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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Altadena ceramic artist sells jewelry with a message

Altadenan Susan Braig (whose story we have kept up with here and here) sent us a couple of notes of interest to artists and supporters:

The City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division is holding a free grant writing workshop at the Planning department April 30 from 6:30 to 9 PM (refreshments included) for its individual artist and arts education grants, due in June 2009.

Xiem Ceramic Center (1563 N. Lake in Pasadena) is holding its annual craft fair May 8 and 9. I will have a booth at the Xiem craft fair, selling my Designer Drug jewelry collection studded with pills – a metaphor to protest that health care in this country should not be a luxury item. I create and sell this jewelry to pay off enormous medical debts and post-cancer follow-up medical bills.   I wear this jewelry in my health care/insurance reform activism, at the local, state and national level. I have shared my Blue Cross under-insurance woes in testimonies before the California Assembly and Senate Health Committees, spoken at rallies, and have been profiled in the L.A. Times, Consumer Reports and on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Xiem Ceramic Center (1563 N. Lake in Pasadena) is holding its annual craft fair May 8 and 9. I will have a booth at the Xiem craft fair, selling my Designer Drug jewelry collection studded with pills – a metaphor to protest that health care in this country should not be a luxury item. I create and sell this jewelry to pay off enormous medical debts and post-cancer follow-up medical bills.   I wear this jewelry in my health care/insurance reform activism, at the local, state and national level. I have shared my Blue Cross under-insurance woes in testimonies before the California Assembly and Senate Health Committees, spoken at rallies, and have been profiled in the L.A. Times, Consumer Reports and on NPR’s Morning Edition.