Timberland High School students display art online
February 20, 2009
Wentzville School District
This month, The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) website features artwork from Timberland High School in the Wentzville School District. Visit this site.
DESE invites public schools from around the state to submit samples of their students’ artwork for display in both their virtual Art Gallery and in the Department’s main office in Jefferson City. Crystal Wing, Timberland Art Department Chair, said “We have some wonderful art students here at Timberland, and this is a great venue for them to be able to show their work to the public.”
Several of the pieces have already won awards in other shows, and the work of three Timberland students was on display earlier this month at the Florissant Valley Community College Art Show.
Senior, Charlotte Holden, won 3rd place at the Lindenwood University Exhibition in digital, and she also won two awards at the regional high school exhibition at the St. Charles Arts Council. Some of the art displayed are portraits students have created for the Memory Project, a unique initiative in which advanced high school art students create original portraits for children who have been abandoned, orphaned, abused or neglected. To do this, the art students receive pictures of children who are waiting for portraits and the finished works are delivered to the children. This year they have been delivered to orphans in El Salvador.
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