From Pencils to Charcoal, the Journey of Kio Claudia Villa

By the age of five, children are required to be enrolled in kindergarten where they begin to start developing their reading and writing skills.

However, Kio Claudia Villa, a fourth-year drawing and painting major at California State University Long Beach, was already creating art by the time she was four years old.

“I asked my mom to teach me how to sign my name,” said Villa. “I told her I was going to sign my art.”