Vibrant Client Artwork Featured on Cover of Sights for Hope’s 2024 Impact Report

By Sights for Hope Team |
Painting of a vibrant bird sitting among purple flowers and green foliage to convey a sense of nature and growth, as shown on the cover of Sights for Hope's 2024 Impact Report.

Artwork from Sights for Hope client Mary Ellen Stoyanov was chosen as the cover of the organization’s 2024 Impact Report, which was released this week.

The cover shows Stoyanov’s painting of a vibrant bird sitting among purple flowers and green foliage to convey a sense of nature and growth. This is the second straight year that Sights for Hope used art from its clients for its annual report. The 2023 report featured a painting by children in its Camp I CAN! summer program.

Sights for Hope’s 2024 Impact Report highlights the organization’s work to help its clients and patients overcome the challenges of visual impairments and blindness and to promote healthy eyesight in its communities.

“The use of client art has given our annual reports to stakeholders a specific flair and we hope that it can become a long-term tradition,” said Dennis Zehner, Executive Director and CEO of Sights for Hope. “It also provides an opportunity to showcase one of the many talents our clients possess. When they work with us, they learn there is very little they cannot do with confidence and the mindset to approach things differently.”

An illustrated PDF file and an accessible text file of the 2024 Impact Report can be downloaded at SightsforHope.org/Reports. Braille copies also are available upon request.

Sights for Hope has empowered people to conquer and prevent the challenges of visual impairments and blindness since 1928. Sights for Hope’s services strengthen skills, deliver supports, champion solutions, and build self-confidence for its clients, its patients, and the people in its communities. Founded from a challenge made by Helen Keller, Sights for Hope is proud to carry that tradition forward in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley and Monroe County. Sights for Hope is a member of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind (PAB) and the VisionServe Alliance.

Image: Painting of a vibrant bird sitting among purple flowers and green foliage to convey a sense of nature and growth, as shown on the cover of Sights for Hope’s 2024 Impact Report.