Navy travels spark artistic talent
February 4, 2018
Documenting her travel to other countries sparked an interest leading to art degrees for Stephanie Concepcion Ramirez. The travel was courtesy of the U.S. Navy. Ramirez enlisted a year out of high school and was rewarded with six deployments in four and one-half years to several different countries.
Photographs of those diverse places were like "pinching myself," she said. "It was like a stamp that I had been there."
The daughter of a single mother who escaped from El Salvador during periods of violence and unrest, Ramirez said, "With a background like mine, I never imagined that I could v...
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