In the winter of 2016/2017, seventeen students from Goddard High School in Ozone Park, NY, painted five large canvases that honor the diversity, sacrifice and courage of veterans and their families who, “gave up their today for our tomorrow.” The original canvases will be on display at the St. Albans Community Living Center, a
Veterans Affairs facility in Jamaica, Queens. Reproductions of the canvases will
be used to beautify a local thoroughfare.
The artwork was created as part of a Creative Art Works after-school program that included an employment component. Apprentices were guided by professional teaching artists from the initial concept development through the client presentation, to the final brush stroke and public unveiling.