Art for Recovery holds quilt workshops in hospitals and community centers in the San Francisco Bay Area for men, women, children, friends and family members who have been touched by breast cancer. The program generously provides all the needed quilting materials, expertise, inspiration and enough volunteers so that each participant feels important. Each 12 inch square is made into a finished 8x8 foot quilt. In six years, over 42 quilts have been made. Art for Recovery quilts are displayed in the communities they were created, become part of a tour to raise breast cancer awareness, and can be seen at the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in San Francisco. 

Art for Recovery includes a nice webpage of instructions, and helpful tips, on how to create a quilt square. As Art for Recovery posts: "No artistic experience is necessary! Express what having breast cancer has been like for you or someone you love. Hope, sadness, illness as a teacher can all be expressed. You may write your full name, initials only, first name or no name, in small letters on your design." If you would like your quilt square to be included in one of Art for Recovery's quilts, they ask that you include a short paragraph, poem, or statement about your design and breast cancer experience. Complete information for mailing can be found at Art for Recovery Breast Cancer Quilts Project.