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Show • Continued from C-1 graffiti. Before the bus was painted, it had never been vandalized. Now, within a week of being completed, it has been marked up more times than a pop quiz. "As soon as you put the art up," Commander said, "all of a sudden it triggers other kids to express themselves." The bus shelter isn't the first of. its kind to be built in the city. Nor* is it the first to be defaced. Taxpayers have dolled out about $64,000 for eight themed bus shelters that now dot the county "We want to have a day at the from Kimball Junction to Silver high school where art schools Lake Lodge in Deer Valley. The meet with kids and they can show first one was built in 2005. Now off their portfolios," she dogs, old-west belt buckles and explained. "We want to focus on dragons adorn shelters sharing information to here, according Hunter. get the big picture." "The goal was to inteRight now, the big The goal was to integrate art into grate art into the commupicture has a big hole, according to Monika the commnity. The bus shelters are nity," she said. "The bus shelters are highly visible Guendner of the Park places and they were City Education highly visible." designed to reflect eleFoundation. "Music ments of the community." Kathy Hunter, Arts Council classes don't start until ^mmtm Dorsey and Commander fifth grade and visual art stood in the bus shelter classes don't start until junior high," she said, Rather secure money for it. (The city Thursday trying to figure out how than hire more teachers, contributed more than about to wash away the marker. A boy plush headphones around Guendner recommends teaching $10,000 to have the shelter built.) with his neck walked up to the bus "I find it kind of odd," instructors to infuse math, scistop and waited for his ride to ence and English lessons with art. Commander said Thursday after- arrive. He watched in mystified Third graders can learn about noon, "for someone to destroy horror as the adults approached symmetry, for example, by mak- something within minutes that and tried to talk to him. took hours to create." ing snowflake decorations. The bus pulled to the curb and Commander spent a few hours The larger vision doesn't just include kids in school, but also at earlier this week with a bottle of the kid hopped on, spared, at risk populations after school. cleaner and a rag scrubbing away least for today. Vandalism is nothing new for bus stops C-3 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, November 1-4, 2008 Jenny Dorsey, the development assistant, for Arts Kids, said she learned firsthand what a difference an art project can make it a child's life. Just look at Lucy, who painted the butterfly. "She started out hesitant," Dorsey said. "But once she started with that first coat of paint her imagination just took off." 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