Van Gogh Gallery the Panhandle Art Center in Amarillo
At two of the exhibit halls at the Amarillo Museum of Fine art, pieces of art fill up the walls, featuring dissimilar styles and various discipline thing, giving members of the public the chance to see the artists' respective visions.
Visitors to this Texas Panhandle Student Art Bear witness, all the same, are going to be exposed to the visions of numerous pupil artists through the more than than 700 pieces of fine art featured in this exhibition.
Students from the Amarillo, Canyon and Bushland independent schoolhouse districts are featured in this end-of-year pupil art exhibition, which runs through May 20 at the museum, located at 2200 S. Van Buren St., on the Washington Street Campus of Amarillo College.
The Texas Panhandle Pupil Art Show was not able to be hosted in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Denise Olson, director of arts instruction in Amarillo ISD, said it was "pure joy" to see the students' work this year, and even seeing the teachers come up and hang the artwork upwardly.
"It was wonderful to be able to hang up student work, to see the teachers when they came out to hang the work and to highlight what our students have been doing during the year," Olson said. "It's always amazing to see their artwork. They are very talented."
The ii exhibit halls that brand up the Texas Panhandle Student Art Show consist of two parts of the show. One of the halls features individual work from the various districts, with the artists ranging in age from elementary to high school. Olson said art teachers from beyond the Texas Panhandle had the ability to hang up to 25 pieces of student artwork for that portion of the show.
Olson said that the middle and high school students featured in the private gallery portion of the show are eligible for awards, to be given out at a anniversary at 6:30 p.m. May xx. According to a news release, the artwork will be judged by Amarillo Higher art professors for ten Best of Show awards also every bit Education Credit Wedlock Georgia O'Keeffe Excellence in Art & Inventiveness Awards for one high school and i middle schoolhouse entry.
The second portion of the exhibition consists of portfolios from graduating seniors in the Amarillo surface area. According to the release, those students volition be eligible for one All-time of Show Portfolio award as well equally the ECU Georgia O'Keeffe Scholarship. Scholarships from the Texas Panhandle Art Education Association equally well as the Amarillo Higher and the West Texas A&M University Fine art Departments volition also be awarded.
Deana Craighead, curator of instruction at the Amarillo Museum of Art, said she believes exhibits featuring work from students throughout the Texas Panhandle are important for many reasons. But the senior portfolio portion of the show stands out to her.
"You have the senior portfolios, and then you take students competing for scholarships and school awards and things similar that. So to highlight a years' worth of work and be able to put together a portfolio and brandish that is actually important," she said. "...You've got kids that are putting up things on the wall and bringing their families in, beingness able to look at their work on a museum wall, and that's powerful."
What the students are taught that particular year affects what the exhibition looks similar each year, Craighead said. For this year'due south exhibition, she said she noticed that there was a lot of work addressing what the customs has gone through over the by year with photographs, drawings and collages, as well as artwork like ceramics, printmaking and paintings.
For the students participating in the individual student work portion of the exhibition, Olson said she hopes they are inspired and uplifted by seeing the potential of what they can do when they get older.
"It'southward e'er wonderful for all students to see what other students (do)... to be inspired to actually just understand and appreciate that they are in the midst of a lot of other students' wonderful artwork," she said.
Olson said she as well believes that visitors will exist inspired past the work, if they are connected to a detail student, school or commune, or not.
"Nosotros have some amazingly talented students," she said. "The artwork is beautiful and I think they will savour seeing the artwork itself. But I believe information technology'south actually squeamish for the community to see what our students are doing and how they are expressing themselves."
The amount of talent that surface area students have is something that surprises Craighead every fourth dimension the museum hosts an student-centered exhibition like the Texas Panhandle Student Fine art Evidence.
"I ever call back that it is really surprising what I see coming into the galleries during these student shows," she said. "It's just so interesting to see the talent that we have, the various points of view that we have in our customs, just I do recollect information technology's important to realize that nosotros do have a strong arts community in our schools."
The museum is open to the public from 10 a.1000. to five p.m. Friday and Saturday and from noon to five p.thousand. on Sundays. For more than information about the museum, visit www.amoa.org or telephone call the museum at (806) 371-5050 or (806) 371-5392 on weekends.
Source: https://www.amarillo.com/story/entertainment/2021/05/12/amarillo-museum-art-hosts-2021-texas-panhandle-student-art-show/4964645001/