2026 Certificate of Excellence, Grade 11
- Seyoon Byun
- Where Silence Breaks, 2026
- Charcoal, colored pencil, watercolor on paper
- 19.5 x 25.5 in
Teacher: Independent Study
School: Newton South High School, Newton, Massachusetts, US
Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: "I began depicting Jones’s story on gray textured paper with watercolors, chosen for the weight it suggests—ash, winter, the color of absence—justice and life for the Ukrainians."
Read the artist's Impact Statement.
Learn more about Unsung Hero: Gareth Jones
- Collections: Art Gallery, Gareth Jones, Wartime