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"A lot has been said about coloring, it helps with stress and depression, [mental health] is a huge component of it," Natalia Padilla tells the Dallas Morning News.
That's why the founder of Dsgn For Us, a creative organization that blends arts, design, and education, is celebrating its fifth anniversary by blanketing a community room at Arts Mission Oak Cliff in a bright yellow paper.
"I just wanted to give people space for them to draw and get it out of their system," Padilla says.
"Yellow is just such a happy, vibrant hue."
The 48-foot-by-50-foot floor installation, called Yellow, is filled with markers, pastels, and crayons and encourages people to draw what makes them happy.
"A lot has been said about coloring, it helps with stress and depression, [mental health] is a huge component of it," Padilla says.
Dsgn For Us has worked with people of color, especially children, in economically vulnerable sectors of Dallas for the past five years.
The organization's first project, Local, was a bilingual coloring guide for immigrant refugees created by an elementary school deejay class.
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