AHA Art Going Round the World for a Good Cause

AHA Art Going Round the World for a Good Cause

Jag News Staff

An Atrisco Heritage Academy High School art project that will travel around the globe could raise thousands of dollars for a school in Kenya.

The Vihiga Education City school is based on Christian values and principles. It is a school for students as young as three up to nine years old.. Founded in 2007, the same as Atrisco Heritage Academy, the new school has many needs. The AHA project will help them purchase basic supplies and equipment for their students.

Several classes taught by Robert Carr are participating. Students designed pictures based on a theme. The students picked “Passion” as their theme. That inspired different drawings. AHA students started the drawings, and then picked six to be shipped out to schools across the world to be viewed and expanded on. The art was sent to schools in Ireland, Kenya, Arkansas, Colorado and Oklahoma.

“This project is a living piece of art," Carr said. "Students from around the world have view it and some will then put their own perspective on it and it will be returned to us here at AHA. We'll then see this work of art and all the influences that went into making it."

After the art comes back to AHA, Carr and the Jaguar students will organize an auction in May to sell the pieces.The potential for selling these international works of art is incredible, he said.

"The school in Kenya needs many things. It is a new elementary school," Carr said. "It’s a lot like our school, but it is not completed yet. I do want our students to be part of something much larger than just their circle here in Albuquerque."

One of the art students, Crystal Ampuran, said her passion is art, so she created a drawing she hopes others will be interested in as well. “I am so glad to be able to help someone else in another part of the world.”