College of Design, Art & Performance

Curator of Education at USF CAM Leslie Elsasser and Veteran Alicia Morales discuss Breaking Barriers on ABC Action News

With over 98,000 veterans in Tampa Bay USF CAM’s program Breaking Barriers was created to offer this large Tampa Bay and USF community of military veterans and their families access to the arts in order to acquire a voice through an arts based program. The culture of the “silent veteran,” could be transformed into one of a storyteller that amplified veteran voices and experiences to both the local civilian and larger veteran communities

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