Local artist gives elementary students in life, art

By Randy Wyrick

Local artist Dawn Beacon spent a morning with Stone Creek Charter School students, helping them understand that art is pretty much creating something where there wasn’t anything quite like it before.In this case, a bunch of words printed on small pieces of paper were piled in the middle of their tables. The kids picked two words each, and drew whatever they had.It’s like life.“You never know what you’re going to get,” Beacon said.Unlike life, it doesn’t really matter what you get because there’s no wrong answer.“Everything you draw is right,” Beacon told the students.Dominick Macias got “grumpy” and “lion,” which …

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