Staunton Star - Times - Published in the Interest of the Staunton Community for Over 143 Years

The Macoupin Arts Collective (the MAC) hosted an international meeting between two art classes for senior citizens via Zoom on Nov. 9 at the studio in Staunton. Seniors from area towns including Carlinville, Staunton, Edwardsville, and New Douglas met with another art class of seniors in Zabreb, the capital of Croatia to create art together. All of the Croatian participants live and work in Zabreb but only two of them are originally from there, the Croatian instructor Vonja explained.

One is from the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the town of Zenica, one is from the Cakovec in northern...