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Featured Artist

Sheila

What a lovely surprise to be included as a Featured Artist in the Art in Giving Newsletter Fall 2025! You can read the newsletter at www.artingiving.com and also see the gallery page featuring my paintings as well as the work of the charitable foundation’s other artists.

Art in Giving raises funds for childhood cancer research through the sale of fine arts.

Talented artists exhibit their work with Art in Giving and fifty percent of the purchase price of their artwork sold goes directly to talented cancer researchers working on breakthrough ideas to identify causes of and cures for brain tumors and gliomas. 

 To date, Art in Giving has granted $1.4 million in seed funding to researchers at Stanford University Medical School, Yale University School of Medicine, Barrow Neurological Institute, University of Pennsylvania, The Broad Institute, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Mass General Hospital, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

Our business model increases the amount of money targeted for pediatric cancer research, a severely underfunded area.

  • People buy from us rather than a commercial gallery, and still make donations to their favorite charities
  • Interior designers purchase art for their clients while supporting innovative research
  • Companies purchase art using facility management and gift, not philanthropy, budgets

 With Art in Giving, children with cancer and their families, pediatric cancer researchers, artists, art enthusiasts, and corporations all benefit.  

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Featured Artist: Sheila Billings

This 77′ x 17′ mural is located on the Swampscott Department of Public Works building at 200 Paradise Road, Swampscott — Rte. 1A. The mascot for Swampscott is Big Blue, and this is the biggest, bluest thing I could think of to represent
the Town! The mural was inspired by a woodblock by Japanese artist, Hokusai. The best part was hiding my Swampscott granddaughters’ names in the sea foam! And inspiring the auto mechanic next to the DPW to spruce up his building too!” Sheila Billingspage4image1094795504page4image1094796336page4image1094797168

Please visit Sheila Billings web page to learn more about her art pieces.page4image1094807024

Thank you for your support for Art in Giving for The Rachel Molly Markoff Foundation

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Art in Giving Gallery

Sheila

The Art in Giving logo is based on a drawing Rachel Molly Markoff drew during one of her many visits to the Dana Farber and the Jimmy Fund Clinic.

Rachel was diagnosed with a brain tumor on January 16, 1992. She passed away on October 17, 1992, one week after her ninth birthday.

Rachel embraced life and loved her twin sister, Audrey. To me, the flowers and the sun in the logo represent the hope for all other children and their families affected by cancer.

—ELIANE MARKOFF
   FOUNDER, ART IN GIVING

I am so proud that another of my paintings has been accepted into the Art in Giving online gallery. Art in Giving is a wonderful charitable foundation that has taken in more than $2.5 million by promoting the work of artists who work in a variety of styles and mediums. Please visit their website, www.artingiving.com then click “View our Gallery”. You can scroll down to my name, but please visit the galleries of all the talented artists on the site.

Thanks!

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Art in Giving Exhibit

Sheila

I am delighted that four of my paintings have been included in the Gallery Art in Giving exhibit at the BioMed Realty lobby, located at 210 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sales of the paintings in this showing and also many more paintings in the online gallery at www.artingiving.com support pediatric cancer research. Since 1999, Art in Giving has granted nearly $2.5 million for basic research, while also supporting the work of accomplished local artists.

The paintings I have included in this exhibit reflect my love of the sights I have enjoyed my whole life living in the Boston area. There is so much to see in this great city, towering skyscrapers, antique architecture, sweeping ocean views, and many iconic sights. Here are the paintings currently at BioMed Realty lobby:

Boston Swan Boats, acrylic, 36″ x 36″ framed, was inspired by my many visits and photos through the years of this lovely spot. There is nothing more peaceful on a summer day

Three Boston Bridges, acrylic on deep stretched canvas, 48″ x 36″, was inspired by countless drives (and long stops in traffic which give me a chance to snap photos) into and out of Boston. Graceful bridges grab my attention every time.

One early spring day, I took a trip to the Boston Public Library to watch the NPR show being broadcasted. Walking back to the train station, I took a photo of these interesting shapes, shadows, and reflections and used it to inform this painting, Copley Square Skyline: acrylic, 43″ x 30″ framed.

Skyline Boston, acrylic, 28″ x 40″ framed, was the lucky fruit of a LONG traffic jam. Frustrating, but it gave me a chance to admire the magnificent view and shoot some reference photos through my windshield! This painting was done by mixing only 3 colors: titanium white, ultramarine blue, and burnt sepia.