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2012 Niobrara Valley Conference Art

A Dark and Stormy Day

April 30, 2012

The 7-12 Art students competed in the annual Niobrara Valley Conference Art show and earned a total of 113 ribbons.  The show was hosted by Lynch Public Schools.  Students loaded the van and headed to the show at 7:30AM on Friday, April 27th in the rain. The categories students could enter their work in included; Black and White Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Colored Drawing, Design, Printmaking, Photography, Painting, Mixed Media, Fibers, Sculpture, Pottery, Collage/Assemblage, Multicultural/Ethnic/Heritage and Miscellaneous. The students were responsible for not only creating their artwork but also for prepping the work for the show.  Every student must make sure their work is matted, framed, has hangers on it and a completed tag.  Any work not properly prepared for the show is not entered.  Students who choose to attend the show are responsible for hanging and taking down all artwork the day of show.

Once the work has been hung and displayed, students may earn a Purple ribbon or Judge's Merit Award for Outstanding work, a Blue for Superior work, Red for Excellent, Yellow for Commendable or Green for Honorable Mention work.  Judging this year's show was Jim Taylor of Stuart and Teri Schacht of Orchard. While the judges were busy judging the students had the opportunity to draw in the cafeteria and then watch  the movie "John Carter" at the local theatre as it rained and thundered. After the movie we took down the work and made journey back to Elgin.  It rained the entire trip home. 

But on the bright side, the High School students earned a total of 70 ribbons that included 14 Superiors, 24 Excellents, 7 Commendables and 25 Honorable Mentions.

Cody Currah-6 Honorable Mentions

Ryan Meis-1 HM

Danny Smith-3 Superiors, 5 Excellents, 2 Commendables, 1 HM

Tre Henkenius-1 Excellent and 1 HM

Shane Vanis-1 Excellent and 1HM

Brian Finkral-1 Superior, 2 Excellents and 1 HM

Juliana Dunn-1 Excellent and 2 HMs

Dean Braband-2 Excellents, 1 Commendable and 3 HMs

Victoriah Fangman-1 Excellent

Tyler Smith-2 Commendables and 2 HMs

Kaley Hoffman-1 Superior and 1 Excellent

Cordell Waterbury-1 Superior and 2 HMs

Angela Richart-5 Superiors, 4 Excellents, 1 Commendable and 4 HMs

Tiffany Vaughan-3 Superiors, 4 Excellents, 1 Commendable and 1 HM

Ashlyn DeWald-1 HM

 

The Junior High earned a total of 43 ribbons that included 3 Judge's Merit Awards, 10 Superiors, 12 Excellents, 7 Commendables and 11 Honorable Mentions.

Individual ribbon winners were;

Jaime Hoefer-1 Judge's Merit, 1 Excellent and 2 HMs

Christian Lundgren-1 Judge's Merit Award

Taya Voborny-1 Judge's Merit, 3 Superiors and 1 Excellent

Taylor Sehi-1 Commendable

Nick Iburg-1 Excellent and 2 HMs

Kelsey Welding-1 Excellent

Geoffrey-1 Excellent and 1 HM

Elienne Heilhecker-1 Superior, 1 Excellent, 1 Commendable and 1 HM

Avenley Short-1 Commendable

Brandi Sanderson-1 Excellent

Zoey Bergman-1 Commendable

Austin Dohmen-1 HM

Luke Walsh-1 Excellent

Anthony Getzfred-1 Superior and 1 Excellent

Morgan Carpenter-3 Excellents

Tiarra Thramer-1 Superior and 1 Commendable

Kenny Bush-2 Superiors and 1 Commendable

Taven Cameron-1 Superior and 1 Commendable

Dylan Widger-1 Superior and 1 HM

Ryan Warner-2 HMs

Alois Warner-1 HM