A crowd estimated at 200 parents, grandparents, friends and students came to the opening reception and award ceremony of the Mabel B. Annis Student Art Competition at the Brown County Art Gallery on April 10. Three Brown County High School and two Brown County Middle School students were among the winners this year.
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A crowd estimated at 200 parents, grandparents, friends and students came to the opening reception and award ceremony of the Mabel B. Annis Student Art Competition at the Brown County Art Gallery on April 10. Three Brown County High School and two Brown County Middle School students were among the winners this year.
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A crowd estimated at 200 parents, grandparents, friends and students came to the opening reception and award ceremony of the Mabel B. Annis Student Art Competition at the Brown County Art Gallery on April 10. Three Brown County High School and two Brown County Middle School students were among the winners this year.
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A crowd estimated at 200 parents, grandparents, friends and students came to the opening reception and award ceremony of the Mabel B. Annis Student Art Competition at the Brown County Art Gallery on April 10. Three Brown County High School and two Brown County Middle School students were among the winners this year.
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“See You Again” by Brown County High School student Illyana Cox received a judge’s award during the 22nd annual Mabel B. Annis Student Art Competition. The student art exhibit will be on display at the Brown County Art Gallery until May 8.
Haylee Niedbalski | The Democrat
“Forever Falling in Love, Forever Broken” by Brown County High School student Lora Lloyd received a judge’s award during the 22nd annual Mabel B. Annis Student Art Competition. The student art exhibit will be on display at the Brown County Art Gallery until May 8.
Haylee Niedbalski | The Democrat
“Path in the Wilderness” by Brown County Middle School student Tristan Martin received a judge’s award during the 22nd annual Mabel B. Annis Student Art Competition. The student art exhibit will be on display at the Brown County Art Gallery until May 8.
Haylee Niedbalski | The Democrat
”Head Bone” by Brown County High School student Alyssa Schrader received a judge’s award during the 22nd annual Mabel B. Annis Student Art Competition. The student art exhibit will be on display at the Brown County Art Gallery until May 8.
Haylee Niedbalski | The Democrat
”Self Portrait” by Brown County Middle School student Madison Kakavekos received a judge’s award during the 22nd annual Mabel B. Annis Student Art Competition. The student art exhibit will be on display at the Brown County Art Gallery until May 8.
Haylee Niedbalski | The Democrat
For the last 22 years, the Brown County Art Gallery has hosted the Mabel B. Annis Memorial Student Art Competition as a way to give young Hoosier artists a chance to compete and exhibit their work in a professional gallery.
Each year, Brown County students receive recognition for their work and this year’s competition was no different. Brown County High School students Illyana Cox, Alyssa Schrader and Lora Lloyd all received $100 judge’s award for their work. Brown County Middle School students Madison Kakavekos and Tristan Martin also brought home judge’s awards.
The competition is open to schools in seven surrounding counties with a chance to win cash prizes and the opportunity for students to sell their work. Students competed in drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, pottery and animation categories.
The $200 Best of Show awards went to students from Bloomington South High School and Jackson Creek Middle School. Teachers from both of those schools also received the competition’s $250 Teacher of the Year awards. Twenty teachers also received $100 stipends.
A crowd estimated at 200 parents, grandparents, friends and students came to the opening of the student art competition at the gallery, 1 Artist Drive, on April 10.
Funding for this competition comes from the Mabel B. Annis Trust in the Brown County Community Foundation, the R.B. Annis Educational Foundation, Indiana Heritage Arts and the Brown County Art Gallery Foundation.
The student art exhibit will run through May 9.
The Annis Memorial Trust has provided over $4,300 in prize money each year, while the gallery’s foundation has provided gallery space and administrative services, said Lyn Letsinger-Miller, the Brown County Art Gallery Foundation president.
Over 14 schools participated in the competition this year.
Indiana Heritage Arts, a nonprofit support group for Indiana artists currently on display at the art gallery, has also provided funds and judging expertise. IHA hosts one of the largest art competitions for heritage style Indiana artists each June with over 200 of Indiana’s top artists competing for over $20,000 in prize money and awards.
The competition is a way to encourage students and art teachers during a time when school systems across Indiana are having to reduce art programming, according to the gallery.
Organizers hope that in the future prize money can be increased and scholarships can be offered.
Anyone who wishes to contribute to this competition can call the gallery foundation at 812-988-4609.
