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Lily Yeh: Healing Our Broken Places Through Art

Lily Yeh: Healing Our Broken Places Through Art

Feb 22, 2015-- Art teacher Lily Yeh started an initiative that transformed an abandoned lot in inner-city north Philadelphia into an art park. It blossomed into the Village of Arts and Humanities, which has built more art parks and gardens, renovated abandoned homes, and created educational programs, art workshops, after-school programs, a youth theater, and joyful community celebrations. Now Lily's new organization, Barefoot Artists Inc., teaches residents and artists how to replicate the Village model in devastated communities around the world... (24955 reads)


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