By
MikeH on
February 4, 2013
Hola! Today is Diabetes Art Day, time again to tap into our best artsy skills to show the world what it’s really like to live with diabetes.
Did you forget?
Don’t worry: There’s still time to break out the colored pencils, crayons, scissors, paint and glue to get all creative! While you’re working on your own contribution, there’s plenty of D-Art popping up around the Diabetes Online Community (DOC) to offer a little inspiration should you…
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By
AmyT on
September 24, 2012
You all know about Diabetes Art Day today, right? It’s an ever-growing “web-based initiative for the Diabetes Online Community to ‘tell a story’ about life with diabetes though creative visual expression,” dreamed up and organized by one of our fave DOC’ers Lee Ann Thill.
Launched in 2010, the initiative has amassed an incredible gallery of art that illustrates what many people with diabetes struggle to express in words. Check out the gallery collections from 2010 and…
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By
AmyT on
September 19, 2012
Calling all artists and creative types, or anyone who might be inspired to make some diabetes-themed art… The third annual Diabetes Art Day is coming up this coming Monday, Sept. 24!
Over 80 people participated in the inaugural online event in 2010, and that number more than doubled to 170 last year. So, at that rate and with the event falling a little later in the month (it was previously held on Sept. 1), this…
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By
AmyT on
September 1, 2011
Or is it Impressions? Either way, today is the Second Annual Diabetes Art Day, a day to visually document your experience(s) with diabetes. Founder Lee Ann Thill talked with us last week about this grassroots awareness day, and now the community is buzzing with creative energy as folks of all ages show off their masterworks embodying how they feel about life with diabetes.
Of course, we at the ‘Mine tend to gravitate towards words to express…
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