DonnaBellas Angel Art for St. Dominic's Hospital Cancer Boutique Announcement

St. Dominic's Hospital used “Rainbow Cancer Heart” art to announce their new cancer boutique.  The painting was featured on postcards and rack cards.  St. Dominic’s also plans to use the art for a t-shirt fundraiser.  The painting features the poem “What Cancer Cannot Do” with a heart in rainbow layers.

St. Dominic's Cancer Boutique Postcard (Front)

St. Dominic's Cancer Boutique Postcard (Back)

St. Dominic's Cancer Boutique Rack Card

DonnaBellas Angels allows limited royalty art use by third party groups who support patients and caregivers.  We request that the group signs a limited royalty use contract and references DonnaBellas Angels with an art credit.

The cancer boutique is a complete boutique for all your needs. Mastectomy bras, prosthesis swimsuits and more: fitted compression garments, therapeutic creams, private for head/hair accessories, hats, scarves and much more. Comfort post-surgical pajamas and most important...the compassionate care you expect from St. Dominic's.

St. Dominic’s is more than just a hospital. It is a family of services focused on fulfilling a mission of Christian healing to those in need.  St. Dominic Hospital is a 535-bed tertiary care hospital located in Jackson, MS serving all of central Mississippi and employs approximately 3,000 nurses, physicians, and skilled caregivers. The medical staff, of nearly 500 leading physicians and specialists, makes St. Dominic’s one of the most comprehensive hospitals in Mississippi. Through nearly seven decades, St. Dominic’s has remained true to its vision. We are St. Dominic’s – a Christian healing community called to provide quality, compassionate care and an Exceptional Encounter Everytime.

Visit St. Dominic’s website at http://www.stdom.com/.

St. Dominic's Cancer Boutique Ad

St. Dominic's Hospital Cancer Boutique

See Rainbow Cancer Heart art on the DonnaBellas Angels website at http://donnabellasangels.org/art/cancer_cannot/text-rainbowheart.html

Rainbow What Cancer Cannot Do Heart

Thank you for viewing DonnaBellas Angels art!  Donations are always welcome and appreciated.

DonnaBellas Angels Pillow Cases for Texas Children's Cancer Center

The DonnaBellas Angels pillow cases featured in this album were donated to Texas Children's Cancer Center (TXCCC) in Houston, TX. The pillow cases will be added to the TXCCC "Do Not Resuscitate" (DNR) cart.

When a family makes a decision of DNR for their child, the nursing staff do what they can to make the bedside more comforting. A pediatric nurse asked Donnabellas Angels whether we had pillows that could be donated for the DNR cart.

The nurses explained that a child would enjoy the comfort of having an angel pillow case for their bed. Also after the child passes, the parents could take the pillow case home with them if they wished in memory of their child. DonnaBellas Angels designed and donated these pillow cases in response to the TXCCC nurse's request.

Read more about our donations to Texas Children's Cancer Center on our web

site at:

http://www.donnabellasangels.org/events/donations/txccc/index.html

Inspirational Healing Art and Loved Ones

Kat & Mark O. said this about our art:

"When a close family member was diagnosed with a terminal illness, DonnaBellas Angels was gracious enough to provide her with an angel print. The print meant so much to Mickey that she kept it close to her on her bedside dresser. When she passed away, her best friend asked to h...ave the print because it remained her of Mickey. DonnaBellas Angels gives hope and life to those who are ill as well as gives hope and life in passing. It helps loved ones of patients to know that they are not alone."

Here is the link to the "Springs Hearts Cancer Angel" Painting on our website.

DonnaBellas Angels Donations to Texas Children's Cancer Center (TXCCC)

DonnaBellas Angels is donating multiple items to the Texas Children's Cancer Center (TXCCC) in Houston. Donations have included the following:

Donation of art prints that were framed and displayed in the respite room.

Donation of art postcards that staff can distribute to patients and caregivers.

Donation of art prints that were given to patients and their caregivers.

Permission to use "Colorful Cancer Angel" painting on a t-shirt. The shirt was sold to fundraise to buy items for the respite room and the "Do Not Resuscitate" (DNR) Cart.

It is the mission of DonnaBellas Angels to provide inspirational healing art to medical clinics and wellness centers. We used donations ot help cover the cost of producing original art, and art prints so they can be made available at no cost or with a minimal fee to medical clinics.

“We had an 18 month old patient who we had taken care of since he was 4 months old. His health was rapidly declining and many of us started to prepare for the worse. There isn't much that can comfort you in these types of situations. However, the nurses went through artwork that was donated by DonnaBellas Angels and found a piece that we knew would be perfect. It was a painting of an angel holding a baby in the sky over several small houses. We placed the artwork above his head on his crib until the day he passed away. All of us finally found comfort in seeing that in this picture, we could see our little boy being taken to a better place by a sweet angel. Now knowing he was without any pain or suffering. We keep that same picture in our respite room as a constant reminder of him and how much we all miss him. Thank you to the whole DonnaBellas Angels family for providing this comfort to us!”

