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AWARD-WINNING TRI-C STUDENT DANA BURTIN USES ART AS A PATHWAY TO UNDERSTANDING OTHERS
When he was 15, Dana Burtin’s mother gave him a journal and encouraged him to start writing down his thoughts. “Those paragraphs turned into poems. Those poems turned into lyrics,” Burtin said. “I write every day, all the time.” That initial journal opened roads for Burtin, a student at Cuyahoga Community College’s Metropolitan Campus. Those roads led him where he is today — connecting with others through his art. STORY BY
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Jarrod Zickefoose
