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June 30, 2008
You Oughta Be in Pictures Monday: San Juan Diego Catholic High School in Austin
This week’s You Oughta Be in Pictures Monday features artwork by David Baker, who graduated from San Juan Diego Catholic High School in Austin in June. (The school featured Baker’s artwork on a greeting card, which is how I got my greasy paws on it.)
At San Juan Diego, which was founded in 2002, students spend spend five days a month working as clerks or in other capacities at local businesses or non-profits. It’s one of a group of about 20 corporate work-study Catholic high schools nationwide focused on serving students from low-income families and modeled on Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago.
As part of the school’s corporate work-study program, Baker worked at the law offices of Clark, Thomas & Winters and at Dell, Inc.
Baker’s artwork presents a contemporary rendering of St. Juan Diego, an indigenous Mexican who reported seeing the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Guadalupe and having her image imprinted on his cloak in 1531. In Baker’s work, “the saint is professionally dressed like the students of San Juan Diego Catholic High School” and bears the school’s seal on his chest, according to the explanation on the card’s reverse.
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