Fine Arts, Find Life: Teacher Makella Harris Heals Through Music

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Fine Arts, Find Life: Teacher Makella Harris Heals Through Music

By Haley Wilson The Birmingham Times The isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown gave many time to reflect. For Makella Moore Harris, it gave her time to “connect with her creative energy on a different level,” she said. That energy that gave birth to Fine Arts and Find Life (FAFL), a Birmingham-based nonprofit […]

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