08108 Collingswood | Fall 2023

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‘Transform, reinvent and renew’ AT GALERIE MARIE

‘Preserving history, community involvement and more’ COLLINGSWOOD CIVIC COLLECTIVE

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Hello 08108! Can you believe it’s that time of year again - a new school year and ALL things Fall? I definitely can’t, but here we are! I am excited for you to check out our Fall edition magazine dedicated to the lifestyle and community of Collingswood.

The Collingswood Civic Collective was formed in 2022 to promote historical preservation, foster community involvement, and encourage volunteerism to benefit the Collingswood community. The collective recently organized fundraising efforts to support the neighborhood such as

the recent Collingswood Home and Garden Tour, which had the “whole town bustling.” Learn more about all they do on page 5.

Have you met Kimberly Camp, owner of Galerie Marie on Haddon Avenue? She wants her gallery to be a resource for people and cultural organizations to transform, reinvent and renew themselves. Camp’s studio has art for everyone, from original paintings to dolls to jewelry to artifacts created by more than 200 artists from around the world, and at every price point so that art can be affordable to everyone. Find out more on page 6.

After learning about the Collingswood Civic Collective and meeting Kimberly Camp at Galerie Marie, it’s time for brunch at Maria’s Bread Sandwiches. Whether you are craving “sweet and savory, light and heavier” Maria’s hits all the right categories from its avocado toast to its chicken salad to its pizza. Owners Maria Beddia and Scott Schroeder may essentially be “acciden-

tal restaurateurs,” however there is no denying, they have created a space for those looking for a simple nice place to brunch or grab a quick coffee and sandwich to go. Go get a “bread sandwich” on page 9.

We round this issue with Collingswood Recreation Program’s Odyssey of the Mind. This past season, four Collingswood teams competed in the Odyssey of the Mind World finals held at Michigan State University. The teams finished 21st, 14th, 14th and 4th in the “world” for their respective problems and age divisions. Did you see the word “world?” The program is entering its 12th season with many highs. Learn all about the program starting on page 12.

Also check out Keeping up with Collingswood for future community events on page 18. All of this and more awaits on the pages ahead! Enjoy!

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‘Preserving history, community involvement and more’

COLLINGSWOOD CIVIC COLLECTIVE WAS FORMED IN 2022

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he Collingswood Civic Collective was formed in 2022 to promote historical preservation, foster community involvement, and encourage volunteerism to benefit the Collingswood community, in no particular order.

And it does all that and more.

Let’s start with promoting historical preservation.

“Many individuals feel a great connection to historic places and like being in areas that have undergone years and years of history, but some of the more intangible and personal benefits are frequently underestimated and under-recognized,” Trustee Matthew Walker explained.

“Historic buildings are a record of ourselves and our communities and preserving significant historic resources creates a visible connection with the community’s history and culture, good and bad.”

Collingswood has plenty of rich history. For nearly a century the pioneers farmed the land where the peaceful Lenni-Lenape Indians had long existed. Many of the peaceful settlers were Quakers and a Meeting House was one of the first non-residential buildings erected, according to the history noted on the borough website.

After Collingswood established its independence, the single stroke which did most to ensure its growth came in 1893 when the executors of Edward C. Knight’s estate donated a large tract of land as a public park. see CIVIC page 16 08108

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The Collingswood Civic Collective organized fundraising efforts to support the neighborhood such as the recent Collingswood Home and Garden Tour, which had the “whole town bustling.”

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GALLERY OFFERS ART FOR EVERYONE

‘Transform, reinvent and renew’

at Gal ie Marie

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hose who pass by Galerie Marie may assume the high-end shop filled with original paintings, handmade dolls and jewelry is just another retail store – but they couldn’t be more wrong.

Galerie Marie, located on Haddon Avenue, has been a haven for all community members, and a place for consultation, commentary, and creativity for the past 10 years.

Meet owner Kimberly Camp. She wants her gallery to be a resource for people and cultural organizations to transform, reinvent and renew themselves.

