Senior Dylan Stilley of Albany High made this copper art piece titled “Strutting in the Spring” in the hopes of “capturing the essence of the American Turkey.” He created the piece by starting with paper and then working in the shapes and patterns into the copper.
Rayanna Pena, a sophomore at Albany High, made this piece called “Risen” to depict “nature pushing through and prevailing in a dead, distraught land.” In her watercolor drawing, sunflowers are seen clinging to life.
This piece by Ferny Moncayo, a seventh grader at Albany Middle, titled “The Bag of an Alligator,” is a watercolor and ink piece meant to depict an alligator trying to protect its skin. Dots of red, signaling blood, are splattered all over the painting as Moncayo tries to say “it isn’t right to skin animals.”
Emma Miranda, a freshman at Albany High, sculpted a tree using recycled water bottles to show “how trash affects the environment so easily.” She collected all of her water bottles from the last year for the piece.
This piece titled “Butterflies of Louisiana” is a collaboration of artwork from Albany Middle students who researched images of the butterflies that are native to the state. The piece includes 14 drawings of eight different butterfly species.
Nicholas Waguespack, a junior at Albany High, made the pieces “Fish,” far left, and “rash Wave,” far right, to depict littering that takes place on beaches and in the ocean. The middle piece, done by senior Jaden Clark, is a painting of the ocean and is meant to show how “in the future, water will take up the majority of Louisiana if we don’t protect our wetlands and barrier islands.”
Sophomore Kymren Pecoraro of Albany High describes this acrylic paint piece as “something really ugly that has a beautiful meaning.” She used hot glue to spell out the word “pollution” in the smokestacks coming out of the factory.
Brennan Demarest from Albany Middle made a three-panel comic strip that “makes a point on owl safety.”
This photograph taken by Hailey Bullock, a junior at Albany High, depicts insects clinging to life in the aftermath of the Great Flood of 2016.
This photograph taken by Haliey Bullock is part of a series that depicts insects suffering following the Great Flood of 2016.
This photograph of a spider was taken by Albany High junior Hailey Bullock after the Great Flood of 2016 to show that “everything had a hard tie during the flood, not just people.”
This acrylic painting done by Mallorie Leeper of Albany High shows a turtle swimming in the ocean and being confronted by two jellyfish and three plastic bags. In her artist statement, Leeper said “the big idea of my piece is that whenever we put plastic bags in the ocean, it affects the animals.”
