Five BWMS Art students earn honors at Regional competition

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Five Big Wal­nut Mid­dle School stu­dents of mid­dle school art teacher Nancy Craw­ford recently dis­tin­guished them­selves with per­sonal best works entered in the Alliance for Young Artists & Writ­ers Scholas­tic Art & Writ­ing Awards competition.

Big Wal­nut Mid­dle School’s Caleb Odell received a Sil­ver Key in the regional com­pe­ti­tion; and William Bell, Car­o­line Craig-Bowden, Nate Hel­s­ley and Nicholas Smoke were awarded Hon­or­able Mentions.

“These stu­dents had to com­pete against mid­dle and high school stu­dents from all Cen­tral Ohio school dis­tricts,” Craw­ford said. “Only 22 mid­dle school art­works received awards, and five of those awards were given to these Big Wal­nut Mid­dle School stu­dents. We are extremely proud of their accomplishments.”

The Alliance for Young Artists & Writ­ers iden­ti­fies teenagers with excep­tional artis­tic and lit­er­ary tal­ent and brings their work to a national audi­ence through the Scholas­tic Art & Writ­ing Awards.

The Awards have an impres­sive legacy dat­ing back to 1923, with a ros­ter of past win­ners includ­ing Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Tru­man Capote, Richard Ave­don, Robert Red­ford, Joyce Carol Oates and many more.

Colum­bus Col­lege of Art and Design hosts the Cen­tral Ohio Regional Com­pe­ti­tion of the Scholas­tic Art Awards, which cul­mi­nates in an exhi­bi­tion of out­stand­ing works by Cen­tral Ohio artists in grades seven through 12.

Caleb Odell’s duct tape sculp­ture will be included in the Scholas­tic Art Show that runs through this Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 2, at the CCAD Gallery, 60 Cleve­land Avenue, Colum­bus, and is free and open to the public.

CCAD Gallery hours are: Mon­day, closed; Tues­day through Fri­day, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sat­ur­day and Sun­day, 12 noon to 5 p.m.

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