News March 2005 Giclées!!! We are delighted to announce that giclee prints of selected images from Strange Gifts: Honoring the Journey are now available in cooperation with Mill Brook Gallery of Concord, NH. The museum quality digital prints, skillfully enlarged to image size 28 1/2” by 21”, offer an amazingly beautiful and affordable alternative series to the original. Priced at $300, each archival, state-of-the-art reproduction is individually printed, then approved and hand-signed by the artist. To place an order contact Mill Brook Gallery at 603-226-2046. Winter 2005 Canadian Exposure! Artwork from Strange Gifts: Honoring the Journey will appear in the Winter 2005 issue of The Chronicle of Cancer Therapy, which is distributed to oncologists and related specialists across Canada. The piece entitled “Full Tilt” will be published on the Atelier page, which is "a gallery of artistic expression showcasing contributions from the oncology community, including healthcare providers and patients." Autumn 2003 We have moved! The Reider family has moved to the beautiful campus of St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH, where Glenn is teaching Greek and Latin. Nathan is studying hard, playing guitar and finding new friends at Shaker Road School. Susan is setting up a new downtown studio space and looking forward to continuing Honoring the Journey in New England. Stay tuned… November 2003 Strange Gifts: Honoring the Journey in Washington DC Susan Wood Reider’s Strange Gifts: Honoring the Journey will be a featured presentation at the 2004 Annual Conference of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare. “The State of the Arts in Healthcare: Building Community, Embracing Diversity” will be held April, 21-24, 2004 in Greater Washington, D.C. Based on her series of intimate mixed media paintings, the award-winning project explores one artist’s positive transformation through cancer. This example of the powerful healing integration of art and medicine includes programs for healing and arts communities, a web site, art cards and hands-on wellness workshops. The program will present powerful visual images and the transformative healing story behind their creation, in addition sharing to the artist’s practical journey of bringing her inspiring work “to the people” through successful collaboration of arts and healthcare organizations. For more information visit www.theSAH.org. April 2003 Strange Gifts: Honoring the Journey wins International Competition Artist and cancer survivor Susan Wood Reider has been honored with the 2003 Blair L. Sadler Healing Arts Award for Professional Visual Artists for her project Strange Gifts: Honoring the Journey. Reider submitted the award-winning proposal in partnership with Thompson Cancer Survival Center (primary partner,) the Wellness Community of East Tennessee and the University of Tennessee Cancer Institute (supporting partners.) The award, sponsored by the Society for the Arts in was presented at the 2003 SAH Annual Conference in San Diego, CA on April 11, 2003. The SAH is dedicated to promoting the incorporation of the arts as an integral component of healthcare. For more information visit www.theSAH.org. HtJ Exhibitions History The original show of 27 pieces from Strange Gifts: Honoring the Journey opened in connection with the annual benefit for The Wellness Community of East Tennessee hosted by Bennett Galleries on October 5, 2001. The project then traveled as a special exhibition to the University of Tennessee Medical Center (October 29 through November 21, 2001) the Thompson Cancer Survival Center (November 26 through December 21, 2001) and The Wellness Community (March 2002) bringing the work to audiences both within and beyond traditional fine arts venues. Most of the original artworks from the project are now held in private and public collections. Plans for a digital print version of the collection are currently in the works. Recent Exhibitions Signs and Symbols in Art Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN April 2003 A1 LabArts Wide Open The Candy Factory, Knoxville, TN Spring 2003 Bearfoot in the City, “Spirit Bear” sponsored by the Aslan Foundation contact Dogwood Art Festival, 865-637-4561 Selected HtJ Programs: 2002-3 The Wellness Community of East Tennessee Expressing yourself through Art, A series of mixed-media workshops for cancer patients, survivors and caregivers September 2002, January 2003, June 2003 For info call 865-546-4661 Community School of the Arts, Knoxville Tennessee Guest Artist: Mixed-Media Master Classes, October 2002 Side-By-Side Studio Artist, Spring 2003 For more info phone 865-523-5684 Komen Knoxville Race for the Cure Featured Speaker, Survivor Representative, Survivors’ Luncheon October 18, 2002 www.knoxvilleraceforthecure.com Heart and Hands, benefit for Thompson Cancer Survival Center, August 24, 2002, Maryville, TN www.thompsoncancer.com Strange Gifts: Honoring the Journey is available as a multi-media presentation and/or hands-on workshop, with the artist. For booking information and other communication, please contact swreider@honorthejourney.com.