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Life is a Puzzle, Solve It Drug Free

The Leadership class made art installations to represent the impacts of drugs and alcohol
The Red Ribbon Project installment.
The Red Ribbon Project installment.
Emily Klug

 

  • Anderson Day chooses to represent the statistic by putting many clocks to make the word seven to show one deadly hour in time. “I thought it would be good for people to put into perspective what other people are going through around the world,” said Day.

  • Jerry Benton, DeRay Coleman, Peyton Hess, Jacob Hodecker, and Keegan Ruebling made a stack of newspaper that has pilled up outside of a persons house that has died from a drug overdose.

  • Samaria Martin-Pope painted an image depicting a person drinking and another person smoking. She painted this because she felt that, that was the best way she would be able to depict the tragic and unnecessary lives that were lost due to alcohol cirrhosis.

  • For Rose Basler’s project for Red Ribbon Project, she wanted to choose something that caught peoples eyes and best represent drug and alcohol awareness. Throughout the Red Ribbon display each ribbon is coordinated to every project to tie it all in.

  • Addison Blair, Gavin Guiett and Addison Tubbs, made a tower of red silicon cups that usually represent partying and drinking. In this project each cup represents two drunk driving accidents per year in the Unite States of America.

  • Giovanni Moraies, Olivia Otten and Muryn Wallace made over 1000 chain links to represent 3,460 high school students who vape.

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Red Ribbon Week is technically in October but the Leadership class did not have enough people enrolled to make the projects. They called it the Red Ribbon Project so that they would be able to make the installment in April and May. The teacher for the class is Nick Saubers who helped his students by showing them different art installations. The students started by finding a statistic about drugs and alcohol and then finding out what kind of visual they would want to use to depict their statistic.

“We tried to use something that would be kind of a gut punch for the audience, something that always gets me is the ‘Red Solo Cup Project’ because you usually think of those as partying and having fun and here it is representing death and destruction,” said Saubers.

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