It was in Worcester that Noriyoshi Needle’s love for art blossomed.
Growing up in New England’s second-largest city, Needle, 27, often spent time at the Worcester Art Museum, or “WAM” as he affectionately calls it.
Whenever he wasn’t taking his scholarship classes there, Needle spent countless hours admiring contemporary art exhibits, such as a painting of a fisherman surrounded by sharks with slack jaws and piercing eyes…