All Hugoton USD 210 Scholastic Art Competition winning works and their creators, pictured back row left to right are Jaylen Mendoza, Li-Mari Burger, Rylea Martinez, Brissa Evans, Bridget Knopp, Jacqueline Angeles Cuenca, Aleah Farnum, Paitan Schobert, and Ethan Acosta. In the middle row are Paty Zizumbo, Yazmin Ramos, Breckyn Salazar, Aubree Pate, Moises Rodriguez, Tristan Schobert, Sophie Tower, and Atziry Murillo. In the front row are Madison Topliss, Eva DonJuan, Conlee Eisenhour, Micah Johnson, and Isabella Bowers. Not pictured are Aneta Morris, Destinee Morales, and Jocelyn Saucedo. Photo courtesy of Robert Terrill.
This year, the Hugoton High School and Hugoton Middle School art departments entered their first art competition of the year, Hugoton’s twenty-sixth year, with what is known as the Western Kansas Scholastic Art Competition. Each year this competition provides an opportunity for students to compete at a local and national level with their original artwork creation. This is an art competition to showcase the artistic talents, abilities and personal vision of students in the Hugoton USD 210 art program in grades seven through twelve on a regional, as well as national level.
Students compete for regional awards known as third level Honorable Mention, second level Silver Key Award, and the top level Gold Key Award.
Schools throughout western and southwest Kansas enter this show each year, with a total of 11 schools entered this year. Student works are judged by a panel of art professors at the college level, and practicing art professionals in their field. Works are judged “blind”, meaning artwork is judged for originality, personal vision and overall technical skill with no student names or schools provided. Works entered were either accepted or rejected.
There were 384 total entries this year from 11 schools,with 120 works selected for winning awards. Hugoton was #1 out of all schools with the most accepted works this year, with the highest record number of winning works ever from USD 210 at 40 total, topping last year’s record of 37 works. Hugoton also had the most gold key winning works of all schools with seven total gold key top awards. Hugoton also had the highest number of silver key and honorable mention winners.
Not only do students win awards in this show, but also receive scholarship opportunities through various colleges throughout the state of Kansas, as well as opportunities to win awards at a national level for winning works.
Gold Key award winners’ artworks from southwest Kansas will go on to compete at the national level at Scholastics Headquarters in New York this spring. National level awards are bronze medal third level, silver medal second level, and Gold Medal top level at the nationals. The Gold Medal winners at this level are invited to attend a National Awards Ceremony at Carnegie Hall In New York this June. Hugoton has had nine national winners over the last two decades, and we hope to add to this prestigious group once again.
Winners at this level will be announced in March.
This year’s Scholastic Art Competition winners for USD 210 are:
Hugoton Middle School: Eva DonJuan Honorable Mention, Sculpture;
Conlee Eisenhour Gold Key, Sculpture; Micah Johnson Silver Key, Sculpture; Eva DonJuan Honorable Mention, Digital Painting,
Drawing & Collage; Conlee Eisenhour Gold Key, Digital Painting, Drawing & Collage; Atziry Murillo Mendoza Honorable Mention, Drawing; Vannia Diaz Silver Key, Painting; Madison Topliss Gold Key, Sculpture; Atziry Murillo Mendoza Honorable Mention, Digital
Painting, Drawing & Collage; Isabella Newmon Honorable Mention, Sculpture; Brissa Evans Honorable Mention, Painting.
Hugoton High School: Bridget Knopp Gold Key, Painting; Breckyn Salazar Honorable Mention, Drawing; Bridget Knopp Gold Key, Printmaking; Moises Rivas Leon Silver Key, Painting;
Aleah Farnum Silver Key, Drawing; Paitan Schobert Honorable Mention, Painting; Chloe Batie Gold Key, Mixed Media; Chloe Batie Honorable Mention, Drawing; Li-Mari Burger Gold Key, Painting;
Moises Rivas Leon Honorable Mention, Painting; Rylea Martinez Honorable Mention, Digital Painting, Drawing & Collage;
Aneta Morris Honorable Mention, Painting; Destinee Morales Honorable Mention, Digital Painting, Drawing & Collage;
Jaqueline Angeles Cuenca Silver Key, Drawing; Yazmin Ramos Honorable Mention, Drawing; Isabella Bowers Honorable Mention, Digital Painting, Drawing & Collage; Sophie Tower Honorable Mention, Painting; Ethan Acosta Honorable Mention, Drawing;
Tristan Schobert Silver Key, Digital Painting, Drawing &
Collage; Patricia Zizumbo Honorable Mention, Painting;
Aubree Pate Honorable Mention, Digital Painting,
Drawing & Collage; Aubree Pate Honorable Mention, Drawing;
Jaqueline Angeles Cuenca Honorable Mention, Painting;
Aleah Farnum Silver Key, Painting; Yazmin Ramos Honorable Mention, Digital Painting, Drawing & Collage;
Jaylen Mendoza Honorable Mention, Sculpture;
Rylea Martinez Silver Key, Digital Painting, Drawing &
Collage; Chloe Batie Honorable Mention, Drawing
Jocelyn Saucedo Honorable Mention, Digital Painting,
Drawing & Collage.
Winning works were delivered to the Stauth Museum in Montezuma at the end of January. Works will be on display Tuesday February 10 to Wednesday March 25.. Friday, March 25 there will be an awards ceremony at the Montezuma Community Center with a meal at noon and the award ceremony following at 1:30 p.m. Families and parents are invited to attend. Hours for the Stauth Museum in Montezuma to view this display are 9:00-12:00 a.m., and 1:00-4:30 p.m. Tuesday Through Saturday.