November 29 – December 10, 2021
Addie Richardson, Student Curator
Miller Gallery, 33 Collegeview Road, Westerville, OH
Hybrid Reception: Friday, December 3, 2021; 5 – 7p
Announcement of awards & Juror remarks will begin at 5:30p
Click here to access the reception on Zoom.

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Otterbein’s annual juried high school art exhibition supports and promotes young artists in Ohio and the contiguous states. Students gain experience preparing and submitting their artwork for review by a qualified arts professional. Cash awards totaling $600 are given to the top work, selected by the Juror, and scholarships to attend Otterbein are offered to students who jury into the exhibition, and additional scholarships are offered to those whose work receives additional recognition.

Jasmine Walker
Swaddled Memories
acrylic/pastel/colored pencil
18″ x 14″
Lakota West High School

Hailey Romshak
One Man’s Junk is Another Man’s Treasure
graphite
16″ x 20″
Union Local High School

Julie Moeller
Rearview
colored pencils
17″ x 22″
Allen East High School

Hannah Remy
Content
colored pencils
9″ x 12″
Waverly High School

Zoe Crock
Honey Bee Landing
prismacolor
17″ x 14″
Caldwell High School

Caleb Wilson
Evening Fair
Digital Photography
13″ x 19.25″
The Wellington School

Jacob Nicholason
Refusal 
solar plate etching and gouache on paper
9″ x 11″
Lancaster High School

Honorable Mention
Chloe Baldeck
Mikey
ceramic
13″ x 11.5″ x 8″
Olentangy Liberty High School
Juror’s Remarks: The Faun, a woodland creature with pointed ears and short horns of a goat, with a fondness for unrestrained revelry as well as symbolic of peace and fertility. Fauns inspire fear in those traveling in lonely, remote, or wild places, and are capable of guiding people in need. A faun named Mikey. It’s lighthearted, clever, and extremely well-executed.

Caleb McWhorter
The Talk
charcoal
16″ x 20″
Union Local High School

3rd Place ($100)
Mckenzie McFarland
Forgotten Blue Hues
Chalk Pastel
13″ x 17″
Martins Ferry High School
Juror’s Remarks: The blues. Inner contemplation. Sadness. Fingers that run through hair and leave blue pastel chalk everywhere. The Blues is also a music genre that captures the suffering, anguish, and hopes of 300 years of slavery and tenant farming. The phrase “the blues” was first written by Charlotte Forten, a free-born black woman from Pennsylvania who was working as a schoolteacher in South Carolina. She said blues songs, “can’t be sung without a full heart and a troubled spirit.” Do we remember, or have we forgotten?

Greg Elliot
Strength of a Soldier
ceramic
19″ x 13″ x 13″
Olentangy Liberty High School

Alleigh Cheatham
Depressed and Destressed
clayboard
11″ x 14″
Union Local High School

Greta Schumacher
High Up
pen and ink
18″ x 12″
New Albany Plains Local High School

Amaya Nida
R3Z
digital
8.5″ x 8.5″
Lancaster High School

Sara Velasco
Company Mindset
digital
23.25″ x 17.5″
The Wellington School

Shelby Hannahs
Summertime Silliness
acrylic on canvas
18″ x 24″
Union Local High School

Honorable Mention
Reese Nichols
Bottled Fish
graphite on paper
18″ x 12″
Waverly High School
Juror’s Remarks: National Geographic suggests that plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time, as rapidly increasing production of disposable plastic products overwhelms the world’s ability to deal with them. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a floating accumulation of mostly plastic debris that covers an estimated area three times the size of France and floats between Hawaii and California. In this one piece, we’re confronted with a plastic bottle that looks like a fish but isn’t. We should pay attention.

Jayden Steele
Wilderness
pen and ink
12″ x 9″
Waverly High School

Sydney Burgei
Little pets, BIG personalities
colored pencil
24″ x 18″
New Albany High School

Riley Lewis
Savanah
gouache
13″ x 18″
Shelby High School

Kalleigh Stoner
Grapes of Wrath
acrylic on canvas
16″ x 16″
Union Local High School

Taylor Hamilton
Frozen in Time
oil pastel and colored pencil
16″ X 20″
Lakota West High School

Anna Wells
Fall Vase
acrylic
8″ x 10″
Wayne Trace High School

Bella Sibold
Girl of Spores
pencil
23″ x 16″
Pandora Gilboa High School

Demi Shostak
Pink Flamingos 
charcoal pencil
18″ x 24″
New Albany High School

Reese Nichols
Spoon Reflection
charcoal
17″ x 8″
Waverly High School

Diya Naik
Diaspora
paint on cardboard
6″ x 16″
New Albany High School

Elijah Spinner
Witvelvian
ink markers
25.5″ x 33″
Wayne Trace High School

Emma Sroka
Go Jets
digital photography
11″ x 14″
Union Local High School

Madeline McKinley
Coils
clay
12″ x 8″ x 8″
Olentangy Liberty High School