Kicks galore!

Yesterday, we started our sessions at Jefferson High School. This school was specifically chosen for the program because of their Creative Arts & Expression Learning Community. To say it simply, these students are talented. Wow.

A big group of us traveled down to Jefferson today to begin the painting process. The students were quite excited. We walked into Room 155 with two big boxes filled with shoes and another box filled with brushes and paints from Angelus paints.

Some of the students already finished their templates when we started today so they were able to start painting right away after we spoke to them for a bit about their shoes. Some of the issues they are illustrating are global warming, gang violence, war, pride, self identity and more! Not only were these students socially conscious but they were also very aware of how they want their shoes to look. They are definitely artists to say the least!

This student in this picture on the right is Bree. She is customizing shoes based on global warming. She is currently working on the flames part of the artwork. She will be also drawing an earth on the top of the shoe to symbolize how the earth is essentially burning/on flames because of global warming.

There are more pictures of our sessions in the Gallery. I definitely encourage you to check them out. I can't wait to go back tomorrow and see the rest of their work!