Stoneleigh-Burnham School Student Wins International Art Award

5/2/16 — Stoneleigh-Burnham School student Maia Castro-Santos ’20 recently won the $2,000 Junior Division prize in the Unsung Heroes Art Competition for her paper collage of civil rights pioneer Sylvia Mendez. Castro-Santos portrays Mendez as a young girl surrounded by words that defined the racism and discrimination of her time.

The Unsung Heroes Art Competition was sponsored by the Lowell Milken Center (LMC) for Unsung Heroes, part of the Milken Family Foundation. Castro-Santos’ winning collage was chosen from a pool of nearly 300 entries and 40 finalists. Her piece is to be displayed in LMC’s Hall of Unsung Heroes in Fort Scott, Kansas, a new museum and exhibition space opening in May 2016.