STEM Launch student voices have become permanent art

STEM Launch was one of several schools in Adams County that participated in a collaborative public art piece that was permanently installed at the Adams County Government Center. Student Voices of Adams County also had fellow schools from the Five Star District like Century Middle School and Thornton High School collaborate on. The entire project was worked on by over 200 students across Adams County.

From Adams County Cultural Arts:

Adams County Cultural Arts is excited to share a new collaborative public art piece permanently installed at the Adams County Government Center. Student Voices of Adams County is a collaboration between over 200 students from Aurora Central High School, Bennett Middle School, Century Middle School, Hidden Lake Secondary School, Prairie View Middle School, STEM Launch, Thornton High School, and artist Mollie Hosmer-Dillard.

From November 2023 – May 2024, Hosmer-Dillard led workshops at seven different schools across Adams County. These workshops served as opportunities for students to express their concerns, excitement, and hopes for their futures. From these discussions, the students and Hosmer-Dillard created a large-scale “multi-vocal” painting, an art piece incorporating the perspectives of many different people using hand-painted tiles.

Student concerns about war, homelessness, climate change, and mental health rose to the top of these discussions. Realizing how interconnected these issues were on a personal, local, and global scale, students chose seed-shaped tiles as a symbol of home, shelter, and a place to grow. The image of a seed also speaks to a dichotomous core and outer shell, representing how the personal and global are interconnected.

Dive deeper into the stories and process behind Student Voices of Adams County in this short documentary.