Cristina's Note
Hello Everyone!
Happy summer! I should have written this a long time ago because you look on my website to see what I am doing. The following projects that you are going to read about were added to my regular schedule with my art tables at other medical places. It was really special for Tuft’s Medical Center to ask me to join them in their gift shop with my art! It felt so good to give everyone “A Brighter Way” and to bring comfort to the patients and their families while they were there. At the same time I was at Tuft’s, I had an art show at the John Moakley Courthouse…The day of the art reception was happy and my mom and I and everyone who works there talked like we all knew each other for a long timeJ and everyone was so excited to see all of my beautiful colors…it was like “Spring” just poked itself through inside the courthouse! I also did a project with Children’s Hospital of Boston, called “Home is where the art is.” I needed to draw a painting on a board that reminded me of home. Every summer my mom and I go to Michigan to spend time with my Grandma and make wonderful memories together…the name of my painting is “Summer Memories in Michigan.” It is at the new family house, which provides patient family housing at a significantly reduced price…If you live in Boston and you would like to see the boards by the other artists along with mine, the address is: 241 Kent St. in Brookline. Just by reading about the “Home is where the art is“…you will know where I come from! Before we went back this summer, the West Michigan Cancer Center chose me to display my artwork on the chemo floor. They will be there approximately one year. I hope the beautiful colors bring smiles and gentle thoughts to the people over there…just like they do you. Since my Mom and I came back we have run into people who we haven’t seen in a long time, and they said to us… how beautiful my paintings are…that is just what the patients need while they are going through their treatments, and the staff feels the same way. On August 26, I had an art reception at the Cancer Center…I met and spend time with the patients and their families.
I hope you are having a good and beautiful summer.J Just in case you saw me at Tuft’s and are wondering why I’m not there, we had to take everything out because that space is going to be a food court. It is going to be worked on in September. I will be back at Tufts Medical Center in the Floating Hospital, so please look for me in my new location! I am happy and excited about this…My mom is, too. A doctor from the Lahey Clinic got excited over my art and shared it with another doctor…They would like to meet with me when I return to Boston. There are new things that will be happening…Please watch my website for upcoming events. Thank you again for getting excited over my art!
Love and Smiles
Cristina
“Confetti Surprise”
