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Wyoming Catholic.edu. Derek Brooks is the owner of Benedictus Art. I met him a few months back in Phoenix at a meeting of

classical school educators hosted by Great Hearts Institute. And I thought that the work he is doing

deserves a discussion here at first thing. Sometimes I think that the arts elements of primary and secondary education and higher education are underappreciated.

And so let's do it. Welcome, Mr. Brooks.

Thank you. It is a pleasure to be here.

Well, first, tell us what Benedictus art does.

Primarily, we offer museum quality, fine art photo reproductions of the great works of the great masterpieces, particularly of the Western canon, to classical and Catholic education schools.

That does include things like design, so I help in different schools with art layout design. I restore the works, digitally restore the works

themselves, as well as helping heads of school or whoever's

in charge of the project kind of craft their vision. So they come to me saying, we want art in

our schools, where we want to beautify our space. And I say, well, let's have a conversation about

that, because I want to understand the aim.

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