ARTEFFECT at MCAAD: Visualizing Impact

On Site Exhibition
Jar of the Known Truth by Alyssa Knapper Image: $750 Certificate of Excellence 2024, Grade 11
$750 Certificate of Excellence 2024, Grade 11
Jar of the Known Truth by Alyssa Knapper Image: Jar of the Known Truth (Side View)
Jar of the Known Truth by Alyssa Knapper Image: Jar of the Known Truth (Side View)
Jar of the Known Truth by Alyssa Knapper Image: Jar of the Known Truth (Side View)
Jar of the Known Truth by Alyssa Knapper Image: Jar of the Known Truth (Side View)

Jar of the Known Truth

  • Ceramic, plaster, tissue paper, coffee, watercolor, acrylic, and fake moss.
  • 10.5 x 9 x 8 in
  • Alyssa Knapper

Teacher: Shelley Self (2023-2024 Ambassador)
School: Coweta High School, Coweta, OK

Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: "The base of my artwork represents the tree, where she hid the Jewish families’ identification away from the Germans. On the base, which is a stump, is an imprint of an apple symbolizing the apple tree she hid the names under…Sitting on the stump is a milk jar in which she hid the true identities of the Jewish children and their families."

Read the artist's Impact Statement.

Learn more about Unsung Hero: Irena Sendler

  • Subject Matter: Irena Sendler
  • Created: 2024
  • Collections: Arrived April 2025, ARTEFFECT: Visualizing Impact at MCAAD, Awardees, Irena Sendler
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