Leaning over their kitchen table, Xavier Johnson, 12, and his brother, DaShawn, 9, grinned shyly as they fanned out dozens of drawings in crayon, pencil, and marker.
DaShawn proudly smoothed a picture of a dragon composed of panels in red, green, blue, and black, each color representing an emotion. Xavier held up renderings of athletes, of his family, of an alien robot.
“Drawing makes me feel better,” Xavier said. “When I’m mad, I draw my anger, and I just get happy.”
He learned to do that through an art therapy program designed to provide critical coping skills for children growing up in tough circumstances.
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