Teacher: Doris Valdez
School: Capital Christian High School, Sacramento, CA

Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: "For this piece, I tried to represent some of the things Lead Belly left behind when he began making music. Off his right shoulder is the inside of a jail cell, and off his left is a cotton field and an outline of Louisiana, to represent where he was born and what he left behind when he departed at an early age. But towering above it all is Lead Belly himself, along with his guitar, which traveled with him throughout his lifetime and journey."

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