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000u ID: osn En3-7e3FA837F635 <br /> 11M7/204 Brushstrokes:Art by Karen youth on exhibit mConbom Branch Library| Local events and features| Chapel HU|Nowm.com <br /> ° <br /> See more art <br /> Want to see more artwork by residents -from BU[Ol@? Visit The Art Therapy |DSUtU1e. 2nd floor ofCarr <br /> Mill K4aU' Suite D-8, at G p.m. Friday for the opening celebration of the 5th /\DnUa| "Journeys t0 a <br /> Different Landscape" art show featuring art and stories created by refugees in the Chapel Hill- <br /> Carrboro City Schools. <br /> Thirty years ago, Gordon Jameson and his wife were traveling in northern Thailand, <br /> "We visited a Karen t[ih8| village in 8 very remote part of the country in the jungle," jaDle8OO said. ^VVe <br /> arrived UD8nDOUUCed with guide and were treated as honored and very welcome guests. | wiU remember <br /> that experience fo[ever." <br /> Now, Jameson, @ founding member artists ofthe Franklin Street Arts Collection and its president and board <br /> chair, has had another remarkable Karen interaction. But he did not have to travel abroad — he just walked <br /> through the doors of the FRANK gallery. <br /> He and oeVe[@| other members have spent the last six months working closely with oeV*[o| young [ne[nbena <br /> of the local Karen cOnO[nunib/. DleDt0[iDg them oS they create a[[. <br /> The fruits of these times are on exhibit at the C8[rh0no Branch Library in the McDoUg|e Schools Media <br /> Center through June 16. ArecopUoO to meet the o[Usi8. the Karen students, their noeDinrS, and other <br /> V0}UOteG[s' is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. 88tU[d8V, May 17, at the library, SOO 0d Fayetteville Road, VVO[kS <br /> include drawings, paintings, clay sculpture, and photographs. Proceeds from sale of the adults' work will gO <br /> directly back to the program. <br /> The Karen Youth Art Group, aname the participating students conceived, grew out 0fa meeting between <br /> activists Fran Hamer and Ne[yS Levy. <br /> Hamer has been involved with the local Karen population for several years, working to get books for the <br /> refugee immigrants and to found a school where the children could learn their native language. <br /> "SODl8 of the kids were pretty good at drawing," Hamer said. "That is when | decided they needed to have <br /> some venue in order to express themselves besides school." Having just met Levy, who organizes the <br /> annual Orange County Community Dinner, Hamer got the children involved in the dinner. When Levy <br /> learned of the Youth's artistic talents she suggested they visit FRANK gallery on Franklin Street. <br /> "When the students walked in' they could not believe o place oou|d look like that," Hamer said. "They were <br />