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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Cranberry Township, PA) Kenneth Hall will have a solo art show at the Cranberry Artists Network Art Gallery during the month of April. This will be at the Cranberry Township Municipal Center, which is open Mondays-Thursdays from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., Fridays from 7:30 a.m.to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hall, a resident of Ross Township, has been an active artist for more than 50 years having started out as an illustrator. He taught Visual Arts for the Pittsburgh Public Schools for 27 years, until 2016, when he had to take a Medical Retirement. After a fifteen-year hiatus from art, he was encouraged to start doing art as therapy. He studied and practiced Art Therapy techniques to help himself heal. His new art forms are no longer illustrations as a result, but are more diverse using personal history and social commentary. Realistic representation changed to emotion and emotional subjects, colors and forms that dominate his work as a tool of self-expression. He earned a Bachelors degree from West Virginian University and a Master’s Degree from Penn State University in Art Education. He has won awards for his work in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, mainly in University gallery settings. This show is his fourth one-man exhibit, having previously shown at the Chambers and Paul Robeson Cultural Center galleries at Penn State, and the Huston Gallery. Hall is also a father of five boys.