Musicians, including Willie Nelson, add to Austin mom’s Art Bra piece
“How do you top a bra made out a thousand paper cranes you and your children folded for months?” That was a question that kept coming back to Lauren Ward, who has participated in four previous Art Bra Austin events in support of the Breast Cancer Resource Center.
For the annual event, which is Saturday, women who have or have had breast cancer model bras that are the canvas for amazing artwork made by local artists, and sometimes the models themselves. The bras are auctioned to support the Breast Cancer Resource Center, which helps support women diagnosed with breast cancer.
Even though Ward had 25 friends and family members cheering for her as she walked the runway in her creation, the exciting thing for Ward was that her piece was bought by a stranger. Someone said, “This is a piece of art, I want it,” Ward says of the experience. “It’s one of the first times I absolutely felt like an artist.”
She knew she wanted to raise the bar again for 2017.