TYLER, Texas — There’s a good bit of land and a lot of water between Riga, Latvia, and Tyler: 5,343 miles as the crow flies — if crows fly that far.
And few stories in Northeast Texas have their first chapter in frosty North-East Europe, even less in Latvia’s stately capital beside the Baltic Sea. But that’s where Dace Kidd, (pronounced “Dot-sa”) grew up.
It's where she was classically trained in studio art and where she began a globe-trotting art career that, however unlikely, intersected with East Texas in 2011.
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