Outside of the gallery, she offers coaching, board development, strategic planning, visioning and advice to build stable, productive organizations.

Camp said it’s important to expand our notion of what art is.

“There is a lot of artificiality in art,” she said. “We acknowledge ‘this is art’ and ‘this isn’t art’ due to the structures in society and who has authority.

“Women who create are considered ‘crafters’ which is deemed ‘not real art’ - but in fact, it’s an important component of the breadth of visual arts.”

Camp’s studio has art for everyone, from original paintings to dolls to jewelry to artifacts created by more than 200 artists from around the world (Haiti, Uzbekistan, Ireland, France, Peru, Cuba and Morocco, to name a few), and at every price point so that art can be affordable to everyone.

She has an extensive background in the arts. Aside from her current role as president of Galerie Marie and owner of Kimberly Camp Studios, she is currently teaching a seminar course in museum leadership for New York University. She has served as a part-time lecturer/adjunct/faculty for Rutgers University, Drexel University and Lincoln University.

Camp retired from museum leadership positions with the Smithsonian Institution, the Charles Wright Museum, the Barnes Foundation and before retiring, president of the Richland Public Facility District/ Hanford Reach Interpretive Center, a proposed science, technology and natural history project. see ART page 8 PHOTOS BY JAMIE GIAMBRONE

Galerie Marie offers art for everyone. Owner Kimberly Camp wants her gallery to be a resource for people and cultural organizations to transform, reinvent and renew themselves.

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ART 08108 from page 6 Camp earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s degree from Drexel University.

Her areas of expertise include arts administration, art history and studio arts.

She has been a working artist for more than 50 years. And as an accomplished artist with more than 100 exhibitions in the U.S. and overseas, she wants to share her creativity with collectors, curators and those who just love the arts.

A native of Camden, Camp left New Jersey when she turned 16 years old to attend college. She came back to her home state after college, traveled around the nation and the world, and returned to Collingswood the day after Superstorm Sandy hit the Garden State’s shores in 2012.

Moving back to New Jersey from Washington State, Camp said she wanted to find a studio where she could also live.

She found just that in her current building and after several months of upgrades and improvements, opened Galerie Marie in July 2013. She didn’t intend for it to be a gallery; she just wanted a working artist studio.

“Local zoning rules meant I had to have ‘open, active retail’ because I’m located in the middle of the business district,” she said.

Camp describes herself as a “badass” doll maker. In 1982 she started making dolls using traditional African textiles just to make some extra money for the holidays. She uses stone, polymer, leather, wood, recycled fur, shells and many other items for her dolls.

In a moment of serendipity, she met American artist Faith Ringgold who happened to love her dolls even though they were “classy enough to be in a trash bag under the bench” at an art show,” Camp laughed.

Selling the dolls for $8 apiece, Ringgold bought them all, promising to contact an editor at “Essence” magazine who was looking for dolls for a story. Camp said she chose her two biggest dolls for the photo “because I knew they’d put the biggest dolls in the middle of the picture and all the other ones around, and then they’d have to say something about my dolls,” she laughed again. see ART page 17

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MARIA’S BREAD SANDWICHES HITS THE ‘SWEET AND SAVORY’ SPOT CATERING, SUPPER CLUB, PIZZA AND BAGELS ALSO ON THE MENU

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eet Maria Beddia and Scott Schroeder owners of Maria’s Bread Sandwiches.

They are “accidental restaurateurs.”

Beddia was an illustrator in her past life.

However, there is no denying, Beddia and Schroeder have created a space for those looking for a simple nice place to brunch or grab a quick coffee and sandwich to go.

Either way, customers have been satisfied from the avocado toast to the chick-

en salad to the simple egg and cheese.

The menu is not overly big and it’s how the couple wanted it. Asked about favorites on the menu.

“Honestly, we love them all,” Beddia answered. “We wanted to hit all kinds of categories of sweet and savory, light and heavier.

