Student artwork advocates for global citizenship

Sacred Heart art students annually participate in the Memory Project which enriches cross-cultural connections.  The Memory Project's goal is to enhance global citizenship through gifting hand-painted portraits from high school artists to under-resourced children in orphanages around the world, according to memoryproject.org.  The mission of the project is to create a positive memory for the portra...

The ongoing climate crisis intensifies global precipitation and temperature patterns, increasing extreme environmental events, according to nationalgeographic.org.  The continuation of destructive and deadly natural disasters such as forest fires, hurricanes, heat waves, poor air quality, floods, droughts, and storms call for climate action.  In the last 30 years, the number of climate-related n...

Junior Gigi Gazal compiled a variety of different newspaper articles from the past three years into a collage that focuses on the violence directed towards Muslim refugees as wells as the difficulties Middle Eastern citizens face.  The piece also includes images of protests against the unjust treatment of refugees and the militarism within countries. Gigi created the piece "إنساني," which tr...