Alma Telibecirevic was a young artist living in war, and now uses art as a form of communication. (Photo by Bailey Netsch/Cronkite News)

Alma Telibecirevic grew up and went to college in Sarajevo, Bosnia, during the Balkan wars in the 1990s.

As a young artist living in war, she uses art as a form of communication now. How do humans release this kind of trauma? Telibecirevic now lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona.