Check out our students' works at the 2021 Queens Borough Arts Festival: https://sites.google.com/schools.nyc.gov/2021qbafva/9th-grade-12th-grade
Congratulations to:
- Shimla Akhter
- Melissa Martinez
- Hsi Ting Zheng Xue
- Ashley Offor
Being an artist made a difference in my life by allowing me to convey my feelings and ideas throughout my artworks.
Many artworks have inspired me to start sketching, painting even though I didn’t have much knowledge about Art. Also, I have few creative work experience which encourages me to be a creative person in the Art field.
I am trying to communicate the Bangladeshi Traditional Jewelry which is important to Bangladeshi culture. Jewelry is part of festivals, weddings where mostly women wear different types of jewelry.
My feelings and things I’ve went through in real time influence my art. I am able to capture these things in raw sense and it feels extremely accomplishing. A lot of the time when we think about art, we think about still life. I want to change that.
What are you trying to communicate with your artwork? (max. 50 words.)
With this artwork, I am conveying what exactly ADHD looks like when I allow my inability to focus on one thing, lead the way. I believe that ADHD is extremely misunderstood and underdiagnosed. With this artwork I am allowing myself to feel things I have suppressed for a while.
As an artist I can convey any idea or thought through drawing and make my imagination true on the paper.
When I realize I can make anything impossible true in an artwork.
I am trying to communicate a peaceful feeling through a Chinese legendary beast and human beings live in peace.
Being an artist has given me an opportunity to escape from the hardships that I go through at the moment. To pour all my emotions onto a page and the ability to move on to the next moment easily.
Every experience I go through, every mistake I make, and every emotion I feel.
In this artwork I am trying to communicate the frustration I get going through obstacles and how not every obstacle is a bad thing.