Art studios painting new lives

  Art serves as an outlet for many. For participants in ArtWorks, an art program for adults with developmental disabilities located just off of the University of Arizona campus, the work that they create provides new opportunities for their voices to be heard. With each stroke of a paintbrush, dreams are shared; each mixed media…

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‘I had a secret’: Wilbur and the clandestine world of college mascots (With ASNS Highlight Video)

  [Above video: ASNS Highlight anchor Jade Nunes interviews Forrest Gmitro, former Wilbur. Production by Jade Nunes and Stephanie Casanova] *** There are lots of secret communities: Skull and Bones, the legendary Freemasons,  the Knights Templar, the alleged Illuminati. Me, I belonged to one. My fellow members in this highly cloaked society have names that sound…

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