Alexa Siegel, 15, helps pack the sketch pad into her teacher Al Baruch's walker at the end of their animation class at the Tamarac Rec Center. Siegel has been studying animation with Baruch for three years. Baruch is a former Disney animator who has been teaching kids since his retirement in the late 80s.
When a spinal disease made him too sick to travel, he had the kids come to his Tamarac condo. Last winter the association sent him a threatening notice to cease and desist. So since January he’s resumed teaching classes at the parks and rec dept. run by City Hall. But he’s also had two car accidents on the way there, and fallen twice. He’s desperate to resume his free classes at home. He said he needs to teach kids to draw to feel alive. “I don’t like to be alone,” he said. “It gives me another life."
Alexa Siegel, 15, helps pack the sketch pad into her teacher Al Baruch's walker at the end of their animation class at the Tamarac Rec Center. Siegel has been studying animation with Baruch for three years. Baruch is a former Disney animator who has been teaching kids since his retirement in the late 80s.
When a spinal disease made him too sick to travel, he had the kids come to his Tamarac condo. Last winter the association sent him a threatening notice to cease and desist. So since January he’s resumed teaching classes at the parks and rec dept. run by City Hall. But he’s also had two car accidents on the way there, and fallen twice. He’s desperate to resume his free classes at home. He said he needs to teach kids to draw to feel alive. “I don’t like to be alone,” he said. “It gives me another life."
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