Tracy's Kids International Art Exchange Exhibit
“The Day I Will Never Forget…,” an international art exchange exhibit, is a collaborative effort sponsored by the Tracy’s Kids Pediatric Art Therapy Program, NCI, and the Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC). The exhibit contains works of art created by pediatric hematology-oncology patients and family members at hospitals and clinics in the U.S., Jordan, Israel, Egypt, and Turkey. Tracy’s Kids is a non-profit organization affiliated with Georgetown University Medical Center’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. MECC was begun in 1996 with NCI assistance and has as its members Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, and Turkey.
As a result of the exhibit’s success at the NIH earlier this year, the exhibit traveled to Ireland in May. Beginning May 12, 2009, the show was spotlighted as part of the CANCER 2009 International Cancer Conference, facilitated by Professor Mark Lawler, director of Post Graduate Teaching and Learning at St. James’s Hospital in Dublin, and the Ireland-Northern Ireland-NCI Cancer Consortium. Aziza Shad, MD, Lombardi's chief of pediatric hematology/oncology, blood, and bone marrow transplantation, and Tracy Councill, director of Lombardi’s Art and Play Therapy Program, were guest speakers at the CANCER 2009 International Cancer Conference.
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| A 7-year-old leukemia patient in Istanbul, Turkey, drew this image, which is part of the exhibit. The artist explained, "This is the picture of the 23rd of April. I danced with my classmates. I will never forget that day." |
Click the links below to view selected artworks from each theme featured in the International Art Exchange exhibit.
- Birthday and Siblings
- Hospitals
- Family Trips
- Nature
- Gifts
- Picnics
- Holidays
- School
- Home
- Sports and Tricks
- Hopes and Dreams
- Treatment
