Brandon Howard, artistic coordinator for The Canvas, speaks to Harborview Elementary School kindergarteners as they see their work displayed in the gallery on Monday. About 50 students in teachers' Elisabeth Hauser and Maura Selenak classes made overlapping traces of their outlined bodies and then painted them with a mixture of primary colors. The work was an exercise in working together.

Brandon Howard, artistic coordinator for The Canvas, speaks to Harborview Elementary School kindergarteners as they see their work displayed in the gallery on Monday. About 50 students in teachers' Elisabeth Hauser and Maura Selenak classes made overlapping traces of their outlined bodies and then painted them with a mixture of primary colors. The work was an exercise in working together.

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Brandon Howard, artistic coordinator for The Canvas, speaks to Harborview Elementary School kindergarteners as they see their work displayed in the gallery on Monday. About 50 students in teachers Elisabeth Hauser’s and Maura Selenak’s classes made overlapping traces of their outlined bodies and then painted them with a mixture of primary colors. The work was an exercise in working together.

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