Students in the public art installation class started to finish their self-portrait project, which showed a meaningful part of themselves. 

Junior London Norris completed her project with a focus on track. 

“Track is my primary sport, so I decided to do my project about running track,” Norris said. 

Her art piece was constructed on a thick circular canvas that was painted red with white stripes to represent the lanes on a track. She added some green foliage in the middle of her canvas that represented a field in the center of the track.

Last year, Norris, who runs track for Kinkaid, earned second place in the 4-by-4 race in the Southwest Preparatory Conference championships for Texas private schools.

Another student, junior Thomas Carr, said he didn’t really have many ideas for his self-portrait project. He decided to work outside in the sun, creating an art piece with stairs leading down to a beach.

“It was a beach I used to go to a lot when I was a kid and so it was kinda like nostalgic,” Carr said. He felt that this beach was a little part of him that he wanted to represent in his self-portrait project because it meant something to him.

Junior Lindsey Karkowsky chose to make a sculpture instead of using a canvas for her project. 

“I did a sculpture instead of painting because I thought it would be way cooler if it was a 3-D design and I spray painted everything because the quicker the better,” Karkowsky said. 

She placed figures that looked like skiers on a mountain to show what place her project represents.

 “I did butterflies to show the emphasis that I like to travel and I travel to Colorado,” she said.

Onyi Ndee, a junior, was another student who said she didn’t really have a direction.  

“I wanted to go with this, so I just put my name,” Ndee said, as she painted her name  and pasted it onto the canvas she was using.

Her painting had an all-black and dark gray background with her name in light and bright colors.