{"id":1128,"date":"2013-03-08T18:30:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T18:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2013-03-08T18:30:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T18:30:11","slug":"award-winners-and-participating-schools-in-the-eastern-oregon-regional-high-school-exhibit-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/news\/award-winners-and-participating-schools-in-the-eastern-oregon-regional-high-school-exhibit-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Award Winners and Participating Schools in the Eastern Oregon Regional High School Exhibit Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nightingale Gallery would like to congratulate the following award winners from the 2013 Eastern Oregon Regional High School Art Exhibition<\/em>.\u00a0 The EOU Art program presented University Scholar Awards to three area high school seniors whose work demonstrates great potential for continued success at the college level. These awards each come with a $1,500 renewable scholarship to study art at EOU. All Best of Show winners received an award certificate and a sketchbook in which to continue to sharpen their creative skills.\u00a0 Honorable Mention recipients received a certificate of award.<\/h3>\n

University Scholar Awards in Art\/ Best of Show 12th<\/sup> Grade <\/span>(a 3-way tie between)<\/span>:<\/h3>\n

(each will receive a $1,500 Renewable Scholarship to Study Art at EOU)<\/h3>\n

Andrew Camarena (Ontario High) for his mixed media sculpture Head<\/em><\/h3>\n

<\/em> Eli Kerns (Baker High) for his mixed media and clay sculpture Willow Creek<\/em><\/em><\/h3>\n

<\/em>Molly Witten (La Grande High) for her oil on canvas painting Sarah\u2019s Solo<\/em><\/h3>\n

Best of Show 11th<\/sup> Grade<\/span><\/strong> a tie between<\/span>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Travis Gregory (Union High) for his acrylic painting Tree with Leaves<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/em>And<\/p>\n

Micayla Prummer (Union High) for her mixed media puppet The Big Bad Wolf<\/em><\/p>\n

Best of Show 10th<\/sup> Grade<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Hannah Pereira (Grant Union High) for her graphite drawing Self Portrait<\/em><\/p>\n

Best of Show 9th Grade<\/span><\/strong>,:<\/span><\/p>\n

Saskia Lay (Cove High) for her mixed media drawing Dedicated to Jade Connall<\/em><\/p>\n

Honorable Mentions:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Baker<\/strong> City<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jordan Warren for the pen and ink drawing Bifocals<\/em><\/p>\n

Cove<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Lacey Bard for her photograph Resistance<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Hannah Brazil for her ink and collage work Neck-less Positioning<\/em><\/p>\n

Joseph<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/em>Lindsay Kemp for her watercolor painting Rainy City<\/em><\/p>\n

Mia Whittle for her mixed media work Spring<\/em><\/p>\n

La Grande<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alora Brown for the oil painting Welcome to My World<\/em><\/p>\n

Taite Haynes <\/em>for the acrylic painting Batman<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Ally Tsaitos <\/em>for the acrylic painting Colorful Elephant<\/em><\/p>\n

Ontario<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/em>Alina Schueler for her drawing Tiger Year<\/em><\/p>\n

Ashton Stark for the drawing Reflection<\/em><\/p>\n

Ashley K. Suyematsu for her drawing Snack Time<\/em><\/p>\n

Weston McEwen<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Angelica Mirnov for her acrylic painting of a peacock<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jaime Gustavson, Art instructor at Union High, presented a $100 Union High School Bobcat Foundation Scholarship Award to Tanner Tracy-Mugrage.<\/p>\n

The La Grande Arts Commission also presented a special award to Alora Brown an 11th<\/sup> grader from La Grande High exhibiting her painting Welcome to My World<\/em>. The La Grande Arts Commission\u2019s \u201cPromising Young Artist Award\u201d comes with a certificate and check for $50.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nightingale Gallery and EOU congratulates the winners and all the outstanding participants,\u201d said Cory Peeke, Nightingale Gallery Director \u00a0\u201cand we would also like to express our appreciation to the region\u2019s art teachers who went out of their way to make sure their students\u2019 work was included in the exhibit and who do an outstanding job with extremely limited resources.\u201d The following is a list of those area teachers.<\/p>\n

Baker City High School-Kristen Bell<\/p>\n

Cove High School-Eric Gustavson<\/p>\n

Crane Union High School-Connie Robbins<\/p>\n

Grant Union High School-J.J. Collier<\/p>\n

Joseph High School-Olivia Hinojos<\/p>\n

La Grande High School-Mike Schireman<\/p>\n

Ontario High School-Pam Helfrich<\/p>\n

Union High School-Jaime Gustavson<\/p>\n

Weston McEwen High School-Julie Pridgen<\/p>\n

The 2013 Eastern Oregon Regional High School Exhibition <\/em>runs March 8th<\/sup> through March 20th<\/sup>. For further information about the exhibition go to https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art<\/a>. You can also check out\u00a0 the winning artists\u2019 works on our Facebook page: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NightingaleGallery<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Tree with Leaves” by Travis Gregory of Union High School, Winner of the 11th Grade Best in Show award.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nightingale Gallery would like to congratulate the following award winners from the 2013 Eastern Oregon Regional High School Art Exhibition.\u00a0 The EOU Art program presented University Scholar Awards to three area high school seniors whose work demonstrates great potential for continued success at the college level. These awards each come with a $1,500 renewable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":1129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[79,101,152],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-high-school-exhibition","tag-la-grande-arts-commission","tag-student-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}