Van Dyck is one of four teachers who volunteer with Heart of Chaos, a program offering evening crafts, collage and calligraphy
classes to the county's youngest inmates. In just one hour a week with young people accused or convicted of crimes ranging from drug possession to murder, the teachers hope to provide a few moments' escape, or perhaps inspire a different way of thinking.
"I can give them a couple of moments to realize they have potential, that they are not their crime," said Michael Denning, 30, who teaches collage and a type of meditative doodling, often using repetitive lines, called Zentangles. A former drug addict who's been clean for almost six years, Denning said he believes art has the potential to rescue people from self-made prisons of drugs and gangs. Read more...
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