In August two of Cobain's early drawings--a cartoonish pencil sketch of Ronald Reagan done in a high school art class and a Christmas card created for his grandparents when he was 6--sold at a celebrity memorabilia auction in Monterey, Calif.

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The following day, at a lecture about personal branding and appearance, I asked 80 people to describe what a typical professor, computer hacker and high-school art teacher looked like.

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Klein attended a public art high school on 57th Street in New York and then graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology.

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The company hired a graphic designer who came back with the typically abstract, geometric cover designs that seem to mean high tech to art school grads.

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For example, we recently honored talented high school artists in the Congressional Art Competition.

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When she was 15, Fu founded a non-profit group, Visual Arts and Music for Society, that organizes high school volunteers to play music, do art projects and perform in homeless shelters, hospitals, orphanages and senior residences.

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Public-school parents accuse the board of the 9, 000-student East Ramapo Central School District of cutting teachers, guidance counselors, art programs, all-day kindergarten and the high school marching band, while diverting public resources to favored Orthodox institutions.

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If the application is successful, the project would see Ipswich Museum, Ipswich Art School, New Wolsey Studio and the High Street Exhibition Gallery redeveloped and rebranded as one venue.

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Louis Park High School in suburban Minneapolis, he was "serious about my art, " and lucky enough to have an art teacher, Robert "Doc" Anderson, who both recognized and encouraged Oxborough's talent.

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