Art for orphans: High schoolers draw portraits
As Tiffany Zeigler stared at a completed portrait in the art room of Hanover High School, something didn’t look right to her.
To the untrained eye, the portrait looked finished. But Zeigler wanted to get it just right. Picking up a set of pastels, she got to work changing the shading of the portrait.
Soon, the portrait would be shipped to Mexico, where it would be placed into the hands of a girl Zeigler had never met, although she had been staring at her face for weeks.
Students in the National Art Honor Society at Hanover High School have been working for three weeks on The Memory Project, a national program that pairs American students with children and teens in orphanages around the world.
The students receive a photo of the child or teen with whom they’re paired and do a full-color, realistic portrait of them.
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