Art 4 students receive prize money for their pieces
It would be great if all of our class projects could win us up to $500, like it did for seniors Emma Li, Jennifer Wibowo, and Ana Gash.
Insurance company Blue Coat sponsored an art competition between 27 schools with about thirty submissions per school from May 17 to 19. Out of all the schools, MVHS won the $5000 grand prize for the art department.
As one of the winners, Li explained that the contest was important to her because it showed that she had the artistic ability to succeed in her future creative career. Her abstract drawing on a woman and an animal started out as portfolio piece for art schools, but in the end, landed her $500.
Art inspires all three winners in contrasting ways.
“I don’t have to think.. I can put it all out there and [others] can interpret it however they want, but I know the real meaning,” Wibowo said, who had painted a narrative self portrait and won $100.
Gash, on the other hand, talks about her passion—photography.
“It’s a way to express without words…[and] its not something a lot of people are good at,” Gash said. “It was an honor to earn something for our school.” Gash won $50 as Honorable Mention in the photography category.
To all three of the art students, art means something unique and this specific contest was a simple matter of pride and confidence.
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