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Professor of Practice Stephen DiRado received the 35th ArtsWorcester Award for his artistic and cultural contributions to Worcester. In response, former students tagged years of photography with #madewithstephen \u2014 a spontaneous, citywide testament to a teaching career measured in careers it helped launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have no idea if I would even have a photography career if he wasn’t my professor,\u201d says New York photographer Diana Levine ’07, whose work spans major musicians and public figures. \u201cI remember clearly feeling like his courses were as close to magic as I’d ever experienced.\u201d Decades of students, one shared hashtag, one professor whose influence keeps showing up in other people’s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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