OGDEN — Winners of Weber State University’s sixth annual Northern Utah High School Art Exhibition will be honored today during the show’s closing reception. The reception starts at 7 p.m., and continues until 9 p.m., in the Kimball Visual Arts Center on the university campus at 3848 Harrison Blvd.
The award for best three-dimensional art goes to Fremont High’s Brody Barney. An image by Connor Estes of Ogden High took the prize for best photography. Sky View High’s Blake McKinley took the prize for best two-dimensional art.
Devin Banner of Bountiful High and Chelsea Cameron of Bonneville High are among students receiving Weber State Art Guild awards.
Taylor Lopaz of Bonnevile High and Jamie Foremaster of Weber High earned Department of Visual Arts Scholarship Awards.
The Best of Show award will be presented to Katherine Maus of West High School, for a painting titled “Jane.”
A total of 476 works were entered in the exhibition, and 108 were selected for show. The jurors were WSU art professor Matthew Choberka and Beth Krensky, art education professor at the University of Utah.
The exhibit is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, and during the awards ceremony. Admission is free. For more information, call 801-626-7689.
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