Wyoming High's Charlie Baker Wins $1,000 for Hispanic Heritage Art
A Wyoming High School student's artwork won a national Hispanic Heritage Month contest — and now hangs inside a local McDonald's.
Charlie Baker, a student at Wyoming High School, took home a $1,000 scholarship for the winning piece in a Hispanic Heritage Month art contest. The work is now on public display at a McDonald's in the Wyoming area. It's a small, good story about a local teen getting seen — and paid — for their work.
Charlie Baker is getting a $1,000 scholarship, and it started with a paintbrush. The Wyoming High School student won a Hispanic Heritage Month art contest with a piece that beat out entries from students across the country. The scholarship money goes toward Baker's education — a real head start for a high schooler still years out from enrollment.
The artwork isn't sitting in a drawer. It's hanging on the wall of a McDonald's in the Wyoming area, which means it's basically public art now. If you're grabbing a Big Mac on 28th Street or in the Wyoming stretch of the corridor, keep an eye out for it. That's a local teenager's work, framed and displayed where a few thousand people a day will walk past it.
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The details we couldn't pin down: which McDonald's specifically, who ran the contest, and how many students entered. But the headline here is simple. A kid in Wyoming made something worth a national judge's attention, and it's now part of the neighborhood. Go see it.
