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Jan. 17, 2005
Morningside College
Art Professor John Bowitz has announced the American Vision
Award nominees and the Gold Key, Silver Key, and scholarship
award recipients for The Scholastic Art Awards Northwest Iowa
Regional Exhibition 2005.
Middle and high school
students from 21 northwest Iowa schools entered nearly 900
pieces into the competition. Of these, 310 were selected by
the judges for exhibition.
The exhibition, on
display in the Eppley and Helen Levitt
Art Galleries through Jan. 31,
is sponsored by Morningside College with support from the
Chesterman Company. Awards will be presented during a special
reception Sunday, Jan. 23, at noon
in Eppley Art Gallery. The public is invited.
The 50 Gold Key award-winning
pieces, including the five American Visions nominees, are
eligible to be selected for the annual National Exhibition
in New York City.
Jurors
for this year's competition were: John Kolbo, art instructor,
Morningside College; Terri McGaffin, visiting assistant professor
of art, Morningside College; Aaron Phillips, graphic designer,
A. J. Phillips Publishing Company, South Sioux City, Neb.;
and Nan Wilson, education director, Sioux City Art Center.
Judging for the awards was completed on Jan. 8. Award criteria
included originality, technical proficiency, and personal
vision or style.
The five students
whose works earned Gold Key awards and were
also nominated for the American Vision Award
include: Edward Castillo, Sioux City North High School; Heather
Douglas, Storm Lake High School; Tenisha
Kessler, West Monona Community School District; Irene Lopez,
Sioux City North Middle School; Elnora Turner, home schooled.
The Gold
Key Portfolio Award recipient was Andrea Mangold
of Storm Lake High School.
The following students
also earned Gold Key awards for their submissions:
Denison Middle
School - Kayla Larson, Tammie McManigal, Nelson
Mejia, Cassie Prickett, Rosario Vargus.
Denison High
School - Melissa Garrett, Cody
Melby.
Sioux City East
Middle School
- Beverly Cloud, Melanie Robinson.
Le Mars Community
Middle School
- Jeremy Bork.
Newell-Fonda High
School - Jon Ohrtman.
Sioux City Bishop Heelan
Catholic High
School - Rachel Adam.
Sioux City North
High School - Dom
Dean, Carlos Ramirez, Rattana San, Jesus Sanchez.
Sioux City North
Middle School
- Jose Gomez, Megan Marqusee, Nhut Nguyen.
Sioux City West
High School
- Anais Zemeno.
Spirit Lake
High School
- Elizabeth Alspach, Lauren Chapman, Brandon Crooks.
Storm Lake
High School -
Erin Anderson, Katia Barragan, Manivone Bourommavong, Nick
Crippen, Clare Cullen, Amanda Eike, Dustin Friesen, Alberto
Gracia, Brandon Phillips, Lorenzo Ramirez, Robert Rolon, Collin
Schultz, Jennifer Yanez.
Storm Lake
Middle School
- Kelsey Hartnett.
West Monona Community Schools - Samantha Clayton,
Faye O'Reilly, Sara O'Reilly.
Students who received
Silver Key awards for their submissions
include:
Alta Community Schools - Zoltan Grof.
Denison High
School - Sarah Hamilton.
Denison Middle
School - Kirsten Adams, Garet Friedrichsen,
Kay Lovan, Haily Nelson, Cassandra Schaben.
Newell-Fonda Community Schools - Christa Sexton.
River Valley
High School
- Sarah Knaack.
Sioux City East
High School
- William Ten Kate, Eric Moore.
Sioux City North High School - Dom Dean, Alicia McCline,
Steve Lambert, Carlos Ramirez, Brianna Weatherly.
Sioux City North
Middle School
- Elaina Ramirez.
Sioux City West
High School
- Clyde Hoffman, Casie Leckband.
Spirit Lake
High School
- Joel Anfinson, Brandon Crooks, Kalie Eckerson,
Sarah Kolar, Scott Maudlin, Greg Neppl.
Storm Lake
High School
- Evelin Aldaba, Holly Anderson,
Katia Barragan, Kellie Burke, Kimberly
Cedillo, Nick Crippen, Angela DeWall, Alison
Douglas, Heather Douglas, Dustin Friesen, Spencer McClannahan,
Luis Salazar, Ross Schultz, Benjamin Tjaden, Sandra Villanueva.
Storm Lake
Middle School
- Rylee Harrington, Joshua Greenwalt, Gina Menangkhoth, Shelby
Overmohle.
Recipients of the
Sioux City Art Center Scholarships went
to Jose Gomez of Sioux City North Middle School and Carlos
Ramirez of Sioux City North High School.
Participating
schools and teachers included: Alta Community Schools,
Jerry Braunschweig; Cherokee Middle School, Linda Ducommun;
Dension High School, Tracy Mendlik; Denison Middle School,
Pat Leinen; Le Mars Community Middle School, Jill Mitchell;
Newell-Fonda High School, Cassandra Ballou Kitt; Odebolt-Arthur
Community Schools, Twyla Godbersen; River Valley High School,
Jane Harris; Schaller-Crestland High School, Sandy Meighan;
Sheldon High School, Steve McWilliams; Sioux City Bishop Heelan
Catholic High School, Laurie Dougherty; Sioux City East Middle
School, Laura Clark; Sioux City East High School, Paul Adamson
and Jim Villim; Sioux City North High School, Erin Dahle,
Gary Ford, Jean Kvam, and Roger Lambert; Sioux City North
Middle School, Sharon Hobart, Pete Licht, and Alice Marley;
Sioux City West High School, Carrie Kuehl and Donald Trimble;
Sioux City West Middle School, Sharon Hobart; Spirit Lake
High School, Henry Hall; Storm Lake High School, Anita Coon
and Ronald Netten; Storm Lake Middle School, Barbara Patten;
West Monona Community Schools, Chere Fox-O'Reilly; home schooled,
Rebecca Leach.
The Scholastic Art
& Writing Awards were founded in 1923 and have been administered
by the non-profit organization Alliance for Young Artists
and Writers, Inc., since 1994. Morningside College, with support
from Chesterman Company, is one of the Alliance's 90 regional
partners across the country that helps administer The Scholastic
Awards on the local level.
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