Olympus students’ art displayed at Springville Art Museum’s 50th annual all-state show
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he Springville Museum of Art student show runs through March 25. Now in its 50th year, the All-State High School Art show received 1,063 entries this year. Of those, 335 were selected for exhibition. Entries from seven Olympus High students were among those selected for the show. “I assigned the AP art students to enter this show because it helps them build up their portfolios, which is how they get credit for the class. They hate it when I assign them to enter things, but then they’re really glad afterwards that they did it,” said Olympus’s AP art teacher Jeremy Petersen. The selections included Janie Bonham, the art Sterling Scholar from Olympus. Bonham’s work is an oil on board called “Anticipation.” It received an Award of Merit. “I was interested in the idea of time, and when I first started I was painting something that had to do with procrastination. The more I worked with it, the more I realized I wanted to change it and do something different. So I made her (the subject) looking forward to something instead of procrastinating,” Bonham said. Most of the students whose entries were selected are in Petersen’s AP art class. Instead of a traditional AP test for credit, on test day the students upload their portfolio to be adjudicated. They also have several presentation nights in the spring. Junior Sophie Santos was also given an Award of Merit. Her digital painting was selected for the traveling exhibition, and is called “Solution 5: Oyster Mushrooms to Combat Oxidized Oil Spill.” Santos’s artist statement explains how her art expresses her hope for solutions to climate issues. “Mushrooms are an untapped resource when resolving the threats pollution poses to humanity’s current way of life. They can digest plastics and crude
“Anticipation” by Janie Bonham. (Springville Museum of Art)
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By Heather Lawrence | h.lawrence@mycityjournals.com
AP Art Studio students work on their portfolios in Jeremy Petersen’s class at Olympus High. In the foreground are four of the students whose entries were selected for the Springville Museum of Art’s All-State Art Show. L to R: Jeremy Petersen, Sophie Santos, Katherine Carlston, Janie Bonham and Maddi Fairbanks. (Heather Lawrence/City Journals)
oil, and become a sustainable method to clean up our messes.” Santos envisions oyster mushrooms as “futuristic machinery” to help the climate crisis. And yes, she has also thought of and
illustrated solutions one through four. Junior Katherine Carlston’s entry of oil on board called “Accidental Light” won an Honorable Mention, 3rd Congressional District. Her painting depicts a
“Blue” by Maddi Fairbanks. (Springville Museum of Art)
“Solution 5: Oyster Mushrooms to Combat Oxidized Oil Spill” by Sophie Santos. (Springville Museum of Art)
young woman in blue flanked by ravens. Her face is aglow with light. Carlston drew inspiration from a Native American myth that ravens brought light to the universe after stealing it.
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