Zot Artz Arts For All

The World-Herald
Apr. 11, 2003



Coloring way outside the lines


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Students from Aldrich Elementry School helped special-needs kids from the Children's Respite Care Center creat murals Thursday as part of the Arts for All program. The five murals, each 50 feet by 16 feet, will be displayed around Omaha in doctor's offices and in Wal-Mart. Kyler Borchers, middle right, pushes a special painting cart with help from Angel Sleder, 9, top, and Alexa Moyer, 10, bottom. Guin Miles, 4 below, uses a similar device for chalk design.
 
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Rachel Hall, 11, a fifth-grader at Bess Streeter Aldrich Elementary School in the Millard Public Schools, helps Anthony Clark, 6, from the Children's Respite Care Center paint shapes on a mural Friday. The 50-by-80-foot artwork, designed by Dwayne Szot, is part of the "Arts for All" program, rich allows medically fragile children to do art projects with the help of specially adapted equipment.