Alecia has many random talens, mainly focusing on art in various forms. From drawing and painting to crafts there is always an element of artistic expression present. At a very young age she showed skill in her elementary school art classes, recieveing certificats for Gift and Talented art two years in a row. She was also participating in an after school art enrichment program called, Kids R Smart which she was awarded for Outstanding achievement. By then she was in middle school and yet again her talents won her a certificate for her skills in Exploring art 1, which helped place her into the next years Select Art class. The select art was a more intense and varied program of study than a typical art class. Her second year in this program was also the last year in middle school before she would become a high school student and was an exciting time because all students of the Select art program were eligible to participate in a Summer workshop called PAVAN (Performing and Visual Arts Northwest), if the student recieved a teacher recommendation. Alecia did recieve that recommendation. This program was very exclusive and required an fifteen minute interview with accompanying porfolio samples before admission. Alecia was accepted to the program and as a result has her first art showing at Shenandoah University.
