3rd Annual Pink Diva Style Show steal the runway to benefit Breast Friends of the CBWF<\/a><\/p>\nThe event was hosted by the Corpus Christi Institute of Cosmetic & Plastic Surgery, led by Dr. Vijay Bindingnavele, in partnership with the nonprofit Esperanza de Tejas. The goal? To inspire students to use art as a platform for raising awareness about breast cancer and breast reconstruction.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just beautiful out here, you know,\u201d Dr. Bindingnavele said. \u201cI\u2019ll tell you, we have some pretty phenomenal artists in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Students didn\u2019t just show up to create\u2014they walked away with hundreds of dollars in scholarships for their work.<\/p>\n
One participant explained why the contest was more than just paint on canvas.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot all children express themselves in words,\u201d Dr. Bindingnavele explained. \u201cMany of them express themselves with actions, music, and some express themselves through art, and so this competition was a way for them to exercise that\u2014that way of expression, expression through art.\u201d<\/p>\n
For one young artist, nature provided the spark.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy inspiration was the beautiful outside, how it\u2019s so calm, and then the birds and the trees,\u201d Ella Mulic said, standing beside her piece.<\/p>\n
Another student leaned into symbolism to make a bold statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cI noticed that, um, a lot of the themes with them was about strength,\u201d Jaelee Flores said. \u201cAnd I thought, well, what better animal is about strength than tigers? And, um, I just thought it’d be really great to include it in the piece.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though the art varied in style and message, the underlying theme was clear: strength, healing, and hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students used art to spotlight breast cancer awareness and reconstruction during the \u201cAwareness Through Art\u201d contest hosted in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-6141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}