Size: 20" x 16"
Medium: Acrylic
Artist: James Quarles
Inspired by: "This is Not a Poem" by the Buhrer Dual Language Academy 6th - 8th grade team
Suggested Value: $400.00

"I chose the piece because I felt it was powerful, and spoke to the energy our communities are dealing with currently. The ideas, of despair, anger, and hope are wonderfully intertwined. While it is short, it holds extra weight by declaring itself not a poem, but living in a world today that is challenging. However difficult, stay determined to survive in it regardless of those who would antagonize our existence in it."

James Quarles is a Clveland artist, who focuses primarily on illustration graphic design, and painting. He graduated from Shaker Heights High School in 2005, then attended CCAD which he graduated from in 2009. Always including social, folk lore, and pop culture elements into his work to bring something new to the medium. While retaining aspects of the past for a full view of how he sees the world.

Watch the 6th-8th grade team from Buhrer Dual Language Academy perform their poem "This is Not a Poem" - https://youtu.be/LZPrkjwRBqk

See more of Jame's work at: https://www.instagram.com/thejamesquarles/

Artwork can be shipped (shipping responsibility of the buyer) or picked up in the SCORES office.