Rock Bridge senior Abby Thompson won the grand prize at the CoMo 200 Pupil Artwork Competitiveness in Columbia city hall’s historic lobby.
The university student art opposition featured artwork from Thompson and 12 other college student winners: Jannah Akorjia, Ingrid Stroessner, Sheza Shahid, Addie Stroessner, Jackson Subject, Connor Make a difference, Keeley Fizer, Cordelia Maltsbarger, Kylie Greer, Madison Diel, Landon Viers and Elizabeth Henderson.
Their artwork centered on the theme of beating struggle all through Columbia’s 200-year background. Mayor Brian Treece identified the learners Tuesday evening at the art competitors hosted by the Mayor’s Bicentennial Undertaking Drive.
“In a year that we’re celebrating Columbia’s previous, I’m so thrilled about how brilliant our upcoming is,” Treece stated.
Treece mentioned he’s glad to see the students building visual expressions of Columbia’s individuals, structures and capabilities as a result of their art.
Pleasure Bess, Columbia General public Schools social research coordinator, said she hoped the youngsters could locate a connection to the local community and its background via this party.
“That was the considered, that little ones could detect with the truth that we have struggled with plenty of things in Columbia’s 200 decades of historical past, just like we’ve struggled this year with the pandemic,” Bess stated, “and how we can glimpse for items in Columbia and present examples of conquering these obstructions.”
The college student winners are elementary, middle and substantial university students from colleges close to Columbia. Pupils submitted their artwork from late October to mid-November. The featured artwork integrated images, graphic style and drawings.
Thompson’s grand-prize-winning piece was a Katy Path compilation. She came up with the notion for the design although strolling alongside the path with her family members. She precisely remembers going for walks below and mastering about the Roche Percée All-natural Arch.
“It talked about how Lewis and Clark went earlier that, and it is however there today, and you can obviously see what it seems like,” Thompson said. “It’s baffling to me that all this land has been around for so lengthy and so lots of historic men and women have absent past it and I get to expertise the exact thing.”
The submissions have been each judged on their performance, relevance to the theme, creativity and neatness. Each and every student also wrote a paragraph about how their artwork associated to the competition’s topic.
The artwork will be moved to displays at Joe Machens dealerships during Columbia. It will also be integrated in a journal that commemorates Columbia’s bicentennial.