“You know what you want. When you are craving sweet, you are going to get the bread pudding. When you are craving lighter, you are getting the avocado toast. When you are craving breakfast, you are probably going for the breakfast sandwich or breakfast salad.” see MARIA’s page 10 PHOTOS BY ANDREA MENDOZA

Maria Beddia and Scott Schroeder bring their Philly favorites to Collingswood with Maria’s Bread Sandwiches.

MARIA’S 08108 from page 9 Beddia and Schroeder moved to Collingswood a few months before the pandemic.

“Everyone was telling us that ‘oh you’re going to love it, there’s so much going on, it’s such a community,” Schroeder recalled. “Then the world ended.”

Luckily, they had a yard, their dogs and each other to keep sane during the pandemic craziness.

During that time, the couple fell in love with their new borough and “had been talking about kind of working for ourselves and figuring out some kind of work life-balance.

“What if we just did breakfast and lunch and brought our favorite things from Philly over to Collingswood?” From bringing their favorite coffee Ultimo to their bread, Mighty Bread.

“We wanted something that was very approachable, just easy to enjoy,” Maria said, adding “a neighborhood spot.”

And the name – Maria’s Bread Sandwiches - is simple too and it started out at first as a little bit of an inside joke.

“When we lived in south Philadelphia and we would get in the mood for a sandwich, Maria was complaining one day, ‘Every time we get a sandwich, it’s this big giant meat sandwich, I just want a regular bread sandwich,’” Schroeder recalled, countering, well “What’s a non-bread sandwich?”

And that’s when the name “Maria’s Bread Sandwiches” ended up on a sign.

The couple have been providing their vision for close to two years at 685 Haddon Ave.

“We will be two years in January [2024],” Schroeder said. “We have been very well received and we have been having a good time. We kind of struck a pretty good work-life balance.”

Maria’s Bread Sandwiches is open Thursday to Sunday from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. Both Beddia and Schroeder are in by 5:30 a.m. those days.

The couple said it’s important to them to source their ingredients locally as much as they can whether in the area or utilizing their Pennsylvania connections. You can find them spending a lot of time at the Collingswood Farmers Market.

“The ideas we do here are very simple, nice ingredients, not necessarily fancy ingredients,” Schroeder said. “We haven’t had any sandwiches with truffles (yet) … who knows.”

Maria’s Bread Sandwiches has two spaces. One space is where a customer can order his/her order and the other space is “our dining room” with tables and couches.

“It’s just kind of a hang out space,” Beddia said, adding they wanted the space to essentially be an extension of their living room. Hence the couches.

“We have people set up their laptops, use the Wi-Fi and get some snacks for the day.”

So is that Maria’s Bread Sandwiches in a nutshell? Well, the typical Thursday to Sunday, yes! But, there is so much more surrounding the breakfast and brunch spot.

During the pandemic, Beddia and Schroeder dabbled in catering and it stuck from birthdays, bridal showers, bachelorette parties, and baby show-

“HONESTLY, WE LOVE THEM ALL, WE WANTED TO HIT ALL KINDS OF CATEGORIES OF SWEET AND SAVORY, LIGHT AND HEAVIER.”

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MARIA’S 08108 from page 10 ers to fundraisers, office lunches, networking events, and retirement parties.

You name it, Beddia and Schroeder will work with customers to provide what is needed.

On Monday evenings, there is pizza – 5:30 p.m. until they sell out.

On weekends, there are bagels added to the menu. These items have been Schroeder’s latest obsessions, which he has perfected.

On the last Saturday of the month, there is a curated fixed supper. Previous suppers have ranged from southern-style to vegan.

“We found that we really enjoyed it,” Schroeder said of catering and hosting fixed suppers. “Sometimes it’s hard work, but sometimes there’s a connection when you are going into someone’s house or even supper clubs.

“This one moment, you tell them, you have to be here at 6:30 p.m., you have to be on time for this thing, everyone eats the same thing, relatively at the same pace … it provides more connection than through a restaurant.”

The couple named their catering side Charlie’s Supper Club.

“One night a month, we stay up late,” Beddia joked of the curated supper.

