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In a unique program created on the Big Island, the
Honolulu based Hawaii Artist's Cooperative strives to
educate and provide new career opportunities in the arts
to at-risk youth and adults with disabilities, on site
here at a fully equipped ceramics studio in Kurtistown.
With a focus on literacy education and self-employment
through the arts, participants in the program work
together with social workers, professional artists and
trained studio assistants to complete pre-designed and
market-tested products, contributing to the best of
their ability to the finished product. Following through
to the marketing and sales of their works, the group
shares their creative and financial successes. Several
students have already moved on to work independently,
producing their own product lines for sale in galleries
and retail stores.
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