Salina, KS – Salina Art Center announces that it is among the recipients of the Greater Salina Community Foundation’s YW Legacy Grant for 2015. The grant will fund the Art Center’s upcoming project, Healing Threads Goes Pink, a series of papermaking and creative writing workshops to be held in October of 2015 in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

In partnership with Tammy Walker Cancer Center and artist Jenny Davis, the Art Center will host the October workshops for breast cancer patients and survivors as well as friends and loved ones affected by the disease. Participants will have the opportunity to bring articles of clothing from their past to shred and pulp into sheets of paper. In subsequent creative writing and art-making workshops, teaching artists will guide participants in using their sheets of paper to create prints, drawings, journals, and other paper-based art forms. The act of transforming personally meaningful clothing into works of art is an empowering process for individuals who have dealt with traumatic experiences. These workshops will create a safe place in which breast cancer patients, survivors, families, and friends can express, connect and heal.

The YW Legacy Fund, established in 2006 by the board members of the former YWCA of Salina, makes grants to initiatives that support the mission of the former YWCA, including to “encourage women’s growth, leadership and power” and to “create an environment to assist in the physical and mental well-being of women and their families.”