Début 2022 Regional High School Art Competition
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April 14-May 21
Padnos Gallery Reception: Thursday, April 14 from 5:30-7:30 pm Juror: John Leben The season's biggest show! Area highschool art teachers select the best student work to be juried. Over 30 area schools participate. Cash awards for the best. For more information contact Mary@hollandarts.org |
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Meet the Juror
John Leben's formal training is in painting having earned a BFA in Painting from the University of Illinois (Urbana) and an MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute Chicago. He was also a scholarship student at the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. He has exhibited widely in the U.S. including shows at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago's Michael Wyman Gallery, Harris Bank in Chicago, and the John Deere World Headquarters in Peoria, Illinois. After a move to Saugatuck, Michigan his work hung in the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Muskegon Museum of Art, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, South Haven Art Center, and Lowell Arts Council as well as numerous group shows at galleries and museums around the midwest.
www.Lebenart.com
https://www.lebenart.com/pages/biography
John Leben's formal training is in painting having earned a BFA in Painting from the University of Illinois (Urbana) and an MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute Chicago. He was also a scholarship student at the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. He has exhibited widely in the U.S. including shows at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago's Michael Wyman Gallery, Harris Bank in Chicago, and the John Deere World Headquarters in Peoria, Illinois. After a move to Saugatuck, Michigan his work hung in the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Muskegon Museum of Art, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, South Haven Art Center, and Lowell Arts Council as well as numerous group shows at galleries and museums around the midwest.
www.Lebenart.com
https://www.lebenart.com/pages/biography
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Début 2021 Regional High School Art Competition
First Place: Maxwell by Brianne Mishler
Second Place: Untitled by Brooke Johnson
Third Place: Modern Life by Keiran Boerema
Honorable Mention: Bleached by Taylor Williams
Honorable Mention: Wheel of Bad Fortune by Katie Dykema
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The Holland Area Arts Council presents Début, the 41st annual Regional High School Art Competition. The Holland Arts Council has selected a number of pieces of student artwork submitted by area high schools. The Arts Council is proud of the consistent quality of the works offered by our area schools and we applaud the hard work and dedications of the area's talented art instructors especially during this challenging year. The exhibition creates the opportunity to share meaningful art with the wider community and to involve the youth.
This year, the exhibition will look quite different in order to comply with COVID-19 guidelines. The Début Student Show exhibit will take place online with a special tribute to the instructors. This year's juror is Maggie Bandstra, a longtime, recently retired art instructor for Hudsonville Schools and professional artist. The competitive nature of a juried show creates a large degree of excitement around the exhibition. Cash rewards are provided by local donors and the Holland Friends of Art. More significant than the awards given is the creative process which all the students experience. Début will be presented online on the Holland Area Arts Council's website from March 11th - April 24th, 2021. The Holland Area Arts Council is. supported in part by The Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs and The National Endowment for the Arts. 
Holland Arts Council Award: Meat Garden by Jody Brown
Honorable Mention: Lidded Jar by Hailee Vanhook
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