MHCC hosts high school art exhibit

MHCC’s Visual Art Gallery is showing its annual regional high school art exhibit through April 30, with weekday hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

 

The award ceremony for this year’s show was held April 9, and the recipients were: Best of show was “The Other Side,” by Sandy High School 10th grader Dana Welty. First place for emergence of vision or voice was David Douglas sophomore Holly Dresbeck, with “Ilex.” First place for technical skill was Portland Adventist Academy ninth-grader Michael Pau, with “Yellow Lamp.” First place for composition and use of elements was “Flower Shop,” by St. Mary’s Academy 11th-grader Lumi Barron. Second place for technical skill was St. Mary’s Academy senior Natalie Shea, for “Pysanky Egg Series.” Second place for composition and use of elements was Sandy High School junior Davyn Owen for “Star Searching.” Second place for originality was Portland Adventist Academy 11th-grader Alejandro Paczka for “Priority Mail (Male).”

 

Sam Barlow High School junior Brandlyn Hval has been featured in the exhibit the past three years, and received an honorable mention for her acrylic painting “Stein” (a rendition of Albert Einstien). Hval said that she was “excited” to be included in the exhibit and that art was something she enjoyed and that she “feels blessed that others appreciate it, too,” in reference to the Gallery exhibit.

 

Honorable mentions include the pieces, “The Beauty of the Concrete Jungle,” by Kendra Siebert; “Anonymous,” by Hanh Nguyen and Taylor M. Sells; “Conscious Overdrive,” by Margot Flynn; “Plotting Revenge,” by Alexis Harris; “Pitcher,” by Graciela Paz; “Stein,” by Hval; “The Walk,” by Veronica Graciano; and “The Rev,” by Autumn Beckwith.