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this is the print Studio IAAI Community College in Prescot this is what a lot of
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us have come to call our second home it's where Maria Liam and I met Carol Kennedy I've known Carol uh probably for
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about 17 18 years she came into the class she was searching for things I can only describe it as a spiritual Quest
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and she responded immediately to the process of monoprinting Carol would walk in and just say you guys I am so happy
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to be here and she give everybody a hug and it was just a real good feeling this
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was someplace where nobody judged her nobody tried to take advantage of her we were all very supportive even though
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we're all artists who show our work um we never competed we Embrace each other my first semester of print making Carol
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was a lab assistant and she was a tremendous help she kind of got to know you and wanted to know what you wanted
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to do it wasn't just a matter of fulfilling the curricula she was more interested in your own personal
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experiences and how you could interpret that and bring it to your art and she just had a lot of energy she was a
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whirlwind I think in in many ways it was very therapeutic for her it gave her um
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a place to go where she could just really be herself and and it becomes a very meditative process it's almost an active
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meditation it puts you in that part of your brain where you're just not thinking about anything you're just
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responding seeing uh feeling and Carol took right to that so she just started Printing and she was in here constantly
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from that point on