City of Hope Leads OC Arts Initiative

City of Hope Orange County this month unveiled a street arts initiative to promote expressions of hope and resilience in the region.
 
The cancer-focused health system partnered with the Orange County Health Care Agency and other local businesses and commissioned more than 70 artists affected by cancer to create local artwork.
 
“City of Hope is known for its healing of the whole person,” Annette Walker, chief executive of City of Hope Orange County, told the Business Journal.
 
“When someone gets cancer, the whole family gets cancer. We balance extraordinary science with the needs of the person and the family, making sure compassion and hope is not ever forgotten.”

Street art will appear at the Disneyland Resort, Anaheim Convention Center and Soka University vaccine super points of dispensing, in addition to partnering sites such as John Wayne Airport and Orange County Great Park.
 
“We’ve said from the first day, City of Hope is coming to Orange County to be part of the community,” Walker added.  

“We’re coming as a partner, a neighbor, and we saw this as an incredible opportunity to reach out to the community and share that we’re so excited for what we’re bringing to OC.”
 
City of Hope, a Duarte-based organization, is building a $1 billion cancer care network in Irvine.
 
It launched the first of several planned clinics in Newport Beach last January.
 
It expects to open its comprehensive cancer center in 2022 and its specialty cancer hospital in 2025, both of which are being built at Irvine’s Great Park Neighborhoods in collaboration with FivePoint Holdings LLC.