A talented young artist by the name of Ashley Shaffer created “Hope” the beautiful artwork you see here. Ashley has shared her art as part of our Epilepsy Stigma Awareness Month.
Creating Hope
Ashley was inspired to create this beautiful multi-media piece titled, “Hope” (2013) and has dedicated the piece to inspire people with epilepsy.
“I wanted to show my support for people living with epilepsy using purple, which is the color for Epilepsy Awareness. In creating the piece, I just wanted to pour more heart-soft colors in the symbol because it represents a lot of meanings such as love, support, caring, strong, growth, and everything which is hope and timeless,” said Ashley Shaffer.
Ashley is a creative woman who also happens to be deaf. She studied at National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, and has been recognized for her artwork by the Dyer Arts Center. To see more of her work visit her page The Artwork of Ashley Shaffer.
And in Ashley’s words, “Believe More, Hope More!”
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Jessica Keenan Smith is a patient advocate and epilepsy community leader with more than 15 years of experience. As Founder and CEO of Living Well With Epilepsy and Executive Director of ASENT she bridges the gap between the scientific and patient communities, with a particular focus on the needs of the epilepsies. Jessica Keenan Smith is Founder and CEO of Living Well With Epilepsy, an award winning online resource for people affected by epilepsy to share stories and access in-depth information on the disease. Since 2009, Living Well With Epilepsy (https://livingwellwithepilepsy.com) has been featured in Forbes, Wired, NBC, NPR and the cover story of Epilepsy Advocate Magazine and has partnered with companies such as UCB, Lundbeck, Sunovion, Eisai, and more. Ms. Smith is also the Executive Director of the American Society for Experimental Neurotherapeutics (ASENT) (https://asent.org), an organization that brings together leaders from industry, academia, government and advocacy who are engaged in bringing drugs and devices to market across all neurologic disease states. In this role she is responsible for leading a successful scientific journal and annual scientific conference with speakers from all over the world.
We had contacted Ashley a few months back after seeing her beautiful artwork. We were interested to find out if she could create a piece of artwork for our campaign “Livy’s Hope For A Cure” and she created this HOPE HEART after learning about our daughter, Livy, and about how epilepsy affects her. It is a beautiful piece and I am so happy that she was inspired to create it. Thank you for sharing it with everyone!
Allison
We had contacted Ashley a few months back after seeing her beautiful artwork. We were interested to find out if she could create a piece of artwork for our campaign “Livy’s Hope For A Cure” and she created this HOPE HEART after learning about our daughter, Livy, and about how epilepsy affects her. It is a beautiful piece and I am so happy that she was inspired to create it. Thank you for sharing it with everyone!
Allison