Honoring and Expressing Intersectionality Through the Visual and Performing Arts

Fantasy Landscapes

L. Trentyn Hogue

This work is exploring things that show my uniqueness.  The creature (Kraang) is me in a land that is protected by lions.

Zombie Wolf

Savannah Haas

This piece is unique because it is a Wolf that you can see through.  I love to tell stories that are about unique experiences. This story is about a zombie wolf and it took me a long time to make the wolf.  I almost gave up but I am happy I did not quit.

Zentangle

Mikey Reece

Mikey is a very independent student who likes to get actively involved in what everyone is doing. His first question is always "what are we doing today?"  

Circles

Damian Kelly

Student created his work choosing his own designs for his zentangle circles. Damian works with reminders and loves to participate and make his own choices in class. 

Stars in the sky

Piper Dollison

Piper created this by needle felting in a group that I was very worried about letting them try the needle on the sponge. I was worried about if they accidentally poked themselves there would be a lot of emotions. She was a champ and very independently worked on felting her fibers and sewing in the stars. She did have help threading the needle and knotting the thread. 

Night sky

Heavenleigh Bousman

Heaveleigh choose and felted her colors into her night sky, when she was finished she choose to sew gold beads into the sky. 

Night Sky

Mike

Looking at a night image Mike collected the colors he saw and laid them down in the places he thought it should be and felted down his fibers. He sewed on his gold beads for his stars in his sky. 

See Me

Pranav Bhansali

I created this self portrait with patterns to express my uniqueness.  I want people to see and understand me.  I love colors and painting.  

Dixie

Dixie Starcher

Students were looking at bubble or block letters to design their names. Students were introduced to various shading techniques such as, Cross-hatching, Scumbling, Pointillism and smooth gradient and used those techniques to shade their names. 

Purple

Sarah Evener

In Sarah's school she participates in art with her peers in the school, it is the only class during the day where she will see some of these friends. Her peers are creating very similar images with more complex graphite values on their names. 

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Rachel Evener

Student drew out her letters designing them with various shading techniques. Cut the letters out and put them on her watercolor designed background. 

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Eli Holly

Eli works independently in his aided class, he does need reminders of what is needed next. 

every little creature needs rest.

Leo Saunders

As a trans person with ADHD, I've spent a lot of time trying to be who others expect me to be and function how they expect me to function. But neurodivergence and queerness aren't the issue; the fast-paced, impersonal, success-based society we live in isn't built for any human to thrive. When I get caught up in trying to perform personhood perfectly, things start to fall apart inside. In truth, no one has it all figured out. We're all just little creatures doing our best. And every little creature needs rest. 

Butterfly

Rihana Knotts

I worked on my own with my peers choosing my colors that went with my emotional butterfly. I made a rainbow on the body. 

Boundless

Conor M.

Conor’s painting captures the uninhibited creativity of a 2.5 year old exploring the world around them. And approaches intersectionality from a unique perspective—one, for the time being, oblivious to preconceived notions

Butterfly

Zoey Rinehart

This project is an emotional butterfly where the student choose two emotions in which to paint their butterfly. Happy and Angry were Zoey's emotions. 

Color

Dakota Adams

Dakota drew out the letters of his name. He had help laying them out and tracing them onto the larger paper. He painted in all the sections with bright vibrant colors. 

I Am a Person First

Denise Griffin

I wrote this based on my observations of others' reactions to my students.

I’m Tired.

Vivian Rose

Poetry has always been a powerful outlet for me in times of stress and has helped me not only have an opportunity to express myself, but to get to know myself and understand my own feelings better. Our society is not set up in a way that naturally supports all people. Still, through collective community, art, organization, and so much more, we are learning how to not only be unapologetically authentic and true to ourselves and our needs, but to celebrate doing so. With my work, I hope to shed a little light on the inner workings of a depressed person’s mind.

Lines

Joshua Nelson

(Lines intersect):  Their lives intersect with all the students in our building. They have a few classes with students who are not in their focused classes and it is beautiful to see their excitement and connectedness when they come together. 

My lines

Cole Burwell

Students were given string to wrap around the wooden blocks. They colored the yarn lines with watercolor marker and stamped them on damp paper. 

Color and Lines

Daryl Washington

Uno

Joseph Woods

I picked the uno card to make a self portrait because I like the skip card.  The skip card makes me laugh with others.

Happy Pink Daisies

Hayden

Red Rose, Blue Daisy

Kodi

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Jameson

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Chloe

Pink Lines

Allie Allen

Allie's project relates to the theme as she is woven into the fabric of her class and creates Art with her community.