ArtsWork

The Kax Herberger Center for Children + the Arts

iCreate

Led by ASU teaching artists, the iCreate project helps kids at Phoenix Children’s Hospital (PCH) bring their own artistic ideas to life. By utilizing computer technology, including digital music, images and photography, they create digital stories that they can share with their friends and families.

iCreate is collaboration between ArtsWork: the Kax Herberger Center for the Arts, a program of the ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at PCH. iCreate is made possible through the generous support of Bank of America.

View videos created by young people as a part of the iCreate project.

Background

ArtsWork: the Kax Herberger Center for Children and the Arts was founded in 1996 and unites ASU artists and scholars with community leaders in research and programs focused on children and the arts.

In 2007, ArtsWork received an endowment gift from Bank of America, which provides ongoing support for Phoenix-based youth arts projects, such as iCreate, through partnerships with ASU faculty, graduate students and Phoenix-area community organizations.

iCreate partners

PCH has provided hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and families since it was founded 25 years ago. Today, Phoenix Children's Hospital is one of the ten largest children's hospitals in the country and provides specialty care to patients throughout Arizona and the Southwest. The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders is the largest pediatric program of its kind in Arizona. Using a family-centered approach, the center provides comprehensive, personalized care to every hematology and oncology patient.