University of Virginia Health System

ARTISTS DISPLAY WORK IN U.VA. HOSPITAL

March is National Colorectal Cancer Month and six artists from the Charlottesville-Albemarle Art Association are displaying their work at the University of Virginia Hospital to help raise awareness of this curable cancer.

Through a combined effort, U.Va.'s centers for Digestive Health and Cancer created the Blue Ribbon Community Campaign to involve the community during National Colorectal Cancer Month. The goal of the campaign is to educate the public in early detection of colon cancer in the Central Virginia region by increasing the amount of screenings that could detect the cancer early, when it is treatable.

Local artists participating in the show include: Douglas Williams, watercolor and collage; Karen Jaegerman Collins, watercolor; Anne Holland, watercolor, acrylic and mixed media; Mercedes Lopez, gauche and watercolor; Michael Thompson, oil on canvas; Trilbie Knapp, pastel on paper and watercolor on paper; and Betty Brubach, oil on canvas and masonite.

The art will be displayed in three locations: the Digestive Health Center waiting room and the hallway outside the surgical waiting room, both on the first floor of the new hospital; and the waiting room of the Cancer Center on the fourth floor of the old hospital.

March 5, 2002