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Pro animators, cartoonists, & illustrators helping kids facing illness and home-life challenges to learn new art skills. 501(c)3

09/25/2026

We threw a pre-Halloween party with the kids at Bellevue Hospital! 🎃 A dozen kids decorated masks and drew Draculas, goblins, and pumpkins while rocking out to some spooky tunes.

So grateful to our Event Director, Micheline Hess, for coordinating and leading this spooctacular time. And to our fearless volunteers: Jason Chatfield, Eleanor Rahim, and Timothy Savage for sharing their terribly good talents.

09/04/2026

Some more sweet pics from this year’s Reuben Awards! 🏆 We’re very proud of the Ink Well Kids volunteers who were honored this year, and always so grateful to be part of this incredibly talented and kind community.

Next year's Reubens and The National Cartoonists Society Conference is in San Diego, August 12–14.

08/28/2026

Such a special day with the children receiving care at St. Mary's Healthcare System for Children! Both artists and kids drew portraits of each other back and forth, filling in colors and shapes, inspired by the brilliant walls of our music and rec room surroundings.

Enormous thanks to our trusty trio of volunteers: Timothy Savage, Ray Alma Illustration, and Marty Macaluso with special gratitude to Tim who always coordinates our St. Mary's events with such care. 💗

Wishing all the kids a very happy last few days of summer. Can't wait to join up for more creative fun in the fall.

08/11/2026

Huge congratulations to all those honored at the The National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards including our very own Ink Wellers:
⭐️ Pedro Delgado - Art for Animated Media

⭐️ Jason Chatfield - Book Illustration

⭐️ Adrian Sinnott accepting The Gold Key on behalf of The Berndt Toast Gang

⭐️ Ed Steckley - The Silver T-Square Award

Pedro Delgado Jason Chatfield Adrian C. Sinnott Ed Steckley

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Credit goes to Nate Fakes for the pics and clips!

08/06/2026

So proud to celebrate 20 YEARS of Ink Well Kids!!!! Many wonderful volunteers who’ve been with us from day one came out to join our fantastic new crew and partner coordinators like Laurina and Tifara from Bellevue Hospital. Event Directors, Timothy Savage, Lisa LaBracio, and Micheline Hess said a few words as well as our Founder and Executive Director, Elizabeth Winter. It was an incredible chance to look back on all the special times meaningful work for the children we serve.

Most meaningful of all is just knowing that together we have brought smiles, laughter, and new arts skills to beautiful kids who deserve all the attention and encouragement in the world.

Thanks again to every volunteer, donor, and all our hospital and foster care center partners, for making this such a special journey these past two decades.

Also want to send a shout out to the great The Gem Saloon for letting us roost in your awesome upper level. Molly and Sarah, you guys are the best 🙂

07/24/2026

Can't believe it's been 20 YEARS!!! Looking through all the sweet photos of our very first days bringing professional animators, cartoonists, and illustrators together with children at health and foster care centers and feeling honored to have shared so many meaningful moments. ❤️

Can't wait to celebrate tomorrow night with our volunteers, donors, and friends! See you soon, Ink Wellers! And thank you so much for sharing your time and talents with the Ink Well Kids all these many years.

07/19/2026

How to make a clay hibiscus grow: sun showers, pistil power, and pollinator kisses.

Thanks again to Lisa LaBracio and the whole Ink Well Kids crew for this special day: Elana Amity, Andrea D'Aaquino, Bil Donovan Stefano Imbert, and Timothy Savage. And huge gratitude to Blick Art Materials for supporting all our free activities with children at hospitals and foster care centers through donated art supplies!! 💝

See you again soon, New Alternatives for Children. You got it growin' on! 💪🌻

07/15/2026

Some behind the scenes of our phenomenal day, teaching New Alternatives for Children kids about claymation! Thanks to Lisa LaBracio and volunteers for planting seeds of creativity that will grow for years to come! 🪴🌷🌻

Timothy Savage Bil Donovan Elana Amity Stefano Imbert

07/12/2026

Catching up on a few of our recent events... this spring, guru, Lisa LaBracio, showed the New Alternatives for Children kids sculpting and animation tips and in no time we had a garden full of poppies, pollinators, peacocks, and even panthers! Check out this montage of their works and we'll share some behind the scenes next!

Huge thanks to our volunteers, Elana Amity, Andrea D'Aquino, Bil Donovan, Stefano Imbert, and Timothy Savage and to the crafty crew at NAC for helping to make these great ideas bloom.

04/12/2026

The Ink Well Kids crew was at Bellevue Hospital to commence a March of the Robots! Using sticky shapes, reflective paper, a smattering of googly eyes, and heaps of imagination, the kids designed their very own rad robot characters. One boy announced, "I made a Medical Robot that helps people!" 🤖

Led by Event Director Micheline Hess our volunteers, Mike Burns, Joan Chiverton, and Timothy Savage, had a blast assisting the kids with their designs.

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http://inkwellkids.org/

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