A Minnesota artist is on a mission to help breast cancer survivors.

After finishing graduate school just outside Chicago, Cheryl Rae Shohet moved to Waconia thinking she'd only be here for a couple years.

Then, she opened a quaint shop for artists.

"This just gives them a home to sell their work," she said. "Not everyone wants to sell their work at art fairs."

She became a staple of the community but wanted more.

"Really what I want my art to do is to have my art do more than pretty pictures and to have more of a purpose and helping others with it," Shohet said.

Roughly five years ago, Shohet learned the art of tattooing.

"I had a friend who had breast cancer and she was sharing her journey with me. I had not heard of tattoo being part of reconstruction for breast cancer survivors.

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