Community Blog

October 6, 2007

Artocracy and Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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This month Artocracy is raising money for The Pink Shamrock Foundation to help medically underserved women with breast cancer. The Pink Shamrock was founded in 2002 by Megan Murphy (The Founder of Artocracy) who lost her mother to breast cancer in 2001. The mission of the Pink Shamrock Foundation is to ensure that all women, especially those with limited funds and resources, have access to the care and support they need to fight breast cancer and win. Statistics show that the death rates of impoverished people are higher than those who have the means to battle breast cancer, and it is a tremendous battle. Breast cancer knows no class, race or geographic lines; all women are at risk. However, breast cancer’s seemingly egalitarian nature stops there: Women in lower socio-economic levels have the lowest breast cancer survival rate on record. The Pink Shamrock Foundation works to help those women.

The proceeds from this exhibition will go directly to the Pink Shamrock Foundation. The artists in the exhibition are making both full donations and partial donations while Artocracy is donating its proceeds from the printing and framing.

For more information and to download the free, print visit artocracy.org