Kits to Heart Art Hive: Card-Making Sessions (Collage)
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Fall 2024 Dates
The last Sunday of each month:
- Sunday, September 29, 2024 — 4 to 5:30 PM ET
- Sunday, October 27, 2024 — 4 to 5:30 PM ET
- Sunday, November 24, 2024 — 4 to 5:30 PM ET
- Sunday, December 29, 2024 — 4 to 5:30 PM ET
About the Sessions
Free and open to anyone in the Kits to Heart community, these drop-in card-making sessions are guided by Liz Ahmann, a registered nurse, cancer survivor, and health/wellness coach who is a multimedia artist, photographer, and trained SoulCollage® facilitator.
The focus of the sessions is on community art-making in a shared virtual space, creative expression, and using our art to contribute to the well-being of others. Cancer survivors welcome! Participants can drop in for however long they are able.
The fall session will loosely focus on decorating cards using collage, and the first several minutes of each session will provide some tips, but participants can spend time decorating cards in any way they wish with any materials they have on hand.
Decorated cards can include an inspiring or meaningful message and can be sent to Kits to Heart (see mailing instructions here) after each session, or series of sessions, to be included in our cancer care kits shared with cancer patients and caregivers.Â
Suggested Materials
- Blank cards or white cardstock
- Glue stick (re-stickable is handy for moving pieces)
- Bone folder (or old credit card) (optional)
- Your choice of collage materials, e.g.,
- Tissue paper
- Any variety of colored and/or patterned papers
- Magazines
- Nature photos
You may wish to write inspiring and positive quotations and messages to include inside or on the back of the card(s).
Materials may be available upon request with AT LEAST one week's notice prior to the session you would like to attend. Please email art@kitstoheart.org with which materials you would like to receive.
About the Facilitator
Elizabeth (Liz) Ahmann, ScD, RN, PCC, NBC-HWC, is a registered nurse, credentialed health and wellness coach, and a multi-media artist, photographer, and trained SoulCollage® facilitator. A long-time quilter, fabric artist, and paper-crafter, she studies art at Prince Georges Community College and is a Professor of Health and Wellness Coaching at Maryland University of Integrative Health where she teaches a variety of coaching skills, including the use of intuitive collage and mindful coloring. She is also a cancer survivor who has used art as a support in her own journey.
About Kits to Heart
Founded in May 2020 in Clarksville, MD, Kits to Heart distributes thoughtfully designed, curated cancer care kits to hospitals and cancer centers, as well as ships directly to patients nationwide. Kits to Heart also offers an innovative Art for Cancer Wellness Program to further address the issue of loneliness—as well as to provide tools to heal and cope for patients, caregivers, and oncology healthcare workers.