Dear St. Baldrick’s Foundation Team,
My name is Ashley Robinson, and I am an artist and student at New Jersey City University who's currently working on a public art intervention that aims to raise awareness and empathy around childhood cancer, while encouraging community support for ongoing research. I deeply admire the work your foundation does to fund life-saving studies, and I’m reaching out to request your insight and potential permission to cite your research, as well as explore the possibility of installing a temporary art piece in a space affiliated with your outreach events or campaigns.
Just in case you’re curious, an art intervention is a type of public art that disrupts the everyday environment to make people stop, reflect, and engage with a social issue. My project, titled “Empty Chairs: What Could Have Been,” uses sculpture and symbolic objects to reflect the emotional and societal impact of lives affected or lost to childhood cancer. The installation consists of a small circle of empty children’s chairs, each decorated uniquely to represent a real story, with a pair of gold shoes beneath them, referencing the gold ribbon for childhood cancer. Each chair will be paired with a quote or fact about childhood cancer, along with a QR code leading to research donation portals and resources like yours.
The current status quo is that childhood cancer, while devastating, receives only a small fraction of federal cancer research funding and has recently been cut by the current administration. Despite it being the leading cause of disease-related death among children in the U.S. By humanizing the statistics and creating a quiet, emotional space in a public setting, I aim to help people feel the urgency of the issue and connect to it on a personal level.
I would be honored to align my project with your foundation and welcome any feedback, collaboration, or guidance you could provide. I would also like to request permission to include your organization's name and educational materials in the piece. I truly believe in the power of creative expression to support and amplify causes like yours.
Warm regards,
Ashley Robinson
arobinson9@njcu.edu
https://ashleyebony2022.myportfolio.com/work
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