McHENRY, IL (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - An art project for freshmen at northwest suburban McHenry High School has gone way beyond the classroom and taken a place in history.
It started with an idea on a social media page for teachers, and snowballed.
The central idea: That art can be healing - and in this case, healing for refugees, or for those taking in refugees from Ukraine.
“This came about to kind of connect with that. Now we’re going to create art to hopefully evoke emotions in others and hopefully be uplifting and cheerful,” said art teacher Jessia Metropulos.
“I had some students - they jumped at this opportunity…I hadn’t seen them do much else work, or maybe this was their best project yet because they knew that it had a greater purpose.”
Seventy-three of her freshman students worked on art pieces for the project and contributed 22 squares of artwork to a slideshow of more than 1,500 pieces done by students worldwide, shared with art teachers in Poland, intended for Ukrainians.
“It was just a really beautiful process to see how some of them approached it, not only with the visuals but just kind of with the way they did it,” Metropulos said.
“And these are freshmen. These are freshman students. So it was really exciting to see that some of them took it a lot farther than I anticipated, which was great.”
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