Tamir Hardaway had been living in Montgomery for a couple of months when he drove by an outdoor event at the Urban Dreams Fine Art Center along South Court Street. Just 13, his life recently had been uprooted when he and his family left their California community and its rich arts and cultural scene to move to Ridgecrest — an area vastly different from the only one Hardaway ever had known. “It was a major culture shock,” said Hardaway, part of Lanier’s Class of 2021. “It was a change in speed and change in mindset.” The center, a nonprofit with a mission to offer artists a space to create and share their work, was the…
