Thank you for joining us for episode 431 of Live Happy Now.

This week, we're going to tell you how one happy activist is brightening the lives of children

and their parents, one piece of art at a time.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking with Nancy Giamarko, a musician who

rediscovered her love of art during the pandemic. As you're about to hear, she started enhancing

children's simple drawings just for fun, and that led to her creating the Joanne Project,

which she named after her late mother. She's here to tell us what it is, what she does, and why it's so important to celebrate

the artwork of children.

Let's have a listen.

Nancy, thank you for being on Live Happy Now.

Thank you for having me.

I'm thrilled to be here.

This is great.

This is part of our happy activist segments.

We really enjoy being able to share with our audience

what other people are doing to kind of bring light into the world. And I love what you

are doing with the Joanne Project. So before we talk about it, I guess I should have you explain

what the Joanne Project is. Well, it is a program where I kind of tripped into it by accident.

I take children's line art and I enhance it and add to the drawings and color it and then

send it back to the parent or grandparent.

And it all happened weirdly with a Facebook post by a friend of mine and I saw her little

kid's artwork and I said, can I do something with that? She said, of course. And so that little girl

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