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Student Voice Revealed
Student Voice Revealed

“Equality is my main thing.”

Maria Castro is in the seventh grade at Hamilton Grange Middle School and a participant in Creative Art Works in-school digital art program, where she has been creating posters that promote social justice issues that matter to her. Maria says her opinions have been shaped by her family and her teachers, but she has also been influenced by the social upheaval happening around the world in recent years.

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empowerment, graphic arts, in-school, middle school, mixed media, Multimedia, public speaking, social justiceBrian RicklinCreative Art Workart education, Art, arts, girl power, DOE, Harlem, interview, youth development, youth voice, BLM, in-school, HGMS, Hamilton Grange, middle school, Mark Levine, student, student voice, pixlr, remote, arts education
A Thread Connects Them
A Thread Connects Them

“Design is design, whether you are cutting and pasting with paper and scissors or 'cutting and pasting' on a computer. Kids who have a chance to do both make those connections.”

— CAW Teaching Artist Brandi Martin Yu on the common thread between CAW’s Book Arts and Digital Arts after-school programs at PSMS 278 in Manhattan.

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