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Finally an Artist!

Finally an Artist!

Feedback from Tammy Powell

My path to becoming an artist was thwarted, opposed, hindered and almost destroyed by the environment in which I was born into and lived for over 30 years. I grew up in a coal mining village in Western Pennsylvania. My parents offered no encouragement for me to be an artist. To them, being an artist was not a good choice of work to allow me to become financially independent. My only choice was to graduate high school and then go to work in the local sewing factory, which I did for a few years. …

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