Eric Velasquez: How a painting of Juan de Pareja showed me that I could be an artist

Award-winning author and illustrator Eric Velasquez talks about the power of seeing a painting of Juan de Pareja in the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a child and how that experience opened up the possibility of being an artist in his mind and taught him that representation matters.
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