One window at a time

“One of the mothers of a girl I painted with told me, ‘I haven’t seen that smile on my daughter’s face in a long time.'”

Rachel Howard, a research technician at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and an artist, is painting the North Carolina Children’s Hospital with holiday spirit one window at a time.

Howard calls her project “Paint with Purpose” and plans to decorate 72 windows, which include all the individual children’s rooms and the pediatric playroom, with winter scenes. She’s also getting suggestions from the children, which has resulted in princesses, superheroes and sports teams being featured on individual windows.

See some of the images.

“It’s been very interactive,” Howard said. “I have enjoyed taking requests from the kids, and sometimes they, too, like to grab a brush and help out.”

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Rachel Howard is donating her time and talents to Paint with Purpose. Her art supplies were paid for by UNC faculty and staff in pharmacy and medicine.

The Eshelman Institute for Innovation is made possible by a $100 million gift from Fred Eshelman to accelerate the creation and development of ideas leading to discoveries and transformative changes in education, research and health care. To learn more about the EII’s impact, visit unceii.org/impact.

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