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Making the world a more beautiful place, one canvas at a time.

Canvas For Community offers local artists a venue to market their artwork while benefitting selected charities with the sale of their work. Canvas For Community also hosts Paint Party Events for children and adults experiencing hardship or trauma. Organizations:

The Rescue Mission, Fort Wayne
Charis House, Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne Sexual Assault Treatment Center
Big Brothers Big Sisters, Fort Wayne
AWS Foundation for Children and Adults with Disabilities, Fort Wayne
United Way's Power of the Purse, Fort Wayne
Mighty Acorn Foundation, Fort Wayne/Kenya

Texas Children's Hospital, Houston
Covenant House Texas, Houston
Child Advocates of Fort Bend, Houston

03/11/2024

Next in November!
“Fall in Love!” 🍁
Tonight, I will be teaching this adorable Fall piece at The Ballard House for the Residents!
💛

25/09/2024

Obsessed with the sun rising over this patch of wild flowers this morning!

Good morning, Fulshear! ☀️

18/08/2024

I am teaching this simple piece tonight for The Ballard House Residents!
All of the paintings that I teach are simple, colorful, and can be done using minimal supplies. An easy rule of thumb is that if I can do it in 20 minutes, I can teach a room of beginners in 2 hours or less. If it takes me over 30 minutes, forget it, we would be there all night.

Keep that in mind if you’ve never picked up a paintbrush before. Just keep practicing and playing with brushes, colors, and different mediums!

“What if I fall? Oh, but darling, what if you fly!”

Art has a way of breaking down barriers, focusing our energies, providing us with large doses of grace, bringing us together, and healing our hearts.

I can’t wait to see everyone!

14/07/2024

If you woke up this morning, then there is still good in the World.
🤍

12/04/2017

The calm before the storm. 🤗🎨

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
-David S. Viscott

11/04/2017

Last week I got the kids ready for Easter with a sweet bunny painting. This week we are back at it again with a bright Spring birds theme. Thank you to Child Life Specialist, Riley Hammond, for the assistance. It is truly a blessing to be able to work with the kids of Texas Children's Hospital.

01/12/2016

Made my way yesterday afternoon to Texas Children's Hospital to do a painting with the kids. As each little one came in, some in wheel chairs, and all attached to large beeping machines, some with nurses and some with family, I felt excited to get them doing something new. One little girl didn't want to come, she didn't want to get into her wheelchair and leave her room. But when she finally came, her painting was beautiful and we all encouraged her throughout the hour. And as we were wrapping it up, cleaning brushes, and getting ready to leave, one of the hospital workers looked at me with tears in her eyes and she said, "You are such a blessing. You don't know what you did today. I didn't tell you, but the little girl that didn't want to come out of her room lost her mother on Thanksgiving day."

She came out of her room so that she could paint a snowman. And for one hour she listened to Christmas music, and painted with other kids, and all I can hope for her is that for that one hour, she felt free.

In the evening, I headed to Covenant House Texas. A shelter for youth between the ages of 18-22 that are experiencing homelessness and living in the streets for various reasons. Some have aged out of the foster care system, been kicked out of their house, run away from abuse at home, or have been trafficked through Houston.

As these young people painted, I heard them talk about their lives, their babies, the careers that they hope for someday...but most of all, I heard them be young. I listened and watched as they told jokes, acted goofy, danced, and put paint on each others faces. For two hours last night, those young people were kids again.

As we left the shelter, one of the Counselors approached me and said, "You have to come back! Usually we have to shut these events down, but this was great! You had their attention the whole time, thank you!"

Sometimes, we don't know why, or how, or when, God will use us. But each of us is given just enough time and talent to be a blessing to the world. Three years ago, I had never picked up a paintbrush in my life, but God has had plans that were very different and much bigger than my own. I pray that the Lord continues to bless all of those children, big and small, and that we can all be a blessing in our own corner of the world.

Thank you so much to all of the people that showed up and made a difference yesterday, Kacy Wade, Michelle Anderson, and Jennifer and Jake Voskuhl! Also, a big thanks to Tammy Holder Seale for donating some of our supplies! And of course to my husband, Roger Morse, for all of your support while I run around the city of Houston! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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