One of our members, Bill d'Ellis, has ten images on exhibit in the Winter Gallery show, “Dreamscapes!” at the New Mexico Cancer Center "Gallery with a Cause," from December 12 to March 12, 2011, along with twenty other artists, exhibiting photographic images, ceramic mosaics, oil, watercolor, pastel and mixed media paintings. 35% of purchases are tax-deductible and benefit patients who are battling cancer.
The gallery is open to the public 9 to 6 Monday through Friday. It is located in the New Mexico Cancer Center at 4901 Lang N.E. From the intersection of Paseo del Norte and Jefferson, go south on Jefferson and turn left (east) at Lang, the first left turn opportunity. It is on the left at the end of the first long block. Please call Colleen at 828-3791 or Devona at 828-3789 to make arrangements to see the exhibition, as they prefer to take you around in order to protect the privacy of patients.
To give her patients a more peaceful and beautiful surrounding for their treatment, New Mexico Cancer Center founder, Dr. Barbara McAneny, started the New Mexico Cancer Foundation in 2002. She had the entire facility designed to be both a comprehensive cancer treatment facility and an art gallery. Many patients have expressed their appreciation for the art.
She recognized that, as vacation, sick leave and other resources were quickly exhausted, the burdens of their illness and treatment often left her patients without sufficient financial resources to meet their everyday needs. Families were unable to pay rent or mortgage payments, car payments, electricity and gas bills and other common expenses. With generous support from the New Mexico Cancer Center physicians, the Foundation began to provide patients with non-medical financial assistance. Thousands of other generous donors have contributed to this cause. Since its inception, nearly $450,000 in Foundation patient grants has eased burdens for hundreds of New Mexico families.
Not long after the Foundation was started, the art became a part of the Foundation’s mission. The Foundation sponsors four art shows each year at the New Mexico Cancer Center. Curator, Terry Dunn, selects each show around a different theme suitable for cancer patients, some of whom spend many hours there in chemotherapy or other treatment. As with any gallery, artists are charged a commission on sales. And the commission is, for the buyer, a tax deductible donation which goes to the Foundation.
Four shows a year; a great venue; pleasant art for cancer patients; and the commission helps deserving cancer patients. A Gallery With A Cause, indeed!
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