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Denver Man Says His Love Of Art Is What Brought Color Back To His Life

"I'm here for a reason, and that reason is to be of his service," Arturo Garcia said.

Garcia offers free art classes for neighborhood youth.
Garcia offers free art classes for neighborhood youth. (CBS)

Arturo Garcia opened his art gallery right before COVID hit, in 2019.

If you visit his Denver gallery in the Westwood neighborhood, you will find it sits sandwiched between Federal Boulevard and Alameda Avenue. Inside, you cannot help but notice his passion for painting. But that fire has not always burned bright. It took decades before his art would come to life. It took a near-death experience with cancer and a fight for sobriety to get to this point.

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