WSCC Hosts 19th Annual High School Art Competition.

WSCC Hosts 19th Annual High School Art Competition.

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VICTORY TOWNSHIP — The West Shore Community College Art Department is hosting the 19^th annual Regional High School Art Competition and Exhibit in the college’s Manierre Dawson Gallery.

Student artwork will be displayed through March 22, and a reception for the artists will be held on March 12, at 2:30 p.m., in the lobby near the gallery. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the West Shore Community College Foundation and the WSCC Art Department, ribbons will be awarded for first and second place in jewelry, sculpture, pottery, drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, video, textiles, mixed media, and digital imaging.

Area high schools have been invited to enter ten of their students’ best works and those included in the exhibit have been selected by high school art teachers.

The juror for this year’s show is Alma College visiting Professor of Art Benjamin Lambert.

Lambert teaches ceramics and sculpture at Alma College. He received his master’s of fine arts degree in those media from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, and his bachelor’s degree from University of Southern Maine and has shown his work extensively across the country.

The Manierre Dawson Gallery is located in the Arts and Sciences Center. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and during events held in the Center Stage Theater.