ROCK ISLAND, IL – February 2016 –Gilda’s Club, in partnership with Living Proof Exhibit and sponsored by UnityPoint Health Trinity, is hosting Marla Andich in a FREE workshop called Creative Sessions: Jewelry Making on Thursday, February 25th from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at Icons Martini (124 18th Street, Rock Island, IL).
Need just the right pair of earrings to complete your outfit? Learn the basics of beading to create earrings and charms for yourself or to give as a gift from local artist Marla Andich. Bring jewelry making tools if you have them.
Creative Sessions is collaboration between Gilda’s Club and Living Proof Exhibit that offers art therapy to cancer patients and survivors at no charge. Creative Sessions are held monthly from February through November.
“Art is a way of escape, going to a place where there is no cancer,” said LaNae, a six-year cancer survivor, of Creative Sessions.
Unique to this year, each month will feature a different artist instructing a session on his or her passion. Three sessions, such as this one, will be offered at Illinois locations.
Andich is a breast cancer survivor. She is retired from Black Hawk College, where she taught in their alternative high school and coordinated a career and transition program for the students. She has used her jewelry to fundraise for her Relay for Life team, Marla's Marvels, the Norma-Leah Ovarian Cancer Initiative, and The Rock Island Library Foundation. Her jewelry has been featured in the Living Proof Exhibit display at the Figge Art Museum and the Peoria Library. She is also a crocheter and polymer clay artist.
For more details and to register, please call Gilda’s Club at 563-326-7504 or email kelly@gildasclubqc.org.
To stay updated on future Creative Sessions information, like Living Proof Exhibit and Gilda’s Club Quad Cities on Facebook.
About Gilda’s Club
Free of charge, Gilda’s Club Quad Cities provides support, education and hope to all people affected by cancer. As a Cancer Support Community affiliate, we are part of the largest employer of psychosocial oncology mental health professionals in the United States. Our global network brings the highest quality cancer support to the millions of people touched by cancer.
About Living Proof Exhibit
Living Proof Exhibit an organization that celebrates the creative spirit of the cancer survivor, will continue on its quest by once again partnering with Gilda’s Club to provide free art therapy sessions once a month.
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