Painter raises awareness, money for cancer patients
By Melissa Merli
Sunday April 27, 2008
John Dixon
Suzanne Keith Loechl stands in front of 'Messengers,' a mural she is working to complete for the Mills Breast Cancer Institute, at her studio in Champaign.
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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