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Things that Matter: Art by Children with Autism

Date/Time:Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., April 18 until Sat., September 13

Things that Matter: Art by Children with Autism

BY MALCOLM GAY

<i>Things that Matter: Art by Children with Autism</i>

The premise: Artistic creation can help children with autism to better express themselves. The disorder, which affects a person's ability to communicate, often includes intense fascinations with things: stoves, Hello Kitty, dinosaurs. Harnessing this fascination, coordinators Bevin Early and Nancy Pierson asked children to make art about their obsessions. So we have a video of a teenager dancing to Willy Wonka's "The Golden Ticket," a collection of found objects from a boy who collects everything he can and repeated self-portraits of a young boy.

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