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Canfield students showcase artistic talent
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Canfield Local Schools Student Art Show Best of Show winner Bonnie Anderson stood by her winning piece, Plastic Meltdown, at the show May 21. Anderson, a senior, will attend Columbus College of Art and Design in the fall.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Canfield Local Schools Student Art Show First Runner-Up Candace Smith displayed her works of art during the show May 21. Smith, a senior, will attend Columbus College of Art and Design in the fall.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Junior Kasey Hood took third-runner up at the Canfield Local Schools Student Art Show with the above piece May 21.
By ABBY SLANKER
Families, friends, students, community members and art enthusiasts attended the 2015 Canfield Local Schools Student Art Show, which highlighted works of art from C.H. Campbell Elementary School, Hilltop Elementary School, Canfield Village Middle School and Canfield High School, at the high school gymnasium May 20-21.
More than 1,000 pieces of art were displayed from high school art students alone. Senior art students created their own display booths and chose which pieces of art from their classes they wanted to showcase.
The art students used several mediums to create their pieces, including computer graphics, 3-D sculptures, digital imaging, movies, pencil drawings and oil on canvas.
Each piece of the high school students’ art was entered into the judging. Medals were awarded to the top 60 award winners, with trophies going to the top 10 winners.
The top 10 included: best of show - Bonnie Anderson; first runner-up - Candace Smith; second runner-up - Lauren Adams; third runner-up - Kasey Hood; fourth runner-up - Alexa Bodine; fifth runner-up - Bailey Brocker; sixth runner-up - Kaylee Whistler; seventh runner-up - Tara Rogers; eighth runner-up - Lily Hodge and ninth runner-up - Kristen Hood.
Judging the art show was Joyce Mistovich, Director of Education at the Butler Institute of American Art and Edie Davidson, retired from a 35-year career in teaching Art at Boardman Local Schools.
Kathryn Antal and Kevin Hoopes are the Canfield High School fine art teachers and Pete Graff is the computer graphics instructor. Nancy Hulea and Heidi Garwing serve as art teachers at CVMS and Diane Leonard is the elementary art teacher at both Hilltop Elementary and C.H. Campbell Elementary.
Best of show winner Anderson, a senior, will attend Columbus College of Art and Design in the fall.
“I am very excited to have won Best of Show. And I’m excited to be among so many talented young artists. It has been a dream of mine since I was a freshman to be named Best of Show,” Anderson said.
First runner-up with her piece “White Umbrella,” Smith, a senior, will also attend Columbus College of Art and Design in the fall.
Teachers Hoopes and Antal are very proud of their students.
“We have such amazing kids. We really appreciate how hard they work,” Hoopes said.
“It is so rewarding to see what all the students do. We are so proud of all of them,” Antal said.
The art show brought together several types of art, including wood tech, engineering graphics and family and consumer science. The Canfield High School Jazz Band, under the direction of Mike Kelly, and other student musicians performed during the art show.
“We wanted to get everybody involved in the show this year to showcase all the arts and artistic talent of the students. Everyone has been very supportive of the show and we really appreciate it,” Hoopes said.