Each month, the Shaker Heights High School art department selects a work of art by one of its many talented students to be displayed at the Administration Building. Now on display: Lady in Red, a mixed media painting by High School senior Victory Farrell. Gold flecks of modeling paste adorn the subject's hair, while her dress is fashioned from actual fabric. Victory wove a brass cuff onto the subject's arm to complete the three-dimensional effect. The piece is one of a series of four portraits of women that she created in her Portfolio class. Victory also created companion pieces for each portrait in her jewelry class.

"I was inspired by the natural hair movement going on right now, and the idea that darker skin and curly hair can be beautiful," says Victory. "I wanted them to be women of power, which is why they each have a crown or head dress of gold."

Victory's work received an Honorable Mention in this year's Scholastic Art Show.