Artist: Ivy

Age: 18

Description: “This was inspired by David Bowie. Upper left is oil paint, upper right is acrylic, lower left is oil pastels and lower right is color pencil. This was entered into the school district art show.”

Artist: Sneha

Age: 15

Description: “Every element in this piece will symbolize not only cultural preservation, but the flourishing of my heritage to this day. The main message I wanted to convey with my artwork, is the amazing fact that the culture curated by legendary south asian poets, artists, singers, and dancers over 5,000 years ago has been kept alive and still regularly practiced to this day. The background shows ancient art that can be found in a similar style on the walls of ancient caves found in south asia, and the crumpled washed-out look of the design in the background symbolizes the old age of south asian culture. I used pencil, charcoal, and water color on this art piece.”

Artist: Emma

Age: 15

Description: “For my art project I painted the two main characters from the show ‘Young Royals’. I chose to do this because the show really speaks to me as a young queer person, and I loved the representation in it. For this project I used colored pencil, acrylic paint, and gauche. For the paper and origami hearts at the bottom, I used ripped up pages from an old book and watercolor paper that I splatter painted on.”

Artist: Collin

Age: 14

Description: “The drawing was made using charcoal and graphite pencils in his sketch book. This is his interpretation of a villain he saw in a movie (though he doesn’t remember the name).”

Artist: Tyler

Age: 13

Description: N/A