Featuring Marla Andich
DAVENPORT, IA – November 2016 –Gilda’s Club, in partnership with Living Proof Exhibit and sponsored by UnityPoint Health Trinity, is hosting a FREE workshop called Creative Sessions: Polymer Clay with artist Marla Andich on Thursday, November 10, 2016 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at Gilda’s Club (1234 East River Drive, Davenport).
Participants will learn how to create interesting patterns of color with polymer clay. Everyone will make a pendant that they can take home.
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.
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.
Creative Sessions is collaboration of Gilda’s Club, Living Proof Exhibit and UnityPoint Health — Trinity that offers art therapy to cancer patients and survivors at no charge. Creative Sessions are held monthly from February through November.
Unique to this year, each month will feature a different artist instructing a session on his or her passion.
For more details and to register, please call Gilda’s Club at 563-326-7504 or email gc@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, a non-profit organization, celebrates the creative spirit of the cancer survivors through art therapy sessions and art exhibits.
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