Students from Solvay High School create portraits for children in Mexico

Prior to the end of the school year, students in the Solvay High School Advanced Drawing and Painting class participated in a class project to create portraits for children from Mexico. Students in Kim McGraw’s class painted and drew portraits of the children, as a part of the Memory Project. Earlier this year, students also painted and drew portraits of children from Syria. https://www.solvayschools.org/districtpage.cfm?pageid=689

The Memory Project is a nonprofit organization that engages art students from schools throughout the United States. The project aims to create realistic portraits for orphaned and disadvantaged kids from different countries around the world. The latest project allows Solvay students to provide the children with meaningful pieces of personal history. This is the eighth year Kim McGraw has participated in the Memory Project.

“Over the years we have done portraits for children in countries across the globe,” said Mrs. McGraw.

Since 2004, the Memory Project has created more than 100,000 portraits for children in 43 countries. Each child receives multiple unique portraits, as several photos are taken of each child in different poses. For more information on the Memory Project, visit the website at https://memoryproject.org.  
 

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