Twin Falls High School senior, cancer survivor brightens up the hallways with a mural
Nevaeh Andrade painted a mural in a once empty hallway at Twin Falls High School for her senior project.
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — Students in their last year of high school are often tasked with completing a senior project. This includes charity events, community outreach and art projects.
At Twin Falls High School, one senior shared her gifts to brighten the hallways.
Nevaeh Andrade graduated early from Twin Falls High School this past semester, but on her way out, she spent countless hours leaving her legacy as a Bruin through this mural now on display in the G-hallway.
“My first day that I spent which was only drawing out everything including like the lines in this like sketch that was about 12 hours, and then every pretty much every day after school I was here from for four hours so for a good three weeks,” Andrade said.
Finishing this mural was long and, at times, challenging. Still, it was a labor of love for Andrade, who said she has gone through far more challenging obstacles and experiences that she used as inspiration.
“I’m actually a cancer survivor,” Andrade said. “I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma on my twelfth birthday and so I grew up in Colorado. At the children’s hospital there, it’s one of, like, the best in the country. There’s so much colorful paintings, and honestly the art style I chose is similar to a lot of the paintings that are in the hospital.”
Andrade celebrated the five-year anniversary of becoming cancer-free just this month.
While all the images in her mural are connected to Twin Falls, the bruin you see has some characteristics that make this work of art more closely connected to the artist.
“I gave him {the bruin} my most defining characteristics you could say so. I’m a huge music lover, like that is my huge thing that I love. I also gave him my earrings and the bracelets of course are matching, so I wanted to make it my mini-me.”
Andrade also aimed to inspire other students to make art like this, and she has already seen some of that come to life in the same hallway.
“There’s a lot of paintings and stuff in like the main hallway of the school but there’s as you get further towards this way there’s a whole lot of nothing. But ever since I finished my mural, I’ve noticed there’s posters all over this wall when there used to never be any sort of posters or anything it was just empty,” Andrade said.
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