Creativity as a Lifeline
Living Canvas Foundation™ is building a movement where creativity fuels connection, community and cultural change. Through immersive programs and community partnerships, we create spaces for people to share stories, rediscover their voice and engage in creative practices that support well-being and belonging in collaboration with the communities we serve.
Expanding Access
At Living Canvas Foundation, we bring Arts and Healing where people already are — in schools, universities, hospitals, and community spaces. We sponsor workshops, support facilitators, and partner with aligned organizations to ensure our programs remain free and accessible to all.
Rooted in Los Angeles and expanding nationally, we go where the healing is needed most.
The Future of Arts + Healing
In celebration of Living Canvas Foundation's first year, The Future of Arts + Healing brings together artists, physicians, educators, and scientists who are asking the same question from different rooms: what happens when making art stops being a luxury and becomes part of how we heal, how we learn, how we build community?
This is an intimate evening — small group, real conversation — to mark one year of believing creativity is essential. And to look, together, at what's next.
Los Angeles | October 29, 2026
INTRODUCING OUR PANEL
​Erin Reeve, MD - Arts + Health
Palliative Care Physician & Musician
Associate Director, Center for Arts and Humanities, Cedars-Sinai​Mónica Medina , PhD - Arts + Science
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
Founder, Medina Lab​Lilit Sadoyan, PhD - Arts + Education
Art Historian & Gallery Educator, Getty Museum, Podcast Host of OMMM​Sheila Darcey - Arts + Community
Artist, Author & Founder, SketchPoetic and Living Canvas Foundation​Falguni Lakhani-Adams - Moderator
Emmy & Peabody Award-winning Executive Producer & Writer, Sari not Sari Productions
Partner Spotlight
What’s Happening
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OUR NEWEST FACILITATOR
EVENT HIGHLIGHT
We’re an Anthem Awards Finalist!
We’re thrilled to announce that Living Canvas Foundation has been named a Finalist for the 6th Annual Anthem Awards in Community Engagement — Education, Art & Culture!
Selected from more than 2,500 submissions worldwide, this recognition celebrates our vision and commitment to expanding access to Arts + Healing.
Help us bring home the Anthem Community Voice Award. Vote for Living Canvas Foundation by Oct 29!
Latest News
We are honored to be recognized as a nominee for the 2026 Global Arts Prize by The Global Arts Institute.
The Global Arts Prize celebrates artists and creative ventures spreadheading an innovative approach to the relevance of arts in our time. The prize is open to all arts and humanities initiatives leading innovative work, regardless of size, discipline, or stage of development. From emerging startups to established institutions, the Prize recognizes organizations redefining the relevance of arts in today’s society.
To everyone who has contributed their time, talents, resources, encouragement, trust, thank you. This recognition belongs to all of us.
Living Canvas Foundation is honored to share that our Founder will be speaking as an Innovator at the upcoming Young Women’s Career Conference at Girls Academic Leadership Academy (GALA) — the only public all-girls STEM college preparatory school in California.
At Living Canvas Foundation, we believe "Artists Are Leaders". Creativity is not separate from science, technology, engineering, or math. It is the spark that fuels innovation. It is the courage to imagine what does not yet exist.
We’re excited to encourage these young women to carve their own path to know they do not have to choose between logic and intuition, art and science. The future belongs to those who can integrate both.
Perhaps there is a future founder, engineer, artist, or changemaker in the audience today.
Our Company Ethos
At the Living Canvas Foundation™, we believe creativity is a lifeline that heals and connects. We are guided by inclusion, collaboration, cultural preservation, and integrity. Through the arts and healing practices, we foster resilience, amplify diverse voices, and honor every life as a living canvas.