XQ + For Freedoms Billboard Winners!
Be a bold voice for change
What big dreams do you have for the future of high school? We called on all students ages 13-21 to create a piece of visual art showing their vision for high school for the next generation. Their canvas? A 14’ x 48’ billboard. The prize? Seeing their art featured on a billboard in their community!
Students delivered, and we are thrilled to announce our winners! Congratulations to Olivia Wood, Karisse Dickison, Cinara Marquis, Elizabeth Zheng, Duta Dago, Tinsley Collins, Bronwyn Alexander, Elisa Hernandez, Adam Salem, Mame Issa Ndoye, and Kendric Warrick. Explore their powerful visions of racial equity, environmental justice, and acceptance for all. We can’t wait to see these dreams on billboards across the country!
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“Dreams Grow Pretty Together” is about visibility and collectively putting our differences together to cultivate a growing and productive future and present. When we put our differences aside, we mute our identities and what makes us, us. All of our
Graduated
Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH
Duta
Dago
To me, my work means that we are all connected. We are all apart of each other and are traced back to one unifying place. It means togetherness amongst diversity and difference.
Carnegie Vanguard, TX
Tinsley
Collins
How much do we really know anymore? How much is just a search engine spitting results at us. As every year goes on, education becomes more and more reliant on technology, and this is a good thing at face value.
Twelfth Grade
The Met High School, RI
Adam
Salem
In my art work I answer the question “If artists are civic leaders, how can your art support justice in education?” I think my art work clearly show the message because is shows a fist raised with a paint brush
Ninth Grade
Buffalo Academy of the Arts, NY
Kendric
Warrick
Racism is taught — no child is born with hate. As an Asian-American, I’m often horrified by the news headlines and papers that enforce many stereotypes — this was especially true during the height of COVID-19. These subtle and not-so-subtle
Twelfth Grade
Upper Dublin, PA
Elizabeth
Zheng
I find that whenever I am in nature I always feel more content, and I’m not the only one- seven out of ten children surveyed in April 2017 say that they would rather explore the woods than play on neat
Eleventh Grade
Buffalo Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, NY
Cinara
Marquis
For my piece, I chose to answer the prompt, “If artists are civic leaders, how can your art support justice in education?”. The idea behind my billboard design was to illustrate a mix of different ethnicities, races, genders, and sexualities
Tenth Grade
Center for Creative Arts, TN
Bronwyn
Alexander
I like to show snapshots of reality in the form of gestures that encapsulate life, with all of its deep dark secrets. I wanted to show the masses that the veil they use to perpetuate the ignorance of female-at-birth individuals
Tenth Grade
North Kingstown Sr. High - North Kingstown, RI
Elisa
Hernandez
This piece started with just a mechanical pencil and a sheet of printer paper on a rainy day in art class. Nearly a year later, my school art teacher told me about a billboard contest for young artists and activists
Eleventh Grade
North Kingstown High School, RI
Olivia
Wood
My question is:Can you reach help yet? What I mean by this statement is that we all have “assistance or help” at school like teachers and workers and all but why should we trust those people who are supposed to
Tenth Grade
North Kingstown High School, RI
Mame
Ndoye
