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Painting plans finally materialize for artistNearly a half century elapsed before Dolores Nast picked up a paint brush again.The first time she wielded a brush, as a seventh-grader at Albright Middle School in Buffalo, N.Y., the spry, blonde-haired girl fell in love with the feel, its way with lavishing the canvas with color, its power. Her career path was set. "I want to be the great American painter when I grow up," the then 17-year-old graduate of Lafayette High School said in 1951. But life didn't imitate art. She wouldn't pick up another paint brush until 1996 when she took an art class at UNLV. Instead of a career creating works of art, she spent 45 years creating works of function: Designing sewers, streets and flood control channels in Flint, Mich., and Las Vegas. FULL TEXT
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