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Jun 2016
22m 46s

How Do You Make Paint?

Vermont Public
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In this episode of But Why we're learning how to make paint from an artist who wild-crafts his own pigments, and we're visiting the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to learn about the value of art.

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