You would expect nothing less than a perfect grade in art from a person who had the vision to transform old, worn, beaten and weathered flip-flops into beautiful art. And three years after finding her first flip-flop on the beach and thinking how she could use it to make something greater and coming up with the idea to paint it, Naima Nixon’s still going strong with her Exuma Flip-Flop art, and she scored an A grade on her Bahamas Junior Certificate (BJC) exam which she sat in eighth grade.

Today, Nixon, 13, feels that her flip-flop art has also served as an inspiration to other people, who she said literally bring her bags of flip-flops as she adheres to her mission to reduce, reuse, recycle, restore and replenish; and she continues to go flip-flop hunting as well.

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