All this keeps the couple quite busy.

Maybe busier than they wanted to be initially.

“It’s almost a side hustle, but it’s a really enjoyable one, we really enjoy doing it,” Schroeder said.

To help keep a bit of a balance, Beddia and Schroeder have a small staff to help them with the opening hours of Maria’s Bread Sandwiches.

“We are trying to free ourselves and do a little bit more of the catering,” Schroeder said. “We hired a couple of people, one going to culinary school and one fresh out of culinary school.

They are very new but very entrusted and curious.”

And to the couple, that’s all they could ask for.

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Twelve Collingswood teams competed in the Coastal Plains Regional Tournament held in March and 10 of the teams qualified for the state finals held at Princeton High School in April.

At the state finals, two Collingswood teams were named state champions in their problem and age divisions, and one team received a special award for exceptional creativity, according to the website.

Collingswood’s popular Odyssey of the Mind program is under the umbrella of the borough Recreation program. The program fielded 12 competitive teams, grades 3-12, and a non-competitive Primary Club for second graders during the 11th season of competition.

WHAT IS ODYSSEY OF THE MIND?

‘I WOULDN’T BE ME’ COLLINGSWOOD ODYSSEY OF THE MIND PROGRAM ENTERS 12TH SEASON WITH HIGHS

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ike the borough’s website states, Collingswood is the region's premier destination for “events, arts, and

fun.”

Now one could argue that the Odyssey of the Mind international academic competition could make it to that list – “events, arts, fun and Odyssey of the Mind.”

HOW? THAT’S A GREAT QUESTION, FIND OUT WHY. This past season, four Collingswood teams competed in the Odyssey of the Mind World finals held at Michigan State Univer-

sity. The teams finished 21st, 14th, 14th and 4th in the “world” for their respective problems and age divisions. Did you see the word “world?”

Team Hover Brothers’ 4th-place finish was the highest a Collingswood team has scored in the competition’s 11 years as a program, according to the competition’s website.

The team was recognized with a special award for demonstrating “outstanding creativity.”

Over 700 teams from around the world attended including teams from South Korea, Poland, Germany, Singapore, China, and more. Wow!

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(Clockwise from top left): Team “Hover Brothers” placed 4th in the World for their solution to Problem 1 - Pirates and the Treasure. Team “Dedicatin” in East Lansing Michigan after taking 14th place for their solution to Problem 3 - The Walls of Troy. Team “Emo Bob Rats” at Princeton High School immediately after presenting their solution to Problem 5 - The Most Dramatic Problem Ever!!! Team “The Bobs” after picking up their medals and trophy at the New Jersey State Finals in Princeton. They took 2nd place for their solution to Problem 2 - Because iCan.

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According to the official website, Odyssey of the Mind developed from Industrial Design classes taught by Dr. Sam Micklus, a professor at Rowan University in Glassboro. He challenged students to think out-of-the box and improvise by creating vehicles without wheels or mechanical pie throwers and evaluated their efforts on their ingenuity and efforts to design new and different solutions.

Public interest led to a creative problem-solving competition for students with the introduction of Odyssey of the Mind in 1978.

Odyssey of the Mind has grown into an international educational program that provides creative problem-solving opportunities for youths. It allows them to combine their interests and skills in science, engineering, visual arts, performing arts, improvisation and creativity, according to the website.

In Collingswood, local children who are eligible to participate in recreation sports are eligible to participate in the Odyssey of the Mind program.

Every season, teams of borough youths strategize and improvise around obstacles and challenges to place among the top competitors in the Odyssey of the Mind international academic competition, which celebrates innovation and creative problem-solving.

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vise to develop solutions to problems that range from building mechanical devices, for instance: "Build a vehicle powered only by a mousetrap that can navigate a maze," to performing new versions of literary classics such as "Rewrite 'Hamlet' as an eight-minute musical comedy.”

The teams bring their solutions to regional, state and world tournaments, with thousands of teams from throughout the U.S. and the world participating.

