well, pedro fuller has been here for 35 years.and creating art is his passion as well..dan cuellar shares his inspiring story. in 1979, and at just 17 years old, local artist, pedro fuller escaped the ongoing war in his home country of nicaragua to live with his mother in camden. you stay over there you die easy because the war very, very heavy coming over here my mother told me, you go to a school or you go to, to work. whatever you want, i put it in your hands a student at a fine arts academy. fuller opted for education, attending woodrow wilson high school and later graduating with a degree in painting from the pennsylvania academy of the fine art. i remember for somebody bring to me one book......what, let me see, wow...big impression for me and later for me i do my first painting. fuller's day job is a custodian on the camden campus of rutgers university.but the hours are never an issue when it comes to perfecting his art.working mostly in oil and pastels, his images are often abstract in style.reminiscent of pablo picasso or chagall. people like my colors, my shape