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Sydney Joslin-Knapp, Brandi Dale, Tony Hoogsteden, Ray Graetz, Rosie Rodriguez, Tim Brown, and Whitney Taylor with the assistance and oversight of resident artist Katherine Mann and student artist Emily Burkman are creating large-scale paintings on paper and canvas with splashes of acrylic paint, patterns, block prints, and more.

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Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 9:37 AM
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Local teens partner with national artists

By Dave Larsen, Staff Writer


DAYTON — Katherine Mann is creating a wall-sized “abstract landscape” painting in collaboration with seven students from Dayton-area high schools.

“I never would have been able to create something like what’s up there right now from my own head,” said Mann, a painter from Baltimore, Md. “It had to come from all these other different voices having an equal partnership in creating this thing.”

Mann is producing the latest piece in her “Byzantine” series as part of the Blue Sky Project, an eight-week program that pairs five artists from across the U.S. with a total of 33 Dayton-area youth participants.

“The youth are really actively engaged, conceptually and creatively, in the art-making process,” said Blue Sky Project founder Peter Benkendorf.

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