Art Gallery: Texas High School Students On Voting & Democracy
- digital7077
- Oct 28, 2020
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At the Texas Civil Rights Project, we want to empower young Texans to get registered to vote and active in their communities. Not only we do track compliance with the state law that mandates schools offer their students chances to register to vote, but we also find other creative ways to engage youth.
We had an open call for art submissions to showcase the beautiful work from young Texans related to civic participation, social justice, and youth voting. Below are images of the art created by Mr. Ronald Christensen’s high school art class from Alief ISD!
By Wesley Salgado Montiel
By An Huynh
By Jerry Rivera
By Javier Ordoñez
Stephanie Gómez is the high school voter registration coordinator at the Texas Civil Rights Project. Read our 2020 High School Voter Registration Report here.
This post hit me in a really human place because I remember being in high school and feeling like my voice didn’t matter in elections. Seeing these Texas students turn voting and democracy into visual art makes that old feeling crack open a little. I kept staring at Wesley Salgado Montiel’s piece. It reminded me of when I was researching 3d print project ideas for a civics class assignment that never happened. I ended up finding Gambody instead, where people turn game characters into real objects, and it made me think how art and voting are both about making something invisible suddenly tangible. These students get that. Their drawings and paintings are proof that registering to vote isn’t just a…
We had an open call for art submissions to showcase the beautiful work from young Geometry Dash Unlocked related to civic participation, social justice, and youth voting. Below are images of the art created by Mr. Ronald Christensen’s high school art class from Alief ISD!