Art Imitates Art

photo by Chris Gato

The Sunday New York Times profiled Amanda Yoakum, an artist who uses plain white Nike sneakers as her canvas. The shoes are beautiful and the article definitely a good read, but I couldn’t help but get the nagging feeling that I’d read something like this before…

Last year, students in the Mural Arts, Big Picture Art Education program completed:Art & Sole: Walk a Mile in My Shoes… a project in which young artists used plain white Nike sneakers as their canvas.

*Note to the Times and anyone else interested, take a minute to check out our students’ work:

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