Friday, May 1, 2009
For every luminary candle placed around the track there is a story behind the flame.
The annual KU Relay for Life begins at 6 p.m. today in Memorial Stadium. Thirty student groups will walk around the stadium until 6 a.m. Saturday in memory of loved ones lost to cancer and in honor of those still battling the disease.
The Spencer Museum of Art Student Advisory Board will participate in its first relay tonight in hopes of not only raising money toward a cure, but also sharing the healing power of art with the community.
Dawn Tallchief, assistant director of military graduate education, said making art helped her come to terms with breast cancer.
“It helped me educate and inform others,” Tallchief said. “It helped me show women it’s not as scary as it looks.”
Tallchief’s art will be showcased in the student advisory board’s art display at its campsite at the relay.
“We really believe in the idea of healing through the arts by letting go of pain and frustration,” Sarah Bluvas, Atlanta junior, said.
Bluvas, who is a captain on the advisory board’s relay team, said art was a way for cancer patients to express themselves and grow.
Tallchief, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2007, said making art was a therapeutic outlet during a dim period in her life.
She said she hoped her art could show the story of her personal battle with breast cancer and convey her recovery. She said she was now healthy and needed a mammogram only once a year.
Bluvas said raising money for the Relay for Life was important to her because the reality of cancer was close to home.
“Without cancer research I wouldn’t have a parent,” Bluvas said.
She said her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991 and her cancer resurfaced in 2001 and 2003. She said her mom was currently in remission but the urgency to find a cure was still on her mind.
Bluvas and her relay team have raised $1,395 for the event.
Sierra Falters, Lincoln, Neb., senior and relay captian, said the student advisory board hoped to meet its goal of $2,000 before tonight’s relay, but said she was proud of the amount it had already collected.
Falters said all art would be for sale and the proceeds would benefit the American Cancer Society. The relay is open to the public and the student advisory board’s art exhibit can been visited from 6 to 10 p.m.
— — Edited by Grant Treaster
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