{"id":142018,"date":"2021-04-15T07:02:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T12:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=142018"},"modified":"2021-04-16T07:14:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T12:14:06","slug":"student-artists-get-recognition-year-after-ywca-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/04\/15\/student-artists-get-recognition-year-after-ywca-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Student artists receive delayed recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the teen-aged artists are no longer Van Wert Middle School students, an art project they were involved with as eighth graders received some recognition — albeit a year late, due to the COVID-19 pandemic — Wednesday evening at the YWCA of Van Wert County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Students artists pose with their artwork from an eighth-grade project after being recognized on Wednesday in a delayed event held at the YWCA. Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

YWCA Director of Advocacy Kelly Houg opened the ceremony to unveil seven paintings that represent the words in the YWCA\u2019s mission statement: \u201cEliminate racism, empower women, promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VWMS art teacher Trinda Keber also spoke briefly about the project, noting she was excited when the students in her Independent Art class last year began telling her of their ideas for the project she assigned them: to create artwork based on all or a portion of the YWCA mission statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought \u2018oh my gosh, this is going to be beautiful; this isn\u2019t just going to be something they\u2019re going to put in the basement\u2019,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each of the students, now all freshmen at Van Wert High School, spoke briefly on their individual artwork, which embodied either the entire mission statement or individual words in the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Verville said she painted Native American woman Sacagawea and used her statement \u201ceverything I do is for my people\u201d to represent dignity. Ella Hernandez painted Rosie the Riveter flexing her muscles to represent the idea of empowering women, while Emma Wallace painted Rosa Parks with a bus behind her to represent \u201celiminating racism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Gage Stemen, the only boy in the group, noted that his painting, which showed chains falling from a person, represented the word \u201cfreedom\u201d, while Debbie Jones\u2019 painting incorporated peace signs and included a partial quote from Jane Goodall that said: \u201cWe can have a world of peace, we can move toward a world where we live in harmony with nature. Where we live in harmony with each other. No matter what nation we come from.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citlali Aguilar-Montiel\u2019s painting represented several of the elements of the mission statement and showed a black woman, along with quotes from a number of pioneering black women, such as Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexis Pangle\u2019s painting incorporated the entire mission statement and showed Lady Justice holding her scales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each of the student artists received a gift from the YWCA in appreciation for their artwork, which is now hanging in the YWCA\u2019s boardroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor While the teen-aged artists are no longer Van Wert Middle School students, an art project they were involved with as eighth graders received some recognition — albeit a year late, due to the COVID-19 pandemic — Wednesday evening at the YWCA of Van Wert County. YWCA Director of Advocacy Kelly Houg opened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 17:06:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}