Celebration of Healing: Sal Brownfield, artist and Eve Hoffman, writer: Hudgens Center for the Arts

A CELEBRATION OF HEALING

Sal Brownfield with Eve Hoffman

www.celebrationofhealing.com

A Celebration of Healing is an art book, a book of stories bringing encouragement

and confidence to those impacted by breast cancer and other serious

illness.  It is neither a cancer “how to” guide nor a Hallmark card –

rather a book giving permission to laugh, to cry, rage and to know one is not

alone.  The twenty-one paintings and narratives build bridges between the

physical and emotional needs of patients, families, friends and the medical

community. They

become a part of the healing. 

A Celebration of Healing includes a wide range of breast cancer

experiences and demographics. Reader after reader, including those with

different kinds of cancer, have commented I

wish I’d had this book when diagnosed.  These are my stories, my

stories!  Others have

suggested A stack of Celebration

should be in every doctor’s waiting room. 

Sal began a

project of painting breast cancer survivors which culminated in twenty-one

large canvasses that are more like stained glass windows.  They are luminous and what they illuminate is

courage, damage and the will to live on. Eve's poetic essays give us the

stories behind the paintings.   These

images and stories were intended to move us to deeper empathy and they

did.                                         Franklin

Abbot after Decatur Book Festival reading

Mark Your Calendar

Tuesday, October 1  7:00- 9:00PM

Opening Reception, Hudgens Center for

the Arts

18 Sal Brownfield “Celebration of

Healing” paintings

and A Celebration of Healing book

signing

by Brownfield with writer Eve Hoffman.

Free and open to the public. www.thehudgens.org

6400 Sugarloaf Pkwy

#300, Duluth, GA 30097

(Located in the Gwinnett Civic Center

complex.

Opposite end from the Arena. Free

parking.)