Teachers' Choice
Youth Art Exhibition
works by students of Rock Hill School District #3
2019 Jimmie Matthews Best of Show | Fetish by Piper Grant
Center for the Arts
Dalton, Perimeter, and
Edmund D. Lewandowski Classroom Galleries
121 E. Main St. | Rock Hill, SC
Exhibition
Feb. 15 - March 15, 2019
Reception
Thursday, March 7, 2019
5:30 - 7:30 PM
YOUTH ART MONTH
The Arts Council of York County and Rock Hill School District Three present the annual Teachers' Choice Youth Art Exhibition - featuring selected artwork by Rock Hill students from high, middle, and elementary schools. This exhibition has been created in honor of Youth Art Month, and will be on display in all three galleries at the Center for the Arts, 121 East Main St., Rock Hill, from February 15 - March 15, 2019. The high school and junior high school winners will be announced for mixed media, painting, drawing, and sculpture at a free, public reception. | Rock Hill School District #3
JUROR | MARIE CHEEK
Culture & Heritage Museums | Community Relations
Marie Cheek received several awards for her artwork in community-wide art shows while a student at Rock Hill High School; she’s been an advocate for arts-in-education ever since. She was a teaching artist on the S.C. Arts Commission’s approved artist roster and conducted mural painting artist-in-residencies from 1997- 2013, founded the Western York County Art After School program in 2010, and was associate professor of art and gallery director at Clinton College from 2007-2014. Marie Cheek wrote her Master of Arts’ graduate thesis based on her teaching experience, arts participation research and love of creative community -“Point of Intersection: Arts Participation, Art Appreciation and Community Cultural Development” (Della Marie Cheek, 2011, available at Winthrop University’s Dacus Library and online at The Graduate School’s Digital Commons: https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=graduatetheses
Presently employed by Culture & Heritage Museums of York County, Marie Cheek oversees community relations for the organization’s four unique sites and is a perceptive advocate for the arts and cultural tourism.
JIMMIE MATTHEWS AWARD | BEST OF SHOW
Fetish by Piper Grant
Northwestern High School, Teacher: Kim Grant
HIGH SCHOOL
3-DIMENSIONAL
1st Place | Metamorphosis by Dana Salas
Northwestern High School, Teacher: Sandy Queen
2nd Place | King Kong by Griffin Koellner
South Pointe High School, Teacher: Ashley Beard
3rd Place | The Wolf by Tori Johnson
South Pointe High School, Teacher:Ashley Beard
Honorable Mention | Blooming Heart by Beth McCarthy and Samantha Price
Rock Hill High School, Teacher:Kim Cash
DRAWING
1st Place | Forgotten Places by Madison Tillman
Northwestern High School, Teacher: Kim Grant
2nd Place | Still Life with Mexican Hat by Syrrhia Alcide
Northwestern High School, Teacher: Sandy Queen
3rd Place | The Values of Clarity by Nolan Hammel
South Pointe High School, Teacher: Ashley Beard
Honorable Mention | The Hand That Feeds by Cori Heitz
Rock Hill High School, Teacher: Matt Bell
MIXED MEDIA
1st Place | The Ugly Duckling by Heather Lenti
Rock Hill High School, Teacher: Matt Bell
2nd Place | The Opera by Isabella Padillo
Northwestern High School, Teacher: Sandy Queen
3rd Place | Press by Remi Watt
Rock Hill High School, Teacher: Tina Vincent
Honorable Mention | Rose Thorned Fountain by Courtney Bumgarner
Rock Hill High School, Teacher: Kim Cash
PAINTING
1st Place | Self-Portrait by Hunter Sigmond
South Pointe High School, Teacher: Ashley Beard
2nd Place | Beach, Please by Ashely Gupta
Northwestern High School, Teacher: Kim Grant
3rd Place | Waves by Allie Jennings
Northwestern High School, Teacher: Kim Grant
Honorable Mention | Squint by Lyndie Robinson
Northwestern High School, Teacher: Kim Grant
MIDDLE SCHOOL
3-DIMENSIONAL
1st Place | Efflorescence by Delanee Hernandez
Rawlinson Road Middle School, Teacher: Alyson McAlpine
2nd Place | Fun with Dots by Haley McCarver
Sullivan Middle School, Teacher:Susan Barnette
3rd Place | The Bowl of Dreams by Ella Kimbrell
Saluda Trail Middle School, Teacher: Angie Copley
Honorable Mention | After A Long Day by Klo’E Lamboy
Castle Heights Middle School, Teacher: James Wesley Tarlton
DRAWING
1st Place | Green Line by Luke McJunkin
Sullivan Middle School, Teacher: Susan Barnette
2nd Place | Orange Explosion by Belin Moreno-Meza
Sullivan Middle School, Teacher: Susan Barnette
3rd Place | Still Life with Skull by Yasmin Marquez-Gonzales
Castle Heights Middle School, Teacher: James Wesley Tarlton
Honorable Mention | Janelle by Gia Wood
Rawlinson Road Middle School, Teacher: Alyson McAlpine
MIXED MEDIA
1st Place | Following the Wind by Cameron Khuth
Saluda Trail Middle School, Teacher: John Rhodes
2nd Place | I’ve Wondered by Rossie Letigio
Sullivan Middle School, Teacher: Susan Barnette
3rd Place | Wonderful in White by Tyler Perez Campoverde
Saluda Trail Middle School, Teacher: Lisa Dantzler
Honorable Mention | Treasure by Nierra Barber
Sullivan Middle School, Teacher: Susan Barnette
PAINTING
1st Place | Alone in Ending by Issac Howard
Castle Heights Middle School, Teacher: James Wesley Tarlton
2nd Place | Night Owl by Violet Haley
Castle Heights Middle School, Teacher: James Wesley Tarlton
3rd Place | The Me… You May Not See by Kaniya Hardin
Sullivan Middle School, Teacher: Susan Barnette
Honorable Mention | Candy Pops! by Kaylee Bolton
Saluda Trail Middle School, Teacher: Angie Copley