Max Chavez, a University of New Mexico Hospital cancer patient, and his wife, Beth, work on art projects. Chavez makes greeting cards and says the art projects give him "something to do creatively that I wasn't doing because I was pretty depressed."
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Chavez, with his wife and artist Catherine Veblen, says he has continued with his artwork even after returning home from the hospital.
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Patricia Repar, director of the University of New Mexico Hospital's Arts-in-Medicine program, works with a patient at a facility in South Africa. The UNM program collaborates internationally with the University of Cape Town's School of Medicine, according to its website.
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Patients at the University of New Mexico Hospital program created this artwork.
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This artwork was created by patients at the University of New Mexico.
