What's striking about her portfolio isn't just the technical range, oil and acrylic, charcoal, mixed-media collage,  it's the seriousness of the questions she's asking. A still life becomes an exploration of how perception fragments and reassembles reality. A sculptural figure balanced on a painted globe becomes a meditation on collective responsibility. A collage of graphite and newspaper positions the viewer not as an observer of global suffering but as someone implicated in it. These aren't student exercises. They are works with a point of view. The IB Diploma Programme in Art asks students to develop exactly that: a coherent artistic vision, grounded in inquiry and expressed across a sustained body of work. Shinjini's recognition is evidence that the process, when a student commits to it fully, can produce something genuinely worth noticing.

Families who would like to learn more about the IB Diploma Programme are welcome to reach out to Upper School Director Ty Hathorn at Ty.Hathorn@AlcuinSchool.org