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Housing Authority offers weekly summer art classes for Gainesville youngsters
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Local artist Mary Hull, left, and retired art teacher Vivian Young, right rear, teach art to kids who may only have scarce access to it in and out of school. - photo by NAT GURLEY
Students lingered as long as possible to finish their final art project of the summer Friday at the last art class in the Gainesville Housing Authority’s Innovation Station on Davis Street in Gainesville, hosted by the Quinlan Visual Arts Center. This weekly art class is free and is designed for 13-14 year olds within the Authority’s public housing community. Over the course of the class, the goal is to teach students to create a variety of engaging projects like murals, outdoor sculptures, mosaics and paintings.