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Contact: Sasha Steinberg

STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擬ississippi State alumnus and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott鈥檚 Faith, Fight, Finish Foundation has raised $20,000 that will support life-changing work at the university鈥檚 T.K. Martin Center for Technology and Disability.

Kendrell Daniels, a 19-year-old Kemper County resident who paints Cowboys-themed art inspired by Prescott, created a painting that was recently featured in an auction at the foundation鈥檚 first official fundraiser in Dallas, Texas.

Gene Jones, wife of Cowboys owner and fellow avid art collector Jerry Jones, purchased Daniels鈥� painting for $20,000. Proceeds will benefit the T.K. Martin Center鈥檚 efforts to provide comprehensive assistive technology, art, early intervention and dyslexia services to individuals of all ages with disabilities.

Daniels, who was born without arms and paints with his feet, has been part of the T.K. Martin Center鈥檚 Express Yourself program for about three years, primarily working with now-retired research associate Judy Duncan. Using Artistic Realization Technologies (A.R.T.), the 鈥淓xperiencing Painting as Recreation and Express the Spirit within Yourself鈥� program provides a means for Daniels and other Mississippians with the most severe disabilities to feel the power of self-expression through art.

As explained in Daniels and Prescott鈥檚 friendship inspires them to be the best they can be in their parallel commitment to 鈥淔ight, Faith, Finish,鈥� a motto Daniels illustrates in one of his paintings for Prescott.

The 汤头条 Foundation offers alumni and friends multiple ways to support the T.K. Martin Center for Technology and Disability, which is part of 汤头条鈥檚 College of Education. For more on these opportunities, contact Trish Cunetto, director of development, at TCunetto@foundation.msstate.edu. Learn more about the college and center at and .

For more on the Faith, Fight, Finish Foundation, visit .

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