Each year, Making A Mark® partners with a local, professional artist to host a series of workshops with patients and their siblings from Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Center to create a collaborative, visual arts piece to be featured in the annual Making A Mark® exhibit.

The 2024 Making A Mark Featured Guest Artist is Ceci Norman.

Growing Hope

2024

Artist Statement

This project was designed thinking of sunshine and bright flowers on a clear day, and the growth that happens when we tend to hope and joy in tangible ways. Cyanotypes always feel magical in how the chemical reaction shifts to a bright blue and white, leaving a meaningful imprint of objects placed in the sun. I really loved the whimsy of bugs and flowers that were created. For me, taking time to notice flowers is a way to reflect and find some joy or gratitude, and all the colorful fabric flowers will last longer than the ones in my garden.

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This project was designed thinking of sunshine and bright flowers on a clear day, and the growth that happens when we tend to hope and joy in tangible ways. Cyanotypes always feel magical in how the chemical reaction shifts to a bright blue and white, leaving a meaningful imprint of objects placed in the sun. I really loved the whimsy of bugs and flowers that were created. For me, taking time to notice flowers is a way to reflect and find some joy or gratitude, and all the colorful fabric flowers will last longer than the ones in my garden.

-Ceci Norman