Kids & Art Amaeyzing Programs

Kids & Art Amaeyzing Programs offers artmaking experiences that include glass art, painting, working the clay wheel, embroidery, and projects like cut-out bat decorations. Destination Workshops bring participants together with professional artists for in-person sessions that feature activities such as glass art, painting, clay wheel work, and embroidery. The program also offers Amaeyzing ArtKits that provide independent art projects with all needed supplies and access to pre-recorded instructional videos.

• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: Workshops are held on the first Sunday of every month.
• Price: All programs are free for pediatric patient families.

Kids & Art is a 501(c)3 California nonprofit organization supporting pediatric patients with cancer and other critical medical conditions, their siblings, families, and support teams using the power of art and creativity. The organization works with more than 40 professional artists and reports 6,786+ ArtKits sent, 55 care centers treating patients in their programs, participants from 28 home states, and 1,150+ volunteer hours in its 2025 impact metrics. Kids & Art offers Amaeyzing ArtKits @Home, which send two independent art experiences each month to a participant’s home, and Amaeyzing ArtKits @Care Centers (Patient ArtKits), which are collections of art projects for use during treatment, with each kit including all supplies and access to a pre-recorded instructional video. Monthly delivery of Patient ArtKits to care centers is available to recipients of the Gift of ArtKits Program Grant.

Custom Art Experiences can include individualized online workshops with a professional artist, programs for a child’s classroom or community group, or family creative sessions where legacy pieces are made for a patient in hospice. Artists-in-Residence are arts professionals who come to care centers on a weekly basis to work directly with patients during long wait times for doctor appointments, chemotherapy infusions, and blood draws, working one-on-one or in small groups in waiting areas, bedside, or community spaces. Participation in artmaking is described as helping ease the stress, anxiety, and trauma endured by children in treatment while allowing for joy, creativity, and self-expression.

Kids & Art works with professional artists to design art experiences and engages corporate partners and care centers through corporate engagement and partnerships. Destination workshops have been held at companies such as Google and Pixar, and volunteers from the Lick Wilderming freshman class have participated in a workshop. Kids & Art is described as having come a long way in the last five years relative to a blog post dated May 4, 2014, and the founder is Purvi Shah.

Parent and volunteer feedback includes comments that attending destination workshops during treatment gave one child chances to do art at places like Pixar and Google, that an art project relieved a child’s anxiety about a blood draw, and that the program offered a “wonderful opportunity to feel normal during a difficult time.” A parent of a pediatric cancer survivor described volunteers making a first hospital visit “not so scary,” and another parent shared that Kids & Art had brought joy to their daughter for five years and that she asks to stay after appointments to work on more art. A volunteer artist described a six-year-old making cut-out bat decorations and using the artwork to talk about her feelings, and a donor stated, “I wish every kid on earth can have the chance to be inspired and healed by art!”

Last updated March 20, 2026.