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WEIRTON – The seventh-annual High School Student Art Exhibition will be presented and hosted by the Top of West Virginia Arts Council, with an opening reception set for 5 p.m. Thursday.
The exhibit will be located at the Summit Art Gallery, 243 Three Springs Drive, Suite 17, Weirton, featuring art from students at Brooke, Madonna, Oak Glen, and Weir high schools, and the John D. Rockefeller IV Career Center.
This year's theme is "Pieces of Me," and will include traditional artistic media, including sculpture, as well as digitally produced works. Five students from each school will receive award ribbons for first, second, and third places, and two honorable mentions.
Officials note the exhibit is not a competition between the schools, but a competition within the student works submitted by each art teacher. The teachers and a member of the Arts Council will serve as jurors for the exhibit, with the teacher from the school being judged abstaining from that portion of the voting process.
In addition, each art teacher has been encouraged to submit their own artwork for display.
Several pieces of art will be labeled and available for purchase.
Thursday's reception is open to the public, and will include light refreshments. The public also is invited to visit the Summit Art Gallery for the duration of the show, which will end Dec. 10, during regular business hours Monday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Arts Council is a committee of Discover Northern West Virginia, which work to promote the visual arts and assist Discover Northern West Virginia in their goals and objectives. The council members believe that young artists should be encouraged and promoted wherever and whenever the opportunity is available. This exhibition provides an opportunity for these art students to show their creativity expressed in art presented for public viewing.