Kaziah Hancock: Portraits Of The Fallen

by: Chris LeJeune

Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 12:04:56 PM EST


Kaziah Hancock is a Utah artist who paints portraits of fallen American heroes.  She was driving home in early 2003 and heard the story on the radio of a fallen soldier from Utah.  It was at that point she decided she would do a portrait of every fallen soldier.  Of course, at the time we had a total of about eighty casualties. At the time it was still supposed to be a very short war.


"At the time, we had only been in Iraq for a short while, and we had lost 80 people," she said. "We were still expecting a short war."

Hancock called a friend who owns an art gallery that regularly features her work and who had several "connections."

"I told her I wanted to do a portrait for the families of the soldiers killed, and my friend said, 'Those from Utah?' I thought for about 15 seconds," she recalled. "And I said, 'No.' Is the one from Texas any less important to me? Or the one from New York? I told her I wanted to do them all. I wanted to paint the portraits for free, and ship ... all of them."

Portraits of America's Fallen


"After (painting) 33 of them, I got the idea to form a non-profit (organization) and people could express their patriotism, donate to this cause, and even get a tax deduction. It's mostly the average person who has contributed to the memory of our service people."

The organization she founded is called Project Compassion, Hancock said.

 
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