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Host Dani Gasparini talks again with Purvi Shah, Founder & Executive Director of the Kids & Art Foundation, plus Rachel Handsman, the Stanford Children’s Program Manager for Kids & Art Foundation, about utilizing VR headsets with children, pilot programs at UCSF and more. More

Twelve years ago, Purvi Shah’s 3-year-old son Amaey was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia, a cancer that affects blood cell production.

Twelve years ago, Purvi Shah’s 3-year-old son Amaey was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia, a cancer that affects blood cell production. During the hours spent in hospitals waiting for doctors’ appointments, the graphic designer did what she knew best: She brought art supplies and distracted Amaey and her older son

Special Projects Coordinator Caroline Robins and I sit down and discuss Art Therapy, the artistic community and Star Trek. More

Read about how artists change children’s lives through special nonprofit art programs.

Kids & Art provides free art workshops to children touched by cancer and their care circle to improve their well-being during treatment, as survivors, and in bereavement.

In the Bay Area, kids facing cancer are discovering fun and healing in an art program created by this week's Jefferson Award winner.

In the Bay Area, kids facing cancer are discovering fun and healing in an art program created by this week's Jefferson Award winner.

The Indian American graphic designer, who was announced as a Jefferson Award recipient – known as the Nobel Peace Prize for public and community service … India West

Forty-three children are diagnosed with cancer everyday. That’s according to the American Cancer Society. But in the Bay Area, many of them are discovering fun and healing in an art program created by this week’s Jefferson Award winner, Purvi Shah … CBS Local, SNewsI

Pen Voice Host Dani Gasparini interviews Purvi Shah, Founder & Executive Director of the Kids & Art Foundation.

Burlingame, California, September 1, 2016 – Merchants in downtown Burlingame have joined together for a “Cancer Sucks. Art Heals.” campaign during September in support of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and to benefit the Kids & Art Foundation, a local nonprofit organization that provides healing art workshops to Bay Area children

Kids Being Kids My experience volunteering for Kids and Art, the organization that helps kids fight back cancer with art and creativity… Art can heal in many ways. That’s exactly what Kids and Art revolves around. They use art as a therapeutic healing activity to for kids, their siblings and

Purvi Shah: Caring Creative A little inspiration goes a long way. That’s why ABC7 is always on the lookout for real people, doing great things. Your stories are why we come to work every day. We believe in the game changers, the dream chasers, the explorers, the REAL stars where

Art for Amaey Good Grief host Cheryl Jones interviews Purvi Shaw in an episode titled Art for Amaey. They discuss how Purvi Shah’s son Amaey was sick for six years, ultimately passing away at the age of 9. She searched for ways to cheer, comfort and sooth him (and herself)

Purvi Shah's ways to cheer, comfort and sooth her son Amaey as he faced cancer. In the arts, she found what they both needed.