Teacher: Brooke Adamson
School: Duluth High School, Duluth, GA

Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: "The limited amount of people I drew in the internment camp is to emphasize how isolated the Japanese prisoners must have felt despite being Americans. They are in colorful shapes because Lazo’s America was a “patchwork” of cultures, that the color of someone’s skin should not determine privilege."

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