The Scarf Project – Nurturing the tie between art and healing — Peabody Essex Museum Salem MA

What a beautiful way to support art, healing, a good cause and community.
Per the Peabody Essex Museum’s website:

“On the heels of PEM’s successful Dress for Success Boston shoe donation campaign, the museum has launched a new project in partnership with the Mass General Cancer Center to coincide with the WOW® World of WearableArt™ exhibition.

The World of Wearable Art™ supports the Breast Cancer Research Trust in New Zealand. In the same spirit of health, giving and healing, PEM has collaborated with artist Bonnie Ashmore and the Mass General Cancer Center to create a vibrant silk scarf.

Ashmore is a breast cancer survivor and her paintings explore the molecular structure of chemotherapeutic agents found in nature, and allude to the uncertain process of treatment and the mystery of healing.

The unique scarf features a reproduction of one of Ashmore’s paintings and will be sold in the Museum Shop beginning February 15. For every $60 scarf sold, another will be donated to a patient undergoing treatment at the Mass General Cancer Center.

The scarves will also be sold at the Images Boutique at the Mass General Cancer Center in Boston and at the Mass General/North Shore Cancer Center in Danvers.

The scarves will be given to patients at a makeover and scarf-tying workshop hosted by PEM later this spring and run by Kathleen Gill Bazazi, general manager of Images Boutique, and David Nichols, an internationally renowned makeup industry expert.

Through this partnership with Mass General Cancer Center, The Scarf Project seeks to help women ease the struggle to maintain strength, dignity and beauty during the physically and emotionally challenging time of cancer treatment.”

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