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Giizhik Klawiter

Giizhik, young artist with autism, featured on WPT’s ‘Wisconsin Life”

Posted on October 18, 2018

Wisconsin Public Television’s Wisconsin Life recently featured Klawiter, a young artist with autism, who for the past decade has been designing and selling holiday cards across Sawyer County, raising awareness for autism and more than …

Posted in 2018, Autism, News, Outreach, YearTagged Fundraiser, Giizhik Klawiter

A kid. His cards. And a cause.

Posted on December 13, 2016

Diagnosed with autism when he was five years old, Giizhik learned to draw before he learned to speak. He poured his energy into turning the cartoons that fascinated him into a world of his own artwork. – See more at: http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/news2016-Holiday-Cards.htm#sthash.tjq3cpUt.dpuf

Posted in 2016, Autism, News, Outreach, YearTagged Giizhik Klawiter, Outreach, Thoughts of Gratitude

Holiday cards for autism

Posted on November 18, 2015

Giizhik Klawiter has autism and began drawing at six years old as a therapeutic outlet. For the last six years, Giizhik and his brother Mino have designed holiday greeting cards and sold them in their hometown of Hayward, Wisconsin with the help of their mother, Pam Miller.

Posted in 2015, Autism, News, YearTagged Autism, Fundraiser, Giizhik Klawiter

Holiday cards for autism 2014

Posted on November 13, 2014

Giizhik Klawiter has autism and began drawing at six years old as a therapeutic outlet. For the last five years, Giizhik and his brother Mino have designed holiday greeting cards and sold them in their …

Posted in 2014, Autism, NewsTagged Autism, Fundraiser, Giizhik Klawiter

Giizhik’s holiday cards for autism research available

Posted on October 30, 2013

Giizhik Klawiter has autism and began drawing at six years old as a therapeutic outlet. For the last five years, Giizhik and his brother Mino have designed holiday greeting cards and sold them in their …

Posted in 2013, Autism, News, YearTagged Fundraiser, Giizhik Klawiter

Boy with autism funds research with hand-drawn holiday cards

Posted on December 12, 2012

Giizhik Klawiter has never been so much as a visitor to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Waisman Center, but the 10-year-old boy with autism from Hayward, Wis., is one of the most faithful supporters of the center’s developmental disabilities research.

Posted in 2012, Autism, NewsTagged Fundraiser, Giizhik Klawiter

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