CFW UPDATE

CHARITABLE ART GALLERY SUPPORTS CFW MISSION

Most of you have probably heard if not watched Mission Impossible III, but what about Mission: Building Bridges - the mission to bring CF care to developing countries?

Unfortunately, not everyone with CF can find or afford the required medical help for the disease. A group of international artists have donated their artwork to the Building Bridges Charitable Art Gallery to help support CFW’s worldwide development projects.

To enjoy the beautiful artwork these generous artists have donated for purchasing, please visit http://www.cfww.org/store/gallery.asp. Thank you to all of the talented artists who make this project possible:

Dominic Quagliozzi, Jr. http://www.artistdominic.com Dominic has been an artist since birth. He is a graduate of Providence College and resides in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. “Creativity and self expression are the foundation of who I am. If there was not creation there would not be me. Though I have Cystic Fibrosis, I live my life rejecting its plan for me and keeping it on my terms. My work deals with the emotional aspect of having a disease, but more importantly deals with life as felt within all humanity,” he says.

Ruth Christen http://www.ruthchristen.ch In addition to paintings, the art gallery also features unique silk screen T-shirts by Ruth Christen, a Visual Designer based in Switzerland. She studied Visual Design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Zurich and trained professionally at Assorted Images in London. Determined to be her own boss, Ruth created Ruth Christen Visual Design in 2004. The studio has specialized in creating design services.

Amanda Tomasoa http://www.amandatomasoa.com Amanda’s ambition to become an artist did not begin in an art school but from her desire to stay home to better care for her then 4-year-old son and to make a living doing something she loved. She loves creating decorative art to brighten up a home or an office environment , bringing joy and pleasure to the soul. Amanda has kindly donated two paintings, one entitled “Pink City” and the other “Red Ray”.

Natalie Saiph Massone http://www.saiphworld.com After studying fine arts and illustration in Italy, Natalie trained in the USA at the Walt Disney Studios and then founded her own business ArteSaiph Studio in Liguria, Italy. The studio specializes in pre-production services for animation including design work, backgrounds, storyboarding, color design, layouts for film, feature animation, television, including publishing comic books and illustrated children’s books. She has donated numerous oil paintings to the gallery, and also planned a fundraising exhibition for CFW at the Biblioteca Berio in Genoa, Italy.

Hafeez Ahmed Hafeez is a fine arts professor in New Delhi, India. He is the father of a young boy with CF. His students Y. Zahoor and Shasia Yousut have also contributed to the gallery.

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