The competition has two parts. There's the long-term, which is the problem you work on for a long time and present at competition.

“And there’s the spontaneous one, which they give you a problem to solve when you get there,” said Geoff DiMasi, current president of Collingswood Odyssey of the Mind.

“So you don’t know exactly what it is and you can practice different kinds of things.”

During competition season, the coaches cannot help with the solution to the problem.

“We’re allowed to teach them how to solve, how to do something like, ‘here’s how you paint,’” DiMasi explained. “But you can’t say ‘write the play this way or move the vehicle this way.’ You can’t give them ideas.

“The role of the coach is really more of a facilitator, so you can ask them questions, you can say: ‘What do you think? How do you think that will work?’

“You can guide them in a way to go deeper as opposed to just stopping at the first solution,” DiMasi said.

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COLLINGSWOOD’S ODYSSEY OF THE MIND Collingswood Recreation Program’s Odyssey of the Mind (CRPOM) was founded in 2012.

In 11 seasons of competition, the Collingswood program has sent 62 teams to the New Jersey State Finals, won nine New Jersey State Championships and sent 24 teams to the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals, according to the website.

Currently, Collingswood Recreation coaches and teams are preparing for the new season, according to Kenneth Allendoerfer, the program’s coordinator for coaches. see ODYSSEY page 15 08108

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ODYSSEY 08108 from page 13 DiMasi said the local program was sparked by parents who participated in their local programs as students.

“In a lot of towns, it’s run through the schools,” he explained, noting in Collingswood, it is run as a Recreation program.

“We have a board of volunteers that run it.

“I've been a founding member of the program and I’ve been on the board for years.”

It has been a family affair for the DiMasi family. He and his wife, Allison, coach and their three children have participated in the program.

“There was a group of us who had done it as kids and we started chatting about it and … we decided to start doing it,” he said. “Different people went to a tournament and kind of got connected and we said, ‘Let’s try it.’

“So the first year, 2012, was our founding year, we had three teams and a primary team, which is the younger kids, and we went on to regionals and one of the teams moved on to states. That was my daughter’s team and my wife, Allison, was coaching.

“They ended up getting really inspired by what happened at regionals,” he said.

Lila DiMasi was a fourth grader when she began to participate in Odyssey of the Mind and continued through high school.

Currently in her junior year at the University of Pennsylvania where she is majoring in psychology, she remembers the “ambitious” challenge her seven-member team worked on during that inaugural year.

The name of her team’s problem was “Pet Project.” It involved three vehicles that delivered parts of a pet, which at the end, would perform some kind of trick, she explained. “…We did a farm scene and our pet was a cow,” Lila said. “We had two vehicles that delivered parts. We made a cow out of cardboard and papier mache, I think it had rainbow spots instead of black and white.

And we went to regionals after much work.

“At regionals for the competition, one of our vehicles, which ran on batteries, died during our performance, so we were all like … crying.”

They were fourth graders after all!

“But this was such the moment of ingenuity that really defined Odyssey,” Lila recalled. “Someone took the farmer hat off their head and turned it upside down and 08108

put the vehicle inside the hat and threw it like a frisbee instead of the original mode of movement that we had planned.”

The team won an award for understanding the spirit of Odyssey of the Mind and even though the team wasn’t able to execute their project how they practiced, their spontaneous score was high enough for the team to earn a spot to move on to states. They dried their eyes and moved on. “… We worked really hard to improve the problem and improve our style element and we got first at state champions and went on to World Finals at Michigan State University.

“After that year, how could I not be hooked?” she said. “How could I not want to come again.”

After its “unbelievable start,” Odyssey of the Mind in Collingswood has grown.

The all-volunteer, community-based program has grown into one of the largest programs in New Jersey, involving nearly 100 youths, 23 coaches and dozens of judges, instructors and other volunteers, according to the website.

“We’ve now got a lot of knowledge built up in the community,” DiMasi explained.

“People have been able to give back in different ways and it’s a commitment like sports … it provides a competitive opportunity for kids who maybe aren't into sports competition. … For some kids this is a really good way for them to practice being on a team in a competitive environment.”

