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CUISINE Elizabeth Rangel, a self-taught artist and designer who works in textiles and fashion, left, and Tom di Maria, center, director of Creative Growth Art Center, which provides studio space, representation, instruction and opportunity for personal expression to adult artists with mental, developmental or physical disabilities. Artists from the center exhibit in museums and esteemed collections worldwide. William Scott, right, is a self-taught artist whose work appears in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Oakland Museum of California. SAVVY I SOPHISTICATED I SASSY 67