Teacher: Jenny Ihn
School: Tenafly High School, Tenafly, NJ

Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: "It was Payne’s resilience in the constant pursuit of knowledge and opportunity that made her shine brighter than any star she ever studied…I wanted to display all of her passions; from the tools that she used to the observatory that she worked in I wanted to make her more than just someone who analyzed the heat and composition of the stars..."

Read the artist's Impact Statement.

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