And all that team building builds confidence.

“I can’t imagine myself if I didn't do Odyssey,” Lila said. “The skills just come in handy every day. It was such a rich experience of working with others and so much conflict and things you have to get through, like tears, and especially as you get to high school because people have stronger ideas about what they want to do.

“If I hadn't had those trial runs, the things that I encounter now would be much more difficult to deal with.”

For Lila, Odyssey of the Mind became a lifestyle each season from October to spring. “… You're doing it three times a week, every day of the week, sometimes,” she said.

Asked if she hadn’t participated in Odyssey of the Mind, what would have changed?

Lila responded simply: “I wouldn’t be me.” — 08108

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CIVIC 08108 from page 5 In the closing years of the 19th century, it became evident that Collingswood was well on its way to becoming a thriving suburban town. Besides its beautiful park, it was easily accessible to Camden and Philadelphia. Two thriving railroads already ran through the community, trolley tracks ran down Atlantic Avenue as far as Lees, and municipal services were steadily improving. A growing patriotism and pride in the young town were most evident, according to the borough’s website.

Hence promoting historical preservation is of utmost importance.

Next let’s look at fostering community involvement, and encouraging volunteerism to benefit the Collingswood community.

The committee has organized a variety of activities as a part of their fundraising efforts to support the neighborhood. One such occasion was the Collingswood Home and Garden Tour, which the Collective held on May 6 as part of its inaugural annual fundraising event.

“The whole town was bustling with activity,” Walker said, “enjoying the picturesque sunny day, welcoming the Farmers’ Market back for the season, and visiting the beautiful homes and gardens on the tour.”

The new Public Safety Building, as well as “seven homes, five gardens, Songbird Karaoke and its owner’s residence upstairs,” were also included in the trip, he further noted.

During the garden tour, the villagers stopped by the herbal part of the Collingswood Community Garden, which was established in 2010. The garden is located on Washington Avenue and is one of only two in the area with greenhouses/sheds, composting bins, and pollinators. The garden produces 100% organic food, which is typically donated to the food bank.

Residents of Collingswood can rent a plot to grow vegetables, flowers, and herbs during the summer for just $35 during the Garden tour.

Proceeds from the fundraising events have been allocated toward future community improvements, education workshops, and events.

In October, Wednesday workshop session opportunities continued, and they are working on a Ghost Tour of Collingswood.

Looking to get involved with the Collective?

Collingswood Civic Collective meetings are typically conducted at 7:30 pm on the first Wednesday of each month. — 08108 FALL 2023

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ART 08108 from page 8 A short time after, Camp featured her dolls at the Chrysanthemum Festival at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania – after all, the cotton she uses is a plant – and her mother was staring at someone wearing lederhosen. The man happened to work for National Geographic and said he wanted to submit her dolls for a story idea.

“I almost made the cover [of National Geographic World Magazine for kids] but I was beat out by a panda,” she said, “and I can’t argue with that!”

Yet Camp considers herself a painter at heart.

“Painting for me is very serious, very meditative, very reflective of my deeper beliefs and values,” she said.

And those deeper beliefs and values center on the importance of the art – and especially, community.

“I try to show people that you can buy handmade and people really do appreciate it,” she said.

A natural storyteller, Camp regularly offers commentary to customers on the issues of the day that affect the arts and culture, observations in life and Camp’s newest adventures and latest projects.

“Visual arts evoke that kind of response in people. It’s how our community continues to feed itself. … It creates that kind of aura,” she said.

Camp also takes pride in being a Black female business owner. She is the longest-standing of the seven African-American-owned businesses in Collingswood, and truly appreciates that customers stop in to talk to her about politics and social issues. She said after the 2016 election her studio became a safe haven where people felt calm – and Camp said that is the power of art.

“Art is a form of communication and when an artist says something, it’s more than sensory perception, and when you have an environment of high aesthetics, it’s a more stimulating experience.” — 08108 08108

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