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Article: Coast Guard Art Program: Coast Guard artists capture service's history.
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- Coast Guard Magazine
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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Plenty of Coast Guard helicopter crews are justifiably proud of the lives they have saved, but how many have had their rescues captured in art and rhyme in a children's book, or showcased in Coast Guard art exhibits that travel around the nation?
Thanks to author-illustrator Chris Demarest and hundreds of other professional and amateur artists, an H-60 Jayhawk crew from Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod is just one of many units whose service and heroism has been immortalized in art through the Coast Guard Art Program.
Official Coast Guard artists are volunteer, professional artists who enthusiastically donate their time and talents to help tell the story ...