Grace Van Aken

Biography

The west west hall art program is one of the most amazing things that has happened to me in my high school career. Art has helped me to open up to so many people. Art has helped me look inward at my own emotions. Art has been my life for so many years and the art program has been at the center of it for four amazing classes. I've found real friends, adults I trust, new media that I've fallen in love with. Art has been my escape from all the bad in my life, and there has been so bad. Art is a big part of why I'm still here and I only realized that recently. As bad as my life has gotten or how close to an edge I've been, the people I've learned to love here have always been there. If i only reach out there are right there. Art has been my world, my support, and a way to make so many connections I couldn't have lived without it.