2022 Statewide High School Juried Art Exhibit

The closing gallery reception and award ceremony for the 2022 Statewide High School Juried Art Exhibit was held on Sunday, April 24th in the SCAC EBSCO Fine Art Gallery. 213 students from across the state in grades 10th-12th submitted over 360 works of art to this annual competition. Out of those works, judges Jillian Marie Browning (UAB) and Jason Tanner Young (University of Montevallo) selected 55 pieces to be shown in the gallery. From these selected works, Browning and Young made their final selections for Best in Painting, Best in Drawing, Best in Mixed-Media, Best in 3D, Best in Photography and overall Best in Show. There were also two special awards chosen by the SCAC staff; Executive Director’s Choice and Staff Choice Award.  To see the virtual gallery tour, visit the Shelby County Arts Council YouTube channel here.

Thank you to UAB’s Department of Art and Art History, the University of Montevallo’s Department of Art, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama’s Caring Foundation for sponsoring this gallery exhibit!

Winners:

Best in Show

Lynzie Liddell

Captivated – Drawing

Best in 3D Design

Zaida Noles-Ross – Calamitous 

Honorable Mention:

Stella Duren – Specimen 0210

Best in Drawing

Merritt Crumpton – A Pocket Full of Posies

Honorable Mention:

Grace Galvin – iSpy

Best in Mixed Media

Meghan Luttrell – The Girls in the Neighborhood

Honorable Mention:

Tishunti Poon – “I wish I didn’t remember…”

Best in Painting

Val Michael – Prying Dispositions

Honorable Mention:

Emilio Aparicio – Desert Silhouettes

Best in Photography

Jayden Robinson – Concealed 

Honorable Mention:

Desiree Senn – Cinematic

Staff Choice Award

Reilly DeShazo – The Beauty in Breaking

Executive Director’s Choice

Mia Dunlap – Octopus

Participating Artists:

Alabama School of Fine Arts

Merritt Crumpton – Kania Hinton – Madison L’Hoste – Val Michael  – Zaida Noles-Ross – Tishunti Poon

Booker T. Washington Magnet High School

Ashley Mendez-Luna – Makayla Ballard – Emma Golfos – Hannah Johnson – Naeun Kim – Sabrina Mejia Ramirez – Jayden Robinson – Desiree Senn

Briarwood Christian High School 

Luke Thompson – Grace Galvin – Madelyn King – Lynzie Liddell – Audrey Tinsley – Morgan Terry

Calera High School

Logan West

Chilton County High School

Charlotte Blencowe

Clay-Chalkville High School

Alivia Gadbaw

Hewitt-Trussville High School

Nick Boggess

Hoover High School

Drew Budd – Liv Riggs

Homeschool

Rebecca Armstrong

Oak Mountain High School

Sophie Cunningham – Reilly DeShazo – Payton Meadors

Pell City High School

Faith Franklin – Patience LeBrun

Spanish Fort High School

Ari Salazar-Navarro

St. Paul’s Episcopal High School

Stella Duren – Madison Faust – Meghan Luttrell

The Altamont School

Mia Dunlap – James Stephens

Thompson High School

Emilio Aparicio – Julia Cooper – Danna Harpst – Sky Howton – Isabelle Johnston – Lauren Moon – Gabriella Page – Mia Stowe

Vincent Middle High School

Tylor Goodwin

West Point High School

Marian Braswell – Brooke Lynn

Westminster at Oak Mountain

Gabriel Pigg