Melissa Fronczek

Melissa Fronczek is a sophomore at Indiana University majoring in media advertising, specializing in both public relations and graphic communication, and minoring in business and Spanish. In her free time, she enjoys listening to Fleetwood Mac, writing for her blog, bingeing on Grey’s Anatomy, making smoothies, and catching up on the news. You can find her on LinkedIn here and on Instagram here. If you need to contact her directly, she can be reached at mfroncze@iu.edu.



Projects by Melissa Fronczek

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Large Art

On Saturday, November 17, art-lovers and artists alike came together for the last installment of Dyer Arts Visionaries’ tryptic show Small Medium Large. Dyer Arts Visionaries (DAVe) sponsors themed art shows, which allows artists to all take their unique approaches to the theme.

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Magazine Design

Bloomington Walks to End Alzheimer’s

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A sizable crowd gathers at City Hall Plaza in downtown Bloomington on a sunny mid-September afternoon. Children play games, dogs scamper around excitedly, and volunteers hand out colorful flower-shaped pinwheels. Bright purple, blue, yellow, and orange pinwheels litter the plaza as a woman rallies the mass of people. It is the 2018 Bloomington Walk to End Alzheimer’s. This event occurs annually in more than six hundred communities nationwide, making it the world’s largest fundraising event for Alzheimer’s care, support, and research.

Lois with Flowers
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Bloomington Walks to End Alzheimer’s

The purple welcome banner indicates where participants in the 2018 Bloomington Walk to End Alzheimer’s should gather. The event took place on Sunday, September 16, and it began at City Hall Plaza and later continued onto the B-Line Trail.
Flower-shaped pinwheels make up a “promise garden,” each color representing different connections to Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Purple signifies someone who has lost someone to the disease, blue signifies someone who is living with the disease, yellow signifies someone who is caring for a person with the disease, and orange signifies someone who is simply showing solidarity for the cause.
Lois Sauder, who has Alzheimer’s herself, proudly holds up her yellow, blue, and orange pinwheels. After being diagnosed about twelve years ago, Lois said that she’s managing.
Virgil Sauder, Lois’ son, claps during the Walk’s opening ceremony, while Lois scans the expansive crowd. He said that it was surreal when he found out about his mother’s diagnosis, and he had to “grow with the idea of it.”
People raise their colorful pinwheels during the opening ceremony. Natalie Sutton, the chapter executive for the Greater Indiana Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, said, “Most families have a story or connection with this mission and this disease. [The] people here want to see a cure.”
Lois and her son begin the one-mile march.
Lois and her husband John Sauder, who defiantly holds up his yellow caregiver pinwheel, join other participants during the trek. John kept the pinwheel raised high for the entirety of the event.
John touches his pinwheel to the pinwheel of support group leader Amanda Mosier as they pass each other, the Sauders heading back to City Hall Plaza and Mosier approaching the turn-around point. Lois said that she has “the best support group there is,” especially thanks to Mosier and the other facilitator.
The Sauders take a break in front of one of many murals on the B-Line Trail, which Walk participants got onto behind City Hall.
Shai, one of the members of Lois’ support group, catches up to Lois during the Walk. Lois meets with this support group twice a month, once as a group talk therapy session and another time as a group outing.
Participants in the Walk, many coming as families, continue the march. There were close to seven hundred participants this year, not including day-of volunteers and planning committee members.
Three student volunteers representing the Bloomington High School South National Honor Society cheer participants on as they complete the walk. Although the 2018 Walk is over, next year’s Walk is already being planned.

A sizable crowd gathers at City Hall Plaza in downtown Bloomington on a sunny mid-September afternoon. Children play games, dogs scamper around excitedly, and volunteers hand out colorful flower-shaped pinwheels. Bright purple, blue, yellow, and orange pinwheels litter the plaza as a woman rallies the mass of people. It is the 2018 Bloomington Walk to End Alzheimer’s. This event occurs annually in more than six hundred communities nationwide, making it the world’s largest fundraising event for Alzheimer’s care, support, and research.

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