The People of the Mountain
The second semester of the 2017-2018 school year in the EDGE program was all about finding your passion and connecting it to your academic and educational life--and the way that our mentors wanted us to make that connection was up to us.
The passions I had decided to focus on were the ones that were most important to me and the impact I wanted to have on my community--and those passions were my love for art and advocacy. Since I had grown up in a very artistic household--seeing as my father is a seasoned artist--the passion came very easily to me. Advocacy, however, was something I had to find and develop by myself as I grew as a person and as a student.
The art pieces shown above are of multiple historical events that high school students are never taught--and I specifically focused on the students in the Douglas County School District. Everything from the destruction of the native Hawaiian culture, to the millions of lives lost in the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s was illustrated using water color and alcohol based markers.
I was given the chance by my EDGE mentors to showcase my artistic findings and process to the community members of Parker, and it was a chance to further spread the impact I wanted to.
The passions I had decided to focus on were the ones that were most important to me and the impact I wanted to have on my community--and those passions were my love for art and advocacy. Since I had grown up in a very artistic household--seeing as my father is a seasoned artist--the passion came very easily to me. Advocacy, however, was something I had to find and develop by myself as I grew as a person and as a student.
The art pieces shown above are of multiple historical events that high school students are never taught--and I specifically focused on the students in the Douglas County School District. Everything from the destruction of the native Hawaiian culture, to the millions of lives lost in the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s was illustrated using water color and alcohol based markers.
I was given the chance by my EDGE mentors to showcase my artistic findings and process to the community members of Parker, and it was a chance to further spread the impact I wanted to.