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Photos courtesy of Shelby County Arts Council.
Visitors walk around to view the art at the 2023 Statewide High School Juried Art Exhibit held at the Shelby County Arts Center.
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Photos courtesy of Shelby County Arts Council.
Visitors walk around to view the art at the 2023 Statewide High School Juried Art Exhibit held at the Shelby County Arts Center.
For more than a decade, high school students across Alabama have harnessed their talents to create pieces for the annual Statewide High School Juried Art Exhibit, hosted by the Shelby County Arts Council.
The exhibit, which is held at Shelby County Arts Council’s EBSCO Fine Art Gallery, features painting, drawing, photography, mixed media, digital art and sculpture. The event is sponsored by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Art and Art History and the University of Montevallo’s Department of Art.
Students begin entering their work in January, and judges select which pieces will be displayed in the gallery. Students from public and private schools as well as homeschool students are invited to enter.
The event lasts about six weeks and ends in a closing reception and awards ceremony, which this year was set for April 28, from 2 to 4 p.m. Judges select the best artwork in each category, as well as an honorable mention in each, and an overall best in show.
This year’s exhibit included these students from the 280 area:
Briarwood Christian High School
- Brooklyn Barnett
- Madison Bell
- Emory Brown
- Cole Carter
- Clara Crawford
- Riley Dempsey
- Rose Denard
- Sarah Duncan
- Gabe Dirks
- Kase Gibson
- Matthew Hester
- Anna Holdefer
- Addie Johnson
- Meredith Kellum
- Taylor Leib
- Mary Rose Lovoy
- Chloe Lowery
- Anne Louise Miller
- Sasha Munikar
- Gracie Murphy
- Jordan Roberts
- Gigi Rubino
- Charles Thompson
- Tabitha Troxler
- Shelby Watkins
- Cole Weaver
- Analiese Westbrook
- Harper Winter
Westminster School at Oak Mountain
- Adleigh Metcalf
For more information, visit shelbycountyartscouncil.com.
