HELP SOME KIDS WHILE YOU SHOP FOR ART

With September drawing to close, I want to remind everyone to take a step back and think about something for a minute for me.

1 in 300 kids are getting cancer these days.

Are you ok with these numbers? Are you ok knowing that those numbers are getting worse? What about the rest of these numbers?

Roughly 40,000 children are undergoing cancer treatment this year, and childhood cancer rates have been steadily increasing over the last 20 years, up 29%, despite recent scientific advances. 

Some speculate that our chemical laden environment is to blame. It has recently been discovered that babies today are born with over 200 toxic chemicals detected in their bloodstream at delivery. These children need answers. And unfortunately, there is not enough funding to get to those answers quickly enough and things are going to get worse. Less than 4% of federal cancer research funding goes to childhood cancer research, only 3 new pediatric cancer treatment drugs have been approved by the FDA in the last 20 years, and children are dying every day waiting for promising new treatments that they’ll never see.

"Jaxon" is now available, and prints and reproductions are available through fineartamerica.com through September 2016. All proceeds go to helping these kids! 

“By combining medicine, humanity, and art, I think this is an opportunity to raise awareness, increase financial support, and provide a little inspiration out there for kids who might need it,” she says. "Each month I'll be sharing one story of hope, strength, and courage. An accompanying painting will be created using the children's toys as inspiration, and reproductions will be available to the public. Because the symbol for pediatric cancer is the gold ribbon, each painting is created with gold leaf to stand as a representation of their fight, to share a piece of their courage with the world and leave their mark on it forever. These children represent the very definition of hero, and they want to share a small symbol of their heroism with you through art. So that we may be reminded in a world of overwhelming uncertainty and pain, there can also be an abundance of community, strength, and hope."