North East Central Ohio Scholastic Art Awards

NECO Scholastic Art competition

Artwork was submitted from middle and high school art teachers throughout Stark, Summit, Portage, Medina, Wayne and Tuscarawas counties for consideration in the 2010 North East Central Ohio Scholastic Art competition. The judges boiled down 194 excellent portfolio entries to 23 gold winners and looked at three thousand individual entries awarding 297 silver and gold key winners. The exhibition of all silver key, gold key and portfolio winners will be on display January 19 through February 4 in the Campus Center and the Fine Arts Building at the Stark County campus of Kent State University.

The awards ceremony will begin promptly at 10:00 am on Saturday, January 23 in the Conference Center on the KSU Stark Campus.

Each middle school art teacher could submit 25 pieces of artwork. Miller South students fared well in the competition receiving eleven Honorable Mention awards, nine Silver Keys and twenty-two Gold Keys. Congratulations to these students receiving recognition:

Seventh grade students:

McKenna Carder: Silver Key

Carly Chelovitz: Gold Key

Melanie Darrah: Honorable Mention, Gold Key

Erica Kraus: 2 Honorable Mention awards

Isabella Maguire: Silver Key

Lucien Milford: Gold Key

Tess Powers: Silver Key

Erin Siegferth: Honorable Mention

Madison Starks: Silver Key

Abbey Sutula: Honorable Mention

Annie Tsai: Gold Key

Eighth grade students:

Nick Antenucci: Honorable Mention

Aaron Byrd: Silver Key

Maggie Dempster: Honorable Mention

Jihad Dennis: Gold Key

Grant Foster-Davis: Gold Key

Elizabeth Garner: Honorable Mention, Silver Key

Ben Gfell: Silver Key, Gold Key

Noah Gfell: Gold Key

Henry Gunther: Honorable Mention

Genna Hailey: Honorable Mention

Shelia Jenkins: Gold Key

Marty Lee: Honorable Mention, Silver Key and Gold Key

Joanne Lutman: Gold Key

Demetrius McGhee: Gold Key

Richard Milford: 3 Gold Keys

Samantha Sebree: Gold Key

Kevin Staley: Silver Key

Matt Wilson: Gold Key

Ashton Wood: Gold Key

Megan Zanin: 4 Gold Keys

NJAHS to sell buttons

National Junior Art Honor Society members have been designing and assembling buttons to sell to the school. The unique buttons will sell for $1.00 each and be available during lunch the week prior to Valentine's Day. There are lots of new designs this year!

First Night Black Light Art Exhibit

Photos top to bottom:

• Miller South area of the black light exhibit

• Henry Gunther, Breanna Nixon, Michael Gunther and Mrs. Yingling inside Soppeland’s monster sea creature

• Breanna Nixon cheering for Akron in one of the photo op windows

University of Akron Art Professor, Mark Soppeland, again hosted a fun international black light art exhibit in Summit ArtSpace during Akron's First Night celebration. Students in Mrs. Yingling's visual art interest area classes and her sixth grade exploratory class participated in the exhibit by creating black light paintings depicting their interpretations of this year's theme - Creatures of the Midnight Sun. Students looked at historical "creature" references and mythological creatures studying their characteristics and features. The exhibition room was lit solely by black lights giving each painting, drawing and collage a totally new color scheme. By midnight, the room was nearly filled with artwork created by First Night visitors. Each student received a voucher for a First Night admission button that allowed them entry into all the Akron venues.