family and friends, it is very important that attention is brought to this ongoing issue. Indigenous women of all ages go missing and not enough is being done. I would hope that in the future more effort can be put into finding these women. By having family and friends who are indigenous, it would be unbearable to know something happened to them.”
“The artwork is a representation of society’s response towards Asians when coronavirus cases first increased in the United States. Racism was a common theme throughout the process of creating the artwork because we thought it was necessary to highlight the racism towards all types of Asians. The flags depicted on the masks worn by the characters symbolize the diversity of Asians and refutes the ignorant idea that East Asians are the only types of Asians. The coronavirus stamp on the clothing shows how people from all over Asia are instantly labeled as a threat for their identity. Almost all of the figures are wearing prison clothing. The one exception is the boy in the center, who was drawn in a school uniform to emphasize the idea that even children at school experience racism from a young age. The American flag is drawn in the background to convey that this is the treatment of Asians in American society. The people in the artwork are standing on a floor that was modeled after a chessboard where they are seemingly pawns of American society because Asian Americans are constantly and strategically stereotyped to be outcasts.”
“My inspiration for this drawing was the very Lonely, scary and confusing year and a half in which the world was battling COVID-19. Our community was forced to go into quarantine which led lots of people to self-evaluate and think about what changes they would like to see in themselves and the environment around them. Personally during these difficult times, I have learned how much of an impact I can make as an individual. Each and every one of us have the power in our hands to create a better world for ourselves and the power to help others around us stay safe, mentally and physically.”
“My entry used lanterns, which represented the hope that each person had. Each lantern stood for each of their hopes and wishes that they want to come true. The person with the lantern in front stood for my own personal hopes. I believed that by using lanterns, I could show that each person has a hope like a burning passion inside, like how a fire lets the lanterns fly up into the sky.”
“As an upcoming voter, I feel as if the responsibility to fulfill my civic duty of voting and remaining informed on pertinent issues has only grown exponentially in the past months. For many young women like me, Ruth Bader Ginsberg was an intellectual role-model who paved the way for the continuation of gender equality; for young women like me, Ruth Bader Ginsberg was a hero. Voting, to me, means fighting to uphold the gains bought by those before us and continuing the battle towards what we believe is right. Therefore, I created this oil painting in Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s honor as a homage to her reputation as the “Notorious RBG”. I hope that by voting, I can create a future that this former Supreme Court justice could have only envisioned.”
“For the past 4 years, I’ve been wanting to cut my hair. I was never truly able to describe it other than I hated having long hair because of the maintenance. Only this past year was a finally able to cut it and seeing myself with short hair brought me a feeling that I can’t even begin to describe the feeling. A year after I initially wanted to cut my hair, I realized that I was queer and I started labeling myself as a lesbian as the term just made me feel comfortable. And that’s all I ever truly look for, comfort. Comfort in, my body, my sexual preferences, and my gender identity. Once I cut my hair it felt like I could breathe and I saw myself in the mirror. So I translated that feeling into this piece of me cutting my hair, all in the lesbian flag colors.”
My submission is about who I am grateful for, my sister Lisbeth she is like a mom to me because my mom was always busy so she would take care of me and she taught me everything. I wanted to show my sister how grateful I am and a result of working on this project is that my sister is now aware of how much I am grateful and appreciate her.
I created an eye with everything i’m grateful for like my family, my pets, my friends, food, a home, trees, the earth, exercising, money, my education, and Jesus. I made this because I though it was very creative and unique. A new thing that I learned while working on this was that I really got to think about what i’m grateful for and why i’m grateful for that.
My submission is a double exposure on adobe photoshop. Its about me being happy and glad about my culture. I tried to add as much as I could to show the great things about my culture. Im most grateful for my culture because it allows me to know where me and my family come from. There are so many great people that I was able to meet.
I choose this category because I want to bring awareness to it. I had once lost a lot of weight due to me being very sad. It was fairly noticeable and people started to commented about it. Some of the words surrounded by the women in the drawing are what people said to me. I then started to binge eat in order to gain back all the weight I lost. I would try to eat as much food as I could, unespecially unhealthy ones. I wish I would’ve known back then that there were oraginzations out there willing to help me.