A Supplement
This year, I pushed myself beyond my comfortable bubble of AP classes and small art competitions and forced myself to be proactive rather than reactive about how I approach the opportunities presented to me. This has included experiences that were not reflected in my original application to Harvard.
I have never been overtly “political” until his inauguration. As the daughter of two political refugees--my mother, a Georgian, fled her native Abkhazia in the 1992 just as legions of her people were being massacred, and my father escaped Cuba’s oppressive and economically crippled government soon after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991--and as an illegal alien in the land call home, I can no longer remain silent. Current events have galvanized my energy and reinforced beliefs that I falsely assumed the average American held. When I attend protests and rallies and create art centered around my experiences, I doubt their effectiveness, but at least I can say I convinced one person to join the cause. I will never remain silent in the face clothed or naked injustices.
The medium of art has granted me a platform to disseminate a message to …show more content…
As part of the program, six of my artworks were displayed at the Eisemann Center for Performing Arts in Richardson, TX throughout the month of April and I will be participating as an artist at Cottonwood Art Festival, the Dallas area’s busiest and most selective art festival, in May. Selling my art and communicating about it in a social rather than an academic setting has been a completely new experience for me and it has allowed me to expanded my art’s audience. The program has exposed me to what it means to be an artist in the “real world,” which includes balancing costly art supplies and overpriced prints by means of marketing a tangible expression of the