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Kaziah Paintings on Exhibit in Berkeley, CA
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09/14/2009
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September 23rd through September 27th. Berkeley, CA. In conjunction with the premiere of the documentary “Kaziah The Goat Woman” on September 26th at the Berkeley Video and Film Festival, and for the first time on the West Coast, a powerful collection of Kaziah’s original oil paintings, from portraits to landscapes, will be on exhibit at the Subterranean arthouse, 2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA. A majority of the proceeds from the sale of the paintings will benefit Project Compassion. For more information visit: http://www.kaziahthedocumentary.com
Kaziah Wins XO Award for Project Compassion
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09/13/2009
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Kirton & McConkie XO Awards have recognized Kaziah's extraordinary acts of kindness. Check out http://www.luminpublishing.com/xo/2009-04-KaziahHancock.html for more details.
Project Compassion Receives VFW’s 2007 Gold Medal of Merit
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02/15/2007
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MANTI, UTAH (February 15, 2007) — Project Compassion (www.heropaintings.com), a humanitarian organization which provides gallery-quality oil portraits of fallen Americans in uniform to their next of kin at no cost, announced today that the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) has awarded its Commander-in-Chief’s Gold Medal of Merit Award for 2007 to Project Compassion. Stated the VFW’s letter notifying Project Compassion of this honor: “This award is presented to individuals to recognize exceptional service rendered to their country, community and mankind on a national or intertational level.”
Press Release
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05/05/2005
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U.S. Military Partners Project compassion for inclusion in cascualty kits. Department of Defense, Armed Services Endorse Program offering Gallery-Quality Oil portraits of fallen heros to families; All families to be contacted.
Face to face with the fallen
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10/07/2004
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Julie Cawley Hanson remembers making the trip to see the nearly finished portrait
of her brother, Marine Staff Sgt. James W. Cawley, in Kaziah Hancock's studio.
Along with Cawley's wife, Miyuki, and two aunts, she wanted to see the painting
the Manti artist had offered to do for free when she heard Cawley had been killed
in the Iraq war. "It was just a sweet experience. The light was coming in through
the window on his face and we just couldn't believe...
http://www.sltrib.com/search
Woman paints pictures of dead soldiers
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09/28/2004
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Manti artist Kaziah Hancock compares her compassion to a bottomless well
to explain how she's able to complete painting after painting of U.S. soldiers.
killed in Iraq and still remain upbeat. One person told Hancock that if their
house were on fire, her painting would be the first thing they would save.
http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=35869
Special report: Portrait of courage
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05/07/2003
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Utah artist Kaziah Hancock is so moved by the sacrifices of American lives
during the war in Iraq that she is determined to pay tribute, through her work,
to each one of those men and women who lost their lives.
http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=26688
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