YCS_Art Highlight_pcv258.mp4

FESCH.TV INFORMIERT:

Student art projects inYCS, Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Ypsilanti Community Schools was the first district in Michigan to be invited to have artwork on display at the U.S. Department of Education in Washington D.C. Students created artwork based on the themes of Diversity, Equality and Justice, three tenets taken from the YCS mission statement of preparing students to thrive in a community that respects these values, for an exhibition titled Public Education. Ypsilanti community members then chose the final works to travel to Washington D.C. Through a year and a half of fundraising, the YCS art department, participating students and families, and community members and businesses helped raise over $50,000 to take the student artists to Washington D.C. for the grand reception planned in their honor for May 16, 2020. Then the Covid-19 pandemic arrived. The whole trip, exhibition and reception was cancelled.

They displayed their artwork throughout the city and celebrated this project and the message they carried at this event.