A teenager accepted into a prestigious art school is to hold an exhibit to raise funds for her tuition.Sarai Hines, 17, is the recipient of an $8,000 scholarship to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.The MFA is one of the most respected art museums in the United States. The school is associated with Tufts University.“The exhibition will help me to fundraise for my schooling and also get my name out there because I want to come back to Bermuda and teach,” said Sarai, the daughter of Kira Hines. “I want to get my bachelor’s degree in fine arts and then hopefully have my own art studio.”She knew since she was little that she wanted to do something in art, but was inspired to become a teacher by the late Adam Goodwin who worked as boatswain’s mate and watch leader on Spirit of Bermuda. He died in a road traffic accident in October 2010 at 22 years old.“I went on the Spirit of Bermuda with my class at Saltus Grammar School,” she said. “I really bonded with Adam. He died two days after we got off the boat. Seeing how much he touched my heart, I want to do the same thing for other people. He inspired me to live every day as though it was your last. I want to do what he did for me touch people’s hearts. I was also inspired to teach by my Saltus art teacher, Fiona Murdoch. ”In Mr Goodwin’s honour she has painted his portrait in her favourite medium, watercolours.“I have used everything from oil to acrylic to charcoal, but my favourite is watercolour and that is what I do my portraits in,” she said. “I love doing faces because I feel like it brings out the expression in someone else or helps to lighten someone’s mood. Through my work, I want people to get the feeling of what I was feeling. I often express feelings and emotions through my art that I can’t say in person.”Miss Hines does commissioned portraits, designs tattoos and recently started taking commissions to decorate sneakers.Her career choice hasn’t been well received by everyone, she said.“I have heard ‘Oh, you shouldn’t do art’ plenty of times. Or they say ‘Maybe if you want to do art you should do graphic design because that is what we have here’. I am like ‘No, I want to be a teacher’. I want to teach at the secondary school level, because hopefully by that level I will be teaching students who have chosen to study art. I also wouldn’t mind teaching younger students.”Her show, featuring approximately 30 works, will hang in the lobby of Coco Reefs hotel from 5pm to 7pm on Sunday.For more information visit Facebook and look under Sarai Hines, artist.