Art Gallery: Texas High School Students On Voting & Democracy
Updated: Jun 8, 2023
At the Texas Civil Rights Project, we want to empower young Texans to get registered to vote and active in their communities. Not only we do track compliance with the state law that mandates schools offer their students chances to register to vote, but we also find other creative ways to engage youth.
We had an open call for art submissions to showcase the beautiful work from young Texans related to civic participation, social justice, and youth voting. Below are images of the art created by Mr. Ronald Christensen’s high school art class from Alief ISD!
By Wesley Salgado Montiel
By An Huynh
By Jerry Rivera
By Javier Ordoñez
Stephanie Gómez is the high school voter registration coordinator at the Texas Civil Rights Project. Read our 2020 High School Voter Registration Report here.
I really appreciate how the Texas Civil Rights Project is getting young people engaged through art like this gallery from Mr. Christensen's Alief ISD class - it's a meaningful way to talk about democracy and voting rights. It's refreshing to see creative civic education happening, even if my usual research is more along the lines of calculating 10k scrap gold value or checking the 10k gold price per gram for jewelry. Either way, staying informed about what matters in your community is what counts.