She recently conducted a workshop titled “The Art of Gratefulness,” at the Wellness Community – Delaware in Rehoboth Beach, to help participants construct stationery featuring her collection of inspiring photographs called Sand Scripts, Montague’s signature line of photos of words written in sand.

Montague became involved with the organization during an internship this semester for her human services degree.

“I chose the Wellness Community for my internship because I thought the idea of cancer support was really interesting,” said Montague, who has had family members deal with cancer.

“I never realized there is so much support available; it is a wonderful organization.”

According to its website, The Wellness Community - Delaware is dedicated to helping people with cancer and their loved ones by providing professionally led programs of emotional support, education and hope as an integral part of conventional medical treatment.

“I thought that would be perfect timing with the season of giving thanks and maintaining vital lifelines during the holidays, whether people are able to be together or not,” said Montague. “Participants choose a person and an image that represents that person whether it is their mother, daughter, niece, neighbor or someone who just took them to the doctor, treatment, or grocery store – just to thank them or reach out and make that connection.”

“What made this workshop special is that in addition to the human services skills Pam has learned here at Delaware Tech, she used skills that she had brought with her – the creativity, the artwork – to reach out and engage their [the Wellness Community’s] clients and for those clients to turn around and give thanks to the people who have supported them,” said Dr. T.J. Mumford, human services department chairman. “So it is a very nice sense of thanksgiving all the way around for the clients to be able to thank those that have supported them.”