Paints, Paper, Glitter; When This Artist's Van Pulls Up in City Neighborhoods, It's Crafts On the Block Time

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Give Carmella Ricciardelli a batch of paints, brushes and scrap paper, and she'll improve a kid's day. Give her a van full of art supplies - and a decade to roam the city's neighborhoods - and she'll change thousands of young lives, one art project at a time.

"The kids make it work. I just bring the stuff," says Ricciardelli, 44, a jewelry artist who lives in West Haven. "I've had kids who, if you give them a pencil and paper, they'll do amazing things."

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Paints, Paper, Glitter; When This Artist's Van Pulls Up in City Neighborhoods, It's Crafts On the Block Time

For six weeks every summer, Ricciardelli drives her Crafts on the Block van to police substations around the city, as well as to selected events at city parks. ...

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