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This paper discusses the need for self-empowerment of teachers, students, and artists through visual storytelling regardless of socioeconomic status, language, location, or race. The stories we tell are revealed through our research and thoughtful reflections and our stories become manifest through media and technique. For younger artists, these experiences must be student-centered and student-directed and should be found in every learning environment. When we develop a visual story, it gains momentum which directs its identity. The identity of the storyteller and story become entwined. As artists, students, teachers who are storytellers, we are composites of our complex histories, which provide the only lens we have to view the world, tell our visual stories, and develop our identities. It is important to know that each of us is a product of the totality of our experiences and that each experience represents only one tiny fiber in our life tapestry or one small reflective facet of our identity.
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