LDSB student celebrates Black History Month through art piece
Global News
A LDSB high school student is celebrating Black History Month through an art piece that she has created and displayed in the front foyer of her school.
A wall of Black history and celebration is what greets those entering Loyalist Collegiate and Vocational Institute (LCVI) this month.
Weeks of work and planning went into an art piece made by Grade 12 student Tanesha Duncan-Zulu, all in honour of Black History Month.
“I really wanted Black individuals to feel represented in Limestone,” Duncan-Zulu says. “And also just to plant a seed so that other people can kind of like follow what I’m doing next year and the years after that.”
The LCVI student is also the Limestone District School Board’s (LDSB) urban student trustee.
She brought the idea for a wall’s worth of Black history and a collage-style art piece to her school’s administration.
“It’s a beautiful, powerful piece which celebrates Black excellence, Black culture, Black bodies and it’s just wonderful,” says LCVI Principal Margaret Connelly.
“We are so thankful to Tanesha for her leadership with this, it’s just an amazing, amazing piece that we can showcase in our front foyer for all of our students to see.”