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Laurence J. Peter once said “Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
Tehachapi's College Community Services (CCS)/Family Learning Center (Center) has discovered that art, too, is in the eye of the beholder and encourages its clients, via various methodologies (be it painting, stained glass, jewelry, hat creation or something else), to express themselves artistically as part of their recovery process.
And, to exhibit its clients' art efforts, the Center hosted its Second Annual Art Show on May 7. The show was titled, Inspiration From Recovery, Living the Dream.
“Art allows freedom of expression of what's locked inside,” shared Jeanne, known as Starr Rae in Tehachapi's art community.
She is proud of the fact that she's been regaining her mental health since 1987 and attributes some of her advances to painting.
“Painting, it's the first time I found hope and the freedom to be a normal person,”...
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