Palette Of Roses Art League Meeting featuring special guest artist Dr Sasha Vulkeja
Schedule
Thu Feb 16 2023 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm
Location
Tyler Rose Garden Center | Tyler, TX
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Monthly Meeting for Members of the Palette of Roses Art League with Artist Demos. Not a member of the league? Visit our website to join. Www.paletteofrosesartleague.comThis month’s Program…
Art is Medicine and Medicine is Art
Dr. Sasha Vukelja's light-filled art studio, where she sculpts while her daughter Maxie paints, is a side of her life that most of her patients never see. Dr. V, as she's called, says her sculpting helps relieve the stress of her job as a noted Oncologist, dealing with cancer on a daily basis. But for Dr. V, art is more than a stress reliever, it's part of her heritage.
Dr. V's grandfather was an avid collector, her mother a noted artist and professor. But Dr. V's family was against the Communist party and by the time she was eleven, she and her family were political refugees, struggling to survive.
Dr. V and her mother escaped to America in 1972. Her father died in Yugoslavia still under house arrest. Although Dr. V's mother worked at five jobs, she continued to paint. Those paintings now line the walls of Dr. V's home and office. Dr. V's "Chemo Gallery", as she's named it, contains her mother's paintings as well as those of her cancer patients. Dr. V feels art expresses who they are and gives hope.
For three generations, the mothers and daughters of this family have combined the fine arts with the art of living.
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Where is it happening?
Tyler Rose Garden Center, 420 Rose Park Drive,Tyler,TX,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays: