The all school art show was held April 25 for two dimensional and three dimensional work. Junior Leslie Zhang won best in show for her two dimensional and sophomore Sophia Gotch won best in show for her three dimensional piece.
Art teacher Gillian Bailey and ceramics teacher Susan Simonds recruited local artists to come and judge the 2-D and 3-D pieces separately. Bailey and Simonds said the judges were looking at the art pieces a couple of hours before the start of the show choosing winners.
For both 3-D and 2-D art there were six categories. Each category awarded first second and third place along with an overall honorable mention and best in show.
The categories for 3-D included best use of texture, most adventurous, best teapot with cups, best craftsmanship, best functional and best non-functional.
The categories for 2-D art included most expressive, best color portrait, best black and white portrait, best painting, best drawing, and best print.
Zhang said that her inspiration for her winning piece came from Bailey pulling her away from her reoccurring motif of hands.
“[Bailey said] that I should stray away from hands for my next piece’s subject matter. So I drew an amputee,” Zhang said.
Zhang had previously won first place for the most expressive category last year for her pastel piece of shoes along with other non-school related art contests.
“I encourage fellow art students to bend the rules to suit yourself,” Zhang said. “To challenge what is considered [a] socially acceptable subject matter.”
Simonds said that she is very proud of the outcome of the work.
“I think the level of work is exceptional and the kids have worked very hard,” Simonds said. “All their hard work has paid off and it shows. They’ve done really well.”
Bailey said that the work really speaks for itself.
“The quality and the effort that shows through and the creativity and the originality is really nice,” said Bailey.
2-D Winners:
Best in show: Leslie Zhang
Honorable mention: Kai Ra Essig
Most Expressive:
1st Sophia Mills
2nd Catherine Phillips
3rd Mei Mei McComb
Best Color Portrait:
1st Natalie Phillips
2nd Robert Yu
3rd Niamh Evenhouse
Best Black and White:
1st Madison Tenney
2nd Matt Leong
3rd Ryan Siu
Best Painting:
1st Eric Wen
2nd Saya Leist
3rd Dominic Frost
Best Drawing:
1st Marie Marchant
2nd Tiger Leet
3rd Rachel Hodgson
Best Print:
1st Brian Ford
2nd Anna Morris
3rd Nate Levinson
3-D Ceramics
Best in Show: Sofia Gotch
Honorable Mention: Kailey Devereaux
Best use of Texture:
1st Max Braun
2nd Hannah Castle
3rd Mariah Pappy
Most Adventurous:
1st Claire Valva
2nd Tom Jara
3rd Kyle Castro
Best Teapot with cups:
1st Laura Rennels
2nd Abby Hansen
3rd Eric Solnordal
Best Craftsmanship:
1st Antionette Navarro
2nd Eliza Kauffman
3rd Yianni Gougoumis
Best Functional:
1st Kieran Baack
2nd Katie Hubert
3rd Kim Souza
Best Non-functional:
1st Megan Wilensky
2nd Julliette Lucas
3rd Kelsey Waggener
