The Roanoke Times reported on a unique art project developed by Dr. Andrew Anderson of Boonsboro Direct Primary Care, soon to be called Kaya Health, and local students in the Lynchburg-Forest, VA area. It is inevitable that doctors will have to deliver bad news to their patients, but, when this happens, Dr. Anderson wanted to do more than to send a patient away with the bad news. So, he reached out to two local schools to see if students wanted to donate their time to paint inspirational quotes on donated canvases to give to patients. The office now has 50 prints. Two students, Grace Houghton and Hannah Wright, pictured above, even planned a paint party and made more than 20 prints to donate to the office.

I just feel like it means a lot to give back to people who need support,” Houghton said. “My grandmother had cancer and she would have never really gotten through it if it wasn’t for the support that we gave her. So we feel that just by giving our time and our artistic abilities that someone can know we’re thinking of them.”

In Wright’s opinion, it’s not just about what the canvases say, it’s about what’s behind the canvases and that real people in the community care about the patients and support them.