed at last year’s Art Classic, was an interactive project so that art patrons could complete a square with their own design. “That was part of our 20th anniversary celebration…to get the community involved,” says Laurie Morgan, immediate past-president.
“The purpose was to have people attending the Classic get involved, interact and make an art composition, not just view art… to use their hands, eyes and brains to create art. This was never been done before,” says Jaylene Armstrong presenting the four foot square, quilt-looking canvas to Lateia Taylor of Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Santa Clarita, where it currently hangs.
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