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Artist Gives Back To Boys & Girls Club
September 22,
2004
GILBERT, ARIZONA--The following five paragraphs are excerpts from a
story in Wednesday's Arizona Republic:
All Brian Schwartz needed were a sharpened pencil and people who believed in him.
Today, the 22-year-old Gilbert artist is somewhat of a celebrity at the Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley. Children gather around the table to watch him sketch popular cartoon characters like Mickey, Donald or his all-time favorite, Bugs Bunny. Brian smiles when he underlines his signature.
His next project for the Boys & Girls Club is an indoor mural for the kids. Art, Brian said, is his way of giving back to a place that accepted him with "an open heart and clasping hand."
Brian, who was diagnosed with autism at age 3, talks about his many friends at the Boys & Girls Club in Gilbert.
This is amazing, his mother Tracy, said, because when Brian was 18 months old, doctors didn't think he'd ever speak clearly.
Entire article:
"Boys & Girls
Club pal" (Arizona Republic)
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