The Harlin Museum would like to announce the winners of their Annual High School Art Show, which will be on display in the museum’s Hathcock Gallery through Sunday, March 20th.
The winner of Best of Show, receiving a $100 award generously donated by our show sponsor and West Plains local business, EMoviePoster.com, is the graphite drawing entry titled Just A Boy, a high-contrast realism-style portrait of a young boy with lines of light and shadow falling across his face. The artist taking this top prize is Lyla Cornman, a 12th-grader at Mtn. View/Liberty High School.
This show included competition entries in from West Plains High School, Thayer High School, Mountain View/ Liberty High School, and Mountain Grove High School which were divided into five categories: 2D Drawings, 2D Paintings, 2D Mixed Media, 3D Mixed Media, and 3D Fiber Art. In total, the competition received 57 entries.
In the 2D Paintings Category, the winner of 1st place is the entry, Coffee Shop a colorful watercolor painting of a couple casually sitting at a café table, painted by Megan Broos of Mtn. Grove High School. The 2nd place winner, Evening Shadows, depicts another couple sitting together on a green couch in this stylized acrylic painting, also by Megan Broos of Mtn. Grove High School. 3rd place is awarded to Intentional, a multicolored double-canvas acrylic poured painting by Natalie Wiehe of West Plains High School, and Honorable Mentions for the Painting Category go to Izabella Daniels of Mtn. View/Liberty High School for Up, Up & Away, an acrylic painting of a hot-air balloon floating over desert mesas & Sunset Truck, a watercolor painting of a red semi-truck painted by Macey Penner of Mtn. Grove High School.
In the 2D Drawings Category, the 1st place winner is River Monster, a graphite drawing of a crocodile with its mouth of teeth pictured both above and below the water drawn by Riley Taber of Mtn. View/Liberty High School. The 2nd place award goes to entry Psalm 57:3, an artist rendering in charcoal of a hand reaching down toward a falling person drawn by Piper Stump of West Plains High School. And 3rd place is awarded to the entry named Static Fixation, a drawing of multiple hands that creates the shape of a ghostly face drawn by Conner Quimby of West Plains High School. The Honorable Mentions of this category are Courage, Dear Heart the incredible charcoal of a lion with a full mane by Natalie Wiehe of West Plains High School, along with Courtois Cottage, a pen & ink drawing of a charming ramshackle building by Owen Roberts of Mtn. View/ Liberty High School.
In the 2D Mixed Media Category, 1st place is awarded to Jail Break, a brightly colored rendition of a green snake breaking through a red brick wall by Courtney Crivello of Thayer High School. 2nd place has been awarded to Addison Hunter of West Plains High School for her Polaroid-like images of travel destinations pinned to framed lines of twine titled Picture Perfect Places. The 3rd place award goes to entry Greek Myth, another mixed media entry (with printed Greek soldiers) by Courtney Crivello of Thayer High School, and Honorable Mention for this category has been awarded to Luminescence, a space-themed acrylic & fiber art entry by Hailey Burke of West Plains High School.
In the 3D Fiber Arts Category, the 1st place winner is the wool felting entry of a small teddy bear named Todd by Tymber Holman of Thayer High School. The 2nd place winner, Spring Flowers, is a navy fabric embroidered with white flowers by Selena Holis of Thayer High School and 3rd Place goes to entry You Are My Sunshine by Chastity Wodinowich of Thayer High School for her embroidered entry of the same phrase.
And, in the 3D Mixed Media Category, the winner of 1st place is the complete miniature of a neighborhood pharmacy building complete with all interior and exterior details, aptly titled Browsly Pharmacy by Raymond Short of Mtn. Grove High School. 2nd place goes to the mixed media sculpture representation, Mother Nature’s Reflection, by Natalie Thompson of West Plains High School, and 3rd place is awarded to It’s In My Genes, a painted denim piece by Natalie Wiehe of West Plains High School. The Honorable Mentions in this category are awarded to a collage of vinyl records titled I’ll Be Seeing You, also by Natalie Wiehe of West Plains High School, and The Jester, a sculptured representation of a clown by Izzy Matejek of West Plains High School.
The winners of the final award of the show, the People’s Choice Award, will be decided by the public through voting at the museum gallery and through online voting on Facebook, which begins on Friday, March 11th on the Harlin Museum’s FB page (@HarlinMuseumWP). Voting ends at 2 pm on Sunday, March 20th.
