You’ll be motivated to flex your confidence muscle with this candy mosaic! Bold and intellectual journalist and author Katie Couric beautifully re-invents the cultural icon, Rosie the Riveter. The rich colors and the powerful subject matter combined with the strength and moxie of both of these women will inspire anyone in any setting.
Artist: Katie Couric
Title: Dylan’s Candy Bar Sweet 16 Candy Mosaic Created By Katie Couric
Year created: 2017
Medium: Candy
Height (inches): 31
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: back
Width (inches): 23
Depth (inches): 2
This piece is framed.
Description of piece: Crafted with care using M&Ms, Jelly Beans, Sixlets, Chocolate Covered Sunflower Seeds and a Gummy Lip from Dylan’s Candy Bar’s Color Your World.
Katie Couric is an award-winning journalist, cancer advocate and New York Times bestselling author. She is a co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer. Since it was launched in 2008, over $500 million has been raised to support its collaborative research programs. She created an independent production company, Katie Couric Media, in 2015 where she is actively producing a number of scripted and unscripted projects, including an eponymous podcast for Stitcher. Couric’s documentaries include: Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric, for National Geographic; Under the Gun, which aired on EPIX; and Fed Up, which looks at the roots of the obesity epidemic. Couric is partnering with National Geographic on a six part documentary series that will take a deep dive into the revolutionary changes and major social issues of our time. In 2006, Couric became the first woman at the helm of the evening news cast as solo anchor of CBS Evening News. Couric joined CBS News after a 15-year run as co-anchor of NBC’s Today Show. Couric recently served as the Global News Anchor for Yahoo! News. Her daytime talk show, which was syndicated by ABC Disney, aired from 2012 to 2014 and averaged 2 million viewers daily.
Proceeds from the sale of this art will benefit Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), which raises funds to accelerate the pace of research to get new therapies to patients quickly and save lives now. SU2C, a division of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, was established in 2008 by film and media leaders who utilize the industry's resources to engage the public in supporting a new, collaborative model of cancer research, and to increase awareness about cancer prevention as well as progress being made in the fight against the disease.
The Candy Mosaic Charity Auction is administered by Dylan's Candy BarN and CharityBuzz. Proceeds benefiting the individual charities will be distributed by Dylan's Candy BarN. Dylan's Candy BarN is an exempt organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.