Entering the 7th grade I made the decision to join the art club, something that influenced my entire high school career. Art club was a place where nobody was judged based off their personality, self-expression was never discouraged. Joining art club as a tiny 7th grader, we became friends with some of the senior high art club members, who became our mentors, likewise we developed friendships with our peers in the year above us. Every year when Olympics of the Visual Arts season came around we would spend countless hours at school working on our project. Some of the closest friendships I have stemmed from art club, as we developed our own inside jokes, to watching countless weird YouTube videos in order to draw inspiration. Art club allowed
