It’s taken a couple of years, but some artwork created by former Kell High School students in conjunction with the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame finally got a public viewing this week.
A belated 2020 induction ceremony took place on Monday, Aug. 1, the first day of the new school year in the Cobb County School District, and artwork prepared for each inductee was presented in person.
The Kell art department began a partnership with the Hall of Fame in 2014 when Corky Kell, the late Wheeler High School football coach and Kell school namesake, was inducted posthumously.
Laura LaQuaglia, the former Kell art director who’s now the Supervisor of Learning Design and Visual Arts for the Cobb school district, was on hand for the presentations.
The inductees included former Atlanta Falcons placekicker Morten Andersen, former Atlanta Hawks center Dikembe Mutombo, and ex-Georgia Tech football All-American Calvin Johnson.
Mutombo’s artwork was created by a basketball player—Kya Williams, a star point guard on Kell’s 2020 Georgia High School Association Class 5A state runner-up team.
“The induction ceremony events are always an exciting time where student artwork is celebrated,” LaQuaglia said in a release issued by the Cobb school district.
“Normally, the students would get to meet the esteemed athletes they have researched, but because of the quick notice of the rescheduled event, we were not able to have the former students present at the event.”
Since 2017, the partnership has continued under her successor, Julie Denison.
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