2023 Student Art Show Results
The Mountain Artists believe in promoting, encouraging, and supporting the visual arts in our community. In line with our goals, we have been sponsoring the Teller County Student Art Show for many years. We are proud to have done it again in 2023. The show is open to all middle school, high school, private schools and home schooled students in all of Teller County. Ribbons, Certificates, and Cash awards in excess of $1600 were awarded to students that participated in 2023.
The categories include: Oils, Acrylic, Watercolor, Drawing, Mixed Media, Digital Design and 3-D.
Our judge Joanie Lang was a teacher of secondary students in six different countries, teaching mostly French and English as a foreign language, but upon her retirement she has been painting and filling her life with art in its many forms. She is vice-president of the Palmer Lake Art Group, teaches watercolors to senior citizens, paints commissioned pieces and specializes in realism and expressionism when doing her own works. Joanie has won seven awards in the past three years and loves tailoring paintings for and gifting them to the special people in her life.
2024 Student Art Show Entry Form - Please Click On This Link To Download 
Here is a list of the award winners for middle school and high school by category, with “HM” signifying Honorable Mention.
Middle & High School student awards were presented to:
MIDDLE SCHOOL
1st Thalei Star Delaney “Girl” Drawing
2nd Noah Heinemann “Mary and Jesus” Acrylic
3rd Clara Clark “Axle” Watercolor
HM Ari Castaneda “The Treehouse” Watercolor
HM Ashlynn Bailey “Baby Orangutan” Drawing
HM Angela Grace Oudbier “Kat Kate” 3-D
HM Thalei Star Delaney “Real Leaf Tree” Mixed Media
HM Micah Wayne Johnson “Owl in the Moonlight” Acrylic
HM Micah Wayne Johnson “Summer Sunflowers” Watercolor
HIGH SCHOOL
Oil
1st Ava Dudbier “Drop of Sunlight”
2nd Kaylee Hill “Hare”
3rd Corinne Breitenstein “Butterfly in the Bayou”
Acrylic
1st Gwynnie Vollaro “Primping”
2nd Vivian Gillespie “Little Happenings”
3rd Kaylee Hill “Woods and Willows”
HM Valarie Nicole Lawrance “Twilight”
HM Gabi Arcamone “The Lurker”
Watercolor
1st Brooke Gardner “Billy Bear”
2nd Ellie Chin “Dreams & Solitude”
3rd Emma Adkisson “Weeping Willow”
HM Etta Titus “Stegosaurus”
HM Jade Ripple “80s Themed Girl”
Drawing
1st Gabi Arcamone “Ellie”
2nd Aaron Ross “Lord of the Rings – Gollum”
3rd Claire May “Hades, God of Death”
HM Kaylee Hill “Lunch”
HM Jade Ripple “Black & White Abstract”
Mixed Media
1st Brooke Gardner “The Sand Dancer”
2nd Rianna McCafferty “Let It Burn”
3rd Allison Costello “Betrayal”
HM Luke Kettler “Family Reunion”
3-D
1st Brooke Gardner “The Bird within a Feather”
2nd Emma Adkisson “Clockwork Beetle”
3rd Gabriella Mammenga-Meadows “Take No Bull - Do No Harm”
Digital Design
1st Madelyn Rose Smith “Neon City”
2nd Zady Morgan “Yuri”
3rd Emma Adkisson “Golden Flame”
HM Valarie Nicole Lawrance “Colorful Glitched Gems”
HM Kailyn Holt “Little Finch”
Best of Show
Brooke Gardner “The Sand Dance”
We want to thank the Woodland Park Library for hosting our annual Teller County Student Art Show.
This year the Library also participated in our ceremony by giving the Woodland Park Library Staff Choice Award to Gwynnie Vollaro for her acrylic work “Primping”.
We wish to thank all of the Art Teachers: Mrs. Stacia Ray-Adamson, Mrs. Lindsay Orellana, Miss Jennifer Stevenson, Mr. Josh Davidson, and Mrs. Melanie Havnaer for investing in the futures of their students by sharing their art knowledge and talents.
Many thanks go to all the parents supporting their students in pursuing the arts.
We also thank the Art Students for all of their hard work and dedication that they contributed to the art culture in our community.