Students learn of different cultures from art

DANVILLE – Fiber artist Charlotte Main has fermented mud with a Yoruba tribesman in Nigeria, made paper with a Japanese Living National Treasure and dyed cloth with a "blue man of the desert" in Morocco.

This month, she has been at Liberty Elementary School in Danville, teaching pupils about the different countries she has visited, people she has met and cultures she has experienced through art.

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