Co-presidents of Medium: The Art Club at UAB Katelyn Ledford and Jacob Phillips distribute silhouette portraits made in collaboration with the Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs 2015 graduating class, Sunday, May 17, during graduation ceremonies at Canterbury United Methodist Church in Birmingham. Photo by Jared RaglandYoung students from The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs have had their silhouettes and creative inspirations preserved in a “legacy” piece of artwork with the help of students from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Each year, the center invites an artist or group of artists to collaborate with the center’s students and create a work of art that commemorates the graduating class and is placed on permanent display at the center’s facilities in Homewood.

Seven students from the UAB College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Art and Art History and Medium: Art Club at UAB jointly planned and implemented this year’s legacy piece. During visits to the center throughout the spring 2015 semester, UAB students drew silhouette portraits of each child and invited them to fill the silhouettes with paints, markers and crayons. The portraits were then digitally scanned, composited, printed onto canvas and presented to The Bell Center during graduation.