Visual Artists
Awards
Artists of the
Driftless Area
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| Celebrating the Next Generation of Artists | |
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The KidsArt Gallery is a
popular feature of the Driftless Area Art Festival. The
purpose of the KidsArt program is to applaud and encourage the
creativity of area students. The Kids' Creativity Zone
makes the tent a popular destination. The work of elementary and middle school students from all parts of the Driftless Area is invited. Art teachers and clubs can organize joint submissions, or students can submit independently. |
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Teachers Are you interested in having your student participate in the 2011 KidsArt Gallery? Download the Participation Form below: |
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| KidsArt Gallery Participation Form | |
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 Emma Kapinus with "Sunflower Burst" |
 Lane Buchner with "Song of Springtime" |
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The 2011 award recipient for Grades 1-3 is Emma Kapinus, a student at
the Wauzeka-Steuben Elementary school. Laura Buchner was the
blue ribbon winner in Grades 4-5; she attends St. Charles
Parochial School in Genoa. The blue ribbon in the middle
school category went to Jadynn Yocum, who was a seventh-grader
at Kickapoo Middle school when she took the photograph. Congratulations to these three talented artists, and to all the others who won Achievement ribbons, or whose work was chosen for display. |
 Jadynn Yocum with "Water Droplets" |
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Their
artwork will be sold via live auction at our Spring Gala on May
19, 2012. Proceeds from the KidsArt Auction will go to the
art programs of the schools attended by the winners. The KidsArt auction has raised $2,310 for school art programs since its inception in 2007. |
| This year's KidsArt Gallery began a new tradition, the inclusion of the work of high school artists. The "Best of Show" blue ribbon went to Julia Rose Morgan, a senior at Viroqua's Laurel High School. Her oil painting is titled "April Showers predict May Disasters." Congratulations to her, and to Laurel graduate Sidney Westerhoff, whose collage "Poetry" garnered an Honorable Mention. |
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