The artwork of Cyndy Epps is featured in the seventh Local Artists for Cancer Exhibit at the Georgia Cancer Center.
A reception Aug. 7 marked the exhibition’s opening.
“The goal of this initiative is to create evolving and positive spaces for our patients, families faculty and staff. We are proud to share the art exhibit space here on the first floor of the Outpatient clinic in partnership with the local arts community for awareness of their great work and in alignment with our mission,” said Dr. Jorge Cortes, Georgia Cancer Center director. “Local artists display unique pieces which provide comfort, celebrate the resilience of the human spirit and show the power of art to benefit our emotional well-being.”
Epps, a lecturer in Painting and Drawing at the Augusta University Department of Art & Design years, has made a mark on Augusta’s artistic landscape. Students in her painting and murals classes have created murals at Reynolds and 11 Streets and at the Draft Society Taproom courtyard.
She’s participated in numerous public art projects including Augusta’s Art on the Wall, Art the Box and It All Flows to the Savannah. She won the Greater Augusta Arts Council’s 2023 Kath Girdler Engler Public Art Award,
“With many friends and family members impacted by cancer, creating this body of work has been a labor of love, and a chance to use her artistic gifts to lift the spirits of both patients and staff at the Georgia Cancer Center,” said Cortes.
A portion of proceeds of any work which sells while on display benefits Unite in the Fight Programs. Since the program’s inception in 2023, more than $2,200 has been raised for initiatives to enhance the patient experience.
Whole Person healing is co-chaired by Dr. Lauren Bigham and Angela Maskey.
“With their committee, supported by grants from Unite in the Fight funds, they work to sustain the LACE program, revive the garden space, the Patricia Sodomka library space behind me. Next will be a transformation of the meditation room to benefit patients, family, faculty and staff here at this Outpatient Services Clinic,” he said.
Charmain Z. Brackett, the publisher of Augusta Good News and Inspiring: Women of Augusta, has covered Augusta’s news for more than 35 years. She’s won multiple Georgia Press Association awards and received the 2018 Greater Augusta Arts Council’s media award. Reach her at charmain@augustagoodnews.com. Sign up for the newsletter here.
