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Launching Scholarship Fund Together
My wish is for my Celebration of Life to be a carrying forward of what AWBW has given me: a space of inviting us to claim pieces of ourselves that need to be heard.
Watch this video to hear from me and survivors I've worked with.
I became an AWBW facilitator in 2013. At the helm of three healing art programs, I created multiple exhibitions and facilitated hundreds of workshops. It has been my greatest joy witnessing survivors of domestic violence and cancer become grounded in their personal strength and resilience through art-making.
AWBW changed my life and I believe it changed everyone else’s life that I came in contact with or did a workshop with.
Through AWBW I finally was able to claim myself as an artist. If you'd like to see some of the artwork I've created along the way, I have a book my dear friend Karan Parkin helped me put together. It is called A Book About Breast Cancer Art. By sharing my process and art, I hope it can open a doorway for others to reach inside themselves. It is a suggestion and invitation to all facing this and other extreme challenges—to know that they have something to say and to express it. Please email her at karan@graphixforchange.com for a digital copy.
I was never encouraged artistically growing up and never had any formal training. What I needed all my life was AWBW. In creating the babs Mayer Scholarship I wish to pay it forward. I invite you to join me by doing two things, one for you & one for others:
1. Create a permission canvas: In this moment in your life, what needs to be heard? You can use this worksheet to jumpstart your process. Don’t overthink it! Just give yourself permission to let out any colors, images and words that come. There is a Facebook group where you can share what you've created with me and we can all inspire each other. To access the group, please search for "babs Mayer Scholarship" on Facebook.
2. Contribute to the babs Mayer Scholarship, so that each year a new facilitator will receive training and get to become part of the AWBW family, carrying this opportunity to others facing trauma for years to come.
Anything you can give will make a difference. I believe that we each can make ripples forever. I hope you’ll join me.
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Elizabeth06/04/2021AWBW$200.00
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Lynne06/03/2021AWBW$25.00
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Mark05/29/2021AWBW$100.00
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Lori05/28/2021AWBW$25.00