$6,000 Grand Prize 2021, Grade 12
- Taylor Yingshi
- Illuminating the unseen, 2021
- Digital art.
- 16.5 x 13 in
Teacher: Mark Moody
School: Issaquah High School, Issaquah, WA
Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: “A fervent activist for the rights of Japanese Americans, Yasui was staunchly proud of his nationality in a time when the Japanese endured unconscionable maltreatment in America. I decided ukiyo-e would be an apt way of symbolizing this Japanese pride.”
Read the artist's Impact Statement.
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