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NCSA: Navigating Cancer with Science and art

NCSA develops and supports collaborations between professional artists and scientists that empower multidisciplinary approaches to the discovery of novel ways to communicate cancer to diverse communities.


NCSA has its origins at the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center where Pamela Winfrey developed an exciting series of projects collecting titled "The C-Word."


Our members are made up of professional artists, scientists, and researchers who are eager to create projects with people outside of their own disciplines. 

Target by Michael Torlen

Breast Cancer Art

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Erin McGee Ferrell

Pirate Crew Paper Dolls

Professional Oil Painter, Erin McGee Ferrell, painted on large canvas on the streets of Philadelphia, Portland Maine, DC, and in Ecuador. Always interested in the impact of Art in Hospitals, she advocated for interior decorating improvements for patients and researches the effect of art and a live artist painting in a chemotherapy treatment facility.


Erin McGee Ferrell is raising money to create simplified breast cancer  educational materials to help patients going through treatment. Ms.  Mastectomy, Ms Chemotherapy and Ms. Radiation are all crew members of the Pirate Crew Paper Doll Collection. 


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Barbie has cancer: Love it or hate it?

After finishing Breast Cancer Treatment, Artist Erin McGee Ferrell had  PTSD. Two years after being bald, poked and prodded, Ferrell felt she  had to make these humorous and shocking stop motion videos. Viewers  either absolutely love or fiercely hate the series. Explore questions of  why Ferrell needed to create and why the extreme disparity in  reactions. 

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