-Lindsey Zaremba, Pediatric Nurse at Texas Children’s Hospital Cancer Center
Click here to see a photo gallery of the donated paintings at Texas Children's Cancer Center.

Donations to DonnaBellas Angels help support providing art to places like Texas Children’s Hospital Cancer Center. We are planning to provide TXCCC with angel pillow cases for children whose family have choosen DNR. The angel pillow will be a comfort to the child as their last pillow with angels and love for them as their last pillow. Families will have the option to take the pillow home after they pass. Please join us in support our mission of providing healing art! Thank You.

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DonnaBellas Angels Partners with Texas Children's Hospital Cancer Care Center

DonnaBellas Angels donated art prints to Texas Children's Hospital Cancer Care Center. The nurses wanted to create a break room area that staff, as well as, potentially patients and their families could go to as an emotionally supportive area. The hope is to give staff a space to go to especially after losing a pediatric patient to cancer.

DonnaBellas Angels has also permitted the TXCCC to use "Colorful Cancer Angel" on a t-shirt that the nurses will sell as a fundraiser.



Texas Children's Cancer Center, world renowned for its work in pediatric cancer and hematology disorders, offers innovative therapies for all forms of childhood cancer and blood disorders. The Cancer Center is working to improve the outcome for all patients afflicted with these diseases.

http://www.txccc.org/

DonnaBellas Angels Art at Agape Church

DonnaBellas Angels art is on display at Agape International 12/8/09 - 2/15/10.

See the album of photos on our Facebook Page

Our show is coordinated through the Ministry of Art & Beauty. The Ministry of Art and Beauty is a celebration of the soul’s aesthetic qualities expressed through art, which has a potent transformational impact upon one’s spirit. This ministry exists to fills the walls of Agape with beauty, and to inspire in all who see it with an appreciation of what cannot be said in words but is powerfully expressed through artistic expression.

Learn more about Agape International Live at http://www.agapelive.com/

DonnaBellas Angels Partners with NOEP

DonnaBellas Angels art is going to be used for e-cards through the Texas Nurse Oncology Education program. More information will be posted later once available!

Nurse Oncology Education Program
http://www.noeptexas.org/
Nurse Oncology Education Program offers a variety of methods for nurses to earn continuing education credit. The Texas Nurses Association/Foundation Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Introducing DonnaBellas Angels

What if you could help provide hope or peace through art?
This question inspired the creation of DonnaBellas Angels. Our mission is to provide to provide inspirational, healing art to patients and caregivers who are coping with a chronic or terminal illness. Through grants and contributions, we will provide artwork at little or no cost to recipients. Currently, our focus is on cancer support and we will expand in the future.

We hope to donate art to healthcare services providers, as well as to individuals. Original paintings will be donated on a long term loan to hospitals, medical clinics, and wellness centers. In return, the institution simply agrees to display the art in an area accessible to the general public, such as a waiting room or chemotherapy infusion room. These institutions would also receive prints that a staff member, such as a nurse, patient advocate, or chaplain could give to a patient or caregiver. Art is a welcome respite of color for cancer patients especially since many can’t receive flowers due their compromised immune systems.

As one oncology nurse familiar both the struggles of patients and with our art stated:

I think people can support the cause because the cancer angels provide a way to direct good energy to the patient's soul thus helping them or a family member a way to strengthen their souls to continue the battle.
-Ofelia Romero, RNCancer Therapy and Research Center (San Antonio, Texas)

DonnaBellas Angels will also provide prints directly to individuals upon request. Images are available for viewing on the website (www.donnabellasangels.org). The image size is large enough that people can copy and share the image.

In 2008, DonnaBellas Angels helped sponsor the Alpha Omicron Pi (AOII – National Panhellenic Women’s Sorority) Rocky Mountain Alumnae Chapter team with art when they participated in the American Cancer Society’s “Relay for Life”. The chapter received a banner and dedication cards for their luminarias (used light to the track at night).

We have found many Relay walkers make stops at our tentsite, stopping just to take in the beauty of the different pieces. Then, when they come around the next lap, they've brought someone new with them to see the Angels. We've had many requests for pieces of DonnaBellas Angels artwork. People respond to the message of hope the art provides.
-Julie Hunter-DerbyAOII Rocky Mountain Alumnae President (Fort Collins, CO)

Please help us spread the word about DonnaBellas Angels!

Thank you,
Laurel Latto
Founder of DonnaBellas Angels, Inc.