Featured Artwork from the 2024 SOS ART Youth Exhibition!
Leading up to, and throughout, the SOS ART Youth Exhibition we will be featuring artworks from the students of Southwest Ohio who used their voices to address issues of peace and justice. The exhibition, now in its 3rd year, is a collaboration between the National Art Honor Society members of Oak Hills High School, SOS ART, and the art educators of Southwest Ohio. This year, we will be featuring the work of over 250 students from: OHHS, Butler Tech School of the Arts, St. Ursula Academy, Mount Notre Dame, Seton, Princeton High School, Taylor High School, Sycamore High School, Mariemont High School, Summit Country Day School, and Frederick Douglass Elementary School. SOS ART
Addison Vilaboy
Homeless Cycle
Pencil, sharpie, and gel pens
14” x 11”
11th Grade
Mount Notre Dame High School
Denise Scharf
"This is an artwork that's meant to signify homelessness. The carelessness of the hands at the top all the way to the eagerness of the hands below represents the constant cycle that could be ended through more awareness and thought. The words shown at the bottom half of the page are the same four phrases repeated thus representing the cycle. The coins being dropped with a risen pinky was a direct decision, representing society's outlook of "proceeding with caution", and the respondent being the hands below showing the want and need of coins. A black background is shown alongside the repeated words because the hands are all that needs to be seen. Homeless cycle is drawn with pencil and only a little bit of sharpie. I see this work as a way to get the people in this world to move forward in the right direction, to encourage others to think about this issue that plagues the world and to do something about it."
