Each of the eight schools in the Little Hawkeye Conference could submit up to 20 pieces of student artwork for the competitive annual Art Show. There are 18 categories within the show. The judge for this year’s Art Show was Brian Roberts of the Central College Art Department.

Pella High School entered 20 art pieces in 10 different categories, and had 12 pieces recognized with ribbons in 8 of those categories.

Pella Students & their awarded work
Landon Hudson:
Second Place in Chalk / Oil Pastel / Crayon : “Panda in Pastels”
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Cor Huyser (pictured above):
First Place in Graphite Drawing : “Study Hall Observations”
Third Place in Colored Pencil Drawing: “Portrait of My Feathered Friend”
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Willa Kelpe:
Second Place in Wheel Thrown Ceramics : Turtle Shell Bowl
Third Place in Wheel Thrown Ceramics : Thrown Planter
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Emily Mills:
First Place in Charcoal Drawing : “Legos in Limbo”
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Carissa Rozenboom:
Honorable Mention in Hand Built Ceramics : “The Wave on Ceramic”
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Kelsey Tauke:
First Place in Ink Drawing : “Florets”
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Isabelle Weesner
Second Place in Oil & Acrylic Painting : “Georgia’s Rose”
Second Place in Graphite Drawing : “Anywhere City”
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Lydia Vos
First Place in Oil & Acrylic Painting : “Escaping Criticism: Take 2”
Honorable Mention in Oil & Acrylic Painting : “Painted Garden”
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Pella Christian results:

Anna DeBoef – 1st in watercolor
Anna DeBoef – 2nd in 2D Mixed Media
Lauren Winn-Fogle – 2nd in Hand Built Ceramics
Karis Fikkert – 3rd in Oil Pastels
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Three students from each conference school could be nominated for “All Conference Artist” honors. Students are nominated based on their contributions to the success of their schools art programs thanks to their participation, effort and dedication in the art program, as well as the quality of their work.

All Conference Pella Christian artists:
Natalie Harrill, Anna DeBoef, and Karis Fikkert

All Conference Pella artists:
Lydia Vos , Sophomore-(2nd time LHC All Conference Artist); Willa Kelpe, Senior; Isabelle Weesner, Senior

OTHER AWARDS:
New this year, the students in attendance participated in a “Make it” Challenge. Teams of 2 or 3 students were given the task to create an original piece of art using three “mystery media” given to them, and two randomly drawn Theme prompts for the artwork. After working on their projects for nearly 2.5 hours, students displayed their finished pieces.
Students and teachers then were able to cast ballots for their choices for the following categories:

Development of Theme
Creativity with Media
Craftsmanship

The Pella High team of Elizabeth Quayle and Lydia Vos created an entry that they named “A Show of Love” that combined the two prompts of “fashion” and “love”. Their piece was voted best Theme Development. They earned the “MAKE IT” trophy for our Art room and took home smaller personal trophies.

The Pella High Team of Willa Kelpe, Carissa Rozenboom and Isabelle Weesner’s “Make it” entry titled “Meet my Furry family” was recognized as a runner up in the Creativity with Media category.