The portrait depicts Varina High Principal Cherita Sears, who became the first Black woman to serve as principal of the school after taking the position in 2023.
For a once all-white segregated school, and the first in Henrico to be desegregated, the moment is absolutely something to be celebrated, Mack said.
Im proud of her. And it's a huge accomplishment for Varina as a whole, he said. [The painting] also just felt like a good way of honoring where I came from and what brought me up to become an artist today.
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