Scholastic Art Awards 2012

Well, Sarah has done it again. Once more, she had work featured this year in the Scholastic Art Awards student art competition. Her Gold Key winning pieces were displayed at PNCA during the month of February. Viewing the work in this room full of fabulously creative art by talented middle and high school students was impressive, to say the least.

We attended the Artists Opening Reception on February 2nd and enjoyed seeing her work shown alongside the other students' from the Portland metropolitan area. The awards ceremony itself was held at the Newmark Theater in downtown Portland in February 22nd. It was so inspiring to be in the presence of such talent!

Sarah won Gold Keys for two pieces:

"Self-Portrait in the Style of Alice Neel"
 
She's also entered this in a scholarship competition through the Portland Women's Club in April. Fingers crossed.

"Untitled" book arts sculpture (since then renamed "Unreadable").
 
She's entered this in an exhibit at the Walters Cultural Arts Center in Hillsboro in May. Fingers crossed again...

Sarah was also part of a group whose paper dress won a Gold Key. Although her name wasn't on the submission (and, thus, the Gold Key was not presented to her), I think she deserves credit for her part in the project. It's shown here on a very manly mannequin. :-) Enlarged, you may notice that the skirt is made from old sheet music.

This class project culminated in a multidisciplinary show wherein the dresses were modeled by class members via a runway fashion show. Dance department students coached the models in their runway walks and filmmaking students captured it on video. Click on the link below to view the entire show.

ACMA 2011 Paper Couture Fashion Show

Photography students captured each look as still photos which were then compiled into a 2012 calendar. Sarah's group's dress made the cover!
 

Scholastic also awarded Sarah's pastel, "Sofa", an Honorable Mention.

We're so proud of Sarah's work and are hopeful that the strength of her portfolio will help her in her search for college admissions!


Update 3/30/12:
Sarah received word that "Unreadable" was accepted into the Questioning Functionality 3 art exhibit at the Walters Cultural Arts Center in Hillsboro. It will open in May. This will be her first non-student exhibit - so exciting! Way to go, Sarah!

Sarah Goes GOLD!

Thursday night we attended an awards ceremony at the Pacific Northwest College of the Arts for the Scholastic Art Awards.



Sarah was among the local student artists being honored. Her art teachers urged her to submit some of her art pieces to this annual competition. She sent three entries in, and one of them was awarded a Gold Key - the top award. We are really proud of her for putting herself out there and for working so hard to achieve this honor. Congratulations, Sarah!



Her piece is a chalk pastel drawing of a bowl of fruit - a classic still life, right?



Maybe not... Is that mold on that orange? Is that pear rotting? The apple has worms in it! And, are those fruit flies circling overhead?!



The assignment was to draw something ugly in a beautiful manner, and Sarah stuck her tongue firmly in her cheek with this concept of a typical still life that isn't. Pretty clever, I think...

Several of her friends were award winners, as well, some Gold, some Silver, some Honorable Mention (a status Sarah achieved last year). She's in with a talented group of friends who support each other. That's always a healthy environment for budding artists.



If you're local and want to see some of the amazing art at this exhibit, it's on display through Saturday, January 23rd at PNCA.