Painter raises awareness, money for cancer patients

After a good friend received her second diagnosis of breast cancer nearly seven years ago, Champaign artist Suzanne Keith Loechl knew she had to do something to help.

Having always wanted her art to have meaning, she began etching into her paintings the words and stories of women confronting cancer. Later she had the idea to cut the word paintings on tile into pendants and smaller tiles.

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