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Hospice seeks to help local artists
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Instead of training to become a volunteer, local hospice care officials are encouraging people to use another creative way to help out.
Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care, which provides hospice services in 13 counties in North Carolina and Virginia, is looking for local artists to donate their visual artwork or sell it for display at the new Joan & Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson, scheduled to open this fall.
The 22,000-square-foot facility will feature the artwork throughout its 20 bedroom suites with outdoor patios, two large family rooms, theater, soda shop, children's playroom, mediation garden, patient salon and spa.
Artists have the option to donate permanent artwork for the common areas and special rooms or create original pieces to be used as signage announcing common areas and special rooms. Mountain Valley Hospice will also have rotating art displays where artists can sell artwork with 15 percent of proceeds benefiting hospice.
Shelia Jones, the director of development at Mountain Valley Hospice, said it was thrilling to engage members of the art community in the development of the home, which would offer a distinct brand of creativity to the facility.
“We see this venture as a way to help the artists become involved and gain recognition, as well as offer an enriching environment to patients, families and staff members at the Woltz Hospice Home. Aesthetically pleasing and relevant work created by the community members will certainly contribute to that environment,” Jones said.
For more information, call Sheila Jones at Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care in Mount Airy, 789-2922.
Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care, which provides hospice services in 13 counties in North Carolina and Virginia, is looking for local artists to donate their visual artwork or sell it for display at the new Joan & Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson, scheduled to open this fall.
The 22,000-square-foot facility will feature the artwork throughout its 20 bedroom suites with outdoor patios, two large family rooms, theater, soda shop, children's playroom, mediation garden, patient salon and spa.
Artists have the option to donate permanent artwork for the common areas and special rooms or create original pieces to be used as signage announcing common areas and special rooms. Mountain Valley Hospice will also have rotating art displays where artists can sell artwork with 15 percent of proceeds benefiting hospice.
Shelia Jones, the director of development at Mountain Valley Hospice, said it was thrilling to engage members of the art community in the development of the home, which would offer a distinct brand of creativity to the facility.
“We see this venture as a way to help the artists become involved and gain recognition, as well as offer an enriching environment to patients, families and staff members at the Woltz Hospice Home. Aesthetically pleasing and relevant work created by the community members will certainly contribute to that environment,” Jones said.
For more information, call Sheila Jones at Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care in Mount Airy, 789-2922.
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