Fourteen high school artists won a contest with their visual art and written companion pieces on celebrating harmony.
By DONNA WINCHESTER
Published May 12, 2004
ST. PETERSBURG - Surrounded by friends and family, 14 of the area's most talented young artists were honored at the Arts Center's Risser Gallery on Saturday.
The students were among 57 who entered the Word and Image high school show, the final installment in a series of exhibits sponsored by the downtown gallery and Pinellas County Schools.
Top awards went to Laura Andersen and Susan Thompson, 11th-graders at Dixie Hollins High, and Max Gauthier, a ninth-grader at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High.
Several students earned honorable mention: Brian Harrison, a 10th-grader at Calvin A. Hunsinger School; Tyler Noble and Christine Pestana, 12th-graders, and Justin Bohannon, a ninth-grader, at Dixie Hollins High; William Everett, Keelan Stroble, Laura Spencer and Matthew Gladson, ninth-graders at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High; and Gisel Calvo, an 11th-grader, and Tabitha Karcher, a 10th-grader, at Northeast High.
Additionally, Samantha Mancino, a ninth-grader at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High, won a Pinellas County Art Educators Association Young Artist award.
The Arts Center invited the students to create visual art with a written companion piece on celebrating harmony for the show. Patt Fosnaught, curator of education at the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, selected the winners.
The Word and Image high school show will be on display through June 25 at the Arts Center, 719 Central Ave. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday; and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
