By Jamie Perez
Jun 23, 2021 | 3:56 PM
OREGON, Wis. Desere Mayo’s passion for drawing emerged when she was three years old. Mayo said she had a teacher who showed her how to draw an Asian girl and since then, Mayo said, “It was the greatest picture and ever since then I’ve been drawing people.”
Mayo attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh for a quarter where she learned how to shade. She said her drawings typically just end up in a sketchbook, until recently, Cesar Chavez Elementary School Principal Kelly Lawler took a liking to them.
“I was just blown away at her talent,” Lawler said.
LOCATION CHANGE: Madison Community Meal in Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Jan 18, 2021 11:00 AM to
5:00 PM
January 11, 2021
Desere Mayo
Art from the Madison Community Meal in Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. event s poster is by Madison artist Desere Mayo.
The King Coalition s community meal is cancelled this year, but this pickup-style, pay-it-forward event from the Overture Center, Downtown Madison BID and Little John s Kitchen will at least get people eating together in some fashion, as everyone will dine on ham, black-eyed peas, collard greens, and mac n cheese â and consider King s legacy. Dinners are $5 and those who can are urged to buy a meal for those who can t afford one. Sign up here. See Linda Falkenstein s full story on the dinner here. NOTE: The main pickup location has changed from downtown to the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County s Allied Family Center, 4619 Jenewein Road, Fitchburg. Satellite locations will operate from 11 am-2 pm at Goodman Commu