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The work of Aaron Johnson, 18, will be featured Wednesday at the Kansas State School for the Blind, 1100 State Ave., Kansas City, Kan. He recently worked on a quilt at the school, which will share in the profits from his show.

Aaron Johnson pushes the pieces of fabric underneath the rapidly moving needle, sewing together the front and back of his quilt.

“There’s a seam,” his teacher, Kit Bardwell, says just above a whisper as her mouth is only inches away from her student’s ear. “It needs to be flatter.”

Johnson feels the seam. He feels how his fingers can make the fabric smooth enough to glide under the sewing machine’s foot.

It’s a quilt the young artist will never see, because he is blind.

But Johnson feels his art being created.....

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